February 2012
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My Dad’s birthday is coming up and I’ve not picked out or even started looking for something to get him. I had an excellent plan but missed the fatal flaw that I won’t be able to pick it up until next Wednesday and his birthday is Sunday.
He’s big on music my Dad, like me and he really loves a bit of noise and doom and gloom. As I handed over my Lana Del Rey CD to pay...
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I am six tracks into listening to the Lana Del Rey album for the first time and thought I’d let you know how it’s going. ‘Born to Die’ is still A Really Good Song while in others her voice is as wonderful as it is irritating. There’s some guy all the way through the album going “Yeah” and “Uh huh” at the most random points, the same with overly...
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Oh look, it's the T in the Park line-up!
Replace The Killers with Kasabian and Bob’s your uncle, we’re in Balado!
Seriously, it’s uncanny.
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T in the Park only marginally better than V...
and even V might get The Stone Roses this year.
Here we have our first announcement of the British big guns this year. Is this what we call a good line-up these days?
Sure this calibre of a line-up might work as an all rounder, attracting the masses in an attempt to satisfy the needs of everything that’s been popular in the charts this year, but where are the good indie and alternative...
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Since Blur were announced for Outstanding Contribution at the BRITs I’ve been a little surprised. I could very well be wrong and correct me if I am but…does everyone out there know who Blur are?
Everyone at home who wanted One Direction to win Best Single, do they know who Blur are? All the kids at home who watch the X Factor and buy Bruno Mars singles, are they sitting there thinking...
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“All My Friends”—LCD Soundsystem
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A Certain Trigger, Now I'm All Over the Shop
Last night I ripped this from my walls. The time as come to redecorate.
But now I feel naked.
While standing on my bed carefully peeling off each piece of cheap and flimsy NME paper I danced a little jig and played in turn and in length my greatest memories from 2005 - The Killers’ Hot Fuss, Maximo Park’s A Certain Trigger, and Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm. Belting out each...