Tag: Music
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RóisÃn Murphy and her dressing up box
Went to see RóisÃn Murphy at Academy Manchester last night: absolutely brilliant. She held the sold out audience spellbound with a fantastic voice, and a dizzying array of hats, shrugs, batwing jumpers, capes, shades, eyemasks, biker jackets and crazy metallic puff dresses.
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Recent Listening on WordPress
I’ve reconnected to Last.FM to capture what I’m listening to. You can see the results on the sidebar under “Recent Listening”.
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Richard Hawley & Pulp?
I hadn’t realised that Richard Hawley was the guitarist with Pulp. Wikipedia’s article on Richard mentions his time with Pulp, but the Wikipedia article on Pulp doesn’t mention his involvement. I think he was guitarist on the tour in support of Pulp – This Is Hardcore, and maybe didn’t do any studio work with them……
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The best Pogues album?
Mark Radcliffe tells us that the competition for The Pogues best album is between The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God and The Pogues – Rum Sodomy & the Lash. On careful and repeated listening, I have to prefer The Pogues – Rum Sodomy & the Lash. To me the songs…
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Most perplexing
How come Ramalama [Bang Bang] is less than a tenth as popular as Sow into You? I mean Sow is good, but Ramalama is great… the stand-out track on Ruby Blue by Róisín Murphy.