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Somerset Series @ Somerset House gigs on sale featuring M83, Tindersticks & Tim Minchin

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Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Summer Series at London’s beautiful Somerset House throughout July. The programme includes flamboyant songstress Paloma Faith, musical comedian Tim Minchin and the ever-lovely Tindersticks. The full programme this year includes: July 07 TIM MINCHIN July 08 KATY B July 09 JILL SCOTT July 10 JILL SCOTT July…
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News round up: 22nd April

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A Big weekend in the North… Liverpool Sound City has announced its full line up with D/R/U/G/S, Chew Lips, Pond, Eleanor Friedberger, Fossil Collective, Theme Park, PEACE, Post War Years joining the bill. The event takes place on 17th-19th May with 3 day wristbands priced  at £45 Full details here:   Interpol frontman Paul Banks will…
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Album review – Rosemary Works Project (eponymous)

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Rosemary Works Project is the eponymous debut of singer-songwriter Alex Lewis and a host of multi-instrumental and vocally deft collaborators from other bands including Nicolai Prowse, Rhodri Marsden, and Nick Frater. It features instruments from the traditional guitars, drums and keys to bowed saw, mini pianos and a lot more… but I’ll use up my…
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News roundup – February 8th 2012

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  Drugstore have announced a new single, ‘Aquamarine’, to be released on Rocket Girl on April 2nd. There will also be some live shows .MAR fri 16th HEBDEN BRIDGE/Trades Club – http://www.wegottickets.com/event/148681 . .APR fri 6th LONDON/The Lexington (single launch party) – http://www.wegottickets.com/event/150675 .w/ special guests: VADOINMESSICO .APR fri 13th NORWICH/Arts Centre – http://norwichartscentre.co.uk/drugstore/ You can…
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News Roundup – February 4th 2012

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Hospitality – Friends of Friends from fire records on Vimeo. New York trio Hospitality have signed to Fire Records in the UK, and will release their debut album in April. To get a taste of their music, watch the video for ‘Friends of Friends’ above, or download the track. North Carolina band Bowerbirds have made…
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The Kinks in Mono Boxset

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Following on from the remastered double CDs of classic Kinks albums that have been released recently, Sanctuary Records have put out the first seven albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy, Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)…
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Artrocker Awards Live Show: The Computers, Gruff Rhys and Jim Jones Revue, XOYO, London, 02.12.12

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Having had to be sensible and adhere to day job commitments, your humble scribe did not make the inaugural awards show but by all reports it was a fun and raucous affair, but there’s plenty of atmosphere left to soak up as we arrive at XOYO for the live show.  Gary Numan was awarded a…
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Ólöf Arnalds @ St Pancras Old Church, London, 24.11.11

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It’s very cold out, and an eerie blanket of mist envelopes the Somers Town Church. It looks quite spooky and isolated as we approach, like the opening scene to a Hammer Horror film. Fortunately inside is candle-lit and parochial and full of people in knitwear: the Vicar of Dibley for indie folksters. I arrive just…
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[Live Review] St. Vincent, The Fleece, Bristol November 11th 2011

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The Fleece is packed tonight, condensation running down the walls. It’s fair to say St. Vincent, previously often described in relation to the Polyphonic Spree or Sufjan Stevens, is a star in her own right. On her third album, Strange Mercy, Annie Clark’s aggressive, choppy guitar playing comes to the fore, with wig out a-plenty.…
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