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Band You Love Releasing New Album Dilemma
Do you remember when you were a kid, when you didn’t just like a band, you absolutely loved them? You weren’t just a fan of the music, you liked them as people? Hanging on their every utterance...
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The Courteeners –‘St Jude’ Album Review
I logged on this morning to a busy inbox, amongst which were the usual spam mails offering all sorts of interesting things. While I was intrigued by the headline ‘tear her holes apart with your massive...
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The Friday 5 – The Five Worst Ideas by Established Stars
Welcome to a regular feature, shamelessly stolen from High Fidelity than assigned a regular day for alliterative reasons. To kick off, we look at when the rock demi-God displays the same intuition and...
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Manchester, So Much to Answer For
Due to a football match being held there tonight, Manchester has been very much in the headlines in Glasgow for the last few days. ELM is a footy-free zone, but it did get me thinking about some great...
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The Friday 5 – 5 Failed Follow-Up Bands
Good day to you all, my fine friends. We are all buzzing here after seeing one of Glasgow’s finest bands, the mighty Fram , perform a surprise acoustic gig in the city last night. And that has been...
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The Friday 5 – 5 Great Musical Cities
Ah, Friday, Friday here again in tidy attire, to paraphrase Blur. The weekend starts here good buddies – or will at home time – and through all the rock’n'roll excess which I’m sure you will engage in...
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It’s all over now – Albums that signalled the end
Time is versatile. There appears to be no end to the things it can do. It heals all wounds, for example. It flexes like a whore and, falls wanking to the floor, for some reason. But the main thing it...
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I am the ongoing resurrection – Stone Roses announce more dates
Whilst it was inevitable that the Stone Roses comeback shows at Heaton Park were highly unlikely to be all she wrote, from a marketing point of view it made perfect sense not to go on about it too...
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Same as it ever was – T in the Park 2012 line-up announced
If, in the build-up to the official announcement, you had asked me to name the line-up for T in the Park 2012, I’d have looked at the one headliner already announced – The Stone Roses – and then added...
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Resurrection – Stone Roses play first gig in 16 years
They said it would never happen, though the cynical among us would wager that ‘they’ didn’t include their bank managers. But after a 16 year hiatus, the Stone Roses returned with a free show at...
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