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Live Reviews

Manorexia @ Union Chapel, London 12.04.12

Hell, it rocks harder than any of those lily-livered upper-middle-class floppy-haired fops in the charts.…

Live review of Young Marble Giants at Jeff Mangum-curated ATP, Minehead Butlins, March 2012 … in haiku format

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The Dismal Spectacle of The Fall at Jeff Mangum ATP, Minehead Butlins, March 2012

I am afraid of Uncle Mark. Blatantly inebriated, this pixie-faced old man roams the stage like an imperious foreman. …

The B-52’s @ The Classic Center, Athens, Ga, 09.02.12

It just makes you want to smash up a mic stand. It just makes you want to dive into the drum kit. It just makes you want to scream and whoop and holler and call up the dead.…

Eleanor Friedberger @ The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney, 29.01.12

'Lost At Sea' is better. The guitar is no longer wielded like an apology. From here it’s going to be all right (as in everything is right not merely alright).…

Laneway Festival @ RNA Showground, Brisbane, 28.01.12

I hate music festivals because I love music, and I mean properly love music. Real love is unhealthy, obsessive, consuming. I am outside Music’s house in defiance of a restraining order. I am frightening off Music’s new boyfriend. I am holding Music’s pets to ransom until Music agrees to return my calls.…