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The Cribs Hanging with Legends and Demonstrating Good Taste
I have a soft spot for British indie rockers The Cribs. They are a lot of fun live, and in frontman Ryan Jarman they have a laconic 21st Century boy with a line in dry one-liners. While I don’t think...
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The Ting Tings – Glasgow King Tuts
As Talking Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’ welcomes them onstage, it’s a sell-out but disparate crowd the Ting Tings have attracted to Tuts this evening. From the students at the front to the young urban...
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The Courteeners –‘St Jude’ Album Review
I logged on this morning to a busy inbox, amongst which were the usual spam mails offering all sorts of interesting things. While I was intrigued by the headline ‘tear her holes apart with your massive...
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Why do indie bands feel the need to start ‘feuds’?
Coventry’s Jam-clone hobbits the Enemy are apparently locked in a feud with stunningly average Manchester Oasis-copyists the Courteeners. It is unlikely, I’ll grant you, that we’ll need to send Henry...
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Pete Doherty – Last Chance Saloon
I don’t hate Pete Doherty as much as you’d think I would. Hell, even as much as I think I should. His tabloid notoriety creates an obscuring fog over his body of work, but clear-headed appraisal shows...
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When You Just Can’t Get It
Glasvegas. Dunno if you have heard them yet, but you will. They have a Mary Chainish-musical style, low fuzzing guitars and big drums, Spectoresque production. The usual. They deal in emotional,...
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Ladytron – ABC, Glasgow
ELM’s resident curmudgeon Vespertine checks out the hotly-tipped electro act; I approached this gig with an open mind. I knew a few Ladytron songs but had no in-depth knowledge of the band or the set...
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The Artists Union?
Following on from last week’s news, NME.com reports that Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien is at the forefront of a new ‘Musician’s Union’. Here is the news on the Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC). The FAC,...
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News Nuggets – Processed, non-organic version……
Jamie Oliver, you lying fat-tongued bastard. ELM, being brought up in the 80’s when children were taught to believe everything they heard on television, was completely suckered by the whole organic...
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Tunng and the art of album teasers
Way back in the days when you only owned music if you paid for it, and owning thousands of songs necessitated having a storage space sufficient to house a small elephant in, there was the flexi-disc....
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What’s colder than cold? Not the NME Cool List
It’s that time of year again, when the NME attempts to prove how hip and wit’ it they are by selecting the coolest people in music and creating a neat, numbered list. Everyone knows the devil has all...
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From the Vault – The Smiths
So, a curmudgeonly old leader of a Manchester institution released a book this week, in which he viciously lashed out at the people he used to work with back in the day. But enough about Sir Alex...
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