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Limelight
It all started two years ago, a psychedelic friend of mine, mentioned over a lunchtime pint that there was a local band of space rockers who I’d really like called Mugstar who had a really good LP out...
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Involuntary Pelvic Contractions
Frankie were a T-shirt to me, way back before I heard a note of theirs. As I remember it, back when I was 12 I started noticing all these ‘Frankie Says Relax’ T-shirts when I was on holiday with my...
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Menlove & Forthlin
As my son and heir and I knew we would be at a loose end today, I booked us on the tour of Lennon and McCartney’s childhood homes in Liverpool. It’s the sort of thing I’d been half-meaning to do for...
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Liverpool Psychedelic Festival: Camp and Furnace, Liverpool 27-09-14
My head thrums, my feet smell and my hearing is several shades off normal and I only got in 6 hours ago, but I’m too excited to sleep much. Such is the lot of the roving psychedelic war correspondent....
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Mogwai, Mugstar, Forest Swords Live: Camp and Furnace, Liverpool 24-10-14
Oww! My ears! I have been looking forward to this gig for ages, my favourite local space rockers and Mogwai, a band I’ve loved for years but just never got around to seeing live – at my favourite local...
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Waterfront
So there I was sitting on my train, minding my own business at stupid o’clock this morning – looking forward to getting into work early to clear some stuff, when an announcement is made that all the...
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Transports Of Delight
One has to come to terms with one’s own mortality I am finding Anathema We’re Here Because We’re Here a very difficult LP to write about. Not because it is a tough listen, or that there isn’t a lot to...
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Rhythm Reigns, Melody Is Queen
It is difficult to imagine now but once upon a time in the decade-that-taste-forgot that fetchingly haggard, slightly crazed, intense megalithic dude in the Luftwaffe cap we know and love today, was...
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