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My Top 20 Albums of the Decade
20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005) Sufjan’s Prairie State I wish he did all fifty (Yes, I fell for it) 19. Jeffrey Lewis – It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That The Light Shines Through (2003) Anti-folk hero Serves comic stripped down delight Raw, honest and fun 18. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories [...]
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Why Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending explanation based on the ‘Law of Fives’ (which, according to Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! Trilogy, claims that everything in the universe can be connected to the number five if you [...]
Latitude Diary, Day 4
So here I am, nearly three weeks after we finally packed up our tents, and I’m still writing about the Latitude Festival. Haven’t quite grasped the concept of live blogging, have I? Anyhow, we’ve now reached Day 4 or – as it was more commonly known back in those days – Sunday, 20th July 2008. [...]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birmingham Carling Academy, 5th May 2008
There’s cool, there’s uber-cool and then there’s Nick Cave. Australia’s finest export – the Black Crow King himself – was on particularly fine form as he performed in front of a sell-out crowd at the apparently soon-to-be demolished Academy on Monday night. He certainly looked the part. Dressed in a black, open-top silk shirt and [...]
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