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ALBUM REVIEW: McCarthy – ‘The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth’

IF YOU’RE an old-skool, proper indie kid (and full disclosure, I count myself among that number), with campaign medals from the C86 wars – you saw action on the Creation,…

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Track: Wee Cherubs – Dreaming

Originally out in 1984 on the short-lived Glasgow based label Bogatan, Dreaming was Glasgows the Wee Cherubs only commercial release, written by Martin Cotter who found (relative in comparison) fame…

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Track: The James Dean Driving Experience – Sean Connery

Optic Nerve Recordings have been carefully curating a reissue series of 7″ records from late last year, and come May 15th are set to release the next in this pantheon…

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Meet: We interview Pete Astor on The Loft reissue and more

Pete Astor is very good company. I think. I never met him. Never really even heard him speak to be perfectly honest. But I had bought, as a teenager, bought…

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Track: The Loft – Up the hill and down the slope

Originally known as The Living Room, The Loft – Pete Astor, Dave Morgan, Bill Prince and Andy Strickland released just a handful of singles and a couple of compilations. Yet…

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Track: The Revolving Paint Dream – Flowers in the Sky

Out on. 13th March is the latest release in the Optic NerveSevens 2.0 reissue series, and it sees the second ever release of Alan McGee’s seminal Creation Records label –…

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Track: The Primitives – Thru The Flowers

The Primitives were/are much more than just Crash, the song that defines them and remains an essential part of any (well, the ones I went to, anyway) indie disco from…

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Album Review: One Eyed Wayne – Saucy Postcard Super Creeps

OPTIC NERVE RECORDINGS OPT4034CD Two years on from the acclaimed debut album Attack Of The Luxury Flats One Eyed Wayne are back with a new album titled Saucy Postcards Super…

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Album Review: Folk Devils – Beautiful Monsters; Singles and Demo Recordings 1984-86

Filed firmly under the criminally ignored banner during their lifetime, a brief flame that was snuffed out almost as soon as it has caught fire in the middle of the…

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