Tag: Sheffield
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The Story of Pulp’s Different Class
Pulp’s defining album, “Different Class” reached the top of the charts in 1995 nearly thirty years ago, in a move designed solely to make us all feel rather old. In a year when the rest of Britain was deciding whether Blur’s “Country House” or Oasis’ “Roll With It” should be number one, Pulp slipped out…
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Richard Hawley’s Cole’s Corner: £150 on Vinyl, 99p on CD…
One of the by-products of iTunes, mp3s, downloads, streaming and so on is that the price of second hand CDs has fallen lower than the spirits of Brazilian football supporters. Music fans on a budget, or tight-wads generally, are able to rip a CD to their hard drive and then sell it on eBay to…
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Look Out For…Tom Hickox
I wanted to mention Tom Hickox today. Since I mentioned Tom’s song “The Pretty Pride of Russia” last year, he has secured an opening slot with Richard Hawley, including the latter’s forthcoming Somerset House concert. “The Pretty Pride of Russia” was one of my favourite songs that I heard last year and now Tom has…
Every record tells a story 