Category: music
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Dance: Thursday Photo Challenge
Welcome to the Thursday Photo Challenge, a weekly photography challenge for everyone who likes to take photos! This week’s challenge is dance. Hand in hand, on the edge of the sand they danced in the light of the moon. Edward Lear Dancing is one of my favourite things to do. I never had ballet lessons…
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The Neverending Story: A Cautionary Tale
For those of you who don’t actually know, the Neverending Story was a movie from the 80s with a super-catchy theme tune. It was also a book by Michael Ende, a German dude. It was fashionable at the time for authors to sell movie rights to Hollywood then, upon seeing the film of their work,…
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Why Rusty Shipp are the most exciting band of 2016
Does your playlist need something fresher than an explosion in a Febreze factory? Do you need to hear the band that Captain Jack Sparrow would most certainly have at the top of his playlist (y’know, if iPods were around back then)? Has your musical collection struck an iceberg, and now it’s sinking faster than Celine…
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The Membranes
If you’re a punk fan, you’ll probably know that the Membranes were an integral part of the punk scene in the 70’s (and the post-punk scene in the 80’s). If it wasn’t for the Membranes, and the other bands that started up at the same time, there wouldn’t have *been* a scene. The band has always been…
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…And now I’m deaf (Therapy? Band concert).
Last night I saw the Northern Irish band Therapy? (the cryptic question mark is part of the name) supported by The Membranes, in Leeds. My Dearest and I managed to get right to the front at one side where there were a couple of seats because everyone else assumed someone was sitting there already (thanks…
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Bob Dylan, Professional Mumbler.
The sky opened and started pouring sheets of rain over London as we hurried towards Albert Hall to see Bob Dylan. We were running a little late, and not being terribly familiar with that part of London, we had a bit of trouble finding where we were going. Was this a sign from the Weather…
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A Bad Day For Music: Et Tu, Bowie?
Wow so I was just checking my Twitter and saw that David Bowie’s death was announced today. He died yesterday, at home, aged 69. Cause of death: Liver cancer. It seems to be shaping up to be a shit year for musician mortality; it was only this morning I was watching Lemmy’s memorial service on…
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Billy Idol and Slash: Download Festival Day 3 Part I
There’s a good reason I never finished writing about Download Festival. Sunday was the day when I realized that I did not actually know my best friend of 9 years. That’s been one of the hardest things to deal with in the past year. You can get through most things with a good friend by…
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