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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
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Listening
- Mogwai - As The Love Continues
- Black Country, New Road - For The First Time
- Jane Weaver - Flock
- Pom Poko - Cheater
- Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins
- The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings
- Marissa Nadler - July
Reading
- Kate Roberts - 'Feet In Chains'
- Mark Lanegan - 'Sing Backwards And Weep'
- Nick Hedges - 'Home'
- Richard Phoenix - 'DIY As Privilege: A Manifesto'
- Henry Carroll - 'Photographers On Photography'
Watching
- 'Finding Vivian Maier'
- 'Taskmaster'
- 'Would I Lie To You?'
Music interviews
Album reviews
- ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
- ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void And Other Stories
- Adulkt Life - Book Of Curses
- Air Formation - Daylight Storms
- Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
- Alffa - Rhyddid O'r Cysgodion Gwenwynig
- Algiers - There Is No Year
- Alpha Male Tea Party - Health
- Anathallo - Floating World
- Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
- Art Brut - Wham! Bang! Pow! Let's Rock Out!
- Bilge Pump - We Love You
- Bill Ryder-Jones - Yawn
- Black Mountain - Destroyer
- Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
- Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
- Canyon - Empty Rooms
- Cassels - The Perfect Ending
- Cat Power - The Greatest
- Cat Power - Wanderer
- Cave In - Antenna
- Clinic - Wheeltappers And Shunters
- Cosey Fanni Tutti - TUTTI
- Damien Jurado - In The Shape Of A Storm
- Daniel Blumberg - On&On
- Daniel O'Sullivan - Folly
- Dead Meadow - Old Growth
- Deaf Wish - Lithium Zion
- Dean Ween - Rock2
- Deap Lips - Deap Lips
- Death Of Fashion - Hello Movement
- Drahla - Useless Coordinates
- Dream Wife - Dream Wife
- Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy
- Envy - Insomniac Doze
- Envy - The Fallen Crimson
- Ex Hex - It's Real
- Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
- False Friends - False Friends
- Fuzz - III
- Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
- Goat Girl - Goat Girl
- Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
- Harkin - Harkin
- Hilary Woods - Colt
- Honeyblood - In Plain Sight
- Hookworms - Microshift
- Housewives - Twilight Splendour
- Howling Bells - Howling Bells
- Idlewild - Warnings / Promises
- Imperial Wax - Gastwerk Saboteurs
- Jambinai - Onda
- Jane Weaver - Flock
- Lanterns On The Lake - Spook The Herd
- Late Night Final - A Wonderful Hope
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
- Lice - It All Worked Out Great Vol. 1 & 2
- Los Blancos - Sbwriel Gwyn
- Lovemat - The Fearless Hair Days Of Youth
- Low - Drums And Guns
- Low - The Great Destroyer
- Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
- Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
- Maximo Park - Nature Always Wins
- Maximo Park - Risk To Exist
- Meilir - In Tune
- Mogwai - Mr Beast
- Mono - Nowhere Now Here
- Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
- My Latest Novel - Wolves
- Nothing - The Great Dismal
- Osees - Metamorphosed
- Philip Selway - Let Me Go
- Pom Poko - Cheater
- Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
- Que Asco! - Reaper
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
- R Seiliog - Megadoze
- Russian Circles - Blood Year
- Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
- Sigur Ros - Takk
- Six. By Seven - :04
- Six. By Seven - Artists, Cannibals, Poets, Thieves
- Six. By Seven - Club Sandwich At The Peveril Hotel
- sleepmakeswaves - Made Of Breath Only
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse
- Sons & Daughters - This Gift
- Sweet Baboo - Wild Imagination
- Swervedriver - Future Ruins
- Teeth Of The Sea - Wraith
- The Arcade Fire - Funeral
- The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- The Black Angels - Death Song
- The Concretes - The Concretes
- The Coral - Move Through The Dawn
- The Coral - Nightfreak And The Sons Of Becker
- The Coral - The Invisible Invasion
- The Delgados - Hate
- The Delgados - Universal Audio
- The Drones - Gala Mill
- The Duke Spirit - Neptune
- The Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
- The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public
- The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
- The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
- The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
- The Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
- The Raveonettes - Chain Gang Of Love
- The Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
- The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
- The Strokes - Room On Fire
- The Wave Pictures - Brushes With Happiness
- TT - LoveLaws
- Uniform - Shame
- Various - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The 22 Of Us
- Warp Transmission - The Process Ultra
- William Shatner - The Blues
- Wire - Silver/Lead
- Working Men's Club - Working Men's Club
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
- Year Of The Kite - With Sparks Flying
- You & The Atom Bomb - Shake Shake Hello?!
