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Jane Weaver wraps up her solo tour ‘Loops in the Secret Society’ this week, presenting unique audio-visual reworkings of tracks from albums The Silver Globe and Modern Kosmology. The tour takes in 6th Nov: Hackney Arts Centre, London, UK 7th Nov: Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK 8th Nov: Komedia, Brighton, UK 9th Nov: Arts Theatre, Nottingham,…
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If, like me, you failed to get it together to get tickets to IDLES’last tour, you’ll be relieved you don’t have to wait too long for the next chance – tickets are on sale at 9am this Friday (November 9th) for their 2019 world tour. The facts are these: 21 Jan 2019 / NZ /…
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Earlier this year, Kid Vinyl was taken offline following all kinds of unpleasantness with a hack. Finding the time to systematically inspect every single file that makes up the site took me frankly ages, and so we disappeared, seemingly forever. I’m happy to say all that is over now, however, and normal service will soon…
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Girls on Film – 1979 Demo by Duran Duran There’s a side to my personality that drives me to stay up late diving down Wikipedia rabbit holes exploring the personnel changes of interesting bands. Rock Family Trees was TV made for me. So of course I was excited to hear about this release, on Cleopatra…
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Director Sarah Price’s crowdfunded L7 documentary is a “rags to riches to rags” tale of the LA Grunge band from 1985-2001 and subsequent reformation in 2015. L7: Pretend We’re Dead is a fairly standard chronological rock-doc made up of talking heads, tour footage and backstage antics. Price had over 100 hours of footage to go…
Continue reading [Film Review] L7: Pretend We’re Dead – UK Premiere at Doc ‘n Roll Film Festival
Blissing Me is the second single from Björk’s forthcoming album Utopia, with a vidoe directed by Tim Walker and Emma Dalzell.
The fourth edition of Doc’ n Roll Film Festival, the UK’s Music Documentary Festival will take place in London from 2nd-19th November. The programme kicks off with A Winding Road: A Ramble with Richard Thompson at Picturehouse Central, featuring a Q&A with Thompson and director Edmond Deraedt. The rest of the line up includes the London Premiere…
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I recently drove out into the wilds of Somerset with Mary Casio playing. As my car climbed the steep winding ascent of the Mendip Hills around Charterhouse, the insistent horn, synth and vocal fanfare of Sunset Through the Dusty Nebula perfectly evoked the feeling that I was breaking out, bursting through the cloud cover and…
Continue reading [Album Review] Hannah Peel – Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia
From the album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, out September 22nd on My Own Pleasure. The album is a arranged for analogue synths and a brass band, and tells the story of an elderly electronic musician and her desire to travel from her home in Barnsley to see Cassiopeia for herself. Live shows for Mary…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah support their first album in four years with a UK and Ireland tour next month, kicking off on board Thekla in Bristol. The dates are: 13th Sep – Bristol – Thekla 14th Sep – Manchester – Gorilla 15th Sep – Dublin – Whelans (SOLD OUT) 16th Sep – Glasgow –…
Continue reading [Live Dates] Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Tour Next Month
