Sonic preacher man Howlin’ Whippet heads out with even more of a cause this week… Justice Tonight was generating a lot of excitement in Anarchy Towers this week. In aid of the Hillsborough Justice Fund, a collection of luminaries are touring the UK raising funds and awareness of the campaign to have all of the [...]
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As the Glasgow classicists return with their second album, we look at whether this is a good thing. In times of great economic upheaval, it’s prudent to do the sensible thing and shop to your budget. Is there really any difference between the big brands and the supermarket’s generic attempt? If a bottle of Coke [...]
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Easter – it’s like Christmas, but less fun. That’s not to say we won’t all make the most of it, but let’s not kid ourselves people. It’s like comparing Elvis and Fat Elvis; sure, you’d rather have Fat Elvis over no Elvis at all, but it’s never going to be anybody’s favourite. So what’s happening [...]
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Light and shade. That’s what we strive for round these parts. In ELM Towers, you’ll find rooms bathed in a light so shiny and white you’d swear you’d walked in on Simon Cowell, whereas the adjoining room would be dimmer than Manni Dinogue. For steady repetition is not good for the soul. But we’ve been [...]
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For those of you cynics out there who don’t believe there is a God, I bring you evidence; yesterday, he answered millions of prayers by delivering, safe from evil, Glasvegas frontman James Allan after reports in newspapers he’d been missing for five days. He turned up safe and well on holiday in New York, where [...]
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London rapper Speech Debelle won the 2009 Mercury Music Prize last night for her debut album Speech Therapy. The album, which the Sun will no doubt enjoy pointing out had sold only 3000 copies up to yesterday, beat off stiff competition from Florence & the Machine and Bat for Lashes to win the coveted award. [...]
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Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper reports Glasvegas frontman James Allan is missing. He apparently disappeared five days ago and his concerned bandmates are now starting to hit the panic button. Bandmate Rab Allan, who is James’s cousin, said: “We’re not supposed to talk about it. He has been working really, really hard and he probably needs [...]
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Jamie Oliver, you lying fat-tongued bastard. ELM, being brought up in the 80’s when children were taught to believe everything they heard on television, was completely suckered by the whole organic food argument. I wanted my lettuce with cowshit on it. I hoped my chicken had been running around an area the size of Gloucestershire. [...]
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Ah, the rock ‘feud’. Is there anything so dreary as when two tiresome acts line up to define themselves by slagging each other off in the hope of garnering column inches? It’s almost as hoary an old cliché as ‘getting it together in the country’. What’s always so sublimely depressing about these quarrels is that [...]
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