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Live Review: Inspiral Carpets – Leadmill, Sheffield 6.12.14

The haircuts were considerably shorter, and maybe the clobber was a few sizes bigger than ‘back in the day’, but with the amount of Adidas trainees, Italian sportswear and sun…

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Live Review: Belle and Sebastian – Manchester Cathedral 28.10.2014

Manchester Cathedral is a magnificently historic, Gothic edifice. On paper at least, giving a band like Belle & Sebastian the opportunity to play its hallowed nave appears both inspired and…

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Meet: Mercury Nominees GoGo Penguin interview

Its been quite a few weeks for Manchester Jazz Trio GoGo Penguin. Fired skywards by their recent Mercury Barclaycard Album of the Year nomination, they followed it up with a…

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LIVE: Northside. Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 17/03/14 + View from the pit gallery

‘Shall we take a trip down memory lane? … …Flashback to your days of youth. You’ve been there once, you’re living proof.’ Northside – ‘Shall we Take A Trip’ Looking…

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Track / Video

EP Review: Eerie Glue//Joey Fourr – ‘Yr New Favourite EP’

I reckon every recording artist both signed and unsigned pre-about-2000 has at one point in their career recorded music in the Lo-fi style. The mental image of a young Rick…

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Live Review: Megan Nicole – Manchester Academy 21.01.2014

Embarking on her European tour, Megan Nicole played her first full headlining show in the UK last night at Manchester academy. Providing a show length of 75 full minutes (which…

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Not Forgotton: Northside – Chicken Rhythms, and new spring tour dates

For me, it started with an apple. For there, in my local record emporium (the glorious Left Legged Pineapple in Loughborough) as I thumbed through Cocteau Twins, King of the…

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Interview: Rowetta from The Happy Mondays

The Happy Mondays are well and truly back. Playing live and rumors of a new album, we caught up with the queen of Madchester, Rowetta to see just whats going…

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Music
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See: Everything Everything Announce October Tour Dates

October 4th. A day that, in 1957, saw the launch of the Sputnik Russian Space Satellite, the first artificial craft to circumnavigate the Earth, and gave rise to what became know…

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Not Forgotten: Ruthless Rap Assassins – And it wasn’t a dream (+ uk hip-hop doc.)

Formed by future Black Grape MC Kermit (then known as MC Kermit la Freak) in the late 1980’s with brothers Dangerous Hinds and Dangerous C, Manchester’s Ruthless Rap Assassins made…

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