- Young Knives - Barbarians
- Zola Jesus - Okovi
- Zu - Jhator
Single reviews
- Autons - 'Snakes'
- Beats Capri - 'Me Your Girl'
- Gindrinker - Demo
- Jane Weaver - 'The Architect'
- Lanterns On The Lake - The Realist EP
- Los Blancos - 'Clarach'/'Cadi'
- Lovemat - 'Between The Lines'
- Mark Lanegan - Still Life With Roses EP
- Niterooms - Niterooms EP
- Peaness - Are You Sure? EP
- Red Telephone - 'Victoria Park'
- Slate Hearts - Honey Roasted Henry EP
- Spinner Fall - Monument EP
- StrangeTime - 'Demonstration No 1'
- The Invisible Clock Factory - 'Penelope Rose' / 'The Quantum Particles Rock And Roll Song'
- The Lovely Eggs - 'I Shouldn't Have Said That'
- The Other Dramas - 'I'll See You Again'
- Yo La Tengo - Sleepless Night EP
Gig reviews
- !!! / Bandicoot (20/11/19)
- !!! / Lioness (15/10/07)
- 51 Breaks / When Bears Attack / The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank Project (11/10/05)
- 65daysofstatic / Dead Method (14/06/18)
- Acid Mothers Temple / Voice Of The Seven Woods (08/11/06)
- Algiers / Silent Forum / New Haunts (03/07/19)
- Amber Arcades / Ella (19/10/16)
- Amber Arcades / Tender Prey (30/03/17)
- And So I Watch You From Afar / Hreda / Nitkowski / Ivy's Itch (23/09/09)
- Audiobooks / Ani Glass (09/03/19)
- Autons (29/03/08)
- Autons / Maria Szyrtisz & The Pyramids Of Mars / Josie Watts / Chris Perrin (20/11/05)
- Autons / My Passion / You & The Atom Bomb (22/04/06)
- Baby Bushka (02/10/18)
- Bat For Lashes / Yeasayer (08/10/09)
- Black Flag / Total Chaos (12/10/19)
- Black Mountain / Wolf People (04/09/10)
- Blacklisters / The Correct Arc / Kancho! (25/09/15)
- Blanck Mass / Frans Gender & Violet Grace (03/12/19)
- Blood Red Shoes / King Alexander / The Toy Band (01/02/07)
- Blood Red Shoes / These New Puritans / Peggy Sue & The Pirates (03/04/08)
- Borderville / Matt Winkworth & The Winkworthers Originals / The Freemantle (18/02/11)
- Boy Azooga / Man Of Moon / Esther (28/04/18)
- Broken Social Scene / Los Campesinos! (29/08/06)
- Broken Social Scene / The Brunettes (22/05/08)
- Bryde / Little Red (21/04/17)
- Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard (09/12/20)
- Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Shoebox Orchestra / Rainn Byrns / CVC (05/05/19)
- Buzzcocks / The Darling Buds (27/04/18)
- Camille O'Sullivan (12/06/18)
- Car Seat Headrest / Naked Giants (05/11/18)
- Cat Matador / Dallas Don't / Pump Shark / Robots With Souls (20/04/12)
- Cave In / Dureforsog (15/02/03)
- Cave In / Taint / Adzuki (08/03/06)
- Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon / Gwenno & Gruff / Astroid Boys / Boy Azooga / Los Blancos (15/02/19)
- Clanky Robo Gob Jobs / 50ft Panda / David K Frampton / Eduard Soundingblock (14/05/08)
- Cloud Nothings / Human Heat / Enouement (10/07/19)
- Co-Pilgrim / The August List / Swindlestock (09/10/14)
- Cougar / Elapse-O / Balls Deep (21/10/09)
- Creepy Morons / The Rebel / Gindrinker (14/09/07)
- Dallas Don't / Traps / Charlie Baxter (22/02/12)
- Dananananaykroyd / Calories (28/03/09)
- DARTZ! / The New 1920 / May Contain Nuts (13/02/07)
- Das Wanderlust / The Retro Spankees / Persil / Inner City Pirates (16/02/07)
- Dead Meadow / The Voices (26/05/06)
- Deap Vally / Skaters / Dolomite Minor (30/10/13)
- Dieter Moebius / Billy Mahonie / The Oscillation / Nought / The Rock Of Travolta / Rome Pays Off / Mephisto Grande / Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element (06/11/10)
- Dinosaur Jr / Dead Confederate (19/08/09)
- Dirty Three / Josh Pearson (21/11/05)
- Don Caballero / Hreda / Secondsmile (10/11/08)
- Drunk Granny / Lily Green (22/01/07)
- DUDS / Gindrinker / Silent Forum / Head Noise (23/01/18)
- Editors / Needless Alley / Chester Road (28/01/05)
- Eels (06/07/03)
- Efterklang / Heather Woods Broughton (22/04/10)
- Einstellung / One Unique Signal / From Here We Run (27/08/09)
- Electric Eel Shock / Smilex (20/10/09)
- Elvana (02/09/16)
- Elvana (20/10/18)
- Emma Pollock / Derek Meins / Andy Gower (03/12/07)
