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Mid Week Music News

Out there in cloud cuckoo land and obviously not wanting to let Sharon Osborne’s blistering return volley at Iron Maiden (it’s like the Alien Queen versus Ripley) take all the pop column inches, pugilist, prol poet, and one time popcorn pusher (at the Prince Charles …

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XFM List-tastic Bank Holiday

It’s a funny old world we live in, tearing down the information M25 waiting for the next speeding petrol tanker to flip itself over the central reservation right on to our unprotected heads. Terrified of losing control we’ve found a system that placates our every …

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Mid Week Music News

U2, Wirelss, Live 8, B-Live, Queen, REM it’s not exactly been about the small shows recently. So the cockles were gently stoked when we finally saw the words intimate show again recently. First off was the news that Elbow are back in September on Tuesday …

An Apology

As a website that is sometimes confused by those of little brain with an American product (yes we are part of the Gothamist network, no we are not an American website) we were amused yesterday to see that some of the worst home-grown telly ideas …

Booking Ahead

Not much in the way of new tours this week so we’ll focus on the fine art of not getting ripped off when trying to get tickets for sold out shows. Touts are not our favourite breed of human being (if they can indeed be …

Monday Music News

The big ‘indie’ release this week is Garbage‘s Bleed Like Me and after a major PR assault, with ‘not too threateningly sexy sex symbol for geeks’ Shirley Manson even doing a photoshoot disguised as an interview (geeks can keep the kleenex in the box, there’s …