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- 26.07.08

Loneliness is such a ?

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Off to see The Dirtbombs tonight, alone. I will go to gigs on my own, if I have to. Have seen Electrelane and Nightmares on Wax play on me tod in the past. It can be OK (I knew a couple of people randomly at Electrelane) or a bit hollow (NOW doesn't st…

Lisa Says

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Had a go at 'Lisa Says' last night, inbetween napping and going to bed before 10pm, for the first time, I think, since I was at school.

<p>It's a great song. I left in the bit where I tried to hit the high note of the chorus refrain and e…

Covering the same ground as Jamiroquai .....

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Finally got hold of a cheapo electric guitar (my mate's first Encore Strat copy, with trem arm, in Man City blue!) so have started running it thru the 4-track and making covers. Having a nice sunday night off from carousing, I was just knocking around …

'We Are Only Healthy To The Extent That Our Ideas Are Humane'

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Tired. Made a version of Dylan's 'Blind Willie McTell' today on me fourtrack - I'm still no guitarist, but I'm getting better. Went to Manchester's trendy Club Suicide friday night, was bought a sambuca by an old friend, saw another friend, who was cel…

Pixies

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I've already done a feature on Pixies, so I won't offer a live review from the corporation sponsored Move festival for the site. but I just watched the DVD documentary (illuminating; it's lovely how much more interesting David Bowie is than anybody els…

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Went to see The Earlies last night, pretty good, in terms of scale, anyways. I didn't realise that they were from Manchester, but it was made manifestly clear by the homecoming atmosphere in the Band on the Wall. The bandleader, though, is from Dallas, Te…

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Got into a discussion about Bloc Party (who I don't rate) and ended up trying to define artrock, because somebody decried the term and I'd just described Television as 'the paragon of artrock bands' in a live review. So I thought, OK, what did I mean by a…

The Art Rock Definition

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Yeah, basically. I don't dispute the right of any band (or indeed any individual in any artform) to consider themselves as artistically motivated, as opposed to perceiving what they do as a job, or (worse) a 'hobby'. Who are the so-called art-rockers,…

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Stereolab ABC Music…

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Broken Social Scene Shellac…

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