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>Today’s New Band – Nicholas Stevenson PLUS! Booze, More Booze and Burlesque...
>Having spent the last five nights ‘entertaining friends’, I’m now in the unenviable position of starting the week feeling exhausted. Beer, wine, tapas, dim sum and a surprising diversion to the...
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>Today’s New Band – It’s A Dragon PLUS! Christmas Panic!
>What’s happening to A New Band A Day? New features and new writers? It’s almost as if more effort’s being put in all of a sudden or something. Well, a pre-Christmas frenzy has overcome us all in...
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>Today’s New Band – Ivan Campo PLUS! Killing wildlife!
>There have been a few songs that, on the first hearing, the sudden realisation that what I was listening to was so good, so head-spinningly wonderful, so new, that I’ve stopped whatever I’m doing...
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>Today’s New Band – Radio Spectacular PLUS! FEAR! (The)
> Do you know who’s at number one in the (UK) single charts today? I used to listen to the Top 40 countdown on Radio 1 religiously when I was a callow youth, but who really cares now? To answer the...
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>I Come To Shanghai, The Fall, and The Mark E. Smith Fingers/Pies Interface
>As well as watching the Worst Band Ever, last week I also finally managed to catch The Fall, the finest grumpy band in the world. Singer Mark E Smith has been puzzling, delighting and...
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>No Flash, and Liam Gallagher’s Flowery Shirt Conundrum
>You too can meet Oasis’ Liam Gallagher! But only if you buy something from his new clothing range – then you can meet the surly, set-jawed man himself, in Manchester, next week. Parka-wearing...
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>My Awesome Mixtape, and How Faux-Nostalgia Never Had To Press Pause/Play...
>I’m old enough to remember actually making mixtapes and feel slightly aggrieved at the spasms of faux-nostalgia that accompany their mention now. There’s a reason no-one’s made a mixtape for about...
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Timothy Cushing, and Liam Gallagher’s Hair In “Boring” Shocker!
Funny, the power our idols have over us. If I unceremoniously deposited a lock of my hair into your outstretched palm, you’d probably call the police, wash the offending hand in bleach and take out a...
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Calories – Note: Review Contains No Dreadful Food Energy Value Analogies. Sorry.
Sometimes I wonder why bands even bother. I look at my bulging inbox, filled with suggestions of new bands, and I wonder this, because it’s almost impossible to conceive how any band can be heard...
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The Shondes and The Descent Into Middle Age
I can’t even remember how I discovered today’s new band. I will tentatively claim that I received an email from a rapt fan about them, but frankly it could have been from anyone via any medium. It...
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