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Nick L commented on the post, Billy Bragg: One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back 4 days, 13 hours ago
Life’s A Riot will probably always be my favourite…stark but inventively tuneful and percussive guitar with angry and heartfelt lyrics in equal measure.
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Nick L commented on the post, Billy Bragg: One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back 5 days, 5 hours ago
Great review. Big fan of Billy Bragg here, have been since Life’s A Riot back in 83. I try to see him most years and he never disappoints. In an election year his sense of anger and commitment never fails to […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Ask A Certain Ratio 1 week ago
I’d say for half price give it a go. It is a lot funkier then those two, but a kind of embryonic, post punk kind of funk, if that makes sense.
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Nick L commented on the post, 999 – time for a reappraisal? 1 week ago
I saw them about 3 years ago at a festival in Brighton. I only have one single by them, 1981’s Lil’ Red Riding Hood, so I can’t claim to be an expert. I wasn’t even there to see them particularly, I was much more […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Ask A Certain Ratio 1 week, 1 day ago
Great interview Steve, as a fellow fan those are just the questions I would have wanted asking.
I couldn’t understand why The Big E wasn’t huge but hey, as is suggested here, if it had been, would they still be […] -
Nick L commented on the post, Is the BBC biased? 1 week, 1 day ago
Simpering Wreck, that so perfectly sums up my attitude towards the farcical situation we now find ourselves in that I can’t actually follow it. Well said Sir.
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Nick L commented on the post, Let It All Out! 4 weeks ago
That’s a great song. The current incarnation is called The Chords UK (the original singer long having relocated to Japan I think) and they still do a lot of gigs, Chris Pope is now the singer but I don’t think […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Let It All Out! 4 weeks ago
Fourth place behind the Purple Hearts?? Very controversial Rigid!
Yes, Beat Boys is a very good album which still very occasionally gets an airing. I also got the follow up, “Ambience,” at the time, of which […] -
Nick L commented on the post, Dr Who sings Coldplay 4 weeks ago
A friend of mine thinks his voice is beguiling. I just find it deeply annoying. The same as I find his stage movements, (hunching over the piano etc) which just make me cringe.
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Nick L commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LVII 4 weeks ago
HEARD
Bit of a barren month for new music stuff quite frankly, to me anyway. Been mostly listening to podcasts for the last few weeks (Everyone Loves Guitar and Baker/Lineker’s Behind Closed Doors.)SEEN
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Nick L commented on the post, The 45 Minute Album Limit 4 weeks ago
I think it might well be that a lot of the noodling on Dire Straits albums mean a good few of them could do with editing, or at least a trim.
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Nick L commented on the post, Let It All Out! 4 weeks ago
Oh great call on Dance by The Lambrettas, or surely “Da-a-a-ance” or however it was originally spelt in 1980? Great new wave/mod revival song. Think they were seen as a slightly naff crew of Jam impersonators at […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Let It All Out! 4 weeks ago
Oh, another one for What’s Up by 4 Non-Blondes. I have been known to belt this one out very loudly if it ever comes on in the car…
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Nick L commented on the post, Dropping your first born at University 2 months ago
Just as a brief update to this, her first week went really well and she seems to be having the time of her life. Really pleased for her. We weren’t even going to mention potentially visiting until she brought it […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Dropping your first born at University 2 months, 1 week ago
John, that’s a little bit how I felt about it too before mine got old enough but as Moseleymoles says it is rightly very different these days. Don’t forget that this is the generation who have (in many cases, but […]
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Nick L wrote a new post, Dropping your first born at University 2 months, 1 week ago
Haven’t started a proper new post for ages so I’m jumping back in.
Like many other middle aged parents this weekend I suspect, we have dropped our eldest at University for the first time. She chose Her […] -
Nick L commented on the post, And now the top 100 TV Shows of the Century (so far) 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Reading the list I found it interesting how a few shows I started to like more recently because my own kids did. I’m not saying they particularly deserved to be in the top regions of this chart but Inbetweeners […]
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Nick L commented on the post, Who Are You? 5 months ago
That’s a role I covet too, except I’d probably use my own trusty red Epiphone SG. I also have a Green Burns Steer, same model as 1984 vintage Billy Bragg, for those moments when I come over all political and feel […]
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Nick L commented on the post, TC&I / live album 5 months ago
As I may have said on here before, I was at the first night of last year’s gigs, at a tiny arts centre in Swindon. Many men (and a few women) old enough to know better found they had something in their eye that […]
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Nick L commented on the post, The Afterword Official Glastonbury Thread – tell all here 5 months, 1 week ago
The Courteeners…I wanted to like them, as my 18 year old daughter is such a fan. I tried. But really, how on earth are this very dull band so popular? I had previously just assumed they were one of those totally […]
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