Sunday, 11 December 2011

836 TIN SPIRITS, Swindon Arts Centre, Friday 9 December 2011

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A local one to finish the year with, in two ways; not only a quick jaunt up the Old Town, but a return of locals Tin Spirits, who fea...
Sunday, 4 December 2011

835 THE VACCINES, Frankie And The Heartstrings, Bristol O2 Academy, Friday 2 December 2011

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In the almost complete absence of any promising new band discoveries this year (Okkervil River and Male Bonding notwithstanding, but OR h...
Thursday, 1 December 2011

834 THE LEMONHEADS, Meredith Sheldon, Netherlands, Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, Wednesday 30 November 2011

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It’s been a long 4 ½ years since I’ve last crossed paths with Evan Dando, a man who still remains one of my all-time musical icons. My...
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

833 OKKERVIL RIVER, A Classic Education, Bristol Trinity, Monday 21 November 2011

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A recent discovery for me, this lot, albeit one which, like US alt-rock/ Americana crossover contemporaries The Decemberists, had been sk...
Monday, 14 November 2011

832 ADAM ANT AND THE GOOD, THE MAD AND THE LOVELY POSSE, Bristol O2 Academy, Friday 11 November 2011

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The undisputed comeback king of 2011, off on another jaunt and playing appreciably closer to us than Birmingham this time; given he’d del...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

831 THROWING MUSES, The Spectrals, Special Benny, London Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Wednesday 2 November 2011

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Yup, they’re back too… in one of the considerably more welcome reunions of recent times, Throwing Muses, the barbed Boston lot who rende...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011

830 CHAPEL CLUB, Clock Opera, Oxford O2 Academy 2, Monday 17 October 2011

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The hectic gigging Autumn continues apace, with me hauling my tired and cold-ridden ass down to the old Zodiac upstairs room to see ...