April 2010
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The sweet sensation.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at The HMV Forum, London (Friday 23rd April 2010)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club became my favourite band eight years ago, when my uncle took me to see them at The Forum. I was 13, and it was my second ever rock concert.
So tonight, as I stand outside the same venue once again and think back to the fateful night that’s forever tattooed to the back of my mind, they have...
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Don't ever leave me alone.
“I think it was in a way the feeling that it might be our last so let’s just show ‘em what we can do, let’s show each other what we can do and let’s try and have a good time doing it.” – Paul.
For Christmas last year, my dad bought me Abbey Road - the last album that The Beatles ever recorded.
I’d always loved The Beatles, but a while ago I realised, to my horror, the only...
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Unexpectedly we watched.
“Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight,
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
And for each and every underdog, soldier in the night;
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.”
There are two songs I can think of, which have captured something so powerful that they make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. One is Bob Dylan’s ‘Chimes Of...
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Baby, we were born to die.
I haven’t been this excited about a band for a very long time.
The best part is, it was all a surreal accident.
It’s three weeks ago. 3 am. I’m hunched over my MacBook, staring at a blank page. Shoulders aching, beads of sweat sliding down my temples. Eyes dryer than my throat after the five coffees I’ve forced down it in the last two hours.
My degree demands that I write an essay on one of...
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Animal house.
It’s safe to say my life changed when I heard the first 11 chords of this song. Well, 12 if you count the slide-up/hammer-on thing at the beginning.
The Kingsmen’s version of Richard Berry’s ‘Louie Louie’ is the messiest, most unpolished song I have ever heard. It sounds like a rehearsal. A bad rehearsal. A rehearsal in a garage with broken instruments after...
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Burning for the ancient heavenly connection.
It only seems right to start this music blog by writing a piece about my all-time favourite album. Howl.
It’s the band’s third album. Before it, they released a debut self-titled album (which might also appear on Reindeer Armies one day) and its follow-up, Take Them On, On Your Own.
It was 2005. It was summer and I think it was a Saturday. I was in town and I had nothing to do. So...