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Living To Music – Primal Scream ‘Screamadelica’

by on 28. Mar, 2011 in CD’s / Digital, DJ / Club Culture, Film, Hear, Living To Music, Manchester, Read, Records, The Eighties, The Nineties

This Sunday (April 3rd), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate. Full lowdown here:
http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2010/06/living-to-music/

‘Screamadelica’, the third album by Scottish indie-rockers Primal Scream, was a departure from their previous recordings. Taking up the baton from Madchester’s Indie-Dance exponents, the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses, Primal Scream put their finger firmly on the pulse of cultural change, triggered by the Acid House movement of the late 80’s, and instinctively set about soundtracking it, capturing the essence of the era more than any other album – it was a zeitgeist bullseye.

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Original Soulboy – Dave Godin

by on 23. Mar, 2011 in Black Culture, Hear, Read, Records, The Fifties, The Sixties

Dug out my copies of ‘Deep Soul Treasures’, the four volume series compiled by Dave Godin, for a recent road trip. Got me thinking about Godin’s role at the very roots of black music appreciation here in the UK.

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Living To Music – The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’

by on 26. Sep, 2010 in CD’s / Digital, Hear, Living To Music, Records, The Beatles, The Seventies, The Sixties

This Sunday (Oct 3rd), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate.

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Cover Versions Of Covers

by on 06. Sep, 2010 in Art & Design, Records, See

This is Pauline Amos’s re-interpretation of the Wings album sleeve for ‘Band On The Run’ (1973) and Kid Acne’s take on ‘Let It Bleed’ by The Rolling Stones (1969). They’re both part of the ‘Cover Versions’ exhibition that opens at the A Month of Sundays Gallery in Sheffield this Friday (10.09.10).

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