Tag: Lauren Laverne
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Antony Szmierek
As played on the latest podcast, just checking out Manchester rapper Antony Szmierek‘s tracks – one about Ventolin (oh hai fellow asthma sufferer) with a wonderfully trippy middle eght, and this summer woozy banger from last year – The City Is Safe With You about I suspect the re-opening of cities post lockdown….but it’s also…
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Bowie memories
People are sharing their Bowie memories, and I think that’s a good thing to do…seems as others have said odd to mourn for someone you didn’t know, but as Lauren Laverne said, when someone’s music touches your life for so long, so many decades, it’s bound to make you feel something. I won’t then apologise…
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AFX – Nightmail & Avril AltDelay
Some of the recent delights of the AFX soundcloud dump (yes it’s still going, I think he’s asking fans to name their best 30 for an upcoming release, or ordering of tracks) includes some really deranged house/techno. What about an acid version of Nightmail. Yes THAT Nightmail…banging Britten beats and Auden dropping some science! Never…
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John Martyn tribute album – Robert Smith does ‘Small Hours’
As usually happens, I go on a massive binge on an older artist or band, say Gil Scott-Heron – then find out they have a big release in the next week or two after years or decades of nothing. It happens a lot to me, and just happened with John Martyn. I wasn’t really up…