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Last up is “Brush/Throat”, sounding like a Tibetan monastery field recording, (the monks blowing those big trumpet contraptions, the name of which, for the moment, escapes me) but accompanied by an idiot on kazoo.
Lalo Schifrin – Marquis de Sade
The album didn’t sell well and I can’t imagine that the ridiculous title helped any.
Associates, Fourth Drawer Down
Oh, one more thing; the cover’s a new romantic belter, with the two lads wearing futuristic swim suits at Dundee’s local swimming baths.
Letter from London May 2005
I blew my entire Incendiary stipend on a skeleton which used to belong to Who bassist, John Entwhistle.
Stereophonics – Oude Zaal, Melkweg, Amsterdam – 05/04/2005
“This is fucking Heavy Metal for fucks sake! And it’s bloody fabulous too.”
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Gang of Four, Melkweg, Amsterdam – 16/04/2005
“Things looked promising from the off when we viewed a strategically placed microwave with both awe and anticipation.”
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Stereophonics – Language. Sex. Violence. Other?
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All in all it’s another Stereophonics album and you should know whether or not this will excite you before even listening to it.
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The Kills, Melkweg, Amsterdam 26/04/05
“VV’s look (all fringe and straight legged jeans) is quite menacing. She strides up and down the stage pausing only to hop on the monitors at the front of the stage, like some demented white witch or priestess, haranguing the crowd with mumbled incantations and vicious gestures. ”
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Bury those anthems. Athlete discuss the makings of a risky album.
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If there’s something really beautiful going on you have something underneath it that keeps it down to Earth.
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Adam Green – Oude Zaal, Melkweg, Amsterdam – 02/03/2005
““I’m so happy, I got sick.””
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