Tag: Arctic Monkeys
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Jungle – Platoon & The Heat
Again, playing catch up on 2013, but an article in Vice about all those Sound of 2014 list (yah know how I hate those, how they tend to pick dead cert mainstream label-backed artists, ones that get the push so they know they’ll have something to crow about next year – no-one saw XX or…
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Richard Hawley and The Death Ramps
Looking for new Richard Hawley online and I found this collaboration with Arctic Monkeys. Usually anything Arctics would be left on a bus heading for Gleadless (or Meadowhall if you prefer, always preferred the isolated 1970s anachronism of Crystal Peaks*though myself) but this is good. Richard is so RAWK in this clip, and love the ‘Fuck…
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The bigger the bull
Somehow despite growing up around english folk and jazz I’ve never heard of Jake Thackray…apparently Wild Beasts, Arctic Monkeys and Jarvis Cocker are fans, and I can hear why. And like a lot of the 1970’s and 1950’s acerbic songs, from Paddy Roberts to Tom Lehrer to this you can hear a dark serious undercurrent…