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Travel: Ramblas Association in Barcelona
smith3000 wrote 10 months ago: THINGS rarely go to plan in Barcelona. It’s the start of the city’s annual Mercé festival and M … more »
Hyperbole: The new wave of bossa nova
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smith3000 wrote 2 weeks ago: FIFTY years after João Gilberto took the rhythm of samba, slowed it down and made it into another t … more »
Interview: James Last
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smith3000 wrote 1 month ago: HANDS in the pockets of his grey slacks, James Last cuts a figure of studied nonchalance strolling a … more »
Hyperbole: Basement Shakedown
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smith3000 wrote 1 month ago: ONE of the last, great undiscovered bands of the Eighties, Basement 5 are completely unknown to most … more »
Feature: Ten years on from Love Decade
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smith3000 wrote 1 month ago: IT WASN’T so unusual that someone threw a party in Gildersome, just south of Leeds, 10 years a … more »
Interview: MSTRKRFT
smith3000 wrote 2 months ago: I MET Al P and Jesse F Keeler in their dressing room at the Bierkeller in Manchester, just before th … more »
Hyperbole: Faith, hope and charity shops
smith3000 wrote 2 months ago: IN HER time, Rachel Fox has been “a claustrophobic club DJ, an alternative pub quiz host, an unamb … more »
Interview: Flux Of Pink Indians
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smith3000 wrote 3 months ago: THANKS to the wonders of the modern mechanical webnet, I can tell you with some certainty that the f … more »
Interview: Mark E Smith *1
smith3000 wrote 3 months ago: I CAN honestly say that (with the possible exception of my beautiful and clever friend Clare’s … more »
Hyperbole: Serge, Shaka and an Englishman in Berlin
smith3000 wrote 3 months ago: I’M A LITTLE bit slow on the uptake on this, but some kind soul on an unrelated forum pointed … more »
Interview: Shazia Mirza
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smith3000 wrote 3 months ago: I WORKED on a magazine focussing on Black Minority Ethnic arts and culture in Manchester for a time … more »
Feature: Truly, Madly, Deeply Vale
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smith3000 wrote 4 months ago: IN A CLIMATE where brands like Carling and O2 bankroll festivals as a way of boosting their credibi … more »
Interview: The Three Johns
smith3000 wrote 4 months ago: Postal interview alert! ********* FACT: Jon Langford was a founder member of the Human League. Fact: … more »
Feature: Still keeping the Faith
smith3000 wrote 4 months ago: “I’VE never known anything like that last night. There wasn’t a dry eye in the pla … more »
Interview: Macy Gray
smith3000 wrote 5 months ago: IT’S a delicious irony that the one thing that really sets 29-year-old singer songwriter Macy … more »
Feature: FC United of Manchester
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smith3000 wrote 5 months ago: A MIDDLE-AGED bloke is waving the white and blue Argentinian flag, with the word ‘MARGENTINA’ pr … more »
Interview: Amebix
smith3000 wrote 5 months ago: DOUG and me interviewed Stig and Aphid (aka the Baron) of Amebix at the Bierkeller in Leeds in Decem … more »
Interview: The Mob
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smith3000 wrote 5 months ago: LARGELY forgotten by all but what remains of the anarcho-punk cognoscenti, Marc, Curtis and Joseph w … more »
Interview: Jah Wobble
smith3000 wrote 5 months ago: RELIGIOUS epiphanies come in all shapes and sizes, but the memory of the first time Jah Wobble heard … more »