- Empty Vessels / Dallas Don't / Fulangchangandi (24/09/11)
- Errors / Pixel Fix (08/05/12)
- Errors / So So Modern / Jonny Dare (02/03/10)
- Estrons / Mellt (06/12/18)
- Ex Models / Elapse-O / Load. Click. Shoot. / Ice, Sea, Dead People (15/05/08)
- FEWS / The Picture Palace (13/10/16)
- Field Music / The Keys (05/10/06)
- Flasher / Private World / Zac White (06/11/18)
- Foals / Attack + Defend / Tired Irie (06/03/07)
- Foals / Jonquil (12/05/10)
- Fontaines DC / Hotel Lux / Slagheap (09/12/18)
- Fugazi / Wolves! (Of Greece) / Twinkie (23/10/02)
- Funeral For A Friend / The Rapture / The Von Bondies / Franz Ferdinand (27/01/04)
- Future Of The Left / Deguello / BITCHES (02/04/08)
- Gindrinker / The School / Broken Leaf / Spencer McGarry / Little My (10/08/08)
- Girls Names / Too Many Poets / Swoons (24/03/16)
- Glasvegas / The Half Rabbits / International Jetsetters (12/02/08)
- Gnod / Mai Mai Mai / Sunshine (08/06/17)
- Goldie Lookin Chain (24/04/04)
- Gwenno / Adwaith / Halo Maud (17/10/18)
- Har Mar Superstar (03/10/03)
- HEALTH / Listing Ships / The Manacles Of Acid (01/09/11)
- Hey Colossus / Guide Dog (03/03/18)
- Holy Bouncer / Risorius / HalfBlind / Pastel (24/01/18)
- Holy Fuck / It Hugs Back (08/05/09)
- Holy Fuck / Kelpe (17/10/08)
- Hot Club De Paris / This Town Needs Guns / From Here We Run (24/02/10)
- Hot Hot Heat / Franz Ferdinand / The Fiery Furnaces (05/11/03)
- Howling Bells / The Alones / The Spencer McGarry Season (22/03/07)
- Howling Bells / The Joy Formidable (05/03/09)
- I Am Drug (28/04/18)
- I Am Zeitgeist / The International Karate Plus / StrangeTime (18/11/05)
- IDLES / Lice / People And Other Diseases (05/04/17)
- Ill Ease / Music For One / Lily Green (21/03/07)
- Imperial Wax / Gindrinker / Alex Dingley (07/06/19)
- Interpol / Secret Machines (16/12/04)
- Isis / Torche (08/10/08)
- J Mascis / Chris Brokaw (19/11/02)
- Jane's Addiction / Stellastarr* (07/11/03)
- Japandroids / 4 Or 5 Magicians / William (27/10/09)
- Japandroids / Phantom Theory / Keyboard Choir (18/05/10)
- Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage / Quiet Marauder (26/09/19)
- Johnny Foreigner / Tellison / Japanese Voyeurs (06/10/09)
- Jonquil / Hreda / Theo / Gossamer Albatross (09/04/08)
- Julian Cope / Patrick Jones (20/04/17)
- Keys / Los Blancos / Sock (17/07/19)
- Kid Kin / Ghosts In The Photographs / The Beckoning Fair Ones / Cosmosis (20/06/15)
- Lazarus Clamp / The Spencer McGarry Season / Palace Music (21/08/08)
- Lily Green / Gender Fascist (12/10/06)
- Lily Green & Bela Emerson / Drei / Gindrinker (31/10/06)
- Los Campesinos! / Attack + Defend / The Wave Pictures / Gindrinker / The Loves / Threatmantics / The Stray Borders / Little My And Friends (26/11/06)
- Los Campesinos! / Copy Haho / Sparky Deathcap (29/10/09)
- Los Campesinos! / Help She Can't Swim / Napoleon IIIrd (04/06/07)
- Los Campesinos! / No Age / Times New Viking (20/10/08)
- Los Campesinos! / Porchlight / Shake My Hand / Little My And Friends (16/09/06)
- Lovemat / Delta Red (18/02/06)
- Low (10/02/03)
- Low / Kid Dakota (19/02/05)
- Low / Paul Thomas Saunders (17/11/10)
- Low / Sleepingdog (20/05/11)
- M83 / Porcelain Raft (24/01/12)
- Machiavellian Art / Squalor Fan / Horrible Men / Haq123 (10/01/20)
- Madonnatron / Melt Dunes / Telgate / Hollow Mask / Big Whoop (23/03/18)
- Maiians / Cassels / Rosie Caldecott (28/01/16)
- Malcolm Middleton / The Accidental (26/03/08)
- Man Forever / Jaxson Payne (12/12/19)
- Manatees / Space In The 50s / Infants / Solomon Kane (19/02/07)
- Maximo Park / Teleman (18/03/14)
- Melt-Banana / Gindrinker (04/06/17)
- Melvins (30/09/11)
- Melvins / Big Business / Porn (The Men Of) (10/12/06)
- Mercury Rev / The Duke Spirit (11/03/05)
- Metz / Drahla / John (28/08/18)
- Midas / Beats Capri / StrangeTime / Sinistra (13/09/05)
- Moaning / The Tates (29/04/18)
- Mogwai (02/04/06)
- Mogwai / Bardo Pond (22/10/03)
- Mogwai / Dead Meadow / Wolves! (Of Greece) (24/03/04)
