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Rising up, morning, noon and night – talking No Names with Ian Prowse

There’s a lot to be said for meeting your heroes, and while we occasionally hear associated horror stories, for most of us it’s nearly always a positive experience. And that was certainly the case for Pele and Amsterdam frontman turned … Continue reading

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Paying attention to Detail – in conversation with Claire Mahoney, author, magazine editor, and modernist

‘It’s like a heat wave, it’s burning in my heart.I can’t keep from burning, it’s tearing me apart…’ The weather was a little challenging when I caught up with Claire Mahoney, the first couple of minutes of our conversation involving … Continue reading

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Wham! Bam! Thank You, Slade!

Fifty years ago this week, Slade were deep into their ‘Thanks for the Memory’ tour, on the back of the release of Slade in Flame, the cult movie about to get the remaster treatment five decades later, back on the … Continue reading

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The Undertones / Ruts DC, Liverpool, Hangar 34

It’s always so good to catch The Undertones live, with last Thursday night no exception… exceptional as they always are. What’s more, this marked my official North-West big show farewell before an impending move to Cornwall. And coming on the … Continue reading

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Echoes of The Bunnymen – Preston, The Continental

I was nervous enough ahead of this live show, let alone the band. Four fellas with deserved acclaim for their own adventures in music tackle a tribute set to a much-loved Liverpool outfit with such a revered back catalogue… and … Continue reading

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Slade Alive at Christmas – a two-decade trip down Memory Lane … towards Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre

There’s a rather wonderful website out there listing more than 20 years of live performances for Noddy Holder, Jim Lea, Dave Hill and Don Powell, marking Slade’s evolution from their time with the bands that preceded the Black Country’s finest … Continue reading

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Calum Gilligan, Zoë Bestel, Caitlin Gilligan – Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre

It says something that on my first visit to the Lancashire music venue perhaps furthest from the coast that we were treated to plenty of stirring songs from the sea. But even the part of my opening paragraph citing the … Continue reading

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Journey to the Art of Darkness – talking The History of Goth with John Robb

Ah, the dreaded label. An integral part of music culture down the years, but an all too easy way to categorise, and often proving nonsense. Punk, post-punk, alternative, indie, indie pop, twee pop, shoegaze, soul, funk, jazz funk, heavy soul, … Continue reading

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Missing You – a tribute to Terry Hall and Iain ‘Tempo’ Templeton

“Love, there was so much love, enough to last a hundred years. Laughs, we had so many laughs, how come they turned into tears?” I wasn’t sure it was common knowledge when I got the sad message from Iain ‘Tempo’ … Continue reading

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Star treatment – back in touch with Ian Broudie, talking Lightning Seeds

It seems a negative way to start this feature, but other than reaching No.1 in the UK singles chart three times with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner with ‘Three Lions’ (in 1996, 1998, and 2018, for a song seemingly everywhere … Continue reading

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