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  • Tea, Cake and The Scottish Song

    Tea, Cake and The Scottish Song

    9th November 2009 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this

    Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand, like The Enemy's Tom Clarke, Maxïmo Park's Paul Smith and Reverend and the Makers' Jon McClure before them, seem humbled and a little bewildered at the scene laid out before them.

    As it is every Saturday afternoon in the basement club at Manchester's Ruby Lounge, Xfm linchpin and Inspiral Carpet Clint Boon is hosting another family tea and cake affair. Tables are laid with...

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  • Tick… tick… BOOM

    Tick… tick… BOOM

    29th September 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    "My, how you've grown." Most childhoods are littered with this and similar proclamations from elderly relatives and, for most, the only appropriate response is to look coyly at one's shoes, wishing the moment past and certainly doing absolutely nothing to allude to the phrase's vaguely adult connotations.

    But there's nothing coy about Sonic Boom Six. This year sees the ska-punk outfit celebrate their seventh birthday with the release of their third...

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