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Magazine / Ipso Facto at The Forum 13 February 2009
Magazine rehearsal pic by Graeme Oxby I’m going to get round to new bands soon. I promise… But when I found out that Magazine were getting together for a few dates after breaking up some thirty years ago, I just had to have me some of that. As a kid, Magazine were my favourite band – I sent away to their fan club and received a badly photocopied scrap of paper and a...
Magazine at the Forum
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Concert Review: Magazine, The Forum 12/02/09 Before I describe what it was like to be at a Magazine concert in 2009, I feel I should let you in on what it was like to be at one approximately thirty years previously at the Roundhouse in Camden Town. On that occasion I think I was with my brother and we sat in the gallery above the band looking down at them. At my...
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Burning the Box of Beautiful Things: Michael Bracewell's Re-Make/Re-Model
I’ve read a fair amount of band/artist biographies with varying amounts of interest(oddly enough, as much as I love the band Pulp, their 400-page biography by Mark Sturdy was one of the hardest to conquer). I stumbled upon Michael Bracewell’s 2008biography of Roxy Music, Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music, by accident while looking for other Michael Bracewell books. You see, I...
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