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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Madness – Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja Ja, Da Da
destined to be the album many balding men listen to whilst cleaning their Volvo’s on the drive on a Sunday morning
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Allah-Las – Allah-Las
You know, I wish the Animals had made more records
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The Pure Conjecture – Courgettes
It’s a cozy, inviting, entertaining, pleasant, fun, pretty, nice listen and many more things besides. It’s canny.
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Fulton Lights – Am I Right Or Am I Right
Am I Right or Am I Right isn’t an easy listen. It is, however, a fantastically rewarding one
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Rats on Rafts and Vox Von Braun – de Unie Rotterdam – 25/01/13
This was a night when Rats on Rafts finally threw off any pretence of being a “leuk bandje” or a trendy/newsworthy/”controversial” act or any other of those miserable and oversimplified straightjackets that the Dutch media seem so happy to dish out to them.
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