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Indietracks 2009: Saturday
(Apologies for the lateness of these reviews. I came back from Indietracks and quickly came down with something I immediately feared to be swine flu. Thankfully, I was quickly reassured that it was merely twee flu and that it was perfectly normal. What a relief.) Indietracks isn’t the first festival I’ve gone to this year, nor will it be the last. It’s hard to see how...
It’s not for the cock, it’s for the spotted dick
  Spotted Dick: Week 1 With the invention of innovative, new technology comes the invention of innovative, classy little blog posts. One Ms. Lauren Evett has had the brilliant idea of creating a weekly spotify playlist on It’s Not For The Cock and calling it Spotted Dick! Best feature name ever? The idea is to make a playlist of new bands/music we’ve discovered/...
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Offset Festival 2009 by Charlie Ingham
Photo: Charlie Ingham Offset Festival: 2 days in Essex, plenty of bands to see from the unusual No Bra to the headliners The Horrors and everything in-between - Offset has to be the coolest festival this summer. It actually felt that this weekend was the last weekend of summer. Let’s get one thing out of the way first, there was no mud, no rain, no wellies, no rain coats. Although...
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    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.

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