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Steve Lamacq radio show announces national T shirt day
The Steve Lamacq show on BBC 6music has announced its 6th annual T shirt today- partly to reclaim the band t shirt from the silly Ramones T shirt wearers and partly to celebrate the form and give...
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White Manna: Dune Worship – album review
White Manna – Dune Worship (Holy Mountain) CD/ LP/ DL Out Now 8/10 Psychedelic space rockers White Manna‘s sophomore album picks up where their brilliant debut left off. Steven Fanning is utterly...
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FAC51 Announce Special NYE Party at Manchester’s Albert Hall
FAC51 have announced what promises to be a very special new years eve event at the newly refurbished Albert Hall. Read on for full details. Featuring a strong line-up of top-tier DJs such as Todd...
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Louder Than War Interview: Chris Liberator from Stay Up Forever Records
Louder Than War’s Bert Random sits down for a chat with Chris Liberator; DJ, producer and co-owner of “deeply underground and fiercely single-minded” Stay Up Forever Records. 2012 was a strange year,...
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Metal Hammer Defenders Of The Faith Tour: Manchester – live review
Metal Hammer – Defenders Of The Faith Tour Manchester 02 Academy 13th November 2013 Metal Hammer’s 2013 Defenders Of The Faith tour - featuring Amon Amarth, Carcass, Bleed From Within and Hell – was...
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La Dispute – A Kind of Appreciation. Public health warning, listening to this...
Post-hardcore / screamo band La Dispute have a fan in Ian Critchley, a man who’s happy for the band to get under his skin. He also urges you to try and scratch the itch too. Heed my words. La Dispute...
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Joe Elliot from Def Leppard speaks to us about his love of Mott The Hoople
Joe Elliot from Def Leppard is just one of many seventies youth who were thrilled and empowered by the great Mott The Hoople. Years later he is the special guest at the reformation shows and, along...
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Louder Than War Video Exclusive: Feral Five – Strung Out
When Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates heard the track ‘Skin’ by Feral Five track earlier this year he described it as possibly the best single of 2013. Not surprisingly then that Kat and Drew wanted...
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Editors: Liverpool O2 Academy 18th Nov 2013 – Photo review
Editors Liverpool O2 Academy 18th Nov 2013 All photographs: Liz Phillips Having been on tour since mid August taking in all of Europe from Sweden to Spain, from Russia and on to Ireland I kind of...
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Sukh ‘Kings’ – album review
Sukh ‘Kings’ (Sukh) CD/DL Available now ‘Kings’ is the debut album from Sukhdeep Krishan – Sukh to his friends – and quite an interesting little item. A young (well, early twenties which classes as...
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Sheriff of Hong Kong – our guide to the Hong Kong music scene
Welcome to your new Louder Than War column entitled Sheriff of Hong Kong where I, Sean Hocking, keep you posted about the comings and goings of the music scene in Hong Kong, Macau and Southern China....
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Blancmange confirm reissue of ‘Irene & Mavis’ EPplus full release for ‘Happy...
Blancmange confirm reissue of ‘Irene & Mavis’ EPplus full release for ‘Happy Families…too’ Following on from our recent Blancmange live reviews; news reaches us today that Blancmange have...
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The Bad Shepherds: Liverpool 16th November – live review
The Bad Shepherds O2 Academy 2, Liverpool Saturday 16th November 2013 “The twat on the telly” There are few gigs you come away from with that genuine feeling that you have not just witnessed a decent...
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Pulco: APES – ep review
Pulco ‘APES’ EP (Folkwit). DL/CD Released: 25th November 2013 Score: 8.0 / 10 Ashley Cooke, under the guise of Pulco, is one of the most prolific DIY artists in the UK. In 2013 he released his tenth...
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King Prawn, Random Hand, Imperial Leisure: Salisbury – live review
King Prawn, Random Hand, Imperial Leisure Salisbury Arts Centre November 16th 2013 Ged Babey visits King Prawn in his old stomping ground to find Ska-Punk is still big in Wiltshire. Salisbury in...
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Depeche Mode: Manchester Arena – live review
Depeche Mode Manchester Arena Friday 15 November 2013 Basildon boys Depeche Mode arrived in Manchester for the latest show of their Delta Machine tour. Promoting the finest album in their thirty-three...
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Cabaret Voltaire: #8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985) – album review
Cabaret Voltaire: #8385 (Collected Works 1983-1985) (Mute) LP/CD Out Now 9/10 Pioneers of British electronic music, Cabaret Voltaire, are given the box set treatment. Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates...
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The Jam: Studio Recordings – box set review
The Jam ‘Studio Recordings’ (UMC/Polydor) Vinyl Box Set out Due Out 25th Nov 2013 The Jam – everything under one roof on vinyl, remastered and reviewed by Joe Whyte. Firstly, it has to be noted,...
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Rotten Hill TV film another show with Ian Hunter, Mick Jones, Tapper Zukie...
Ian Hunter and Mick Jones: photo by John Robb In an industrial estate on the edge of London, surrounded by Middle Eastern bread and cake shops and an idiosyncratic shisha bar there is a corner that is...
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Review Of The Brilliant New Play ‘The Rise and Fall of a Northern Star’ by...
Stella Grundy used to sing for Intastella. In the past few years she has become a brilliant playwright and actress, first with her touching and powerful play about Nico and now with her new play,...
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