Ostensibly -this is still music for clubs, or maybe music for people who would like to go to clubs but don’t anymore.
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Grauzone Festival 1/2/13
In fact you could say (if you half closed your eyes, or swanned around the cinema area) that you were back at Club Zoo – albeit a far more professional one, without the bitching and the acid.
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Attila the Stockbroker Patrik Fitzgerald Stinksisters Den Haag Rotterdam 14-15/2/13
Blank Generation presents: Patrik Fitzgerald (UK) & Attila the Stockbroker (UK) Den Haag and Rotterdam. Apparently Blank Generation is a “brand new platform for subversive culture” and they seem to be takling this pretty seriously, down to the last detail.
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L Pierre – The Island Come True
Like that beautiful weirdness with Kim Jong Il & the transgender centre half, things suggest themselves to you and stick about in your mind. And this LP is a portal for stuff like this, if you let it be.
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Danish Indians In Studentville
This will mean precisely nothing to three young men from Copenhagen, but here is one Half Man Half Biscuit fan delighted to be able to state at last that I’ve got a 4AD 3D CD.
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Fear and Loving in Heaton Park: Part Five – Stoned Love
It’s been quite some time coming, not as long as certain albums I could mention, but at last The Stone Roses take to the stage. Well nearly. They’ll definitely play a bigger part in the next instalment.
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How Not to be in a Band – Mr Bickle’s Wall
From the moment we shuffled onto the stage, like a coach-load of tourists emerging blinking into the harsh Mediterranean sun, until we fled in ignominy our act was shambolic.
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My Bloody Valentine – m.b.v.
A couple of months ago in Glasgow I had the best paneer tikka I’ve ever eaten, but was it really better than the paneer tikka I eat all too regularly from the place five minutes from my flat?
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dbh – Time Flies
…the kind of tunes you want to listen to when settled in by a roaring log fire after a good day’s hiking
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Andrew Bird – Hands of Glory
We should protect him like we do cathedrals and pandas
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