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Amplifier: Trippin’ With Dr Faustus – album review
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The Stone Roses- Hampden, Glasgow. 24/6/17 – live review
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Boy Better Know : Glastonbury : live review ‘grime’s premier crew underline...
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Ryan Potts a.k.a Paragraphs : I Went Outside, I Could Hear The Houses...
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Manic Street Preachers: Bristol – live review
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New Order : Manchester International Festival : Live Review
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Peter Perrett: How the West Was Won – album review
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Dropkick Murphys – Liverpool – live review
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Jerry Williams, the Dead Freights, Yeti Bianco – The Brook, Southampton –...
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Patti LaBelle and Deborah Cox: Pride Island, New York – live review
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Suicide Generation: 1st Suicide – album review
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New Band of the Day – Espedairs
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Cabbage, The Blinders, Strange Bones : Manchester Ritz : live review
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