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In retrospective – Art Sheffield 2010
Editors’ note: Well, it’s the end of this ambitious (and successful) city-wide event and although we were a little quiet about the whole thing for a while (stupid dissertations…), we took several tips to the venues (including the Art Crawl – a testimonial on Thursday) and we all ended up disagreeing in what is “art”…
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Wake up song for today -100
A special one from the Sloucher team especially to you, on this, the 100th wake up song for the day – M & Q
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One sunny afternoon at the Fat Cat…
Interview – The Hope Explosion It was Record Store day and after getting a few treats, I joined the lovely chaps of The Hope Explosion at the Fat Cat in Kelham Island for a spot of ales, sunshine and a chat. Rob (Vocals/guitar), Robin (Guitar/vocals) and Lee (Drums/vocals) were outside in the patio, waiting for…
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Wake up song for today -99
Cream – ‘SWLABR’: (I know it’s cliché but…) Disraeli Gears is one of my favourite Cream albums because the licks and riffs are beyond insanely good! ‘SWLABR’ will have you doing air guitar around the breakfast table… – PM
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Wake up song for today -98
Here is the latest single from the recently released album of the same name by Laura Veirs. Think mellow guitars, melancholy lyrics and dreamy orchestration and production. Laura is an accomplished singer and songwriter and a brilliant live musician, plus the video to ‘July Flame’ is very endearing. Wake up gently on this lazy Sunday – PM
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The Amazing Sheffield Time Machine
Mike Hughes + Bromheads @ City Library Theatre. Picture this: a sort of overcast theatre, in the lower entrails of a city library. The seats are of old fabric, their width is a little inappropriate for people of, er, expanded measurements and there’s 50-60s rock and roll blasting from the PA. It could be a…
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Wake up song for today -97
For Sam, forever ago…-Misky
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obLONG’s rope a dope (pt 2)
obLONG at South by South Yorkshire (O2 Academy) After a quick detour to take a gander at the Art Crawl event, I moseyed down to the O2 Academy for the South by South Yorkshire event and catch obLONG playing live. There were other bands playing that night (Serious Sam Barrett, The Crookes, Standard Fare and…
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obLONG’s rope a dope (pt 1)
obLONG – Demo EP One afternoon, again in front of my PC, I put on my earphones and search for a band whose name is rather interesting to me… obLONG. Another assignment from the editors. I could only think of an American Football ball shape, tricky shadows, prolongation, perfect symmetry.
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