Author: Sounds From Nowhere
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Performance: The Innovative Cult Classic That Almost Broke The Stones and Made Jagger The Star
In the pantheon of rock star cinema, there are those who dabble, those who try, and those who become the role. Mick Jagger‘s turn in the 1970 cult classic “Performance” falls squarely into the latter category. It’s a film that almost broke the Rolling Stones, scandalized Warner Bros., and launched Jagger into a new stratosphere…
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Africa Oyé 2024: Free Festival Returns This Weekend
The UK’s largest free celebration festival of African & Carribbean arts & music returns to Sefton Park this weekend. Sefton Park will once again transform into a vibrant celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture this June 22nd and 23rd for the annual Africa Oyé festival. Headlining the main stage will be Julian Marley,…
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The Black Keys, AO Arena, Manchester 22/06/2023
Akron, Ohio’s very own rock n’ roll duo The Black Keys return to a packed AO Arena in Manchester for their Dropout Boogie Tour.
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Father John Misty, O2 Apollo, Manchester 17/03/2023
Father John Misty returns to Manchester, armed with his usual array of cynical, witty storytelling and his latest album, Chloe and the Next 20th Century. Father John Misty, the storytelling voice of Joshua Tillman, has spent his career over the last eleven-or-so years being the witty cynical marmite for the millennial generation, but it’s been…
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Dry Cleaning, Dehd, Invisible Wind Factory, 20/02/2023
Possibly the most unexpected sight tonight in Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory was the queue for the gents, noticeably longer than the queue for the ladies. That a band like Dry Cleaning would attract such a volume of middle-aged men with weak bladders could easily be the topic of one of their songs. The surreal nature…
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Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, Tanna Leone, AO Arena Manchester, 16/11/2022
The Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers tour concludes its European run in Manchester, as Kendrick Lamar proves why he’s perfectly rated at where he is. Jack Cinnamond reports. The show opens with a small set by Tanna Leone, a Big Steppers feature, that does the job at welcoming the crowd, a couple of tracks…
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Bob Dylan, O2 Apollo Manchester, 02/11/2022
The legendary Bob Dylan, and his band, return to the O2 Apollo in Manchester for an evening in-support of his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. Jack Cinnamond reports. It’s been several years since the legendary Nobel Prize winning icon Bob Dylan toured the UK, and it was a time-and-place much different than today. Dylan…
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The Lemonheads, Bass Drum of Death, O2 Ritz Manchester, 09/10/2022
The Lemonheads roll into the Manchester O2 Ritz on their album anniversary tour, Liam Moody was there at the scene of the crime for our review. Is there a band who time has been kinder to than Big Star? Although barely together as a group for a handful of years, their imprint on the world…
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De La Soul, Kojey Radical, Berwyn, Liverpool Exhibition Centre, July 30th 2022 · LIMF Festival 2022
With the legendary De La Soul hitting the Liverpool Exhibition Centre as one of the closing acts of LIMF Festival 2022, Del Pike takes a trip to see if the masters still matter. For those of us old enough to remember, the rise of young hip hop stars of the mid to late 80s was…
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Bluedot 2022 Review
The otherworldly festival has finished for another year, after some unforgettable moments and experiences. Here’s our review: Opening up the festival on Thursday for the earlycomers was the soft and somewhat uncertain feelings of newcomer Kathleen Frances, who clearly set the tone for the Thursday of the festival, a meek and beautiful evening. Following on,…
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