music
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Paul Draper at Electric Brixton, performs Attack of the Grey Lantern, looks like Luke Skywalker
I tried to get out of the habit of going to nostalgia shows, as there’s something strange about wallpapering over memories of seeing bands at their peak with memories of exactly the same people singing exactly the same songs twenty years later. This is particularly so for the reverent album playback show. Remember how annoyed… Read more
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S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men at Heaven 11/09/2015: Morning Star column 15/09/2015
IN THE comic Phonogram: Rue Britannia, they’re known as retromancers who are trying to resurrect the long-dead musical magic of the past. At London’s Heaven on a Friday night, the old punks and new wave of new wavers have come to worship the sound of 1994, in the form of S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men.… Read more
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The Bluetones at the London Forum 24/09/15: Morning Star column 6/10/2015
AT THE pub in the back streets of London’s Kentish Town, The Bluetones — due to play at the Forum across the road — are at the next table. It’s as good way as any of knowing that a band aren’t due on stage yet. The Bluetones are back. Had they ever gone away? The… Read more
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