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		<title>Green Man Festival - 15th-17th August 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Laurie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6967" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Los Campesinos!"][/caption]

Verdant. It's a nice word. One the best, actually. But like, oh I dunno, holocaust, it covers just a multitude of sins. In this case, the amount of water needed to maintain such lush greens. We arrive at Green Man in the sunshine and spirits are high. I used to come round here hill walking when I was a youth and a committed outdoor type. And now I have brought ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tubelord w/Blakish @ Café Saki, Manchester 31/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Whyman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Scary Monsters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blakfish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

So, with Johnny Foreigner and  Cats In Paris having now both gone on to deliver on their making-me-massively-excited-about-the-universe  promise by releasing utterly fantastic albums, I need something fresh  and new to gibber about. So luckily Tubelord have emerged into  my field of consciousness to take their place as this country's leading  upcoming band. ADD noise-pop of the highest order, I think I've probably  listened to the songs on their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Conor Oberst &#038; The Mystic Valley Band - Electric Ballroom, London 27/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Skinner</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Conor Oberst]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6893" align="alignnone" width="432" caption="Photographs by Rachel Lipsitz &#124; www.littlepants.com"][/caption]

"Sorry if we all look sick," Oberst laconically intones early on in the set he and his Mystic Valley Band gleefully hammer out this evening; "we all are sick". Not one to let this stop him knocking back vodka mixers or throwing himself into a long old set list with abandon, tonight sees his recent self-titled effort fleshed-out, bulked-up and frankly sounding better than ever - ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Cameras - St Leonards Church, London 23/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Elmahdi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The Hidden Cameras]]></category>

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Photograph by Ama Chana

One may note the slight irony of an LGBT fundraiser taking place in a place of Christian worship, but after witnessing The Hidden Cameras' revelatory show at St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch one couldn't help be struck by how fitting a venue it was. Despite their name, which to this reviewer evokes images of gloomy Interpol-esque miserabilia, Joel Gibb's "gay church folk choir" are as glorious a live band to come out of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Manic Street Preachers - Newport Centre, Wales 21/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Pay</dc:creator>
		
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Tearing up the remains of their  theatrical entrance music, the Manic Street Preachers began their Reading  and Leeds Festival warm-up gig at Newport Centre with a louder-than-King-Kong-on-a-bad-day  version of 1994's 'Faster'. Over a decade since they last played  at the sports-hall-come-music-arena, James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire  and Sean Moore appeared, charged with the energy of fifty Duracell rabbits  and the same youthful spirit as when they last killed silence ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bombay Bicycle Club - Koko, London 22/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Down</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Young and Lost Club]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6662" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Sonny Malhotra"][/caption]

Tonight Koko promises all the things I have come to expect from Club NME, young trendy scenesters wandering around aimlessly, more interested in the opposite sex's short skirts or skinny jeans than the music. Everywhere you turn there seem to be mini soap opera's playing out, spurned by girls desperate for male attention and vice-versa.

Finally, after a few hours of watching the mating rituals of drunken underage teenagers, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Nina Nastasia - London Roundhouse 13/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Elmahdi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[FatCat Records]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nina Nastasia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6481" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Ama Chana"][/caption]

Well, they really pulled out the stops at the Roundhouse. For their "Colour Your Summer" season, the impressively modern, if slightly sterile Chalk Farm venue has been transformed into something more akin to a high-class Parisien jazz club- thick red curtains draped around an enclosed, intimate circle of candlelit tables, disco balls reflecting the light of a velvet black backdrop sparkling with pure white light, table service on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mothlite - Corsica Studios, London, 15/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Down</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6466" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Sonny Malhotra"][/caption]

A buzz reverberates around the room. Tucked away in an old underground railway alcove, hidden from the blinding lights and pounding bass lines of Ministry, an unlikely looking bunch take to the stage. For a band that has been performing live for just over a month now, Mothlite have attracted quite a crowd this evening.

