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Tag Archives: Jeff Barrett
Discovering Tresor – the Gwenno feature/interview
It was on the last day of February that I first caught the quirky promo video of ‘An Stevel Nowydh’, the lead single from Tresor, the third full-length solo LP by Cardiff-based Gwenno Saunders, an album finally set to reach … Continue reading →
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The telling adventures of Saint Etienne – the Sarah Cracknell interview
Despite there never being more than a seven-year gap between Saint Etienne LPs over their 31-year existence, when I think about this London-rooted outfit – built predominantly around Sarah Cracknell and co-founders Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs – the years … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alasdair McLellan, Andrew Weatherall, Bob Stanley, Derek Cracknell, Foxbase alpha, Golden Brown, Good Humor, Gus Bousfield, Heavenly Recordings, I've been Trying to Tell You, Jeff Barrett, London, London 2012, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Oxford, Penlop, Pete wiggs, Saint Etienne, Sarah Cracknell, Shawn Lee, So Tough, The Cardigans, Vince Clarke, Windsor, You're in a Bad Way
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Come a long way – talking Heavenly Recordings with Robin Turner
When Robin Turner came to the phone, I half expected mayhem around him, having recently read his evocative recollections of mad days in the mid-‘90s working in the Heavenly Recordings office in Soho, one of many vivid descriptions in his … Continue reading →
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