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Sunday, 29 June 2014

Memories of Glastonbury: 1995

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Glastonbury’s 25th Anniversary, at the time its biggest ever. It was also to be my last. Once again it was hot, hot hot. I blagged a free ...
Saturday, 28 June 2014

Memories of Glastonbury: Johnny Cash

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I’ve seen loads of bands at festivals. It’s a strange setting for a gig in my view, hardly intimate or easy for artists and audience to en...
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Friday, 27 June 2014

Memories of Glastonbury: 1994

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The year the Pyramid Stage burnt down just weeks before the festival. Fortunately a replacement was hastily constructed in time. For me, ...
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Thursday, 26 June 2014

Memories of Glastonbury: 1993

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Another scorching weekend, both in terms of the weather and the music, though I don’t remember feeling quite as blown away by anything as I ...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Memories of Glastonbury: 1992

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It’s the mother of all music festivals this week, and to mark the event I present a special daily offshoot of my memorable gigs series fe...
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Saturday, 21 June 2014

50 albums to take to my grave #9: Ágætis byrjun

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In 1999, I was still an avid reader of NME, even if I often dismissed a lot of the writing as pretentious claptrap or bandwagon jumping. ...
Friday, 20 June 2014

The albums of R.E.M. ranked

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Here's another thing I wrote some time ago with the intention of fitting it in somewhere amongst my story. Like Monday's rap piece, ...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Memories of a thousand* gigs #24

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#24: Arcade Fire Cardiff International Arena – 30th October 2007 Support: Clinic Also in attendance: MrsRobster The first time I be...
Monday, 16 June 2014

The fall of rap?

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I wrote this piece a year or so ago, about the same time I was working on my Reading '92 article about Public Enemy . I had intended to ...
Saturday, 14 June 2014

50 albums to take to my grave #8: Horses

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One of the greatest records ever released, no argument! That's pretty much all that needs be written about 'Horses' as far a...
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