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Live review: The Charlatans and Martin Carr, Exeter University, December 14th, 2021 plus gallery

A GREATEST hits tour, from The Charlatans, you say? Actually, I thought: with the increasingly Kafkaesque qualities of everyday life in the political, viral and, it being December, the actual…

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Live review: Alabaster dePlume, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, December 4th, 2021, plus gallery: a unique and sweary odyssey to Planet dePlume

“I LOVE this. I fucking love doing this.” Be aware: Angus Fairbairn, the poet, positivist and saxophonist who transposes into the world of music as Alabaster dePlume, is a completely…

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Live review: Ishmael Ensemble, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, November 24th, 2021: soaring and warming on a chill evening by the water

IF YOU’RE talking of about any kind of chronology of British Black musics down the decades, then it’s arguable really that there’s a triangle of cities which inform and inspire…

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The 4 members of band Pillow Queens onstage

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Live Review: Pillow Queens / Teose – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 12.11.2021

Dublin’s Pillow Queens self-released their debut album In Waiting in 2020 setting up their own record label to do so. The success of the album has been phenomenal and it…

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Live review: Paddy Steer, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, November 12th, 2021: outsider electro genius charts a path to the future we were promised

THE ERSTWHILE packet port, maritime centre and now university hub of Falmouth-Penryn, down on the south Cornish Coast, has been consistently punching above its weight this past decade and a…

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Live review: Mildred Maude, Falmouth, October 23rd 2021

CUSPING exploratory instrumental trio Mildred Maude, newly signed to that reliable imprimatur Sonic Cathedral and with their second album, the incendiary, (mostly) longform stylings of Sleepover (our thoughts on that…

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Live Review: Alex Maas, Bastrop, Texas

Levitation have been savours during this pandemic. Offering escape and salvation through the means of live sets beamed into our homes, they’ve been a wonderful form of entertainment in a…

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Livestream review: Frank Turner & Emily Barker ‘s Overdrive – An Evening Of Duets

It’s Thursday evening, April the 8th. Every day has suddenly felt like a month in itself, as we near the end of a year-long disconnection from the world. I feel…

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Live review: The Snuts, Stirling Castle: a five-star, live-streamed show

THE SNUTS’ performance at Stirling Castle on March 26th was more than just a live stream, it was a work of art demonstrating everything the band stand for – marvellous…

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Live Review: Black Country, New Road at the Southbank Centre

BC, NR's performance at London’s Southbank Centre was as much of a dense and vivid visual spectacle as it was an aural one: the album’s entirety given new life in a gorgeous live setting, whilst newer tracks were also displayed beautifully.

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