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Festival Review: Leeds 2011

by Si Sharp

Five teenage boys are standing in a circle, arms locked around each others shoulders but this is no group hug. They are all urinating into the centre. They are ten metres away from the toilets. Welcome to Leeds. Five teenage boys are standing in a circle, arms locked around each others shoulders but this is [...]

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(P)Review – Metallica & Lou Reed’s ‘Lulu’ Album

by Mof Gimmers

Did you hear the one about Metallica and Lou Reed making an album together called ‘Lulu’, based on the German playwright Frank Wedekind’s 1913 play about the life of an abused dancer? Jolly eh? Well, it’ll be getting released on October 31st in the UK, with North America following a day later. But what does [...]

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Festival Review: The Big Chill 2011

by Si Sharp

Argghhh! Panic! The festival industry is dying! Run for the hills (well, the cities)! So, then Big Chill- what are you about? Should we be impressed or not? You’re run by Festival Republic who really aren’t the leftwing revolutionary group that your name would like us to infer, but your line-up isn’t exactly the warmed up Radio [...]

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28 Second Video Review Of Matt Cardle’s New Single ‘Run For Your Life’

by Mof Gimmers

Hurray! Matt Cardle – the guy who won last year’s X Factor, much to everyone’s antipathy – has a new record out! How exciting is that?! Of course, we’ve got big hopes for Matt because, not only can he sing in a really high pitched voice, but he can play guitar at the same time. [...]

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Festival Review – Camp Bestival

by Si Sharp

It’s ironic that the golden rule of capitalism is at work in something as historically left-of-centre as festivals. This summer the power of the market is separating the wheat from the chaff in festival-land. The beauty of it is, that whilst money may be able to book a big headliner,  it requires imagination to create [...]

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Decoded: Lady GaGa’s Warning In ‘You And I’ That You Should Never Mix Ice Cream With Fish

by Mof Gimmers

Lady GaGa has a new video out again for us to all split into two camps about. One camp is the “Hurray! She’s weird and fresh! Just what pop needs!”, the other is the “Boo! She’s an idiot! An attention seeking idiot! Make her go away!” This promo for ‘You And I’ will be no [...]

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Pop Promos: New Music Videos – 19th July 2011

by Lauren Mullineaux

Does anybody actually like music anymore? It seems that not only audiences and the business men have given up on it, but musicians themselves. Literature and art, real art that involves more than computers, have movements with the words ‘modern’ and ‘post’ often involved, the music industry in comparison is just a retrospective of its [...]

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Gig Review: Soul Rebels Brass Band @ Band On The Wall, Manchester

by Mof Gimmers

Soul Rebels Brass Band have a story. And fuck, the white middle classes who will be fawning over this lot as they make their way around Europe, love a tale of triumph over adversity. Like the blues singers who went blind and lost all their fingers, only to grow more fingers, which they also lost, [...]

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Gig Review: Vintage Trouble, Manchester Academy 3

by Mof Gimmers

“It’s funny when people ask me that. We like to have a good time, all the time,” said Ty Taylor, lead singer of rock ‘n’ soul outfit, Vintage Trouble. “Like Spinal Tap?” His face fell. See, Vintage Trouble is irony-free soul music. They’ve got a really, really lousy name – Vintage? Really? Why not throw [...]

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Festivals Preview- July

by Si Sharp

As you may have noticed we’ve thrown ourselves into festival season like nobody’s business this summer. We’ve already had some great weekends and it’s still so early!  If you still haven’t decided where to go this summer, then please allow us to make some recommendations! So what’s in store for July then? Apart from shouting [...]

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