Category: Music
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Enter the Wu-Tang – Glasgow Hydro, 12/06/23
Going to this show was a reminder that they didn’t stop making wee guys in 2001 – the Wu-Tang Clan stopped recording hits after that, but the wee guy factory didn’t get the memo. Wee guys of all genders were out in force on Monday 12th June. They were getting chased through the crowd by…
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Pick Three – Bloody Noses EP
Richard Thompson’s last three studio albums have been a laugh – more Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, but with a focus on the joy of making a racket to match his late mid-2000s live shows. His Electric Trio has seldom went unaccompanied on record but the joy they take in each other’s playing is…
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Pick Three – Ekumen
Carrying on from yesterday’s Le Guin theme, the first in a series of posts where I pick my top three tracks from a random record, in this case the self-titled debut album from New Orleans hardcore band Ekumen. Every track on Ekumen is great, most of them are extremely short, and the band makes a…
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Pick Three – the Family Values tour albums
Let’s get this out of the way up front: I enjoyed the 1998 and 1999 Family Values tour albums at the time, and still have an okay time with them today. What can I say, I got big fast in high school. I wore a wallet chain. I got tripped up in gym class, then…
Blue Box // Recorder 