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Bestival 2015 – Friday: live review
Sadly, it’s the end of the summer, which means the end of our beloved festival season. As we round off what’s been a memorable 2015, Harley Cassidy takes to the fields of Robin Hill Park to give us...
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White Boy: Sound Control, Manchester – live review
White Boy Sound Control, Manchester 17th September 2015 White Boy are back playing live in Manchester and it’s a brilliantly executed set in support of their debut album, Glitoris. Glitoris inhabits...
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The Green Lampshade : A Celebration of Delia Derbyshire : live review
The Green Lampshade : A Celebration of Delia Derbyshire Manchester Museum Spet 2015 Live review Polymath, musical genius, Cambridge mathematician, medieval historian and electronic music pioneer and...
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The Winter Passing: A Different Space of Mind – album review
The Winter Passing – A Different Space of Mind (FITA Records) CD / DL / LP Available now 7/10 Melodically discordant but hugely catchy tunes on this debut from Irish pop-punks The Winter Passing....
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Boo Hewerdine: The Green Note – live review
Boo Hewerdine / Rosalie Deighton The Green Note, London 9th September 2015 Boo Hewerdine, one of the UK’s best songwriters plays a two night residency at The Green Note in Camden. Louder Than War’s...
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Florence + The Machine: Manchester Arena – live review
Florence + The Machine Manchester Arena 18th September 2015 Florence + The Machine put on an electrifying performance at Manchester Arena, Nigel Carr was there from Louder Than War and reports back...
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Stevie Simpson: Some Days Are Diamonds – album review
Stevie Simpson – Some Days Are Diamond (self release) CD/DL Available Now 8.5/10 Stevie Simpson has been playing regularly at motorcycle rallies and festivals all over the UK since 2000. Working under...
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F INGERS: Hide Before Dinner – album review
F INGERS: Hide Before Dinner (Blackest Ever Black) LP | DL Available now The debut album from Australian trio F INGERS is an enjoyably suffocating blanket of anti-nostalgia. Mining a particular...
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Max Richter: SLEEP/from SLEEP – album review
Max Richter: SLEEP/from SLEEP (Deutsche Grammophon) SLEEP – DL Only from SLEEP – LP/CD/DL Available Now 9/10 Acclaimed composer Max Richter has created a work designed to send its listeners asleep with...
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Battles: La Di Da Di – album review
Battles: La Di Da Di (Warp) LP/CD/DL Out Now 7/10 Experimental rock/electronic hybrids Battles release their long-awaited follow up to 2011’s Gloss Drop. Simon tucker reviews. Pigeonholes are there to...
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Tom Robinson & Band: the Brook, Southampton – live review
LIVE REVIEW Tom Robinson And Band, The Brook Southampton 17th September 2015 Ian Canty surprised by how Strummer-like Tom Robinson can be, despite being in his 65th year. Tom that is, not Ian. It...
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Rival Consoles: ‘Howl’– album review
Rival Consoles: ‘Howl’ (Erased Tapes) LP/CD/DL Out: 16th October, 2015 8/10 Erased Tapes stalwart Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles is set to release his new album. More stripped back than many...
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No Hot Ashes: Easy Peeler/Smooth – single review
No Hot Ashes – Easy Peeler/Smooth (self-release) Out Now 8/10 Stockport’s funk-fuelled four-piece No Hot Ashes return with a sleazy double A-side. Louder Than War’s Dave Beech reviews. When well-known...
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Public Enemy: Live At Metropolis Studios – album/DVD review
Public Enemy: Live At Metropolis Studios (Universal) DVD/LP/CD/DL Out Now 7/10 The hip-hop titans brought their incendiary live show to London’s Metropolis Studios where only 125 people were lucky to...
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Rick Springfield: Westbury, NY – live review
Rick Springfield NYCB Theater, Westbury, NY September 2015 It was more than an affair of the heart as heart throb, Jessie’s Girl legend and iconic master, pop rock singer, songwriter, actor, film...
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The Sword | HARK: The Thekla, Bristol – live review
The Sword & HARK The Thekla, Bristol 19th Sept 2015 Stoner metal bands The Sword & HARK dropped by Bristol’s Thekla last Saturday bringing with them some killer grooves and monster riffs....
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Get The Blessing | SJ Esau: Colston Hall, Bristol – live review
Get The Blessing | SJ Esau The Lantern, Colston Hall, Bristol 14th Sept 2015 Bristolian electro-jazzers Get The Blessing’s fifth album received a great review when Paul Margree covered it for us last...
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Punk Rock!! So What?: Birmingham – exhibition review
Punk Rock!! So What? Parkside Gallery, Birmingham Curator: Russ Bestley Monday 21st September to Friday 13th November The blurb for this exhibition says that it “features a range of punk graphic and...
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The Hands Of The Wrong People: Perspective Correction – album review
The Hands Of The Wrong People – Perspective Correction CD / DL 27 September 2015 7.5 / 10 Berlin based trio release their third album. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews. In the follow up to...
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Joanna Gruesome: Head of Steam, Newcastle – live review
Joanna Gruesome & The Spook School Head Of Steam, Newcastle 19th September 2015 The incredible Joanna Gruesome tear the roof of Newcastle’s finest underground venue, with breakneck set filled with...
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