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'Charlatans UK', that is, one of those raggle taggle of bands having to append their country of origin to their name, at least in...

purchase [ Goodbye Stranger ] The longer SMM continues, the harder it gets to be original. Be it chosing a theme or nailing a song (ha...

I suppose there is some assumption that strange and weird are the same. Perhaps the easiest way to dispel that is with a substitution. The i...

Elvis Costello : Stranger In The House [ purchase the expanded My Aim Is True ] [ purchase My Very Special Guests ] I’m still being ...

Most of us when we think about power, we look at the outcome: heat, light, government. Let's now look briefly at the flip and the mess l...

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I'm sort of sick of power at the moment, and, were you in the UK, you'd know why, with our parliament having to take our prime mi...

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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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...