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The Proper Ornaments

Ornaments were something your Nan had when you were little. Those weirdly popular inanimate depictions of flower ladies set in an indeterminate past. They gathered dust and you got a proper bollocking...

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Trick Mammoth

I'd love to be able to tell you what a welcoming, diverse, friendly and supremely well-organised weekend Wales Goes Pop! was, but I've simply not stopped working since the long drive back from south...

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INTERVIEW: Indietracks: "Stop worrying - everything is brilliant!"

We've all seen this shadowy figures, somehow completely pristine each year, placing the wristbands on your arm as you excitedly go through the Indietracks gate each year - but what do the festival's...

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The Yearning - If I Can't Have You (Elefant)

Remember back in the late 1990s when Belle and Sebastian were making that series of wonderful pop records that you thought would last forever? Then you might remember that they spent the most of the...

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New gig, new danger

In case you were worried, we're just about fending off the crypto-fascists here in Nottingham, although we think they stole some people from the audience at the criminally-attended Fever...

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Comet Gain: for better, for worse, forever

Oh, another Comet Gain album. For every fantastic night out that has been soundtracked by Comet Gain, there have been half as many drastic times where they've been more than a night nurse.Over the last...

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Men Oh Pause - Pulse Check ep (Tuff Enuff Records)

Forget C86 revivalism, there's a new sound in town, and it's called Men Oh Pause, who make the poppiest anti-pop this side of Young Marble Giants.This defiantly indie four-track ep from the often...

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Tyrannosaurus Dead/Joanna Gruesome split single (Oddbox Records)

Everything is coming to a grinding halt.But I'm sparked into a life again by a tremendous split-single from Tyrannosaurus Dead and Joanna Gruesome on Oddbox Records, which has made working 14 hours...

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Indietracks compilation - the 55 varieties

It's that time of year again, when we all get to listen to those bands playing Indietracks who we've never heard of. Or maybe that's just me not being cool enough, and perhaps this time next month I'll...

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The Hobbes Fanclub - Up at Lagrange (Shelflife Records)

Right on cue, in the week before Indietracks, The Hobbes Fanclub, have melted my heart.Indulge me for a few moments. At the back end of 1990, the week before all my friends who'd stayed on for 6th form...

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Slum of Legs - Begin to Dissolve (Tuff Enuff Records)

Welcome to futures and pasts. If Slum of Legs aren't the best band in the UK by the end of the year, there'll be something not quite right. They take the past 25 year of underground pop music and...

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Indietracks 2014: Permanent revolution and the smashing of the Del Amitri ghetto

The Hobbes Flanclub's Leon, who was packing adult emergency poncho heat all weekendIndietracks is dead, long live Indietracks. After much huffing and puffing by Various Quarters of Indiepop, this...

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Show offs

I've got four gig promotions coming up before Christmas, and I'm kind of thinking of calling it a day after that (although I've said this before and never stuck to it). But it'll be a great way to go...

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The Debutantes - S/T ep (Soft Power)

Oh, the pop music, the pop music these people make. The Debutantes are Leon and Sarah and Paula from September Girls, and this is their perfect debut.Whereas September Girls are all dark menace, The...

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Allo Darlin' - We Come From the Same Place (Fortuna Pop!)

"Nothing feels like it did before, and I am grateful for that," sings Elizabeth Morris on 'Crickets in the rain', and with that the downbeat tiredness (but still beautiful) of 'Europe' is put to bed....

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Interview: The Popguns:

Hello, again.Work has taken its toll on me writing anything new for yonks, now. October was a very cruel month. But I've not been as quiet as The Popguns, whose first release for 18 years - the bolshy,...

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Lost Pets

I have to declare an interest here, the wife's the drummer. But there are four other people in Lost Pets, and every one of them makes this three-track demo something to treasure as 2014 slips away from...

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Tigercats - Mysteries (Fortuna Pop!)

What do you do when you get older and wiser and - frankly - better? Don't ask me about the last two, but if you're Tigercats, then you hole yourselves up in Soup Studios and make an album of such...

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Bringing back Nat

On 30th January we're welcoming back Nat Johnson and her band to Nottingham for a show at Lee Rosy's, where we haven't put a gig on for YONKS.The date is part of Nat's Neighbour of the Year tour, and...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Oh, what's this that just dropped into my inbox? Why, it's the first bands confirmed for this year's Indietracks. I'm too tired and busy to make comment yet - suffice to say I wish it was Indietracks...

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Slowcoaches - Ex Head (Leisure + District)

Slowcoaches bid to take over the world takes a big step forward with this mighty single.Ex Head blasts out of the blocks and never lets up. Heather Perkins' vocals might be smothered in the kind of...

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Indietracks 2016: from Swanwick Junction with love

Oh, look - the line-up for this year's Indietracks - the 10th (tenth) has been announced, and it's an absolute belter already.Headliners are Aislers Set and Saint Etienne, but the supporting cast...

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Indietracks interview: Owl photobombs; drunken hangs in train carriages; and...

Sure, you want to know what spurs the Indietracks organisers on towards arranging the best music festival in the world, don't you? Now you can.TRIGGER WARNING: contains Hidden Cameras fan-fic.Is this...

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The Goon Sax - Up to Anything (Chapter Music)

Imagine if you were 17 and were able and talented enough to put all those things you're experiencing and all those situations you find stifling and frustrating and exciting and confusing to music. And...

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The next train at Platform 1 contains more Indietracks bands

Emma Pollock"More!" you shouted, and more! you get because the next load of Indietracks bands have been announced, and there's some doozies.Emma Pollock and Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern are...

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