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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Apr 2014 by Scenester
Arriving in a world dominated by Culture Club, Pet Shop Boys and their lion-pop ilk in the mid 1980’s, The…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Jan 2015 by Scenester
Marc Almond Ten Plagues A Song Cycle (Strike Force SFE034D) Unlike many of his pop contemporaries, Marc Almond has never…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Mar 2014 by Scenester
Dropping down my chimney via Albatross Post the other day, ‘Poppsaga’ is a pleasing, welcome and sometimes puzzling peek into…
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Sproutless reviewed by Scenester
It’s not often that a CD turns up on my doorstep, packed with the most perfectly manicured pop and acutely…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Jan 2014 by Scenester
Cherry Red has come up with a neat package of three CDs spanning the Stiff Records tenure of Any Trouble,…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Nov 2013 by Scenester
Those of you with time on your hands have undoubtedly played the game at some point. Why do some bands…
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John Lennon McCullagh – Eyefocus 359 Music
John Lennon McCullagh – his real name – is a fifteen-year-old from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He’s been playing guitar and…
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Cauldronated speak to Eyeplug
Cauldronated are A punky, drum-centric, techno adventure featuring Eva Menon (Italian extrasolar poetess), David Harman and Dave Barbarossa (Drummer with…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – July 2013 (2) by Scenester
Otherwise known as their ‘Stonehenge’ LP, due to the perhaps ill-advised cover artwork, The Association’s self-titled fifth LP is all…
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Indie Icons – the Wolfhounds
Formed in the early 80s (no one quite knows when, as the process was somewhat random and organic), the Wolfhounds…
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Indie Icons – The Brilliant Corners
The Brilliant Corners hailed from Bristol & lasted a decade, 1983-93, the pillar to post members being Davey Woodward (singer/guitarist/writer),…
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – July 2013 by Scenester
The current upsurge of interest in the 1980’s does have a saving grace. The decade that is almost universally loathed…
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