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So the runners up in the Mercury Awards have been announced….
Posted: July 21st, 2010 | Author: dvdmcn | Filed under: Rant | Tags: Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, Foals, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Paul Weller, The Villagers, The XX, Wild Beasts | Leave a comment »The very second I got to the end of the XX debut album, all the way back in September I knew it was gonna be a Mercury winner, and while I’ve still heard some great British music this year, I still think it’s gonna win.
And so it is with that airy confidence that simply going to say it’s an astoundingly brilliant piece of work, that 10 months later still manages to draw me in and give me more and more. But it would be rude to not at least cast a cursory glance over the runners-up. So… More
The Hold Steady, The Kentish Town Forum, 22nd June 2010
Posted: June 23rd, 2010 | Author: dvdmcn | Filed under: Review | Tags: Hold Steady | Leave a comment »Well I did name the blog after them, so it would have been rude not to at least mention how fuckin’ headshrinkingly amazing The Hold Steady were last night.
Well they were exactly that.
It’s a beautiful day, I’m going for a swim.
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The Dead Weather – Sea Of Cowards
Posted: May 14th, 2010 | Author: dvdmcn | Filed under: Review | Tags: The Dead Weather | Leave a comment »Sophomore album from….can I say supergroup? At least Brendan Benson has an answer when he asks himself “Would I look hot if I was a bird?”
I know I mentioned in a post about Hustle & Cuss how it was remarkable the amount of music Jack White puts out, and listening to this record, you can hear his finger prints all over it. Which is not really a surprise since he has been handling it a lot….lately…yeah anyway.
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Guest Blog: AEADJ & He Said She Said Review go to see The Maccabees
Posted: April 30th, 2010 | Author: dvdmcn | Filed under: Review | Tags: Graffiti6, La Shark, The Maccabees | 1 Comment »One of my favourite websites on the whole of the world wildly web is He Said She Said Review, and since I went to see The Maccabees (anytime I say that, I always picture this) with the She Said part of the operation, we thought it would be LOLsome to review the gig in it’s own unique style.
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So yeah me and Emily and her friend Bridie went to the Xbox Reverb gig in the Village Underground. I was clearly far too under dressed by comparison, and since I cracked a rib… More
24 British Bloggers Go 00′s Albums Cer-ay-zee!!
Posted: December 24th, 2009 | Author: dvdmcn | Filed under: Review | Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bat For Lashes, Bloc Party, Frightened Rabbit, Laura Marling, Live Without Buildings, Primal Scream, Radiohead, The Libertines, The Streets, Tim Burgess | 1 Comment »
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by Saam over at Faded Glamour to submit, along with a few other bloggers, the albums we felt were the Best British Albums of The Noughties. Here’s what Saam’s findings had to say….read more.
Twenty or so British bloggers contributed to this list of their favourite British albums of the decade. I asked them to rank their top three albums and have listed the Top 10 (unfortuntely, the MySpace throwback of a Top 8 was scuppered). I attributed ten points to their #1 choices, seven points to their… More