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Citizen Bravo, Raymond MacDonald and Friends: “Return To Y’Hup: The World of Ivor Cutler” – a great reminder of the Scottish genius
CHEMIKAL UNDERGROUND 24th January 2020 Let’s just start by saying that Ivor Cutler was a pure and unalloyed genius. His perfectly individual vision was beautifully expressed in a series of recording, books and pamphlets.
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DAVID KEENAN – ‘A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO BRAVERY’ – A great Irish voice
RUBYWORKS 10th Jan 2020 What a voice! Whatever David Keenan was singing would sound like poetry but, as luck would have it, he is big on the sort of street-life poetry favoured by Danny George
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The Just Joans – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans
Fika Recordings 10 January 2020 The opener, ‘Hey Ho Let’s Not Go’, says it all, delivered in a Malcolm Middleton modern Scottish miserablist voice; “Let’s stay home – the TV’s good and the weather’s
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Headline tour for Hands Off Gretel
Combining the rage of riot grrrl and grunge mixed with bubblegum pop, Hands Off Gretel released their second album in 2019 and back it up with a lengthy tour, with dates right across Spring.
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Rod Stewart – Arena-scale spectacular in Leeds
Leeds Arena 11th December 2019 Words: Ross Halewood / Pictures: Ross McGibbon I never particularly liked Rod Stewart until I saw him live. Sure, he got a pass for the Faces and some early
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sir Was – gig review – Warm. Friendly. Nice.
Live at Headrow House 20th November 2019 It’s good to try new things and go to gigs where you aren’t that familiar with the artist. I figured sir Was would have to be different to
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Moon Duo – jamming deep at Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 2nd November 2019 The psychedelic tradition of San Francisco is in safe hands with Erik Johnson and Sanae Yamada. The husband and wife team played a consistent ninety minute set
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Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith – ‘Mummer Love’ – incantatory, hallucinatory summoning of Rimbaud
BELLA UNION 10thNovember 2019 These are great time for avant-garde spoken word albums. Just last month, Laurie Anderson released a recording of her reading the Tibetan Book Of The Dead, now Patti Smith reads
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Hang Massive – “If only they had deckchairs”
Live at Brudenell Social Club 30th October 2019 You can’t blame a band for being too popular or for doing exactly what you expected, yet those two things hampered the evening. This duo’s unique
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Spearmint – “Are You From The Future?” – clever pop, big tunes, this band is a hidden gem
hitBACK 1 November 2019 Quality, clever pop is always welcome and that is what Spearmint have here. A mature and wise pop, like a longer-in-the-tooth Pulp and part of the British tradition that holds
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