Catch a wave, folks, surf’s up.
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James Yorkston – Moving up Country & Adem – Homesongs
Purveyors of ersatz music will always have the edge on those who make personal music, uninfluenced by fashion and rock’s back catalogue. All the more reason, therefore, to trumpet artists like James Yorkston and Adem.
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Marianne Faithfull – Before the Poison
Faithfull has called in some powerful friends to co-write; Nick Cave, PJ Harvey and Damon Albarn for the record. She’s even got Will Self to write the sleeve notes.
Brian Wilson – Smile
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“Smile” was always talked about as a beautiful vision. So much so that it was hard to believe that it could ever leave Brian Wilson’s head.
Tom Ovans – Tombstone Boys & Graveyard Girls
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Now that’s better. Pies saving the blues. I heartily endorse that course of action.
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Dutch Pubs
You are, after all, in the pub for one overriding reason, to drink. Heavily.
John Peel, an appreciation
John Peel, dead? At sixty five from a heart attack, if you really must know…Hell.
Incendiary News November 2004
I’ll tell you something for nothing. This past month or so has seen the release of some unbelievable albums by people who in another walk of life would be queuing for their free bus passes.
Letter from London 2
This piece won’t pretend to give you much biographical detail on John Peel’s life and times – there are plenty of websites which will give that information. Instead I hope I can convey how he touched the lives of my life and that of my friends, and how he was a great influence on our formative years musically speaking.
Super Discount 2
” This installment comes with a very similar game-plan, again de Crecy leads the pack but with a slightly different cast.”
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