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The Undertones / The Neville Staple Band – The Ritz, Manchester

Posted on May 17, 2019 by

An early start caught me out, my train arriving after seven, The Neville Staple Band already in charge by the time I’d made it from nearby Oxford Road station. And to channel ska inspiration Prince Buster and fellow 1979 breakthroughs … Continue reading →

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The Men They Couldn’t Hang, still on the loose, avoiding the noose – the Phil Odgers interview

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

Listen to Cock-a-Hoop, the new record by The Men They Couldn’t Hang, and you get an album by a band sounding as fresh today as when their first album was released in 1985. What’s more, the subject matter of their … Continue reading →

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Spare us the Santa’s sack cliches

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

THERE was an almost inevitable sideshow at this week’s Premier League clash between Sunderland and Reading, with the football media waiting to see which manager would go first. Would it be Martin O’Neill, a year to the day since his … Continue reading →

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Titanic voices – one hundred years on

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

One hundred years to the day its survivors first came ashore at New York’s Pier 54, the RMS Titanic remains a source of fascination, its stories told and re-told across the years and the generations. My mum remembers her granny … Continue reading →

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