Lost in Music

Mainly thanks to their first two superlative albums, Jazzie B’s Soul II Soul soundsystem have become something of a British institution.  There was a lot of love for them here at this specia...

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Live gig review: Frazey Ford – The Tunnels, Bristol : Frazey Ford leads a musical double life. As founder member of Vancouver’s Be Good Tanyas she trades in delicate country folk but her so...

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Roger McGuinn’s trademark guitar sound goes before him – at this gig, literally as well as figuratively. Before we see the man himself, we hear his chiming 12-string Rickenbacker ringing ou...

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There are worse predicaments for a band to find themselves in than to have released a pair of gilt-edged classics as their first two albums, but for The Felice Brothers it seems to hang rather he...

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I’M repeating the words ‘absolute triumph’ as I leave the venue and that’s still rattling around my head the following morning ­– this show by the reunited Suede was very special indee...

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I’VE always been consistent on at least one point - if I’m a fan of  the original inspirations behind a band then it follows that I’ll like the amalgam. That holds true for the first time ...

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“My parents told me to get a job,” says David Crosby. “My job in this band is to write the weird shit.” OK, so that’s pretty much the gag that Croz told with old mucker Graham Nash wh...

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Over the past 50 years, Steve Winwood has pretty much done it all. He’s served up blue-eyed soul and r’n’b as a teen prodigy with The Spencer Davis Group, produced a diverse mix of psychede...

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Now I can’t pretend to know what cutting edge electronica and dubstep sounds like nowadays, I’ll leave that to the hipsters with a few less years on the clock. But it seemed to me that the ...

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Now this is a work of art - even if I am a bit biased. In homage to one of my favourite Manc miserablists and the Half Man Half Biscuit song of (almost) the same name, my wife has come up with th...

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“I enjoy the airport and the shuttle bus, not necessarily the hotel room at the end…” There you have it from the man himself - Tony Law’s comedy is more about the journey than it is the...

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As comebacks go, Bowie’s return to the rock’n’roll fold after a decade of near silence has been a remarkable success. The great man himself has kept his counsel, but he must be delighted ...

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I’m a bit slow on the uptake here, but here’s the new tune from James Blake. Looking forward to the new album, Overgrown, which comes out on April 8. Guests include Brian Eno and the Wu-Tang�...

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After the low-key first song premiere, Bowie unveils the second song from The Next Day. Decent chorus, rockier guitars. Trademark Bowie and sure to be a grower.

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Good news that the upcoming 13th Depeche Mode studio album Delta Machine harks back to Songs of Faith and Devotion and Violator. Jury’s still out on the first track released, Heaven. A slow-bur...

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Remarkably, in a couple of months, this will be 20 years old. Perhaps my favourite remix of all time and one of New Order’s greatest moments. Certainly a contender for best comeback single of a...

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I’ve still not tired of the Amorphous Androgynous remix of If I Had A Gun from Noel Gallagher’s debut solo album after nine months of heavy rotation, so let’s dig this one out of the archiv...

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Bit of a day for comebacks, eh? Sounds like a new Prince track here, too, to follow the recent Bowie activity. The funky midget sounds on great form here. Tight as two coats of paint on Same Pa...

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Had to get this on the blog as soon as I could today. Bowie’s first new material in 10 years. Came as a complete surprise to many when it was announced in the early hours of this morning. Even ...

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I’m a sucker for a good mash-up and this certainly can’t fail to raise a smile on a dull Monday morning. As you can probably work out from the title, this throws in Macca’s rocking White Al...

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