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All The Songs Don’t Sound The Same – The Wedding Present @ O2 Islington
As Tommy hits 30, The Wedding Present keep in touch with their friends (read more)
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Solidarity And Songwriting – Grace Petrie Interview Part 2
Sarah Corbett-Batson: To what extent do you feel that you’re preaching to the converted? Grace: What is the converted these days? I tell you, I can’t remember another time in my life that I’ve felt (read more)
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Solidarity and Skittles – Grace Petrie Interview Part 1
Singer-songwriter Grace Petrie talks about her renewed faith in the Labour Party, queer politics and Skittles (read more)
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Dig That Crazy Rhythm – Stick In The Wheel Drill Down
Trebuchet’s Sarah Corbett-Batson interviews Folk exponents Stick in the Wheel. Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 (read more)
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Orian, Obadiah and McCartney? – Cambridge Folk Festival With O&O
Israeli vocalist, Orian Peled and American guitarist and singer, Obadiah Jones talk about how they first met and their songwriting experience with Paul McCartney (read more)
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Cool As Folk – Cambridge Folk Festival 2018
ambridge Folk Festival 2018 poured the perfect mix with the extended weekend getting off to a flying start on Thursday with the fast and wild trashgrass of Whiskey Shivers. With a lead singer sporting a (read more)
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The Great British Tattoo Show 2018
Now an established entry in the tattoo enthusiast’s calendar, the Great British Tattoo Show caters for the curious newcomer as well as seasoned, heavily-inked punters. (read more)
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Apply Yourself & Don’t Bullshit – Hollywood Undead (Interview)
he large padded doors were closed tight. Tthere was a serene kind of peace and the faint smell of Brut in the air-conditioned room, and I remember E began whispering in the dark, ‘All the (read more)
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Flaming in the Fog: Fields of the Nephilim, Kentish Town Forum
As other goth bands fall, Fields of the Nephilim still carry the torch through the graveyard (read more)
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I haven’t jumped on the Corbyn express: Chris T-T: Interview (Part Two)
‘If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off’ (read more)
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‘I hope I can turn it down.’ Chris T-T Contemplates a Quieter Life (Interview)
Like holding back the tide, folk singer and reluctant activist Chris T-T struggles to adapt to a life without opinions (read more)
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‘One chancy encounter to the next’: CC Smugglers (Interview)
Guerilla busking, singing with Jon Snow, and the prohibitive costs of haircare – CC Smugglers tell all (read more)
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Cambridge Folk Festival 2017
As ever, outstanding in its field. (read more)
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The Great British Tattoo Show 2017
Challenging conformity and promoting diversity – Ally Pally gets inked (read more)
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London Tattoo Convention 2016
Inky fingers and fiery lipstick at the UK’s premier tattoo and body art event (read more)
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Progressive and Unifying Power: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016
Music for partying, reflection, loss, love and protest, CFF wins again. (read more)
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Summoning Unnerving Prophecy at the Kentish Town Forum (Fields of the Nephilim)
The goth’s goths – Fields of the Nephilim, enchant the congregation at the Kentish Town Forum (read more)
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Sweet Inspirations on the Elvis World Tour (Shawn Klush)
Shawn Klush takes care of business at the Watford Colosseum, setting up his Elvis World Tour UK dates (read more)
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Maybe the world has finally caught up (Skunk Anansie at The Forum)
A triumphant homecoming from Skunk Anansie at the Kentish Town Forum, February 2016. Review (read more)
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‘Meat is just like dog food to me’ [The Picturebooks]
We had a bassist but he tried to Yoko Ono us. (read more)
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Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]
His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished. (read more)
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I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac (Chibi The Birthday Massacre)
It’s important to me to know that people can come up and talk to me and know that I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac. (read more)
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A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]
Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona (read more)
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Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)
‘the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing’ (read more)
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Reeves Gabrels [Interview]
Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed (read more)
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Tory Scum and Proud
Tory Scum and Proud: The Show You Won’t See on Channel 5 (read more)
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London Tattoo Convention
From the plain-skinned first-timers curious to dip a toe in the ink to those who embrace tattoos as an integral part of their life, there is much here to catch the imagination and stimulate the passion. (read more)
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The Criminalisation of Unemployed People
As Osborne announces compulsory community work, are the long-term unemployed being treated as criminals? (read more)
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Veiled Racism, Veiled Sexism
Shouldn’t everyone be allowed to wear whatever she or he wants, whether it’s a veil, a rubber miniskirt or a clown outfit? Should the State really be able to tell us how we must or mustn’t dress? (read more)
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Dick Venom and The Terrortones [EP]
Don’t be fooled by the oversized quiff; there’s very little about their music that is rockabilly or surf. (read more)