As live shows go, there are few on this earth that can compete with an Ani DiFranco headline supported by Hamell on Trial. In truth if you want great songs, great performances and an engaging performers, either can do this better than almost anyone else in the world.

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
PUSH THE SKY AWAY

18th FEBRUARY 2013
“Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops

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It’s been another dreadful year for the quality of radio airplay led of course by the monolithic BBC and its wholly publicly funded Radio 1 and Radio 2 stations. Hence, the vast majority of our Best Albums of 2012 list have not been seen or heard on radio and TV whose coverage

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Liverpool Echo Arena, 11 November 2012.
The Players:
Andrea Bocelli (Tenor)
Svetla Vassileva (Bulgarian Soprano)
Div4s (Italian Soprano Quartet Ensemble)

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Manchester Apollo, 28 July 2012.
It is rare for two of my personal favourite top ten rock lead vocalists appear on the same bill (at one of the best venues around) when I discovered that Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder were performing together I was

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BBC 2011: “The Year The Music Died” It’s been building up for a few years now as the BBC, especially its radio stations, increasingly influence what we listen to as a nation via UK online and terrestrial services. The UK music scene has never been so

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