Sunday, Nov 1, 2026
Documenting the madness
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So you want the best summer you’ve ever lived? Heck, the best summer anyone has ever lived. Cool. Well, look no further than deep within yourself. Ask yourself those burning questions you’ve never had the courage to ask. Find your purpose. Find the real you and then take that to
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It’s a familiar vision of the 80s. Whether you’ve lived through it or not, Nation of Language will instil an echo-soaked feeling of nostalgia. It was clear that many people in the audience were there for that exact sentimentality. With fashion senses not evolving much past it, so
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For a psychedelic-pop concert, Kurt Vile’s appearance at Camden’s Koko pulled in a particularly irate crowd. I can hardly attribute it to the songs about Waking on a Sunny Day , but even the skinniest of blokes having under-boob patches suggest it may have been the sweltering he
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I think every Aussie in London was lost last night because we found their meeting place; O2 Forum Kentish Town, where Lime Cordiale concluded their UK tour, but do not fret, they’ll be back in exactly the same place again on 1st Sept. All the way up to the venue I promised myself
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As promised, I woke up on Sunday morning with a stinking hangover and the energy of a depleted lantern that you have to occasionally whack to keep on. Despite waking up like Uncle Fester, rocking up to Cross The Tracks at Brockwell Park was my health pack. More of a Gomez Addams.
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It’s the bank holiday weekend, it’s the first beaming sunshine pushing the mercury past 20 in London this year and we’re just coming out of seemingly the longest winter on record. If you’re like me, you’re going to take every advantage of this fine opportunity and push the pedal
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Life seems to have gone from online banking and 420p videos of someone getting slapped, to pissed-up Zoom gatherings, to taking over every aspect of human existence in a pretty nifty little personal best. <insert any word here> and AI has it covered. Yes, probably even that you
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The almost religious experience with DEADLETTER at Lafayette tonight has certainly put a glow on the evening as I skip toward the dirty tube back to Balham, colourful lights and mosh pits still flash-printed in my vision. Let’s go from the start. It was a noticeably stylish crowd
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Madchester isn’t dead. It’s just injured. As with any past cultural phenomenon, there are those who are nostalgic, those who were born after it and recreate it with a halo tint based on stories and footage of the glory days, and those who just never left it. And last night, they
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I saw the most unapologetically grateful band in the world, STONE, last night at Omeara for their second night on the bounce there. I arrive too early and find myself parked with the couples that had fallen out on the way to the show. To make matters worse, after 15 minutes of fi
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This is becoming a bit of a series, isn't it? Or at least I hope it is. 48 hours in a city that’s over 5,000 miles away to watch Arctic Monkeys (our last was in Mexico at Corona Capital ), only to remember snippets of it because we went hard on the bevs. It’s amazing how far from
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Cigarettes, the main character of You Said Strange’s new music video premiered here today for (Song For A) Wasted Land. A picture of endless consumption yet a simple source of comfort in a story of a disaster. However, (Song For A) Wasted Land is a strangely optimistic depiction
