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Black Heart Procession; coming soon to a Butlins near you.
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Incendiary interview the Fiery Furnaces, part 2
“Franz Ferdinand recorded that show and released it as a live album. You can hear me screaming on it. (and me! – ed)
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Incendiary interview The Fiery Furnaces, part 1
“Yeah, my mom worked in the zoo and she got thrown in to the dolphin tank her last day of work. (Astonished Laughs) She said it was the most frighteningly amazing thing she’s even experienced. ”
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Toon Festival Patronaat/Lichtfabriek, Haarlem – 7/04/06
“What can you say about Toon, except that it’s the best festival in Holland? A hidden gem amongst all the media hype and mutual backslapping that is the curse of most festivals nowadays. ”
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Morrissey – Heineken Music Hall 10/04/06
"20 years ago was the last time I came face to shoe-leather with Morrissey. Still a relative slip of a lad (both of us) and right at the peak of his popularity (just him) at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. "
B&S: Just a Modern Rock Story by Paul Whitelaw
After you’ve worked through yet another list of Scottish towns where the drummer once lived in/visited/heard about once the mind begins to wonder exactly when, um, there’s going to be something a bit, well, meaningful?
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The back catalogue of Scott Walker – part 1
Being the last Friday before Christmas, the local gasworks in Great Harwood naturally held its annual staff party in the nearest pub available. And, naturally, it was deemed that – as ever – the party should start with a late luncheon of pies and savouries at two o clock in the Royal public house, Great Harwood, Lancs.
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London Calling part 2 – Paradiso, Amsterdam – 1/04/06
"Suddenly, after the music was all over, Incendiary got its second wind and decamped to a bar of choice with some band or other to talk about Evelyn Waugh and cheese. Weird eh? "
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Incendiary speak to The Archie Bronson Outfit
“I do like the slightly obscure stuff, in the British eccentric tradition. The Groundhogs just did their own thing. A lot of people said that they thought we were from Norway, which we quite liked! ”
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Motel Mozaique Rotterdam 14-15/4/06
“And finally, finally, get fucking RID of Giel Beelen as an on-stage presenter. His introduction to Be Your Own Pet was smug, patronising, ever so slightly sexist and idiotic, in that he had no idea who they were. ”