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| Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds ISCARIOT THE LADDER. Delta Studios |
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Just before Christmas I met up with Lupen in Liverpool during his support slot performance with Carina Round. I quickly established that this friendly and rather shy young man really changes character when on stage and on record. Anyone who welcomes a little adventure into their musical lives should seek out this album…
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| Helen Boulding NEW RED DRESS. Maid In Sheffield |
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Back in 2006 I witnessed Alex Parks perform her last show at The Shepherds Bush Empire, before leaving her record label. Supporting her was singer/songwriter Helen Boulding who had written songs for Parks. That night Parks was incredible and while the spotlight was obviously on her Boulding managed to score a few points of her [...]
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| Laura Critchley SOMETIMES I. Big Print |
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From the sound of her voice and songs you’d think that Critchley hails from America’s Mid-West, and not from her hometown of Liverpool. She has a good voice and, as the PR material keeps telling me, she looks great. But the big test is the quality of the songs because it really doesn’t matter how [...]
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| Hot Chip MADE IN THE DARK. EMI |
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With one Nationwide Mercury Music prize nominated album under their belt those cynics amongst us would claim that the band couldn’t produce another potential winner the second time around. And perhaps justifiably as the road is littered with disappointing album follow-ups… But there are exceptions and this is definitely one of them. What I really [...]
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| The Alarm: Counter Attack Collective! |
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BonusDisc: The Punk Rock E.P.
So we start back at the beginning, right where the three sevens clash (07:07:07) which is a landmark for MP as it’s 30 years since it last happened (07:07:77) when he was a boy in the midst of discovering punk rock, The Clash, The Pistols, ‘The Punk Rock EP’ is a [...]
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| The Storys TOWN BEYOND THE TREES. Hall Recordings |
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BonusDisc: The Punk Rock E.P.
So we start back at the beginning, right where the three sevens clash (07:07:07) which is a landmark for MP as it’s 30 years since it last happened (07:07:77) when he was a boy in the midst of discovering punk rock, The Clash, The Pistols, ‘The Punk Rock EP’ is a [...]
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