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King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine

Posted on April 21, 2011 by haymoncollins

. Thirty two minutes of blissful, tender and emotionally affecting music, designed to be listened to as a single piece, these tracks have been reworked and elaborated over the course of a few years by collaborators Kenny ‘King Creosote’ Anderson … Continue reading →

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Low – C’mon

Posted on April 19, 2011 by haymoncollins

How does it happen that sometimes a band just seems to stay on the very edge of your field of vision ? Low have been a bit like that for me, there is no excuse they have been around for … Continue reading →

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Her Name is Calla – Left Bank Bristol

Posted on April 17, 2011 by haymoncollins

Well it had taken a long time to get even close to a HNIC live show but finally here it was at the Left Bank in Bristol. The penultimate show of their European tour beset as it clearly was with … Continue reading →

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Birds of Passage Passing Through

Posted on April 16, 2011 by haymoncollins

  After a couple of weeks of spring sunshine it was a slightly grey and fresh morning that welcomed Alicia Merz ( aka Birds of Passage) and her partner Christian to meet me for a coffee in the Inn the … Continue reading →

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Bravo Brave Bats – Green EP Launch

Posted on April 2, 2011 by haymoncollins

I have scribbled before about just how good the new Green EP from Brave Brave Bats is but it is worth repeating – it is very good indeed. Tonight was the official launch of said Green EP at the still … Continue reading →

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John Grant – St George’s Bristol

Posted on March 31, 2011 by haymoncollins

  In the space of a week or so  I have seen (or should that be  ‘heard’?) three of my favourite current vocalists: Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Roddy Woomble and now John Grant. Like Mr Garvey, being of a certain ‘stature’ … Continue reading →

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Elbow – Cardiff Arena

Posted on March 28, 2011 by haymoncollins

Elbow Villagers Sometimes my pessimism can be proved to be so misplaced. Worries that Elbow’s Build a Rocket Boys might be some post – Mercury sellout were groundless and the sense of mild despair that they were to play the … Continue reading →

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Roddy Woomble – Impossible Songs and Union Chapel Show

Posted on March 28, 2011 by haymoncollins

Roddy Woomble Seonaid Aitken Sorren Maclean Jack Cheshire A Roddy Woomble related release is always an object of much expectation for me, be it an Idlewild, McCusker Drever Woomble concoction or this his second proper solo offering. There is something … Continue reading →

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Auditorium – Be Brave

Posted on March 18, 2011 by haymoncollins

Auditorium rather perversely started out as a single person project by Spencer Berger although now out on the road he is augmented by the talents of Chris Littler, Justin Hogan his sister Elizabeth and girlfriend Daya Wolterstorff. These are deceptively slight … Continue reading →

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Bird Names – Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun

Posted on March 16, 2011 by haymoncollins

  Way back when God was a boy (or maybe a girl) I clearly remember buying Gong’s Camembert Electrique album when it was released in the UK in 1974 (at the princely sum of 59p, the price then of a … Continue reading →

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