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Day 1 Valentine’s Day, 2019 This trip over to Armenia, ancestral home of the kith and kin of Kourtney, Kendal, Kylie and Kim began with flight FZ717 to Yerevan from Terminal 2, Dubai International. Taken initially by our regular Abu Dhabi driver, we had to change to a normal taxi at a Dubai hotel because of the risk of heavy fines for a non-registered taxi...
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Cute anecdote The Beirut taxi driver, a bronzed, seventysomething old timer, face deeply etched with the wrinkles of war, squeezes my hand as we pull up outside Lebanon’s only non-military airport, saying, “Merci d’être venu au Liban et reviens vite” (thanks for coming to Lebanon and come back quickly) On the short fifteen-minute drive along the sun-kissed coast we have talked about the many changes...
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The scene: A small, sweaty, dark subterranean Duke Street, Liverpool bunker. A message over the loudspeaker: Pro-Brexit voters are encouraged to leave the venue. Those remaining invited to use the gender neutral toilets. And off it kicks. Pop, politics, poetry and pazzazz. Enter the utterly likeable dynamic duo, Girli and DJ Kitty. Bree Hart prowls and captures on film every second of this heavenly insanity, cooked...
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Today I went on one of the most incredible excursions of my life. I took a short ride over the border into Argentina from my Brazilian hostel, to visit what must surely rank amongst the wonders of the natural world. It is one of those places to which it is impossible to do justice, either in words or in pictures. You stand in awe, wishing...
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There’s a Big Bear on the loose in Liverpool. It roars. It rampages. It makes a hell of a noise. It is untamed, feral. I unexpectedly find myself face to face with roaring Big Bear duo, Connor Di Leo (drums) and Joshua Pulleyn on vocals/guitar. Momentarily tamed before their headline gig at the Arts Club in Liverpool, they wax lyrical and melodical on everything from...
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With new single Ruins, Liverpool band, St. Jude the Obscure (duo Adele Emmas and Christian Sandford, with Grace Goodwin on drums) continue their effortless ascent from the ashes of past incarnations, Bird and Feral Love. The name may be different but the DNA is the same. The major change in 2017 has been the welcome release of fresh material. While Feral Love fans were starved...
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A couple of years ago a young band from Stockport was playing to small crowds up and down the country. All my senses told me instantly that they had the potential to break on through to the other side (small time indie side to mainstream side I mean). Well they did have some very Doorsy sounding songs in their armoury in those early days. They...
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I have to say that I must be a very late developer: I’ve only recently discovered Liverpool band, Indigo Moon. Boy, am I making up for lost time. How could I have been so…musically impubescent. Their EP Anatomy currently takes centre stage in my hormonal ears, simultaneously rocking and lulling me out of my Indigo-ignorant coma. Live, they deliver a powerful, blistering set that packs...
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