Rebekah Brooks might think she’s having a tough time, but it absolutely pales into comparison with what Morrissey is going through these days. Just weeks after civil war erupted amongst his online fans – prompted, it must be said, by his decision to wear a ‘FUCK MORRISSEY-SOLO.COM’ t-shirt at a few shows – he’s been [...]
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Morrissey has revealed he is currently without a record deal, complaining that no labels have sought him out. “There’s not much I can do about it,” he said. “You assume that anyone who wants you will come and get you” he claimed, whilst wearing a t-shirt saying ‘come and get me’ and ringing his bell.
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Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. And that’s maybe why we’ve never quite warmed to Gorillaz. They return this week with new album The Fall, despite never really having seemed to go away after the last one. Possibly this is the consequence of releasing 82 singles from it. But yes, another day, another [...]
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There was more to the 80s than Duran Duran and massive cocaine habits, you know. Scandalously disregarding the work of Sonia, Salamander takes us through the fashions and then goes for a song coming right out of left field. The 80s, then; the decade of big hair and enough hairspray to have caused the ozone [...]
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We first caught up with Phantom about six months ago, when they were in town for the Hinterland Festival. Today sees the release of their debut single ‘The Great Pretender.’ We caught up with the guys to to see what’s been happening in the corner marked ‘gorgeous pop-noir’; Elsie Martins
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A steadfast and indisputable truth of the Universe is that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Similarly, anything a bloke tells you in a pub is gospel. Once you realise this, it opens up a plethora of facts and figures which, while sharing the common factor of being singularly useless, are nonetheless mildly interesting. Many [...]
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“Ah, beer. The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.” Homer Simpson. And, indeed, the great man neatly addresses the problems rock’n’roll has always had with the demon drink. It’s always been a complex affair; many bands use the juice as a creative lube, or a way of freeing their inner rock [...]
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In news certain to devastate a certain type of manic fan – i.e. all of them – Morrissey made the surprising claim that he’s reaching the end of his time as ‘the Prince of Wails’. Asked about performing past the age of 55 or 60, he described the respective chances as “slim” and “incredibly slim”. [...]
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