- Mogwai / The Twilight Sad (23/02/11)
- Mugstar (27/10/17)
- My Bloody Valentine / Graham Coxon (23/06/08)
- My Latest Novel / Semifinalists / Lone Pine (23/03/06)
- Nadine Shah / LIFE (15/10/17)
- Naughty / Gindrinker / Watermelons / Pagan Wanderer Lu & The Volunteers / Silence At Sea / Guto Dafis (27/05/07)
- Neal Casal / Danny George Wilson (12/02/06)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (07/11/04)
- No Age / Jeff Wode (11/10/13)
- Noxagt / Truckers Of Husk / Circa Regna Tonat / Zumbar (25/09/06)
- Orcop / Lone Pine (20/03/08)
- Our Girl / Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard / Big Thing (23/10/18)
- Oxes / Bilge Pump / Nitkowski / Eduard Soundingblock / Prefontaine (23/10/08)
- Parquet Courts / The Wytches / Ultimate Painting (26/06/14)
- Part Chimp / Grey Hairs / Twisted Ankle (27/04/17)
- Passion Pit / Hockey / Bear Hands (12/02/09)
- PAWS / Virals / Ides (20/02/13)
- PINS / Baby In Vain (10/04/17)
- PINS / Peace And Love Barbershop Muhammad Ali / The Other Dramas (11/02/16)
- PJ Harvey (11/09/04)
- Plastic Mermaids / Goo Lagoon / French Alps Tiger (20/09/19)
- Polysics / Cutting Pink With Knives (11/02/08)
- Public Service Broadcasting (13/10/17)
- Queens Of The Stone Age / Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / Vendetta Red (29/10/02)
- Quodega / Farm Hand / Sock / Sweet Baboo (21/07/18)
- Raging Speedhorn / By Any Means / Burden Of The Noose / Black Skies Burn (22/07/16)
- Rays / Goodbye Sergeants / Confrontiers / Patti Plinko And Her Boy / Lily Green (23/09/07)
- Red Letter Day / Reinhardt / Qhixldekx (26/10/02)
- Ride (01/09/18)
- Right Hand Left Hand / Quodega / HMS Morris / Cotton Wolf / My Name Is Ian / Sock (14/12/19)
- Ringo Deathstarr / Sealings (30/11/09)
- Ringo Deathstarr / The Neon Violets / Kancho! (10/03/16)
- Rolo Tomassi / Blood Command / Cassus (01/11/18)
- Rolo Tomassi / Ivy's Itch (22/10/08)
- Rose Kemp / Underground Railroad / The Physicists / Llan Clan (20/01/07)
- Royal Blood / At The Drive-In (13/11/17)
- Royal Blood / Tigercub (26/02/14)
- Ruth Theodore (02/03/05)
- Sacred Paws / Spinning Coin / Neurotic Fiction (19/02/17)
- Sennen / Matt Winkworth (06/05/10)
- Shopping / Gauche / Lawndale High (09/11/17)
- Sigur Ros / Amina (14/11/05)
- Sky Larkin / Pulled Apart By Horses / Wolves Of Virginia (28/01/09)
- Sleaford Mods / LIINES (05/04/19)
- Sleaford Mods / Salvation Bill / Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut (11/03/15)
- Sly & The Family Drone / DJ Young Conservative / Telegrapher (24/04/15)
- Soccer Mommy / Brooke Bentham (12/09/18)
- Sonic Youth (01/09/07)
- Sonic Youth (02/09/04)
- Sonic Youth / The Pop Group (30/10/10)
- Sons & Daughters / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / International Jetsetters (07/11/07)
- Space In The 50s / Gindrinker / Evils (25/01/07)
- Spare Snare / Jemma Roper (13/01/19)
- Sparrow And The Workshop / Rob St John / Bethany Weimers (12/05/11)
- Sparrow And The Workshop / Sketches (14/10/10)
- Spiritualized (20/03/12)
- Spiritualized / Six By Seven (26/01/04)
- Spiritualized / The Shortwave Set (13/10/08)
- Stella Donnelly / Annabel Allum (16/05/18)
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Clor (17/09/05)
- Stornoway / Alphabet Backwards / Vixens (08/11/08)
- StrangeTime (14/03/08)
- StrangeTime / Dedd Zebra / The Disciples Of Tone (20/01/06)
- Sweet Baboo / Kid Carpet / Farm Hand (07/12/17)
- Tall Ships / Silent Forum / Shadows Into Light (04/05/17)
- Tame Impala / Kirin J Callinan (22/05/14)
- Tangled Hair / Alpha Male Tea Party / 100 Onces (19/08/15)
- Tellison / Bad Ideas / Cassels (07/06/15)
- Tera Melos / Tangled Hair (22/03/18)
- The Antlers / Morning Parade / Chad Valley (04/03/10)
- The August List / Seth & Katie (25/06/15)
- The Bellrays / The D4 (17/09/02)
- The Besnard Lakes (30/05/17)
- The Besnard Lakes / Erland & The Carnival (26/03/10)
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre (21/06/16)
