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Mar 26, 2012

Wallis Bird – Wallis Bird

I’ll confess, I’m a little bit in love with Wallis Bird, so much so I couldn’t bear the thought of waiting for the new album and stumped up the cash for the acoustic predecessor The Mistakes Are Intentional. I was worried then, given the beauty of the former, that the latest offering wouldn’t quite match up, a concern that was curbed within just a few short...

Mar 26, 2012

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Music News: Monday 26th March 2012

Headlines One Direction Break America One Direction have managed to do what no other British act has ever done. The band have celebrated this week as their debut album went directly to the number one spot on the American album charts. Well done to the home grown talent. NME Search for Icon NME are currently holding a poll to see who the biggest icon of the last 60 years. To cast...

Mar 25, 2012

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24/03/2012 | Seth Lakeman – The Assembly, Le...

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. Round two of the Barrel House tour and it’s clear things have been shaken up a bit since I last saw the set. Gone is the queen style opening and in it’s place a more atmospheric start which leads effortlessly into More Than Money and it’s stomping beat. Likewise Blacksmith’s...

Mar 25, 2012

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24/03/2012 | Seth Lakeman – The Assembly, Le...

Photos of Seth Lakeman at The Assembly, Leamington Spa on 24th March 2012. Taken by Jo Cox – www.jocoxphotography.co.uk ...

Mar 25, 2012

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20/03/2012 | Gretchen Peters – Bush Hall, Lo...

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed. One of the best parts about going to a gig, for me, is the anticipation. Will I get to hear my favourite song? Will they play some new material? What are they going to do to make the show unique and exciting? To that end, when I hear an artist is simply playing their latest album in its entirety I quickly...

Mar 25, 2012

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Focus On Festivals: Belladrum 2012

Beauly in Inverness-shire opens its gates once again from August 3rd-4th as the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival returns for it’s 8th year. The fairly new fest features all the things you’d expect from a less mainstream weekend: a modest – but still excellent – line-up, local tipple (good ol’ Scotch whisky) and a bike race called Sweaty Bella (no, really). This...

Mar 23, 2012

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The Stranglers

To date, The Stranglers, have been one of the most influential yet controversial progressive-punk bands in the British music scene. Having created music over the past five decades, most notably a stir in the punk / new wave era, the group fails to receive quite the recognition you’d expect for such an impressive feat. Pushed into a box stylistically, having their amps...

Mar 23, 2012

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16/03/2012 | Joan Baez – Royal Festival Hall...

London’s Royal Festival Hall harboured a bustling, full house. An excited audience sat facing the stage; a cosy, warmly lit lounge room, littered with instruments. Guitars, mandolin, banjo, accordion, fiddle, keyboard and drums surrounded a homely red couch, waiting in anticipation for an evening with Joan Baez. It’s been more than 50 years since Baez came to light...

Mar 23, 2012

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17/03/2012 | Young Guns – The Corn Exchange,...

The queue winding around the Corn Exchange on a Saturday night wasn’t short, with people waiting excitedly and impatiently to be let into the venue, eager to get the show started. The upbeat drum of the first live act, Tek One, was already blaring through the walls of the building, and it wouldn’t be long before Young Guns would be hitting the stage. This was the first...

Mar 23, 2012

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Rachel Sermanni Interview | March 2012

Ahead of her headline shows in April, MTTM caught up with Rachel Sermanni to find out more about her inspiration and to get to the bottom of Pirate Song. MTTM: You’ve been on tour recently with Fink, do you find it hard to win his audiences over given that you’re musically quite different? RS: His audiences have been great, it has been a surprise. Despite our differences,...