The album, the Brit Award 2012 press release tells us, is not dead. Despite the growth in single track purchases thanks to iTunes et al, many so-called serious artists are still putting out what we used to call LPs. It’s a good thing, too. Is there anything as thrilling as the perfect album? When an [...]
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Men and women, not always but often, have disagreed on many things about music; its purpose, its purpose, its value and its quality. And as music journalism has traditionally been a male-heavy occupation, the view of what is good and what is bad comes from those who pee standing. Witness The Beatles by way of [...]
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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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Our intrepid reporter Mrs.Morrissey attended last nights Coldplay show at Hampden in Glasgow. We’re not carrying a review because it’s Coldplay and it doesn’t count. You know what Coldplay sound like and, in simplistic terms, you’ll know whether you would have enjoyed it or you wouldn’t have. They are Coldplay. They played all the Coldplay [...]
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Joss Stone may not be everyone’s cup of tea, and rightly so, but news that the vacuous Welsh poptart is so desperate to quit ailing label EMI she is willing to return a £2m advance should set alarm bells ringing at the venerable old institution. Despite a fundamental lack of talent or likability, Stone was [...]
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Yes, let hosannas ring out and deities be praised, it’s the Ivor Novello Awards nominations time of year again. The longest running and, we are told, most prestigious award that it is possible for yer average overly hirsute long-haired layabout to win, because it is about the songwriting. That most indefinable of all skills, that [...]
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Last week brought us the news that uberproducer Brian Eno, arty adviser to the glitterati, had banned Chris Martin from attending recording of Coldplay’s new album. Sensible move, you may well have thought, but it turns out the ban is actually a two week holiday. It seems Martin, shockingly, is a bit of a control [...]
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The Onion has been responsible for many acts of genius since it came into being, but a favourite of mine was the headline ‘Asshole Admits ‘I Am An Asshole’ In Ultimate Asshole Move’. I like that a lot. It brilliantly summed up for me that peculiarly modern cynicsm, that by simply admitting to a flaw [...]
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