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Matthew Sidaway Contributors:
P4 - This month’s releases P5 - i love you. #Birmingram P6 - Gig Listings P8 - Hartheim P10 - Poets Corner P11 - Reviews
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This nth’s s e s a e Mo l Re
6th April -
20th April -
Doldrums - The air conditioned nightmare
Built to Spill - Untethered Moon
Drenge - Undertow
Girl Band - The Early Years (EP)
Lapalux - Lustmore Marina & The Diamonds - FROOT P riory - Need to know The Wombats - Glitter Bug Young Fathers - White men are black too
13th April -
Great Lake Swimmers - A Forest Of Arms Milky Wimpshake - Encore, Un Effort Miniboone - Bad Sports Passion Pit - Kindred Tom DeLonge - To The Stars Wire - Wire
Ava Luna - Inf inite House Bop English - Constant Bop Citizens! - European Soul
27th April Blur - Magic Whip Braids - Deep in the Iris
Grooms - Comb the feelings through your hair
Mew - +=
Hey Elbow - Every Other
Odessa - Odessa
Michael Price - Entaglement
Paul de Jong - IF
Stealing Sheep - Not Real
Raekwon - Fly International Luxurious Art
Villagers - Darling Arithmetic
Robert Pollard - Faulty Superheroes real music, real
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IRMINGHAM is a bubbling hotpot of creative expression - honestly! Not everyone agrees with me though. ALWAYS support an underdog and Birmingham is just that. The naysayer, scorning Birmingham as it gradually rises up the ranks of desirable cities, does not see the hidden gems, the artistic developments, or the down to earth working man’s heroes that make this city great. Embracing its industrial history, Birmingham is taking its heritage and lovingly restoring it; places such as the vast canal network, Eastside, Southside, Digbeth and the Bond company to name but a few.
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NOTHER glorious example of the city’s industry/artistic fusion is the Custard Factory, Digbeth. This photo shows the imposing Green Man sculpture nestled amongst off ices and shops, I half expect him to break free and saunter over to Selfridges.
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lost dials @ o2acad charli xcx @ institute swim deep @ oobleck
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zoax/dead @ oobleck
circa waves, ratboy @ institute skeletonwitch @oobleck
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sirens, pierce the veil @ o2acad bipolar sunshine @ institute ghostpoet @h&h
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prong @ o2acad polar bear @h&h
echosmith @ o2acad while she sleeps, cancer bats @ institute
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theory of a deadman @ institute prtico @h&h chris murray @h&h
damage @ o2acad cc smugglers @h&h
clark @o2acad obey the brave @oobleck
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sigma, ms dynamite @ institute demoraliser @ oobleck fjack @oobleck adam ant @ sladerooms
nai harvest @ oobleck kris drever @h&h
tyga @o2acad purity ring @ institute laura marling @institute moon duo@h&h
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our last night @ oobleck
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box of light @ o2acad jeru the damaja @ oobleck joey negro @h&h
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bars and melody @ o2acad finley quaye @ oobleck
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george clinton, the skints @ parliament institute funkadelic @o2acad james bay @ institute xxxy @oobleck ufo @wulfren this is tmrw @h&h
lovebite @o2acad the cruxshadows @ institute kwabs @h&h
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the interrupters @ o2acad symmetry @o2acad shawn smith @h&h
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FTER an auspicious debut year, Hartheim have set their 2015 underway with new single, ‘When Did Your Last Rose Die?’
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ORMED in the decay of the SWAYS Records Bunker with producer Martin Hurley (Money, Pins and Kult Country), it is without doubt the most lucid track the band has created so far. ‘When Did Your Last Rose Die’ exists as the band’s warped attempt at a classic
love ballad. The track confronts the down-spiralling correlation between passion and age; detailing the initial throws of young, boundless lust, and the slow descent into middle-aged hatred. It is this turn that serves their manifesto of playing with the contrast of light and dark, the once glacial guitars and swirling synth lines feeling more at odds with the lyrics as the track goes on.
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IRECTED by Alexander Bell, the video focuses on the protagonist of the song and his various attempts to rediscover what once was, with little regard for what this might take to achieve. It is the director’s take on how far one might go to remember how things used to be. Capturing the pure essence of the track, the video features disused theme parks, hypothermia and the consecrated curse of lasting love.
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2014 brought with it the endorsements of BBC 6 Music and NME, and some high-profile support slots, as they went on to score the closing soundtrack to Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s 5 star theatre production; Woyzeck. They will shortly be announcing shows in London and Manchester.
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I’ve just been given a bag full of joys, because life is a drag and the music is just background noise. If only I knew then what I know now, as through this life I’d so gently plough. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and this bag is full of the joys of spring. MJS
The train arrives on platform 3, Your weekend departs for another week, It’s all gone a bit bleak, your doles gone, spent the lot on an 8th and a night in the city. Stomachs like a walnut and still half drunk, Smell a bit funky like cigarette butts, Getting dodgy looks walking through the station, Can’t blame them I’m supposed to be Gods creation, More like a resident of zombie nation. I’m adamant I’m paranoid, it’s all in the mind, This time I’m right,paranoia is a destroyer, Blinded by the light, starting to sweat need to unwind, My skin is a pale grey and my eyes dilate, Starting to fret the security shows me the way, destination set. I’m now outside trying to be positive, the sun shines bright feeling apprehensive, I’m sensitive, they all stare and glare “Is he ill? Does he feel sick?” Get me a taxi quick take me home for my 40 winks My self esteem starts to sink, no job, no girlfriend, that’s the missing link. No pretty sights for the eyes, no rose tinted glasses or a lucky outcome for the masses. Liam Jones
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RE Jimmy Junk Heart - Young Years (EP)
If Swim Deep were Australian then this is how they would sound.
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publications. as something Aside from that special. he is still Title track relatively Young Years unknown, with is insanely only 420 likes catchy and is The 22 year on Facebook the perfect old’s strand to date. The introduction of psychedelic release of to the EP. beach rock is his second Breaking Up entrancing and EP, Young will have your upbeat but with Years, has the heart aching heartbreaking potential to and your vocals. His break him out feet dancing. first EP, of Melbourne The contrast released early and into the between shoe 2013, gained ears of the gaze vocals and him recognition world. Each psychedelic from some of one of the guitar really the worlds five tracks is spectacular. biggest music stands out The One Line Reviewer. On Sam Smith: “Like eating a cotton pad, awfully bland and incredibly pointless.”
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(April’15) 11 The Cribs For All My Sisters Two new albums have been promised by the Wakef ield lads. One full of punk and this, their take on pop. It isn’t as messy or experimental as previous records. But it still holds the same infectious ingredients that make The Cribs great. This is a landmark album too. It’s the first release since they parted ways with long serving record label Wichita. It may be more radio friendly than what can be expected from the punk follow up, but it’s brilliant riffs and melodies will make it popular amongst loyal Cribs fans and the unsuspecting public.
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