Oh, errors of judgement. How I know you well! Last term, just as we were heading off for Christmas, I wrote, in a throwaway comment that I’d now like to dispose of properly, that the ...
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Dressing up: probably the reason I love going to Bestival every year. In 2010, a pair of twins I know dressed as colonial-era hunters and chased the other festival-goers who had so foolishly dressed as ...
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Like most people who spent the better half of their teenage years during the mid-noughties, my music tastes were fairly rigidly constrained to the world of indie rock. My iTunes library was full of guitar bands and the ideal school night involved necking a few tins, getting on the train and sweating copious amounts in the poorly ventilated gig venues ...
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, aka Will Oldham, is a name who should be on everyone’s lips. Instead, in the current landscape of indie-folk/Americana he has been overlooked for the watered-down beige-athon ...
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As the imaginatively named title of this column would suggest, each week I hope to bring you a top notch hip-hop tune. This week’s song comes courtesy of Schoolboy Q’s ...
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As promised, this week I will be beginning my rampage of digging up dead, old UK post-hardcore bands. The first band to be mentioned is, obviously, Reuben. Despite their ten-year ...
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This week’s band have arguably had the most mainstream success out of all the bands that will feature in this series and prove that post-hardcore music, while perhaps a relatively ...
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I’m bAAAAAck! Terribly sorry about last week; unfortunately my ghostwriter was on holiday, so doing my column was a bit trickier than expected. But now that he’s taken his leave ...
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