Andy Sweeney
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Black Sand – ‘Heart Rock Café’ Album Review
Astonishingly, the German band Black Sand’s “Heart Rock Café”, is their twelfth studio album. I say astonishingly, because their début record, “Forget To Work” was released thirty years ago back in 1984 and yet,…
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Morrissey – ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’ Album Review
It would be wrong, and a little lazy, to say that Steven Morrissey is a bit like Marmite, because he’s surely a lot more more divisive and strong-flavoured than that. Even people who consider themselves…
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Ben Folds with Royal Northern Sinfonia – Sage, Gateshead, 11/07/14, Live Review
The Ben Folds Orchestral Experience (Ben Folds with Royal Northern Sinfonia) Sage, Gateshead Live Review – 11th July, 2014. When you see some contemporary artists advertise the fact that they’re going to playing with a…
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James – ‘La Petite Mort’ Album Review
When I first heard “La Petite Mort”, I thought, “Blimey, it’s almost like James have released a Killers album”. My immediate, rather scathing, second thought was “They’ve done a much better a job of…
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Manic Street Preachers – ‘Futurology’ Album Review
Mine has been a very long love-affair with the Manic Street Preachers, stretching back to the release of The Holy Bible in 1994 which was, and remains, one of the most startling, eye-opening, brilliant…