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Life, as they say, isn’t fair. If it was, we’d all be rich. There would be no EastEnders. Only people I don’t like would get ill. Mars Bars wouldn’t have gotten smaller. A whole host of things. But possibly the biggest difference would be that Warren Zevon would be revered by the masses as the [...]
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ELM Presents kicks off in May with a show at Glasgow’s 13th Note. Headlining will be Scots post-rockers Fram, whose debut This is How We Live Now was one of 2008′s best kept secrets. We talked to frontman Scot van den Akker about all things music: ELM Presents – we’re excited; how are you feeling [...]
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It may be archaic and even somewhat quaint to younger readers, but musicians used to spend a long time deciding the make-up of an album. Deciding what songs were selected wasn’t simply about which ones were best; many acts often left storming tracks go out as b-sides because they didn’t fit the concept of the [...]
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There’s a tradition in Scotland at big football matches that people will sell tickets outside the venue to supporters who haven’t managed to pick one up before matchday. The strange thing is that the seller makes no money on the deal. Tickets are sold for face value, and anyone attempting to sell them for more [...]
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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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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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Nostalgia for eras that didn’t actually exist is as pervasive as it is easy. We all remember a better time, a romanticised version of the past which enables us to sigh about how hard we had it, about how today’s generation just don’t have to face the challenges we did. It’s a simple way of [...]
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There is a dark corridor in ELM Towers, a dirty passage if you will. Down it many a fearful newbie has tread, heading further towards the windowless room at the bottom where air is gasped gratefully and dank overwhelms the senses. This room is known as the lab. It is in this very room that [...]
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Yes, it’s here again. Glastonbury arrives and, for many of us, will be enjoyed through the medium of television. Even though you wouldn’t neccesarily know that if you had much exposure to mainstream media this week, who treat it as almost an act of sacrilege if you simply don’t fancy it. So for those who [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: bbc, gigs, Glastonbury, glastonbury 2009, music, radcliffe, tv, Whiley | 7 Comments »