- The Cosmic Dead / Infinity Forms Of Yellow Remember (09/07/18)
- The Datsuns / The Hellacopters (13/12/02)
- The Delgados / Aereogramme / Mr Airplane Man (02/02/03)
- The Drums / Funeral Party (23/02/10)
- The Duke Spirit / Creepy Morons / Man From Michael (19/11/07)
- The Fall / Bo Ningen (03/02/17)
- The Fall / Heck (26/03/07)
- The Fiery Furnaces / Nomad 67 (09/11/07)
- The Fiery Furnaces / Sons & Daughters / Red Organ Serpent Sound (26/08/04)
- The Fiery Furnaces / Talk In Code (20/09/09)
- The Flaming Lips / Alfie (31/10/03)
- The Futureheads / Maximo Park (06/12/04)
- The Futureheads / Novacub (28/05/19)
- The Gutter Twins / Carina Round (11/08/08)
- The Icarus Line / Modey Lemon (03/05/04)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain / Chain Of Flowers (03/10/17)
- The Jim Jones Revue / Half Naked (12/10/10)
- The Light Era / Jetlag / Augustine / StrangeTime (03/11/05)
- The Little Unsaid / Waltz In The Shallow End (07/03/15)
- The Loungs / Autokat / The Toy Band / Little My (14/12/06)
- The Magic Numbers / The Pipettes (15/05/05)
- The Physics House Band / False Hope For The Savage / Death Cult Electric (19/07/19)
- The Raveonettes / Razorlight / M.A.S.S. (30/10/03)
- The School / Flicklisten / The Puncture Repair Kit (19/06/08)
- The Shins / Atlantic Dash (14/07/04)
- The St Pierre Snake Invasion / Cassels (02/10/19)
- The Thurston Moore Band / Hannah Lou Clark (10/05/15)
- The Vines / The Libertines / Hoggboy (30/10/02)
- The Warlocks / Goldrush / Blood Red Shoes / Witches / The People's Revolutionary Choir / Stornoway (27/11/07)
- The Wedding Present / The Flatmates (02/05/19)
- The Young Knives / The Martini Henry Rifles / Shy Magnolias (13/03/06)
- Therapy? (29/11/03)
- Threatmantics / Silent Forum / Joel Hurst (22/02/19)
- Trash Fashion / The Pubic Fringe / Motorcycle Stunts (06/12/05)
- Trembling Bells / The Halycons / The Roundheels / Matt Winkworth (03/10/09)
- Tricot / False Hope For The Savage (29/08/17)
- Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats / Blood Ceremony (24/01/19)
- Vessels / Hreda / Von Braun (10/01/08)
- Wavves / From Light To Sound (18/11/09)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks / The Gullivers / Cat Matador (12/11/09)
- White Manna / Infinity Forms Of Yellow Remember / Deep Hum (25/09/17)
- Winnebago Deal / Deguello / Venus Elixir (25/07/06)
- Wolf Eyes / Consumer Electronics / Somatic Responses / Trawsfynydd Lo-Fi Liberation Front (19/04/07)
- Working Men's Club / Lazarus Kane (20/02/20)
- Wylderness / Los Blancos (24/03/18)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Har Mar Superstar (28/02/03)
- Yo La Tengo / Dump (10/06/11)
- Yo La Tengo / Minotaur Shock (07/11/06)
- Zu / Dr Slaggleberry / Drunkenstein (04/10/09)
Gig previews
Southsea Fest 2009 review
1-2-3-4 Shoreditch 2010 review
Truck 2010 review
ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2010 review
Southsea Fest 2011 review
ATP Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Les Savy Fav / Battles / Caribou 2011 review
Sounds From The Other City 2012 review
Gathering Festival 2012 review
Gathering Festival 2013 review
Oxford Punt 2014 review
Oxford Punt 2015 review
Oxford Punt 2016 review
Cardiff Psych & Noise Festival 2019 review
Green Man 2019 review
Festival previews
End-of-year lists 2012
End-of-year lists 2013
End-of-year lists 2014
Music features
- 'Artsnight: Thurston Moore'
- 'Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen To The Banned'
- 'David Bowie: Five Years'
- 'Gareth Gwynn's Little Book Of Welsh Rock'
- 'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 60s
- 'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 70s
- 'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 80s
- 'Girls And Boys - Sex And British Pop': The 90s
- 'Good Vibrations: The Story Of The Theremin'
- 'Goth At The BBC'
- 'Kate Bush At The BBC'
- 'More Baby In My Monitor Please'
- 'Parallel Universes, Parallel Lives'
- 'Pop: What Is It Good For?'
