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The Top Ten Albums of 2009
14th December 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this
10. The Dodos - Time to Die
Though sadly still, not a patch on the staggering Visiter, The Dodos headed for clean cut Shins/Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek to make their third record Time to Die as a three piece. I thought (and still do a little) that the album suffers slightly without the rough edges that made their previous efforts so alive and human.
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I Love “Girls” : An “Album” Review
9th October 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
You may have read it all before you read this and I don't mean to perpetuate a band's back story. There's often a fear that it may over shadow a whole album but, as we learned for one Bon Iver and his sublime For Emma, Forever Ago, if the record is strong enough the hype doesn't really matter a jot.This more than true for Girls.
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Green Man: The UK’s Best Small Festival?
1st September 2009 | 7 comments | 1 person likes this
The sheer quantity of festivals on the calender in the U.K alone has begun to reach far into the hundreds. Every 60's throw back farmer with a field in Suffolk or any double-barreled named family with an estate in some sparse woods between villages in Norfolk seem to be more than happy to allow the cider swilling, barefoot, dancing masses to camp with them for three days. What's becoming harder...
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Neil Innes
Neil was born in the UK but weaned on cinema in the world's most isolated capital city (Perth, Australia). He moved to london in 2001 where he works as a film editor and writer. He has travelled widely and is passionate about cinema and music and can often be found waiting on line in the Brixton Sainbury's. This column is a little celluloid-like piece of him.





