Category: UK Music
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Let’s Talk: Will the UK’s energy bill crisis affect our independent music venues?
“The uncertainty is the worst thing.” Today, The Guardian released a conversation piece surrounding an example venue of Band on the Wall in Manchester as our grass-root venues up and down the country face difficulty in startling energy prices skyrocket in order to maintain the upkeep of an already struggling venue industry. On an annual […]
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Aitch: ‘Close to Home’ album review – striving with Mancunian ambition (100x)
Success stays forever, but the pain goes quick: From growing up in the gutters to the legacy of others, and finally falling back to his home-grounds in his beloved city, Aitch reaches new-bound maturity with his debut album. It’s been quite a few crazy years for Manchesters’ newest poster boy – in the figurative and […]
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have we lost our punk?
Revisiting the life and times of Pistols and Clash and their whole ‘scene’ got me thinking about where we are now with it all. Being punk now in 2022 is starkly different to what it meant to being punk in the 1970s. Of course, that will come naturally over time as music preferences bend and […]
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Clash or Pistols: Who was more righteous with their music?
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but The Clash were the real definitive British punk rockers. Brash, fiery and bolstered with an outlaw image, they were charged with a certain righteousness that only a select few punks were able to pull off. Despite a band that seemingly had “traditional” […]
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