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This recording is fun. Fun, fun, fun, you hear me?
Doug Gillard – Salamander
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Salamander is such a warm, charming record, you get the feeling after a few listens that you’d really like to hang out with Doug over a pint or two.
Talking Heads Back Catalogue- Part the First
And there we have it – the years 77 – 82. These were the most fertile years in the Talking Heads story and they are the ones that stand up to most scrutiny.
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Modey Lemon & The Secret Machines, Paradiso 23/03/05
“My friend did their makeup and hair for a pre-show photo/press shoot. She said they were very nice guys. ”
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Night of the Gipsies – Patronaat 28/02/05
“Still, the audience (who had, in the main, to be members of the Dutch equivalents of Morris dance societies, and pottery students, dressed in what can only be called romantic attire), enjoyed themselves.”
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Incendiary Interview Tiff Davenport of Toazted
Feeling as close to Corey as I then did, I suggested to him that he write a song about this. He thought writing a song about a shark sounded pretty lame. But that’s not what I meant. I told him he should write a song about the pure feeling of panic he gets in his heart.
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Incendiary News April 2005
Gosh, aren’t you all such lucky people?
Snow Patrol – Paradiso, Amsterdam – 21/01/2005
“Mr McMullan spends a pleasant evening with Lightbody & Co.”
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Beck – Guero
Hayseed Dixie – Let There Be Rockgrass
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It’s one finger-pickin’, hard-rockin’, shit-kickin’, dungaree-wearin’, dentist-avoidin’, whisky-drinkin’, rootin’-tootin’, gun-totin’, barn-dance of an album.
