Tag: Pete Paphides
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Five Music Books To Self-Isolate Yourself With…
You have stocked up, having flung a greedy arm against the nose of a grasping pensioner at the supermarket to get that final roll of toilet paper. You have enough tinned carrots and potatoes to last several months despite never having actually eaten tinned vegetables since you were at school, and you are now frantically…
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Ian Broudie Addresses Fifteen Years of Hurt with Solo Album Re-release
Pete Paphides never stopped dreaming of owning Ian Broudie’s 2004 solo album on vinyl. His new label, Needle Mythology is re-releasing the “Tales Told” album to address fifteen years of hurt…
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You Can Help Make The Greatest Episode of Top of the Pops Ever!
It all started with a conversation on Twitter. Actually it was more of a musing. And it wasn’t my idea either. No, it was music writer Pete Paphides who proclaimed suddenly: What I’d really love @BBCFOUR to do one Friday night is just show a whole evening of ace, not-obvious music clips. Just one after…
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Three Years Old Today…
Do you remember what you were doing on this day in 2012? Here in the UK we were preparing for the London Olympics by grumbling about how much money it was going to cost and how we’d probably mess it up. The state of shock across the nation that we did a decent opening ceremony…
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