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Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2015 – live review
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention Cropredy Village, Oxfordshire 13th-15th August 2015 Fairport’s Cropredy Convention has been running since 1976, when it began as a performance for friends in a back...
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Sam Forrest: Candlelightwater – album review
Sam Forrest – Candlelightwater (Desert Mine Music) CD / DL Available now 8.5/10 Sam Forrest, frontman of Nine Black Alps, snook a new solo album out past us at the start of the summer. Now we’re all...
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Slaves: Miners’ Institute, Blackwood – live review
Velvet Coalmine Festival 2015 Slaves |Henry’s Funeral Shoe |Don Letts (DJ) Blackwood Miners’ Institute, Blackwood 5th September 2015 It’s the second year of the Velvet Coalmine Festival in Blackwood...
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Band Of Holy Joy: The Land Of Holy Joy – album review
Band of Holy Joy – The Land of Holy Joy (Stereogram) CD/DL Available 21st September 2015 9/10 More bittersweet tales of hope and humanity from Band Of Holy Joy on their nineteenth long player. Glenn...
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Princess Reason: Your Divorce – EP review
Princess Reason – Your Divorce (Nebraskan Coast) 7” / DL Out Now 8/10 Princess Reason release the three track Your Divorce EP. Louder Than War’s George Gargan reviews. This languid, laconic and ironic,...
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mylittlebrother: We’re All Gonna Die! – EP review
mylittlebrother – We’re All Gonna Die! EP DL 18 September 2015 9 / 10 Cumbrian alternative pop group release their new EP. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. With the release of 2014s If We...
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Lilies On Mars: ∆GO – album review
Lilies On Mars – ∆GO (Lady Sometimes Records via Cargo Records UK) LP / CD / DL 25 September 2015 8.5 / 10 Sardinian electronica duo Lilies On Mars release their new album. Louder Than War’s Paul...
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Ramsbottom Festival 2015 – the Louder Than War preview
Ramsbottom Festival, Ramsbottom Cricket Club, Greater Manchester 18th – 20th September 2015 Just when you thought it was safe to pack the tent and wellies away as Autumn sets in, Mike Ainscoe looks...
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FFS: Kentish Town Forum, London – live review
FFS Kentish Town Forum London 8th September 2015 Keith Goldhanger reports back on a night out with his long time favourites SPARKS and recent favourites FRANZ FERDINAND. The recently broken...
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Carter Tutti Void: f (x) – album review
Carter Tutti Void: f (x) (Industrial Records) LP/CD/DL Out now 10/10 Following on from their widely acclaimed 2012 live album, Transverse, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris and Cosey/Throbbing...
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Richard Thompson; The Lowry, Salford – live review
Richard Thompson, The Rails The Lowry, Salford 9th September 2015 With his most recent album, this year’s ‘Still’, being heralded as one of his best, the iconic status of Richard Thompson continues...
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Autobahn : Manchester : live review
Autobahn Blooms Manchester Gullivers Sept 2015 Live Review In some ways Gullivers is the perfect place to catch a band like this when they are on the up. The claustrophobic, tiny room is filled with...
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King Crimson : Manchester : live review
King Crimson Lowry Theatre, Salford 11 September, 2015 Of all the unpredictable things about King Crimson’s latest reunion, perhaps the most unexpected of all has been the clear evidence of Robert...
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Gwenno: The Parrot, Carmarthen – live review
Gwenno, Superhand, Jaffro The Parrot, Carmarthen 10th September 2015 Soon to be starting a UK tour with H. Hawkline, and following the re-release of her critically acclaimed album, Y Dydd Olaf,...
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The St. Pierre Snake Invasion: A Hundred Years A Day – album review
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion – A Hundred Years A Day CD Release Date: October 31st 8/10 On their debut full length, The St. Pierre Snake Invasion are here to shake up and wake up the UK’s music...
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CUZ: Cluny, Newcastle – live review
CUZ Cluny, Newcastle 9th Sept 2015 CUZ take tonight’s audience on a tour through an incredible musical landscape, from straightforward rock ‘n’ roll to blasts of cacophonous noise! As soon as you see...
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No Hot Ashes: Easy Peeler Single Launch, Kraak Gallery Manchester – live review
No Hot Ashes Single Launch & Review Easy Peeler/Smooth (no bits) – out now 9/10 The Kraak Gallery Manchester 6th September 2015 Stockport’s No Hot Ashes brought their unique brand of future funk...
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Tom Robinson: UK tour starts 17th Sept
Tom Robinson is about to begin his first tour for years at Southampton’s the Brook venue on 17th September 2015. Ian Canty takes a look back at the man’s career in his own inimitable style. In...
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Tim Bowness: Band On The Wall, Manchester – live review
Tim Bowness | Improvizone | Nerve Toy Trio Band On The Wall, Manchester, 8th September 2015 Tim Bowness and Louder Than War, a lethal combo – the album review here, the interview here; and now...
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New Order: Music Complete – album review
New Order – Music Complete (Mute) LP | CD | DL Available 25th September 8/10 Seminal Manchester dance / rock icons, New Order return with their first new album in two years. For Louder Than War, Simon...
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