Tag: Michael Kiwanuka
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2019’s Albums and Songs of the Year
While mixtapes generally went out of fashion with Blind Date, the launch of Channel 4 and, well, the cassette, (does this mean mixtapes will come back into fashion soon? A lot of the albums below were released on cassette), the idea of circulating either CDs or playlists of your favourite tunes of the year is…
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The Every Record Tells A Story Albums of 2016
2016 may have been one of the most abysmal years in recent memory, beginning with David Bowie’s passing, continuing with the rise of nationalism and fascism across the world, and ending with my sitting down with the family to watch David Attenborough’s Planet Earth on BBC1 and traumatising my kids as the cameras followed a…
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Richard Hawley, Plan B at Barclaycard Mercury Prize Launch
I was at the launch of The 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize tonight, at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden. Lauren Laverne announced the twelve nominees, nine of whom were at the ceremony itself. There’s nothing like an award show to create a bit of discussion or controversy even. “He shouldn’t be on the list; so-and-so…
Every record tells a story 