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Joanna Newsom: Return of the Queen
25th January 2010 | 5 comments | 3 people like this
The first time I ever saw the awkwardly shy, wonderfully cute and sickeningly talented Joanna Newsom around 2006 on a Later... with Jools Holland Episode, it was a find of epic proportions.
As the first words of the The Book of Right On fell out of this beautiful thing, cradling a ginormous harp and as everyone else in the room grimaced at her "squeeky" voice, It was then that I pretty... -
The Dodos: Bush Hall, London 3rd Sep 2009
4th September 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
There's a moment 3 seconds into Walking, the opening track on Visiter, The Dodos second LP that got me hooked on the band. Its nothing huge. Nothing revolutionary. Its just lead singer/guitarist, Meric Long's immense fingernails plucking a single note so viciously that the whole guitar's fret board rattles and buzzes right before the constant stomp begins. Its a brilliant sound and, though worlds apart in song writing, influences and...
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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.
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