Tag: andy peterson
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Kiwi Jr.’s debut Football Money may have given the impression in places that it was a little fingers and thumbs, but it sounded no worse for it. Indebted to …
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By the time it’s over, there won’t be many people left unaffected by the events of the last twelve months in Britain. It took a pandemic to do it, …
Irony isn’t so much your friend as a stranger who gleefully punches your lights out at the moment; for Jason Williamson, that Sleaford Mods’ excellent sixth album Spare Ribs …
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More than half of the citizens of this planet have non-linear lives at the moment, so putting musicians on a pedestal would be the worst kind of exceptionalism. But …
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Catchphrases from adverts are by definition meant to become part of language – that’s the point. In Britain, one that’s wedged itself into everyday conversation is for a wood …
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There’s a certain double edged resonance to Bombay Bicycle Club’s Jack Steadman singing, ‘I want to go back to old times’, on The Hill, arguably the moment from their …
Click here for The War On Drugs and the full list of Live4ever’s 20 albums of the year. Valentine’s Eve 2020 at the Irish Centre in Leeds: incurable romantics …
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Whenever rival fans are looking up cliches to support the assertion that indie music is twee, Belle And Sebastian are usually one of the bands which they like to …
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There was always a weird sort of make believe to The White Stripes, a job lot of superstitions it felt hard to not see as folklore. Jack White’s obsession …
The debut Tourists album is out now on Modern Sky UK. It’s not clear whether Tourists named themselves ironically or not. From the sleepy retirement destination of Torquay, about …
The Jacques spread the net wide on their debut album. Five years is a long time in any field of the arts, but some transformations still happen slowly even …
Richard H. Kirk returns with Cabaret Voltaire for a first new album in over 25 years. Depeche Mode’s September 1981 Top Of The Pops performance of Just Can’t Get …