Tag: Drenge
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Half Year Report: The Best Albums of 2015 So Far part 2
…and another release from 2014 that I missed first time around. Whilst I know that many regular readers of Every Record Tells A Story are inexplicably somehow content to suffer through the odd turgid story of trawling record fairs, or hearing about bands that recorded their last meaningful record four decades ago, there is still…
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Irrefutable Facts About Two Piece Bands – Plus Hear Two New Songs By Drenge
Adding a third person to a two-piece isn’t always a smooth transition. The day Brad Pitt tentatively sidled up to Jennifer Aniston and suggested that the addition of Angelina Jolie might, in some ways, add to the fun they were already having was probably not his most successful negotiation, although some of us can understand…
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Drenge – Live At Glastonbury: Friday – John Peel Stage
As thousands flooded out of The John Peel Stage having enjoyed a funk-filled set from Jungle, it was the turn of Drenge to restore parity into Glastonbury and demonstrate just how rock n roll sounds stripped back to its most simple of deadly weapons: guitar and drums. Drenge take rock back to basics and deliver…
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Drenge – Live at The NME Award Show: The Scala
It was somehow fitting that Drenge should play their biggest headline gig so far, in the week that the country watched the Reverend Alex Turner at The Brit Awards musing in a stoned statesman-like way “That rock’n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Best Albums of 2013
The votes are in *, the jury has sat **, and the die is cast ***. The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of the Year 2013 have been decided upon. And what a year it has been. Thanks to Spotify, I have been able to give insufficient thought, time and consideration to so many…
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Drenge – Live at the St Moritz Club, Soho
The St Moritz club is named after a part of the world more normally associated with Swiss efficiency. I don’t approve. To paraphrase Orson Welles, what did 500 years of peace get Switzerland? The cuckoo clock? I can only assume the name for this venue is somewhat ironic, as the St Moritz club, Soho is…
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