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Festival Review – Wireless 2011

by Si Sharp

Hyde Park’s a funny old place, what with it seeming to have two festivals sharing the same field. And as we walked in, there was a Radio 1 style pop-event going on. Ke$ha was on stage. She is profoundly irritating. Do we really need to justify this with serious journalistic observation? Well, according to her [...]

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Odd Future Will Invariably Enjoy Domestic Violence Protests At Their Shows

by Mof Gimmers

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA… or, for the sake of not typing the whole stinkin’ thing out, ‘Odd Future’ from now on) don’t mind a bit of controversy. In fact, they openly court it. They’re like Teflon. Nothing sticks to ‘em. When one of Sara and Tegan said: “I’m disheartened that any [...]

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Festival Review: Download 2011 Sunday

by Si Sharp

Is there any more fun to be drawn from rap/rock? Judging by Hyro Da Hero, the answer is “Fun, yes. Essential music, perhaps not.” This is the straighter end of alt/noise rock (think a less experimental At the Drive-In) with rapping over the top rather that the normal approach of recreating hip-hop’s bounce and swing [...]

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Festival Review: Download 2011 Saturday

by Si Sharp

Why are metal bands of such a high quality when playing live? We’ve lost count of the mind-numbing quantity of indie bands we’ve seen over the years that sounded passable on record but dreary once they sheepishly shuffle onto a stage. Benji Webb knows how to work a crowd and Skindred are an amazing vehicle [...]

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Reading And Leeds Lineups Leaked – The Horror, The Horror!

by Ralph Sanders

Festivals are ace, aren’t they? They’re like proper gigs, but you have to spend a weekend in a smelly tent and buy beer for £4 a can from a crusty trust fund hippy in order to see your favourite band perform their popular hits from half a mile away while you hold in eight pints [...]

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Reading Festival Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

by Kris Silver

The great Reading Festival ticket rush is right around the corner, which is causing people of no discernible music taste to wet themselves with glee while the rest of us look on in astonishment that this festival manages to sell out year after year. The Reading and Leeds festivals are one of those bizarre anomalies that perplex [...]

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The Darkness Reform For The Benefit Of Music Fans Living In The Past

by Matthew Laidlow

The Darkness, they were an odd band weren’t they? Operating around the period of 2003/2004, it was a time when indie music was at a low with bands getting signed more on their fashion sense than musical ability. If you could pull off the skinny jeans and hat look, then you were on to a [...]

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Pulp Are Reforming – Cue Misguided Notion That The ’90s Were Good

by Mof Gimmers

There’s a ’90s revival knocking around, leaving thirtysomethings to thrill about an imagined golden-period of music history… a period that comprised of bands like Echobelly, Menswear, Candy Flip and a whole host of other dreadful bands. Basically, if you remember the ’90s without rose-tints, then you’ll know that it wasn’t that great at all. Go [...]

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Hipster Diary: Manchester’s In The City Festival

by hecklerspray staff

So, yeah. In the City is happening this week in Manchester. It’s like totally an important festival about music. I work in ‘media’ so managed to get a press pass for it. I hate saying it, but I’m famous on Twitter. I get spotted all the time, so the festival will do well by having [...]

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Jessica Simpson Goes Country, Infuriates Some Rednecks

by Stuart Heritage

Now that Jessica Simpson’s much-hyped acting career is lying twitching in the gutter, Jessica can now go back to her first love.

No, wait – Jessica Simpson’s first love is cacky reality TV shows that exploit her personal relationships with others, isn’t it? OK, well in that case Jessica Simpson has gone back to her second love – music.

And not just any music, either – Jessica Simpson has gone country, and she’s marked the occasion with a concert at a festival in Wisconsin. But sadly, Jessica Simpson’s country concert didn’t go down well with the locals, who booed and jeered her for not being country enough. Now, if she’d have smashed her teeth up real bad and had sex with a blood relative beforehand, it would have been a different story altogether.

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