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FRANK SIDEBOTTOM’S FANTASIC CHRISTMAS FUND RAISER : live review
FRANK SIDEBOTTOM’S FANTASIC CHRISTMAS FUND RAISER Manchester Night And Day Dec 15th 2012 Live Review I’m sat on stage pretending to be one of those wanker judges off pop TV, those smug clueless sacks...
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Pulled Apart By Horses Interview by Bruce Cousins
Pulled Apart By Horses know how to rock, party and sever their own appendages in videos. What else does LTW’s Bruce Cousins find out from PABH’s Tom Hudson? Read on. Louder Than War: What is new on...
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The Robin Guthrie Trio announce UK tour with guest Mark Gardener
The Robin Guthrie Trio announce UK tour with guest Mark Gardener Robin Guthrie returns to the UK in February 2013 for a 17 date tour with special guest Mark Gardener (Ride). The upcoming dates will be...
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Swans back for new UK tour 2013
Swans return to tour in 2013 After this year’s mini tour Swans laid waste and laid claim to being best live experience of 2012. (as reviewed here on Louder Than War) They return in 2013 with more dates...
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Who will be the Christmas No.1? (we say the Justice single…)
Justice Collective for xmas number one? Who will be the Christmas No.1? Words: Carl Loben There often doesn’t seem to be much ‘justice’ for ‘real music’ fans when it comes to the pop charts – and...
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The Chameleons : Manchester : live review
Chameleons Vox Manchester, Sound Control Dec 2012 live review Songs from the Tap Room Of all Manchester’s lost bands, The Chameleons remain the most missed. Failed record deals, a stoical adherence to...
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Rufus Wainwright : Manchester : live review
Rufus dufus hoof us! Rufus Wainwright Manchester Apollo 11th December 2012 Live Review There aren’t many gigs that climax with a foam Sandwich singing about a ‘gay messiah’, but then there aren’t...
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Nathan Fake: Bristol – live review
Nathan Fake O2 Academy, Bristol Monday, December 3rd, 2012 Nathan Fake proves that he’s more than worth an opening slot for Orbital. Bret Random tells us more. The backing music faded to nothing, blue...
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Patti Smith to write sequel to ‘Just Kids’ biog?
John Robb in conversation with Patti SmithPatti Smith may be working on a sequel to the great Just Kids book. Her first book which was about her early days in New York and her relationship with...
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Mark Vennis and Different Place: Uncharted Water, Faded Glory and Other...
Mark Vennis and Different Place Uncharted Water, Faded Glory and Other Stories (Gravel Track Records) DL/CD Out Now Different Place are a rock band from Petersfield, Hampshire influenced by Johnny...
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Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2012 : the best albums of 2012 : Part 4: 49-1
Has 2012 been a good year for music? It’s time for the final part of the LTW Albums of the Year 2012 countdown with numbers 49 to 1 ( If you missed the earlier ones check out Pt 1 (200-150), Pt 2...
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Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins arrested on child sex offence charges
The latest arrest for charges of sexual offences against children is ian Watkins, the lead singer of Welsh rock group Lostprophets. Ian Watkins, 35, of Pontypridd, will appear before Cardiff...
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Band Aid: Do they care it’s Christmas time?
Christmas songs are almost unavoidable at this time of year and some are more palatable than others. But what about the biggest selling Christmas song of all time? Ross Keen tells us why he finds Band...
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Nehemiah St Danger: The Slow and Painful Birth of Nehemiah St-Danger – album...
Nehemiah St-Danger – The Slow and Painful Birth of Nehemiah St-Danger (Post-Consumer Records) CD / DL Available now Started in 2005 this album has had a bumpy ride on its journey to release this year....
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The Working Musician
The Musicians’ Union has just published a report which profiles how working musicians today make a living (or don’t!) This ‘Working Musician’ research is based on almost 2,000 responses to a UK-wide...
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The Residents announce the ‘Wonder Of Weird’ tour… plus $100K ltd edition box...
The Residents announce the ‘Wonder Of Weird’ tour… The Residents depite their previous four decades of anonymity recently come out as Randy, Chuck and Bob – the group now presents itself in concert as...
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Orbital: Warehouse Project, Manchester – live review
Orbital Warehouse Project, Manchester 1st December 2012 Phil and Paul Hartnoll have been electronic music heavyweights for some years now and after a few years absence they bounded back onto the scene...
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The Dandy Warhols: Heaven, London – live review
American alt rock band The Dandy Warhols return to London & properly impress our man Simon Barton despite (or maybe because of) the absence of their trademark jams. The Dandy Warhols Heaven, London...
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Shit The Cow: volume / cow – ep review
Shit The Cow – volume/cow EP (self released) DL Out Now Swedish band Shit The Cow recently hit us up on the email & asked us if we’d be interested in reviewing their recently released EP. Knowing...
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Recollections of The Kray Twins.
“I only ever crossed the Kray twins once, at a pub quiz for the Walthamstow Walkers Society. And once was enough let me tell you”. So starts this story from Ross Keen. Read on to see how this tale from...
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