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In This Month’s Issue P4 - This Month’s Releases
Welcome to TALK! Editor:
Matthew Sidaway
Contributers:
P5 - i love you. #Birmingham P6 - TALK Gig Guide P8 - Cover Feature: The Sherlocks P10 - Pork & Ale, and Poets Corner P11 - Reviews opinion, real TALK
Keely Hill Liam Jones ‘The One Line Reviewer’ Contact Mobile: 07508112985 E-mail: TALKMAGBHAM @outlook.com Twitter: @TALKMAGBHAM Post: TalkTeaRooms, Priory Queensway, Birmingham, B4 7LL
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2nd FebBob Dylan Shadows In The Night
H.Hawkline In The Pink Condition (EP)
9th FebJack Savoretti Written In Scars Blackberry Smoke Holding All The Roses Kodaline Coming Up For Air
Idlewild Everything Ever Written
The Unthanks Mount The Air Peace Happy People
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Carl Barat and The Jackels Let It Reign
Public Service Broadcasting The Race For Space
Charli XCX Sucker
Spectres Dying Jose Gonza- Cheatahs lez Sunne (EP) Vestiges & Claws Imagine Dragons Smoke & Mirrors Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer (EP)
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#Birmingham Hill eely By K love I Birmingham. I’ve grown
up here,been educated here,had my heart broken and mended here,and I hope I’ll grow old here. y love of the city prompted me to embark on a (primarily personal) photography project. With my trusty battered iPhone and Instagram app, I try to capture images of Birmingham that take my fancy. I aim to show that there can be beauty in industry, and show you where these are: some obvious and some not so obvious.
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project. February’s encapsulates Birmingham, featuring the canal network and the BT tower off in the distance. I snapped it while on a bridge walking towards Robanna’s music studios, one of my favourite rehearsal spaces in Birmingham and frequented by many of our city’s eager musicians.
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The Sherlocks
ast f out g in their PR l l se companies it s i is almost At first hat t glance this impossible to get by our into the UK may seem t A on talent Top 40, but like a
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Sheffield lads The Sherlocks are hoping to do just that.
small feat, but in a business dominated by rich record labels and
alone. The indie days are long gone. But it is refreshing
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these talented youngsters them an evergrowing and a credit to fanbase. is looking their live Their likely to shows. upcoming enter the It is far UK tour, to find a UK Top 40 too common including young band and propel these days who not the two sets a show at only make of brothers Birmingham’s for a band to be overTALK Tea real, honest to the Rooms on the hyped and music, but outskirts fail to 28th Feb, who also of the live up to have the mainstream. has almost expectatpotential to But it’s no completely ions, but sold out. take on the surprise, this band This is big shots. their don’t have surely a The uptempo that hype. Sherlocks’ and energic sign of So the only the buzz new single records Escapade have gained surrounding way is up.
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he pork pie is a sign of a good old fashioned local pub. So its only natural that this month we give you one of the best pies around to go with your ale. TrueBites.co.uk’s pie has perfect texture and the right amount of jelly. The pork flavours are enhanced Every time that I’m by a golden, crumbly alone, the memories come pastry and complements the to play. taste of this months pint, The ones close to the Bathams Bitter.
bone, that hurt every day. You can talk about the love of your life, The good times, first kiss and the fights. I thought of you to pass the time, Easy to come by around I had no worries because these parts but rarely you were mine, beaten on taste and Playing our records in strength, Bathams is your room, certainly a local gem Just us two playing your worth savouring. Be warned favourite tune, though, it doesn’t take The only reason I many pints of this stuff smiled, I assume. to blur your head. Liam Jones real music, real
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Peace - Happy People
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ollowing the massive hype that surrounded Peace since their early releases it is little surprise that they are yet to fulfil expectations. Their second album doesn’t exactly raise
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the bar nor is it ambitious, but it also isn’t terrible. Lyrical genius’ they aren’t, but when they fall lyrically they are salvaged by catchy hooks. Peace don’t do instant
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classics, and like most bands now they have a limited shelf life. But what they are good at is making infectious pop records. Three stars may be harsh, but \Happy People lacks depth.
The One Line Reviewer. on Hozier:
Not as irritating as Bono, but he did play the V.S. show with Ed Sheeran so he’s getting there. opinion, real TALK
(Feb’15) 11 Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney
FourFive Seconds (Jan26th)**
A comical performance by Kanye, vocally, lyrically and in the video, with a mildly catchy chorus and the simplest input from a Beatle give this song two stars. Deduct a star if it turns out Kanye was being serious.
Swim Deep
To My Brother (Feb10th)**** A blinding psychedelic return from a more mature sounding Swim Deep. An acid house infused track, but with the same indie edge that made them popular in the first place. Risky, but it’s paid off.
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