Preview: Lloyd Cole goes From Rattlesnakes to Guesswork on newly announced tour
With almost 40 years worth of songs in his bag, Lloyd Cole is heading on tour, with a UK leg that includes a visit to Manchester’s Albert Hall on Tuesday 19th April.
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Culture, Music, Review Album Review: Reissue of ‘Armed Forces’ by Elvis Costello
Featured Image: Ray Di Pietro Elvis Costello revisits his 1979 album Armed Forces in a vivid assault of sound and vision. The nine-vinyl set contains B-sides, demos, outtakes and live recordings. There are also new liner notes penned by Costello, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics, as well as rare photos, concert archives and other memorabilia. Originally…
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Culture, Music Album Review: Hey Clockface by Elvis Costello
It is a credit to a singer-songwriter who has been releasing albums since 1977 that when you hear the first track on his new release you think you might be listening to the wrong album. Hey Clockface starts with a haunting Arabic refrain, using an instrument called a Serpent (described by wikipedia as ‘a bass…
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Culture, Music Album Review: ‘Country Darkness’ by My Darling Clementine
Elvis Costello is one of those rare artists who had a few youthful and lucrative years of hit singles yet continues to compose new songs that are much more than just inferior rewrites of his classic songs. It is over 40 years since he performed on Top of the Pops miming to ‘Watching the Detectives’, ‘I…
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Culture, Music Album Review: ‘Self Made Man’ by Larkin Poe
I first became aware of Larkin Poe when they supported Elvis Costello five-years-ago, during his Detour concert at Bridgewater Hall. But it is another elite singer-songwriter who sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell new album has more in common with – Bruce Springsteen. Blue Collar life is much in evidence in the lyrics. “I was a…
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