Tag: The Horrors
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The Horrors Provide A Darker Alternative To Dolly’s Ray of Sunshine – Live at Glastonbury
Despite the odd torrential downpour, Glastonbury 2014 has revealed many pleasures: More stages than Berlusconi has mistresses. Cases of trench foot down 38% on last year. You could have a great time here without seeing a single band. No sign of an under-performing, yet overpaid England football team. The circus acts are brightly coloured and…
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The Best Records of 2014 So Far: The Horrors – So Now You Know
“So Now You Know” is the second track to be revealed from The Horrors’ fourth album “Luminous” which is out on May 5th. Whilst the first preview from the album “I See You” was a seven and a half minute epic awash with atmospheric synth work from Tom Cowan alongside singer Faris Badawan’s trademark vocals,…
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More Pictures of The Horrors and The Black Belles
Following my earlier Horrors post, here are a couple more photos of Wednesday night’s gig at Chinnerys in Southend, including a couple of support band The Black Belles. The Black Belles are signed to Jack White‘s label Third Man Records and this is their first UK tour. They play The Barfly in Camden tonight and…
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The Horrors! The Horrors! Southend’s Chinnerys shakes to secret JD Roots homecoming gig by The Horrors.
Seeing The Horrors play live at their home town of Southend was a special moment. Chris Martin’s campaign against tinnitus had a setback last night as Southend on Sea got to welcome home The Horrors at a special gig at tiny local venue / sweat pit Chinnerys prior to the band’s UK tour later this…
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NME Awards 2012 – Noel Gallagher receives much-needed boost to his modest ego
The NME awards 2012 made for an entertaining spectacle. It’s like a cooler and more foul-mouthed older brother of the Brits, and with a better record collection to boot. It was also notable for making some good choices for the awards ( i.e. I found myself agreeing with the decisions – something that is rare…
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