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Friday, July 03
“ All four agree that the age of Twitter, Facebook and smoking bans is a depressing one, and that there is nothing more offputting than playing a concert before a sea of mobiles held aloft.
Sunday, June 07
Sunday, May 17
“ A self-confessed obsessive, he has written many albums that haven’t seen the light of day because he can’t bear the recording process - “Personality clashes, having to say to somebody, ‘Would you please do that again?’” A demo can destroy him, as he re-records and re-records until “I hate myself, hate the song.
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Tuesday, January 20
Friendly Fires - Paris (live at Later…) (via RadioMad)
Amazing dancing from the lead singer of Friendly Fires. I am a confirmed fan now!
Friday, January 02
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Friday, July 25
“ Drummond is probably not the only middle-aged man to find himself less excited by rock music than he was as a teenager, but he’s probably the only one to tackle the problem by giving his entire record collection to a charity shop, announcing he’ll never listen to a CD again and assembling a succession of choirs who perform only once without an audience, have their performance played back to them once, then deleted (if this seems a pretty extreme response to not caring much for Duffy or the Ting Tings, it’s probably worth noting that Drummond is a man who initially thought the best way to express his dissatisfaction at the KLF’s sudden success would be to chop his own hand off with a meat cleaver live on stage at the Brits and throw it into the audience).
Thursday, July 24
