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Wet your pants, it’s Glastonbury soon It’s nearly that time again when a healthy portion of the British population decamps to a big farm in Pilton for a few days and everyone who doesn’t crosses their fingers for rain. When the BBC and the Guardian tend to forget anything else is going on in the
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Dot to Dot Festival 2010, Nottingham You know the score: lots of bands, lots of venues, one city, one wristband, chaos ensues and so on. Let me tell you this though: Nottingham was one of the first to initiate the now very popular phenomenon of the one day city festival. Just think about
about 5 months ago - No comments
Wild Beasts- Koko, Camden- 4/03/2010 Girls. Boys. Drinking. Love. Fighting. Crying over that lost love again. Shocking me like an electric eel. Turning me on with your electric feel. I’m not saying the current crop of bands aren’t up to much, but these are maybe some of the common themes which they like to sing
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Pretty self explanatory really. Like everyone man and his dog has done, here’s my favourite albums of 2009. Little mentions should go out to: The XX, 5 Years of Hyperdub, Bombay Bicycle Club, Atlas Sound, Fanfarlo….your albums are very good. But not top ten good. 10. White Denim- Fits Fits, the follow up to White Denim’s stunning
about 9 months ago - No comments
The Noughties- Spotified Spotted Dick 2000s Here at Cock Towers, we are planning some pretty epic and mouthwatering content devoted to this past ten years of music. It’s gonna be good. I don’t want to tempt fate, but do they do awards in blog-centric coverage of a decade in music? If so…better start writing a
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Cymbals Eat Guitars @ The Lexington, London. 12/11/09 After much eager fawning from the likes of Pitchfork and Drowned in Sound, tonight’s showcase of Cymbals Eat Guitars sees the sold-out Lexington bristling with sticky anticipation from the relatively diverse crowd. Well, it’s not really diverse as such, but to witness a gig by a hyped
about 10 months ago - No comments
Spotted Dick- 4th November 2009 We’ll keep the rambling pleasantries to a minimum today. You know the drill. And if you don’t, it’s not hard to figure out: here’s a playlist made on the one thing that, personally, goes any way into suggesting that there is in fact a God. i.e Spotify. http://open.spotify.com/user/g-town/playlist/2ojln2blq6ZCvSiH4bmNf0 Atlas Sound
about 10 months ago - No comments
Although this is the blog’s fourth edition of Spotted Dick this is my first contribution to a feature which has unarguably taken the music world by storm since it’s conception and put a previously little known music application firmly on the map. Recently blogging has been part of my life that has been severely neglected
about 10 months ago - No comments
For some reason unbeknown to such peewee brains as my own, there is nothing quite like a good session by an artist you love. Whether it’s by a band whose album you know better than the way you subconsciously know the drunken stumble home when you go into autopilot at the end of a heavy night or
about 11 months ago - No comments
After a break that may or may not have been more than just a week, Spotted Dick is back once again. The simple and pretty widely used idea is that we’ve built a playlist on spotify of new songs, slightly not so new songs, new discoveries and just plain old bangers for you to enjoy