Only a quick post today as it’s Friday evening and quite frankly I ought to be drinking cider, not blogging. Through the wonders of disco party Pearl Flash, I have discovered an awesome band called Truly Beautiful Disaster. Currently a London based two-piece, T.B.D. is music so catchy and yet not-at-all-poppy that deserves to be [...]
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So twitter keeps me abreast of news (real-time) that specifically interests me thanks to chosing a list of people to follow who I know will seed links that are oh-so-good. And what has twitter delivered today! A bundle of reunion joy that’s what! Some special bands seem to be getting back together lately, and I [...]
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I recently developed my own brand of guerrilla interviewing which I guinea-pigged on up-and-coming American band Times New Viking. It basically involves taking your interviewees down a sketchy alley in Hackney-ghetto Dalston and clear a space amid broken glass for them to sit by using your foot as a broom. Bear in mind these are [...]
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I think this video explains the sort of state I’d like to get in tonight…. Daisy Chainsaw were a band seemingly on the verge of drug-induced madness from the darkest depths of the ’90s. They imploded some time around ’95 after releasing one album, Eleventeen, which has been difficult to buy on and off in [...]
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