- 'Punk 1976-78' exhibition
- 'Reginald D Hunter's Songs Of The South'
- 'Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm'
- 'The Importance Of Being Morrissey'
- 'The Wonderful And Frightening World Of Mark E Smith'
- 'Thurston Moore's Guitar Masterclass'
- 'Two Tone Britain'
- 'Wild Boys: The Story Of Duran Duran'
- Chris Cornell RIP
- Feel Good Hits Satellite Music Channel Special: Part 1
- Feel Good Hits Satellite Music Channel Special: Part 2
- Morrissey on 'Later With Jools Holland'
- Nick Cave and 'The South Bank Show'
- RIP NME
- Shuffleathon 2006 review
- Shuffleathon 2007 review
- Shuffleathon 2008 review
- Six. By Seven RIP
- Swells RIP
- Ten cover versions
- The Delgados RIP
- The Dismemberment Plan RIP
- Top UK #1s
Music Sounds Better With You
- #1: Abba - 'Ring Ring'
- #2: The Beatles - 'Hey Jude'
- #3: Guns 'N' Roses - 'Paradise City'
- #4: Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
- #5: Sonic Youth - 'Drunken Butterfly'
- #6: Garbage - 'Stupid Girl'
- #7: Mogwai - 'Angels vs Aliens'
- #8: Eels - 'It's A Motherfucker'
- #9: At The Drive-In - 'Cosmonaut'
- #10: The Strokes - 'Last Nite'
Book features
- Susie Dent interview
- 'Invisible Britain' launch and Q&A
- Blake Morrison interview
- D H Lawrence - relevant or relic?
- 'Lawrence In Notts: Creations And Recreations'
- BBC's 'D H Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame'
- C4's 'Philip Larkin: Love And Death In Hull'
- BBC2's 'Love Again' (Philip Larkin)
- Saul Bellow RIP
- BBC2's 'Iain Banks: Raw Spirit'
- BBC's 'Faulks On Fiction'
- David Mitchell in conversation about 'Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse'
- Vince Cable talking about 'After The Storm'
Book reviews
- Alan Bennett - 'Three Stories'
- Alan Bennett - 'Writing Home'
- Alan Hollinghurst - 'The Line Of Beauty'
- Alan Partridge - 'I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan'
- Andrew Motion - 'Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life'
- Andrew Mueller - 'Rock And Hard Places'
- Anthony Burgess - 'Flame Into Being'
- Benjamin Myers - 'The Gallows Pole'
- Benjamin Myers - 'The Offing'
- Bill Hicks - 'Love All The People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines'
- Bob Dylan - 'Chronicles: Volume One'
- Carrie Brownstein - 'Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl'
- Cormac McCarthy - 'The Road'
- Cynthia True - 'American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story'
- D B C Pierre - 'Vernon God Little'
- David B - 'Epileptic'
- Deborah Curtis - 'Touching From A Distance'
- Don DeLillo - 'The Body Artist'
- Donna Tartt - 'The Secret History'
- Douglas Coupland - 'Girlfriend In A Coma'
- Dylan Thomas - 'Under Milk Wood'
- Erich Maria Remarque - 'All Quiet On The Western Front'
- Ernest Hemingway - 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'
- Francis Wheen - 'How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World'
- Franz Kafka - 'The Trial'
- Frederic Beigbeder - '£9.99'
- Geoff Dyer - 'Out Of Sheer Rage'
- Geoff Dyer - 'The Ongoing Moment'
- George Orwell - 'Down And Out In Paris And London'
- Graeme Oxby - 'The Kings Of England'
- Harper Lee - 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
- Harry Pearson - 'Slipless In Settle'
- Harry Pearson - 'The Far Corner'
- Haruki Murakami - 'After Dark'
- Iain Banks - 'The Wasp Factory'
- Ian McEwan - 'On Chesil Beach'
- Ian Rankin - 'Beggars Banquet'
- Irvine Welsh - 'Filth'
- J G Ballard - 'Concrete Island'
- J G Ballard - 'Super-Cannes'
- Jack Kerouac - 'On The Road'
- James Acaster - 'James Acaster's Classic Scrapes'
- James Joyce - 'Ulysses'
- Jamie Owen and David Wilson - 'A Year In Pembrokeshire'
- Jason Munn - 'The Small Stakes'
- Jim Crace - 'Being Dead'
- John Harris - 'The Last Party'
- John Williams - 'Stoner'
- Jon Pountney - 'COVID-19'
- Jon Savage - 'England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols And Punk Rock'
- Jonathan Coe - 'Middle England'
- Jonathan Franzen - 'The Twenty-Seventh City'
- Ken Kesey - 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'
- Kurt Cobain - 'Journals'
- Luke Haines - 'Bad Vibes'
- Margaret Atwood - 'The Handmaid's Tale'
- Marilyn Johnson - 'The Dead Beat'
- Mark Abley - 'Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages'
- Martin Amis - 'Money'
- Martin Hardy - 'Rafa's Way'
- Martin Hardy - 'Touching Distance'
- Martin Hardy - 'Tunnel Of Love'
- Max Barry - 'Jennifer Government'
- Melvyn Bragg - 'The Adventure Of English'
- Michael Frayn - 'The Trick Of It'
- Michael Moore - 'Stupid White Men'
- Milan Kundera - 'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'
- Nadine Gordimer - 'Selected Stories'
- Neil Warnock - 'Made In Sheffield: My Story'
- Nick Kent - 'The Dark Stuff'
- Noreena Hertz - 'The Silent Takeover'
- Richard McGuire - 'Here'
- Salman Rushdie - 'Fury'
- Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward - 'Really Saying Something'
- Saul Bellow - 'The Adventures Of Augie March'
- Simon Reynolds - 'Rip It Up And Start Again'
- Stewart Lee - 'The Perfect Fool'
- Thomas Pynchon - 'Mason & Dixon'
- Tom Wolfe - 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities'
- Tony Wilson - '24 Hour Party People'
- Various - 'Granta: The First Twenty-One Years'
- Various - 'Shaggy Blog Stories'
- Virginia Woolf - 'Congenial Spirits: Selected Letters'
- Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies - 'Why Do People Hate America?'
