There are a lot of reasons to be dismissive of Snow Patrol. Their inoffensive music and it’s hegemony seems to irritate many, though as they embark on a series of massive summer shows, it appears that many more find their mix of easy listening indie rock and superficially meaningful lyrics irresistable. Snow Patrol started life [...]
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It’s quite fashionable to detox these days. We live in a toxic world, full of bacteria, viruses and poor people, where lurking round every corner is a potential deathtrap contained in a pork pie or a pint or something. Anyway, what you do to defeat these demons is detox. This means buying some stupidly expensive [...]
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So, the Great British Public have spoken. Well, some of them anyway. Channel 4′s mania for list shows at this time of year was given a fillip by it being the end of the decade and all and they brought us the Top 100 songs of the preceding ten years. And the winner? The one [...]
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‘It’s Christmas!’ sang Noddy Holder, and how right he was. Indeed, come this time of year, he’s right again. Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat, though not as fat as your mother, who remains a fat cow. Christmas is the time when miracles happen, Jesus is praised and companies try to make [...]
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Sentimentality is a blessing and a curse. In truth, it helps separate us from the animals, but in the grand scheme of things, the ability weep at the Care Bears movie has probably blunted our ability to rip heads off animals with our bare hands and eat their flesh raw. Were Vikings sentimental? I doubt [...]
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We don’t have much time for Nicky Wire round these parts, for several reasons. The main ones being he is a total twat and the other he’s in a really pissingly average rock band who haven’t done anything of note since 1992. He also scores highly on the hate-o-meter for his tedious attempts to be [...]
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What’s that coming over the hill? Why it’s the weekend! Yes, kicking off this weeks F5 with a line only marginally less stupid than the original lyric by The Automatic, we hope you’ve had a good week, because the world certainly did with the election results from the good ol’ US. So with this sense [...]
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As serious music monthlies go, the Observer Music Monthly tends to be the runt of the litter, but it’s often worth a peek for it’s rather interesting take on the more exotic scenes in the world. I’ve read really interesting articles on Tinariwen, the New Puritans, Death Metal in Norway and Prussian Blue, those repulsive [...]
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At T in the Park last year, the Sunday headliners on the two main stages were Kasabian and Snow Patrol. Up to this point I’d had a pretty good festival, and didn’t want to spoil it be seeing either of those two overrated acts. Too lazy* to go elsewhere we stayed and watched The Sunshine [...]
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