Category: music
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Smartphone Swatter for those irritants at gigs!
100% agree with Mr Ramone. Number of gigs I’ve been to where people are holding phones (or even iPads!!!) for minutes at a time to record the show.Don’t mind if you are getting a photo (with flash off of course), but recording whole songs or shows is just wrong.
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Ricky Wilson – B52s
In a way, I loved music so much, that any attempt to learn how to play an instrument (piano, guitar) always ended in frustration due to my impatience in not being able to play like Oscar Peterson, or for guitar Ricky Wilson. I was a big B52s fan and part of the reason was the dirty guitar…
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50 Years of Hip-Hop Samples
The ever excellent @tracklib comes up with an absolute blinder of a video. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Breaking down some of the greatest tunes sample-by-sample
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Sweet Memory Sounds
DJ Derek A great article from The Guardian (2016) archives giving some background to the life and death of ‘DJ Derek’ Serpell-Morris. The 1994 BBC documentary below is a lovingly crafted look at his main love, Reggae, and the Bristol community he called home.
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Skinhead Reggae Boss Sounds
Yet another great selection of tunes by Selecta Waynazz. If you are in anyway interested in reggae, rocksteady, ska, roots & dub then check out his other mixes at the links below Mixcloud Youtube Tracklist
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Heavy Trash
Always been annoyed that I never got round to seeing The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion when they toured, so when Jon Spencer turned up in Leeds with his other band, Heavy Trash, this was a must. Perfect band to see in a perfect venue.
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Kid Creole & the Coconuts
Kid Creole & the Coconuts performing on the last day of Vamos! festival in Newcastle upon Tyne on a wet and cold June afternoon
