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by David Pott-Negrine
Where does spoken word performance stop, and bumbling drunkard start? I couldn’t say for sure, but Al Hutchins, vocalist of The Courtesy Group, comes very, very close to crossing that threshold. »
In Depth by David Pott-Negrine
Every year we ask our staff to submit their records of the year and every year, writers put records in their lists that seem to have been somewhat overlooked both within the realm of DiS and/or across the board. Rather than leave these records as forgotten footnotes, last year we launched our imaginatively titled Lost 8 of '08 (see the 8 highlighted records here) and this year it returns, one year older 'n' wiser, as the Lost 9 of '09. Once again this little list intends to do much the same neck-out-sticking for some of our staff's personal favourites. »
Review
by David Pott-Negrine
Most of The Real Feel just seems like one long plodding song, not instantly forgettable, but not instantly memorable. »
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by David Pott-Negrine
It certainly reads like a recipe for disaster, an ill thought out experiment destined to be the token world music guest on Later With Jools Holland, but somehow, against all odds, it works.»
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by David Pott-Negrine
Sadly it settles for floundering around as a messy collection of unfocused songs and unrealised ideas. »
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by David Pott-Negrine
Typically rock and roll is regarded as a young man’s game, that no-one over the age of about 27 should even look at a guitar for f»
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by David Pott-Negrine
The problem with side projects is that they always lead to comparisons with the main band. In fact, 'problem' may be the wrong wor»
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by David Pott-Negrine
There’s a bit in Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time where he discusses eating a ‘petite madeleine’ soaked in tea, and the involuntary»
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by David Pott-Negrine
Being a girl in a folk band must be hard. Always having to go through life looking bored and detached, spending hours alone in you»
