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More songs about water and power, This is the Kit style – the Kate Stables interview
This is the Kit’s latest long player, Off Off On, is a record that quickly gets under your skin, somehow tapping into key themes of this testing year, despite being written pre-pandemic. The alias of Kate Stables (guitar, banjo, vocals) … Continue reading
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Tagged Bristol, Coming to Get You Nowhere, COVID-19, Hold Steady, Jamie Whitby-Coles, Jesse D Vernon, Josh Kaufman, Kate Stables, Neil Smith, Off Off On, Oli Middleton, Paris, Peter Gabriel, Real World Studios, Royal Albert Hall, Rozi Plain, Taylor Swift, This is the Kit
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A walk on la Rive Gauche – talking Nouvelle Vague with Mélanie Pain
Mélanie Pain was working for a Paris design agency when the stars realigned and she ended up swapping careers in 2004, a favour for a friend happening to alert producer Marc Collin. And you could say the rest is … Continue reading
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Tagged Aix en Provence, Bande A Part, Camille Dalmais, Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elodie Frégé, France, Ian McCulloch, Manchester, Marc Collin, Martin Gore, Mélanie Pain, Nouvelle Vague, Olivier Libaux, Paris, Phoebe Killdeer, PiL, The Undertones, Tuxedomoon, Whyte Horses
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High Life, high fidelity – back in touch with The Puppini Sisters
The past decade has proved a blast for The Puppini Sisters, this close harmony trio amassing gold and multi-platinum discs, and enjoying famous collaborations with everyone from Cyndi Lauper and Michael Bublé to The Manhattan Transfer. There have been lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bataclan, Belleville Rendez-Vous, Benoît Charest, Blake Wilner, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Emma Smith, Fred DeFaye, Henrik Jensen, Is This the High Life, Kate Mullins, Kirsty MacColl, Lytham, Marcella Puppini, Michael Buble, Paris, Peter Ibbetson, Prince Charles, Robert Hazard, The Puppini Sisters
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Road to Rouen – Ben Hatch
For those who enjoyed the last thrilling instalment of life on the open road with the Hatch family – 2011’s Are We Nearly There Yet? (with my review here) – I should stress that the follow-up – Road to Rouen – involves … Continue reading
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