1 April 2012
“There was a part of me was nervous when I first started touring the United States a few years ago, about whether an Englishman singing songs about London or whatever was going to translate. But it played to my advantage – and people look on it with great interest.” – Frank Turner
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1 April 2012
Since their last album, School of Seven Bells has shrunk from a trio to a duo. However, their latest album Ghostory makes a bold statement: the band is very much alive. Structured around a central narrative – the tale of a young girl named Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life – Ghostory is a concept album…
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1 February 2012
IDM is one of the oddest terms in music. It refers to Intelligent Dance Music, and you’d have to look very far and very hard to find any other term that inspires so much scorn. However, at the same time, the term has persisted: unlike so many other labels and sub-genres, it’s still around, nearly 20 years after it was first coined. Most musicians don’t even stick around that long…
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1 February 2012
Meet the Staves: they are Emily, Jessica and Camilla, three sisters from Watford in their early 20s with talents so compelling that they have already provided backing vocals for recent albums by both Tom Jones and Fionn Regan, been asked to tour with Willy Mason, and worked with legendary producers Glyn and Ethan Johns…
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