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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Live at Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool. Sunday 24th April, 2016. The Magic Gang, self-titled “melody makers and vibe crafters” from Brighton can make your breaking heart crack a smile, even when that’s the last thing you want to do. In fact, they could probably make you feel upbeat if they were singing about the Texas Chainsaw massacre. Their melodies are catchy, pure, “wind-down-the-car-window” summer...
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Some place at some time in the distant past a certain unknown band called Oasis played their first gig. Well ok it was 18 August 1991 at the Boardwalk Club in Manchester. Another quirky little band played for the first time in June 2003 at the Grapes in Sheffield. Ever heard of the Arctic Monkeys? Did anybody know at that time the dizzy heights to...
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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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The Orielles- live for the Flying Vinyl Festival at Shapes Warehouse, Hackney, April 2016 The Orielles from Halifax have single-handedly demolished the dark, satanic mills, and the grim, urban landscape of their home town. In its place they have built a virtual paradise resort in sun-soaked Californifax, where growing audiences check in for an idyllic break. Like Viola Beach, tragically killed in Sweden in February, and who were...
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Black Honey: Sweet Dreams or a Beautiful Nightmare? It probably takes less than a minute to get hooked on Black Honey. They are pure class A, producing fully-fledged addicts, who crave the next chemical fix released by their powerful, dreamy, other worldly music. This addict started listening to them a couple of months ago because they are on the Festevol bill in Liverpool over the...
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This was always going to be a fine balancing act. How do you remember the most unspeakable tragedy of five young lives cut short in their prime and yet still celebrate their talents and achievements? How do you balance joy and tragedy? It has been done before, at Live Aid for example, or in that exquisitely crafted episode of the Royle Family where nana, played...
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