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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the great thing about tears, pull on the heart strings and suspend timeMusic is “a sovereign remedy towards despair and melanchol...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
‘Knock these brothers’ heads collectively,’ musician prompt
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
The sale consists of gadgets from The Beatles, Oasis, Sex Pistols and more.
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
In a disarmingly candid memoir, the Blur guitarist relates the insanity of fame and habit, his unease with Britpop, and the way people led him to greener pasturesAs Blur bossed the 90s, and Damon Albarn’s bouncy songs about Englishness came to exempl...
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
Friends embrace Dangerous Bunny, Beck, Tame Impala and more.
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Heidi Harley
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1 year ago
- three or four Nov 1994 - Blur stay at Pet Sounds report store in Stockholm. Thanks Moritz!
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Heidi Harley
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2 years ago
The actor and standup – AKA Doc Brown – cracks out Bowie at parties and needs the Beatles performed at his funeral. However what does he unleash at karaoke?The primary single I purchasedI used to get a pound pocket cash and buy a Milkybar – the chunk...
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Heidi Harley
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2 years ago
(Black Butter)The singer-songwriter’s eloquent if uneven debut album is stamped with the sounds of north London – Winehouse, Blur – the place he grew upWhen the up-and-coming north London singer Bakar broke via in 2019, it was with an enthralling ret...
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Heidi Harley
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2 years ago
From Miquita Oliver by way of American Apparel to Oxfordshire cheese, we tumble down a five-course rabbit gapThe Nice British Menu (BBC) kicked off its 17th season this month. Not MasterChef: The Professionals, nor own-brand MasterChef, nor The Great...
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Heidi Harley
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2 years ago
(Transgressive)Probably the most pushed artists of the Britpop era, now unbothered by business success, is again with a second solo album that drifts along in a melancholy, stoned mistWhen Might’s Glastonbury livestream finally creaked into life, it...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Forward of a livestreamed model of the pageant, listed here are a number of the largest and greatest performances from years gone byJay-Z walked in order that Beyoncé might run. By dealing with down a reactionary backlash in 2008 (Hip-hop? At Glaston...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Blur frontman hits out at authorities and requires music to be thought-about in official plansCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDamon Albarn has hit out at the government, saying its response to the coronavirus pandemic exhi...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
Back in 1994, the sharp-suited quintet might do no mistaken as document labels fought to sign them. However in-fighting, drug abuse – and knocking a Coke can over on Peter Gabriel’s mixing desk – led to a speedy demiseMenswear are regaling me with ta...
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Heidi Harley
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3 years ago
‘He needed to get on a practice in Tokyo to see what they have been like. He placed on a facemask and did a shiver as a joke. Due to Covid-19, it now appears really prescient’ Blur toured Japan in 1992 and I went with them for NME. It was the first t...