All the same thing, aren't they? All have hooves and tails, and the why-the-long-faces, so, yes, they must be. OK, I know, they aren...

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Country music has always had a chequered history over here in the UK, there being an understandable suspicion of the more rhinestones and...

Hell, yeah, in the week, near enough, ol' Shakey reveals the forthcoming of  his back to the day job with the Horse, what better time...

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purchase [ other stuff from Muzai Records ] (The label for Sunken Seas) The <slide> theme was deliberately left nebulous enoug...

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Another little known artist, I know, as I near singlehandedly drive down the ratings of this once mighty blog, but this is a fella you re...

The first, I think, post to fully reference this longstanding UK band. Always classified under 'space-rock', a confusing terminol...

Can a scalpel be considered cutlery, or, equally alarmingly, should it be considered cutlery? Received wisdom would suggest, must suggest...

purchase [ Live and Let Die ] Now ... guns aren't knives but they have the potential to inflict the same kind of mayhem. Of cours...

purchase [ P.P. Arnold's The First Cut ] Well ... actually, no intent on the part of the moderator to incite or encourage violenc...

Week 3 of cutlery, the title now revealing the true needs of our admin guy: he didn't want posts about the transmission of food from pla...

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Well, this could be interesting as of the moment I type this, I know nothing of the band Spoon, and have never knowingly listened to a no...

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