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Living with…Frank Ocean…for a week
Turns Out…Things That We Never Really Needed Earlier this week I joined in one of those nostalgia fests where a group of people of a certain age are all together and start reminiscing about those...
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Living with…The Stone Roses…for a week
Some albums define a year. The Stone Roses is one of those. This year was 1989. It was the year that we grew up I suppose – we had a house and for the first time both had jobs. We had a mortgage....
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Living with…Justin Bieber…for a week
Justin Bieber Doll. With thanks to http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilygracephotography/ I’m really not supposed to do this. Spend a week with Justin Bieber’s music, that is. Everyone told me that it...
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Living with…Herman’s Hermits…for a week
“I gladly rearrange my life If you want me to” Sometime in the mid 70s somewhere in a cupboard in some corridor I found a box that changed my life. Gosh, that sounds a bit dramatic. But the box guided...
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Living with…David Bowie…for a week
Bowie Ancient and Modern Bowie has been around for so long that we have all joined him at different times. For my sister, her first encounter was as the strange blonde man introducing The Snowman and...
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Living with…Phenomden…for a week
A completely and utterly cliched view of Swiss music Top of the Swiss Pops One evening recently I started talking with my cousin about what he would recommend from the Swiss music scene. It’s...
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Living with…Everything But The Girl…for a week
Tracey Thorn. Photo by Chris Boland / http://www.distantcloud.co.uk Book: Bedsit Disco Queen – How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star I’d started harking back to my eighties memories at least a week...
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Living with…The Ukrainians…for a week
Even the DJ had deserted me Last weekend the good people of the UK emerged from winter hibernation to realise there could be sunshine and warmth. There was an outdoors that could be enjoyed. All...
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Living with…Kanye West…for a week
On discovering that Kanye West recorded My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in Honolulu (oh, the sufferings of the modern artist) I just wanted to map out a few other locations for album recordings…...
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Living with…Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark…for a week
Andy McCluskey – King of the Dad Dancers I first saw Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (henceforth known as OMD) in October ’86 at the now dearly departed Birmingham Odeon New Street. I’d liked their...
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Living with…Eurovision…for a night
Very few events totally dominate twitter. Eurovision is one of those (well, In Europe at least – the rest of the world must look on in bemusement). Eurovision can contribute beauty to the world –...
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Now That’s What I Call No81bob’s World Volume 1
A few notable things happened 30 years ago. Firstly, the Smiths released their first album and started a brief but oh so influential journey in music. Secondly, it’s 30 years since Brighton and Hove...
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Living with…Daft Punk…for a week
Inside my head In the last few years I got out of the habit of wearing headphones for music. Being a child of the original Sony walkman age I’ve always loved that feeling of music inisde my head. It...
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Living with…Bruce Springsteen…for a week
Springsteen live – with thanks to Lord_Henry So that’s one off the bucket list. Things I wanted to achieve before I kicked the bucket. Seeing Bruce Springsteen live. And he didn’t disappoint. From the...
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Take Two: Living with…Echo and the Bunnymen…for a week again
with thanks to porcupiny http://www.flickr.com/photos/porcupiny/ So here we are again. Another year on and it’s Take Two for Echo and the Bunnymen at the Godiva Festival, in Coventry. Last year’s...
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Countdown No 9: Singing Smiths songs in Ukrainian
Sadly locked indoors this summer trying to work through ‘stuff’ I had my radio for company. Jarvis Cocker seemed a good choice. A little bit different. It shouldn’t be too predictable. Except he...
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Countdown No 10: Mandela Day
Today, the world remembers a man who didn’t disappoint. In fact, he did far more than most of us ever expected. If you grew up through the 70s and 80s you lived with not just a South Africa divided...
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Countdown No 11: EBTG – The Only Living Boy in New York
Forget your Alex Ferguson autobio, the self-story of the year is Tracey Thorm’s Bedsit Disco Queen. (Subtitled: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star). Looking back at the 80s was not for me the...
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Countdown No 12: Breakfast in America
Having received the notorious listing book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die it was soon discredited in my eyes by the omission of one 1979 Supertramp classic Breakfast in America. Top of my...
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Countdown No 13: Ewigi Liebi: Endless Love in Swiss German
There’s soft rock and then there’s Swiss soft rock. Introducing Mash and their hit Ewigi Liabi, the seventh biggest selling song in Swiss music history – having been beated by such greats as Madonna,...
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