- Zoe Heller - 'Notes On A Scandal'
Film reviews
- '24 Hour Party People'
- 'A Cock & Bull Story'
- 'About Schmidt'
- 'Alpha Papa'
- 'Anorac'
- 'Anyone Can Play Guitar'
- 'Apollo 11'
- 'As Good As It Gets'
- 'Bowling For Columbine'
- 'Bridget Jones's Diary'
- 'Capote'
- 'Coco'
- 'Control'
- 'Diego Maradona'
- 'DiG!'
- 'Dumb And Dumber'
- 'Ed'
- 'End Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones'
- 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
- 'Galaxy Quest'
- 'Garden State'
- 'Good Vibrations'
- 'Goodbye Lenin'
- 'Goodnight And Good Luck'
- 'Grizzly Man'
- 'Hero'
- 'Hot Fuzz'
- 'In Bruges'
- 'Junebug'
- 'King Rocker'
- 'Kurt Cobain: About A Son'
- 'Lost In France'
- 'Lost In Translation'
- 'Marvellous'
- 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'
- 'Museum Hours'
- 'My Wrongs Nos 8245-8249 And 117'
- 'Napoleon Dynamite'
- 'Never Let Me Go'
- 'Offside'
- 'Once Upon A Time In The Midlands'
- 'Oxide Ghosts'
- 'Ray'
- 'Senna'
- 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll'
- 'Shaun Of The Dead'
- 'She's A Punk Rocker UK'
- 'Shrek 2'
- 'Sideways'
- 'Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain'
- 'Some Kind Of Monster'
- 'Sound City'
- 'Submarine'
- 'Supersize Me'
- 'Synecdoche, New York'
- 'Team America: World Police'
- 'The Big Lebowski'
- 'The Devils'
- 'The Green Mile'
- 'The Holy Mountain'
- 'The Hours'
- 'The London Perambulator'
- 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King'
- 'The Master'
- 'The Proposition'
- 'The Tourist'
- 'Thumbsucker'
- 'Toast'
- 'Velvet Goldmine'
- 'Walk The Line'
- 'You've Been Trumped'
- 'Young@Heart'
- 'Zoolander'
Comedy interviews
Comedy features
Comedy reviews
- Carey Marx / Bishop & Douch / Nick Page (28/04/08)
- Dan Antopolski / Ben Schofield (14/03/06)
- Eddie Izzard / Stewart Lee / Ivor Dembina (03/10/08)
- Jason Byrne (16/02/05)
- John Bishop ('Sunshine')
- Juliet Meyers / Holly Walsh / Liz Bentley / Rosie Wilby (04/09/08)
- Milton Jones / James Acaster (01/12/11)
- Richard Herring ('Someone Likes Yoghurt') (19/01/07)
- Richard Herring ('The Headmaster's Son') (26/03/09)
- Richard Herring ('The Twelve Tasks Of Hercules') (24/02/05)
- Richard Herring / Ben Van der Velde (01/12/08)
- Richard Herring / Tom Binns / Gary Bell / Rhodri Rhys (23/03/05)
- Robin Ince ('... Is As Dumb As You') (01/06/07)
- Simon Munnery / John Lean (26/01/09)
- Steve Coogan ('Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters') (31/10/08)
- Stewart Lee ('41st Best Stand-Up Ever!') / Simon Amstell (21/07/07)
- Stewart Lee ('90s Comedian') (10/03/06)
- Stewart Lee ('Carpet Remnant World') (26/03/12)
- Stewart Lee ('If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One') / Tony Law (26/11/09)
- Stewart Lee ('Stand-Up Comedian') / Josie Long (01/02/05)
- Stewart Lee ('Vegetable Stew') / Simon Munnery (20/10/10)
TV reviews
- '63 Up'
- 'A World Without Down's Syndrome?'
- 'Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football And Me'
- 'Alan Shearer's Euro '96: When Football Came Home'
- 'Arrested Development'
- 'Capital'
- 'Car Share'
- 'Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction'
- 'Chris Packham: Asperger's And Me'
- 'Cuckoo'
- 'Cunk On Shakespeare'
- 'Dancing On The Edge'
- 'Fleabag' (Series 1)
- 'Fleabag' (Series 2)
- 'Grayson Perry: All Man'
- 'Grayson Perry: In The Best Possible Taste'
- 'Grayson Perry: Who Are You?'
