Archive for May, 2005
News round-up: April 2005
If it wasn’t for Britney getting up the duff, we’d only have Michael Jackson to talk about…
After weeks of speculation about her growing waist, Britney Spears announces her “wonderful news” that she is pregnant with her first child and hubby Kevin Federline’s third. Jamelia also reveals she is expecting a baby, with Gillingham footballer […]
Posted: May 1st, 2005 under Monthly news.
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LCD Soundsystem, Hammersmith Palais, London, 25 April 2005
The last time I was in Hammersmith Palais, I was wearing short trousers, a school tie and a blazer, and dancing with 25-year-old girls in their gym kits to Wham! and Dexy’s Midnight Runners. This was, of course, School Disco, a once-fun idea for those born in the 1970s to remember how great the 1980s […]
Posted: April 26th, 2005 under Sound advice: Live.
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Interpol, Carling Brixton Academy, London, 8 April 2005
Anyone worried they are sleeping too soundly at night could try listening to Paul Banks’s clipped and menacing voice for an hour and a half before bedtime.
Not that Interpol are out and out doom merchants; far from it. But the New York quartet’s humming songs of romance are dominated by vocals that could feasibly be […]
Posted: April 10th, 2005 under Sound advice: Live.
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