The perils of patronage

Posted on October 7, 2010 by extremelisteningmode

During the recent Mercury Music prize press blitz, you’d have been forgiven for thinking John Bramwell, better known as I Am Kloot, was only in the running because he was pals with Elbow’s Guy Garvey. The media, looking for an angle, decided the comparision between the struggling indie band and the massively-successful indie band was [...]

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Paul McCartney – Hampden Park, Glasgow

Posted on June 21, 2010 by extremelisteningmode

Writing about anything Beatle-related presents a problem; what to say that hasn’t already been said? There doesn’t seem to be a month where some new book promises revelations but in the end simply re-treads over the story. There also isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have an opinion on the fab four. Simply put, people [...]

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Noel Gallagher: Solo Artist – What the world’s been waiting for?

Posted on February 1, 2010 by extremelisteningmode

He probably wouldn’t thank you for the comparison, but Noel Gallagher has been the Ryan Giggs of music for years now: although he played for someone you couldn’t stand, you always thought he seemed a good bloke personally. If you want to torture this one out further, you could say both of them started brilliantly, [...]

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The Songs That Saved Your Life – The 60s: Helter Skelter

Posted on October 29, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

Ah, the 60s. In the second part of our series, Scant Regard argues the case for one of the Fabs most out-there tracks defining the decade. Must have just pipped ‘Needles and Pins’. So the 60s have become synonomous with the dawning of a new musical outlook – the movement from rock n roll to, [...]

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The Friday 5 – As sure as eggs are eggs; 5 musical truisms

Posted on October 16, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

We live in a crazy world. Everything seems to be liquid now; nobody knows what the future holds. Nothing is as it was and it never seriously threatens to settle. It’s easy to feel disconnected, as if the lead is there but you haven’t been plugged in. Luckily, there are some things you can rely [...]

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The ELM ‘Claim to Lame’ Game

Posted on February 24, 2009 by extremelisteningmode

Icons. Bloody Icons. That’s what these so-called pop stars are to us. We mere mortals, scrabbling about on our uppers looking for a break, are turned into sheer shivering wrecks in the presence of greatness (and, in this modern world, there is nothing which proves greatness more than celebrity.) Just to touch the hem of [...]

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The Friday 5 – And The Drums, the Drums, the Drums, the Drums

Posted on October 17, 2008 by extremelisteningmode

As sure as night follows day, as certain as Sarah Palin about shooting things, as reliable as a Guy Ritchie movie being awful, yes folks, it’s the Friday 5. Today we’re going to get with the beat and celebrate those who power the music we love so much, who hammer out the rhythms which appeal [...]

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Lawyers, Guns and Money – Doherty’s Latest And Management Through Time

Posted on June 11, 2008 by extremelisteningmode

Pete Doherty is reportedly calling in investigators because he can’t fathom out what has happened to all his cash. I know. Too many jokes. But, genuinely, is this is just another in a long line of trusting musicians duped by evil accountants? Okay, not likely in this case. A ‘source close to the rocker’ (ie [...]

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The Friday 5 – The Five Worst Ideas by Established Stars

Posted on May 2, 2008 by extremelisteningmode

Welcome to a regular feature, shamelessly stolen from High Fidelity than assigned a regular day for alliterative reasons. To kick off, we look at when the rock demi-God displays the same intuition and foresight as any normal demi-wit. When the ego took fought off any resistance from common sense, and they went careering off with [...]

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Get me a bottle and a gun – Brilliantly Depressing Songs

Posted on April 15, 2008 by extremelisteningmode

Ah, music. Great thing for watching girls go by to, wonderous for getting jiggy with it on a dancefloor and capable of making you smash your cranium backwards and forwards in time with a sweaty loon’s drumbeat. But music is also brilliant for getting maudlin, mopey and downright miserable to. You can’t whack a tune [...]

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