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keeping control : independent manchester music scene 1977-81 remembered

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Photos and words David McEneaney I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, they don’t make ‘em like they used to.These days, in the Spotify and TikTok universe, it seems that kids don’t listen to bands or albums anymore, they listen to songs and playlists. This makes it even more difficult for artists to …

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The Pretenders playing Dublin’s 3Olympia as part of their Relentless UK & Ireland tour 2023. Intro (Habanera: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle, Georges Bizet)Losing SenseA LoveTurf Accountant DaddyMessage Of LoveThe Adulteress Downtown – Akron The BuzzDomestic SilenceKidTime The AvengerTalk Of The TownBikerDon’t Cut Your HairBack On The Chain GangHate For SaleYou Can’t Hurt A FoolDon’t …

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Duran Duran’s Future Past – 40th anniversary tour hit Dublin’s 3Arena with Jake Shears ( Scissor Sisters) and Lia Lia as supports, unfortunately we didn’t get to photograph Lia Lia. Jake Shears photos and set-list: To Much MusicLaura (Scissor Sisters)Really Big DealI Used To Be In LoveComfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)Do The TelevisionTake Your Mama (Scissor …

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Keeping Control: Independent Music from Manchester 1977-1981 Various Artists on Cherry Red Records (76 track 3xCD set) This a great collection of Manchester music from a 4-year period in its history, perhaps the most important era in the overall scheme of things. Manchester entrepreneurial legend Anthony Davidson, the owner of TJM Rehearsal studios, probably the …

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Hugh Cornwell (Original Stranglers Frontman) played a fantastic solo acoustic show in the also fantastic setting the is Dublin’s Pepper Canister Church.Hugh Promised to bring a show to Ireland that features hits such as ”Golden Brown” ”Strange Little Girl” ”Always The Sun” and that he did, plus many more including a great catalogue of old …

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We are inordinately proud to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single ‘Newtown Nights’ from the mysterious and criminally under appreciated Mako Bron. Mako Bron is the moniker of one Chris Brookman whose work we have followed assiduously now for years – his EP ‘Cloudbites’ making our list of favourite antipodean releases for …

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Working with Tobey Doctor (ex-drummer from Sounds Like Sunset), James Harrison is back in 2023, again under the nom de plume Fleeting Persuasion, and we are overjoyed at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single ‘Slipped’ before its release into the wild on Monday. Fleeting Persuasion have been on our …

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Last month we brought you news of the delightfully snotty young band Radio Free Alice‘s signing to the tremendous Double Drummer label and cast an ear over their frenetic and heart-racing single ‘I Gotta Fall (In Love)’. I described the single as being a breath of fresh air in the current climes – full throttle …

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Los Angeles indie pop icons the black watch are about to release their 21st album ‘Future Strangers’ and it is a testimony as to why this band has become such a veritable institution. Fronted by constant member John Andrew Frederick (who also is the author of four works of comic fiction and one book of …

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The obscenely young and deliciously snotty Radio Free Alice‘s third single ‘I Gotta (Fall In Love) is a spine tingling slab of frenetic post punk that has deep inside its genes a panoply of very commendable bands. Think of an amalgam of The Jam, Wreckless Eric, Richard Hell and the Voidoids and the Undertones, and …

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