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Sundara Karma rocked in to Liverpool for their biggest headline show to date, fresh off the back of a highly accomplished debut album: you know, the one with long, yet deep, title: Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect. If that were true then virtually everybody in the sell-out, mainly 14 (12??)-18 year old, O2 Academy crowd must have had a miserable time. When I arrived...
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To see Hidden Charms live is to see an uncontrolled explosion of feral rhythm and blues. Can I get a witness? To see them back where it all began three years ago is even better. The tension built as they toyed with the expectant audience that had gathered at the front of the stage, encouraged by hyped up, adoring members and friends of Liverpool band, Roomerz. ...
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As 2016 races to a close I feel that it is my musical duty to review the best of those tracks that have been the soundtrack to a gigging year of epic proportions. But for my day job feeding 11-16 year old alligators with knowledge I would probably be doing this full time. The last fifty-two weeks have taken me in planes, trains and automobiles from...
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“Manchester, we have no words.” This tweet by the mesmeric Black Honey, following a sell-out show at the Deaf Institute in Manchester last night, says it all. Having seen them five times in the last five months, I am inclined to agree. I am fast losing the ability to put into words what a live Black Honey show is like. Ok let me try: type...
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A review of Icelandic band, Samaris, at Leaf Tea shop, Liverpool ,on Thursday, 9th June, 2016. Support from the ever brilliant Feral Love. Not usually one to be lost for words when writing, I am fast running out of superlatives to describe Feral Love. I almost feel like it is an undeserved privilege to have seen them for a third time in just over a...
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Reviews / Wild Life
Help! Is anybody there? Mothership? Please help! My name is Jerry. I’m a greater flamingo and I have been birdnapped by some bandidos called Black Honey. My four captors are the hairiest beasts I’ve seen this side of the Rift Valley. They keep me locked in a case in the back of a van, unable to breathe. They’re forever moving round, to avoid capture, like...
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Firstly a brief, pre-ramble preface free from prejudice. I need to say this, but each time I have checked recently nothing has changed. I am still male through and through. These, therefore, are the views of a thoroughly male man who is not a woman and has no plans to become one. I do, however, have a deep-seated appreciation for women, and especially for...
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The Tyde is High and I’m moving on. It is common logic that when the tide is high you have to move on, leave the beach and move inland or you stand a pretty good chance of getting washed away. Last night, the tide was at its highest at 8.24 pm and, thanks to winning a guest list retweet competition I moved inland from the...
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