Of course there’s great music and less great music but we as humans seem unable to talk about it without the aid of moral lingo, which is totally unmusical…
The Beautiful South – Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs
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An album that is, possibly, greater than the sum of its parts.
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The Skatalites – Paard van Troje, Den Haag – 17/11/2004
"This is not just another Ska band, this is The Skatalites."
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Franz Ferdinand – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam – 15/11/2004
“The sort of stuff that a young XTC alluded to but never got thanked for and a potential that could only have been reached if Pulp and The Stranglers had hit it off and had children. ”
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Prodigy live at “I Love Techno” – Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium – 13/11/2004
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I spent most of my time in the Green Room.
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Crossing Border Festival – Sophia – Royal Room, Koninklijke Schouwburg, Den Haag
I think that everyone has a particular musical note or maybe it’s a combination of notes or a certain chord, which can bring them close to tears. I don’t know what mine is, but Sophia evidently do and keep on hammering away at it.
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Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag 12/11/04
"Like getting locked in at the museum or palace and your little sister finds a guitar and starts largin’ it up and you realize she’s a genius."
Scout Niblett, Caroline’s Room, Royal Theatre
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London Calling Day Two, Paradiso, 13/11/2004
The rest of the band had clearly raided mum’s drawers and dressed up as (you guessed it), a band.
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London Calling Day One, Paradiso, 12/11/2004
Finally, I was carried downstairs to see, YES! A London band. Honest, a real one.
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Soulwax, Paradiso, 10/11/2004
“It was all over in little more than an hour and I was rendered deaf in one ear.”
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