- 'How TV Ruined Your Life'
- 'Inside No. 9' (Series 2)
- 'Inside No. 9' (Series 4)
- 'It's Kevin'
- 'James & Jupp'
- 'Killing Eve' (Series 1)
- 'Later With Jools Holland'
- 'Louis Theroux: Altered States'
- 'Louis Theroux: Dark States'
- 'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing'
- 'Motherland'
- 'Nathan Barley'
- 'National TV Awards 2013'
- 'Nina Conti: Clowning Around'
- 'Professor Green: Hidden And Homeless'
- 'Reginald D Hunter's Songs Of The South'
- 'Rev' (Series 3)
- 'Stewart Lee: Content Provider'
- 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 1)
- 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 2)
- 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (Series 3)
- 'The League Of Gentlemen' (Series 4)
- 'The Office' / 'The US Office'
- 'The Serpent'
- 'The Thick Of It' (Series 4)
- 'The Trip To Italy'
- 'The Wire'
- 'This Is England '90'
- 'This Time With Alan Partridge'
- 'Wonderland'
Theatre/opera features/interviews
Theatre / opera reviews
- Alan Bennett - 'The History Boys'
- Bertolt Brecht - 'The Life Of Galileo'
- David Hare - 'Racing Demon'
- Everyman Theatre Company - 'Blackadder Goes Forth'
- Harold Pinter - 'The Birthday Party'
- Oscar Wilde - 'The Importance Of Being Earnest'
- P G Wodehouse and Guy Burton - 'Come On Jeeves'
- P G Wodehouse and the Goodale Brothers - 'Perfect Nonsense'
- Reduced Shakespeare Company - 'All The Great Books'
- Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee - 'Jerry Springer: The Opera'
- William Golding - 'Lord Of The Flies'
Art features/interviews
Art reviews
- 'Glam: The Performance Of Style'
- 'House Of Cards'
- 'Strange And Familiar'
- 'Swaps'
- 'Women In Focus - Part One: Women Behind The Lens'
- Antony Gormley - 'Domain Field'
- Artes Mundi Prize 2017
- August Sander - 'People Of The Twentieth Century'
- Bani Abidi - 'Section Yellow'
- Bernd & Hilla Becher - 'Industrial Visions'
- Catrine Val - 'Kathmandu Girl'
- Edward Barber - 'Peace Signs'
- Eva Grubinger - 'Dark Matter'
- Holly Davey, Marko Maetamm and Gaia Persico - 'Innocence And Despair'
- Jane and Louise Wilson - 'A Free And Anonymous Monument'
- Martin Parr - 'Martin Parr In Wales'
- Martin Parr - 'Return To Manchester'
- Mike Kelley and Michael Smith - 'A Voyage Of Growth And Discovery'
- Nick Treharne - 'Penarth People'
- Sebastian Bruno - 'The Dynamic'
- Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - 'The Coal Coast'
- Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh - 'Delhi: Communities Of Belonging'
- Sylvia Sleigh - Retrospective
- Tatiana Vinogradova - 'Days Of Melancholy'
- Turner Prize 2011
- Yann Arthus-Bertrand - 'Earth From The Air'
Art previews
Food and drink features/interviews
Food and drink reviews
Travel diaries
- Australia (06/08)
- Belgium (08/15)
- Cornwall (10/10)
- Dubrovnik (04/10)
- Europe (07/08)
- France (06/13)
- France (07/09)
- Isle of Man (07/12)
- Krakow (03/08)
- Nashville (03/20)
- New York / Toronto (10/07)
- Northern Ireland (08/19)
- Northern Ireland (10/03)
- Paris (03/06)
- Portugal (10/12)
- Prague (02/04)
- San Francisco (04/18)
- South-east Asia (11/11)
- Tuscany (05/16)
Reasons To Be Cheerful (Birmingham)
- #1 - The Birmingham Book Festival
- #2 - The Bartons Arms
- #3 - Cold Rice
- #4 - The Farmers' Market / The German Christmas Market
- #5 - Clare Short MP
- #6 - The Sunflower Lounge
- #7 - The Electric Cinema
- #8 - The REP
- #9 - Pork scratchings
- #10 - The Anchor Inn
- #11 - Cafe Soya
- #12 - Guest Contributor Special
- #13 - The Actress & Bishop
- #14 - The Wellington
Achosion I Laweni (Cardiff)
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part II (Oxford)
- #1 - The QI Building
- #2 - Pieminister
- #3 - The Brewery Tap
- #4 - Eggs Eggsetera
- #5 - The Jericho Tavern
- #6 - The Big Bang
- #7 - The Kite
- #8 - The Unicorn
- #9 - Mission
- #10 - Loose Cannon
- #11 - The Nag's Head on the Thames
- #12 - Children's Centres
- #13 - Oxford Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum
- #14 - Nightshift
- #15 - Mostly Books
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