Tag: Mogwai
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Independent Venue Week at the Windmill
Last night I was at the Windmill in Brixton to see Sorry, Ghost Kings of the Five Regions and Drug Store Romeos as part of Independent Venue Week. Independent Music Week is in it’s fifth year with I think over a hundred venues taking part. I’d never been to the Windmill in Brixton (take a…
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RC 274: Winter Kills
Which podcast do you know mixes Purcell opera, post-rock, pop, indie, electro-pop, dub covers of disco, strange Xtian? blues-folk, soul, electronica, hip-hop, indie, minimal house and more? Radio Clash , that’s what! A very eclectic mix, starting out very upbeat and then going glacially downtempo and reflective at the end, so even the moods contrast.…
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Hannah Peel
Behind the curve on this one. I’ve been hearing Hannah’s name for ages used in the same breath as Anna Meredith who is a composer I love greatly, so mentally noted that I needed to check her out. I wasn’t disappointed, her music-box creations (called Rebox) covering electronic and indie songs are well worth it.…
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Mogwai – Coolverine
Loving the new track from Mogwai, part of their upcoming ‘Every Country’s Sun’ album in September…you can hear the influence of Atomic in there. (via Ian Fondue)
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Coming Out Part 2 – Falling Down
“The first time ever I saw your faceI thought the sun rose in your eyesAnd the moon and stars were the gifts you gave” And the second Coming Out part is about falling in and out of love…from the mid-90’s dance songs sampling Ewen Macoll’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw His Face’ (via Roberta…
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O sleep! O gentle sleep!
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum’d chambers of…