I was a sad sniffly heap last week so I didn’t get to write the posts I wanted. I don’t have any excuse for missing yesterday’s other then, I’m lazy. Anyway, I decided today IS New Band Day just because I said so. Excuse my totalitarian decision, but this band is worth it. The band [...]
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For someone who’s actually not a one-hit-wonder, Sophie Ellis-Bextor is probably my very favorite one-hit-wonder ever. She may have had other songs in the charts, but this is the only one I remember seeing a lot of, and it was HUGE. In fact, the wikipedia tells us that “Murder On The Dancefloor” was Europe’s most [...]
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I have to confess, I never look through our mailbox, because whenever I look for a band for New Band Day, I like picking one myself. It’s come to the point that just selecting one from the mail feels like cheating. It feels like somebody has done the homework for me and now I’m basking [...]
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You might wonder why you would need a collection of journalism by one single writer, entirely about one single band who were only around long enough to make two studio albums. Even to me, it sounded like it could be a bit much. But this book is so much more than it appears to be [...]
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About a month ago, while watching a documentary I think was called Folk America on BBC4, I decided I’d actually follow up on something I’ve considered on and off for quite some time – learn to play the banjo. While I was still in the cooling off stage prior to ordering (the week or so [...]
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