Liverpool
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Music Makes Scotland
Ahead of tonight’s gig with James Grant and ‘Friends’, it gave me time to listen back to some of the artists and bands who nurtured my love for home grown music in the late eighties and nineties and continues to do so four decades on. Some became commercially successful and internationally known, Orange Juice, Simple…
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Filthy Underneath, Nadine Shah
Listening to the album, initially as background music the first few times, I was taken by the differing tempos and the depth of production across all the tracks. Some were sparse, enabling Nadine’s voice to take the lead, while others had that middle eastern feel which blended perfectly with the instruments as they accompanied her.…
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Who Killed …… The Zutons?
Released twenty years ago almost to the day, April 19 2004. After all these years the album title seems quite apt. Whatever happened to the band who were riding on the crest of a wave in the mid noughties with a string of catchy tunes? After years of seeming inaction, the band make a long…
