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Live Review | Boredoms, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead, UK, 11.03.12
Words: Lucy Cage Photography: Michele Wade Boredoms, as David Yow pronounced from the stage after seeing them that day at All Tomorrow’s Parties, are “the best fucking thing I have ever seen!” I’m...
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Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light (Fat Possum)
By Lucy Cage Art can do what the hell it likes. Art can mock and ridicule. Art can stomp over precious tropes with its big fat arty boots. Art can steal and appropriate and recast. Art can trash...
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22 Songs I Loved in 2012 by Lucy Cage
By Lucy Cage What is slightly peculiar about this collection of some of my favourite songs of the year so far is how tangentially it reflects the nowness of now… yes, I love them all (and I’m certain...
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Another letter to the poor sods at Uncool magazine…
By Lucy Cage “Mumford & Sons’ singular importance in rock’s current moment cannot be underestimated,” is not a sentence I ever imagined I’d read. Especially not in the debut article deployed by a...
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Beck – Song Reader (Faber/McSweeney’s)
By Lucy Cage Beck is releasing his new ‘album’, Song Reader, as sheet music. As far as I can tell – I haven’t seen it but obviously that’s not going to stop me opining about it – the collection of...
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Dear Bobby Gillespie | Re: ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’: it’s actually really not
By Lucy Cage Dear Bobby Gillespie, Re ‘It’s Alright, It’s OK’: it’s actually really not. Not at all. Look, someone needs to tell you! No other fucker seems to have done it so I guess it’s down to me....
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A review of ‘Arc’ by Everything Everything that absolutely takes issue with...
By Lucy Cage “Point is: music can reflect the past and still be valid. Some may see it as history repeating itself, for others it’ll be brand spanking new. If you don’t think Peace are as rejuvenating...
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The Bastards Of Fate @ The Green Door Store, Brighton, 27.04.13
Words and photography: Lucy Cage Marvellous maximalist mayhem and everything I hoped it would be, The Bastards Of Fate at Brighton’s hipster-garnished, cobbled-floor venue are so good, so very good in...
View ArticleJohn Grant @ St George’s Church, Kemptown, Brighton, 16.05.13
Words and photography: Lucy Cage John Grant is playing Brighton the same weekend as the city is descended upon by the schmoozing masses of The Great Escape, a multi-venued festival in the style of SXSW...
View ArticleSome Songs from Last Year: Slow Reader gets There in The End – Part 1
I seem to have been tongue-tied for the last half of last year; I couldn’t find the words. So I’ve only just got round to writing about these beauties from 2013, some of the fifty or so tracks I’d...
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