There is something quintessentially English about front man Daniel O' Sullivan tonight, perhaps it ...]]></description>
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		<title>The War On Drugs - William Cobbett, Farnham, 13/08/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catriona Boyle</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Secretly Canadian]]></category>

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So this evening The War On  Drugs are playing in a pub. And not just any pub. The William Cobbett  pub which, judging from the amount of people crammed in is apparently  the only pub open on a Wednesday in Farnham and quite possibly the whole of  Surrey. Sadly though, it seems the William Cobbett's clientele of "gosh we're pretending to be dirty indie kids, but really we're  just very ...]]></description>
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		<title>Subtle - Cargo, London 21/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ama Chana</dc:creator>
		
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Lucky ol' me. I don't know how it always happens to me but I always just happen to attract annoying people towards me at shows. Tonight is no exception. Tonight I'm standing next to the most annoying Subtle fan boy, front row. He really doesn't shut up. I think he's drunk. Definitely off his head on goofballs. He's even dribbling and grabbing the band's show props. He continually keeps calling out to lead-rapper/singer/keyboardist Adam Drucker ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Maccabees / Pete &#038; The Pirates - The Junction, Cambridge, 07/08/2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/08/the-maccabees-pete-the-pirates-the-junction-cambridge-07082008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Hughes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6217" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Valerio Berdini"][/caption]

It's been a while. I've met both the main protagonists this evening before. One I've met personally, the other I had the good fortune of seeing in the back room of a local pub a couple of months previously. Both have toured a well received debut album extensively, and tonight we get to hear where they've got to. A one off show, with a 14+ age limit on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Joanna Newsom - Somerset House, London 20/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ama Chana</dc:creator>
		
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After taking time off from touring for the best part of nearly a year, Joanna Newsom decided to treat her UK fans to two very special shows, and both on the same day. The first, an afternoon slot at Latitude Festival (you can read the TLOBF review here). The second, an evening appearance in the courtyard of a former tax office on the banks of the Thames. And what a real treat it was.

It could ...]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria and Jacob, The Cathode Ray Syndrome* - Portland Arms, Cambridge, 2 August 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/08/victoria-and-jacob-the-cathode-ray-syndrome-portland-arms-cambridge-2-august-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6181" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="L: Victoria &#38; Jacob R: The Cathode Ray Syndrome*"][/caption]

The Portland Arms in Cambridge is something of a local institution.  This pub-with-a-back-room venue has been the scene of many a great evening of live music over the years, and with the recent demise of the short-lived Barfly just across the road, has once again become pretty much the main port of call for the discerning Cambridge gig-goer.

Last Saturday saw a four-band ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mudhoney - Forum, London 31/07/08</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/08/mudhoney-forum-london-310708/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerio Berdini</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Mudhoney]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sub Pop]]></category>

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A one-off London gig that finally ends my twenty year wait to see Mudhoney live. As soon as I arrive I am happily surprised to count more Stooges T-shirts than Nirvana's, a promising start.

I am in time to catch the end of an interesting immersion in the sonic explorations of Mugstar, a sort of post rock instrumental band in love with psychedelic media, including lasers and video projection.

Enjoying the first, I decide to have a ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Wave Pictures - The Borderline, London 30/07/08</title>
		<link>http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2008/08/the-wave-pictures-the-borderline-london-bbc-6music-night-club-fandango-30-july-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jude Clarke</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_6018" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Same venue, different night. The Wave Pictures."][/caption]

It was with a possibly quite unnatural level of excitement that I headed up to London last Wednesday to The Borderline for a BBC 6Music "Club Fandango" night, featuring The Wave Pictures.

Arriving very early (geekish eagerness, much?) brought the advantage of allowing us to bag the ideal viewing location - as any of you familiar with The Borderline will know, one of those high stools ...]]></description>
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		<title>Noah &#038; The Whale / The Coral - Coliseum, London 29/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerio Berdini</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

The new-folk revolution is unstoppable and is taking over. If ten years ago Belle and Sebastian were a singularity in the rock scene, nowadays, from Toronto to Brighton, Seattle to Liverpool, fiddles and brasses have become cooler than electric guitars.

It's probably not since Newport circa 1964 that rock music hasn't had such a strong affair with popular roots, acoustic sounds and bucolic feelings. The latest battle of this peaceful war has been the conquest of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Benicàssim Festival, 17th - 20th July 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Line Of Best Fit</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Sigur Ros"][/caption]

Words: Alex Harvey and Charley Caines
Photographs: Danny North, Baptiste Pons, Rayos Centusoidos and Davide Ravani

After the trials and tribulations of  Glastonbury 2007, I and seemingly half of blighty thought enough was  enough of the shit English weather and decided to head for the sunnier  climes of Spain and Benicassim for our annual festival experience.

Any thoughts surrounding a particularly  bad hangover after a heavy night in Barcelona ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Waits - Le Grand Rex, Paris, 25/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ro Cemm</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_5786" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Simon Godley"][/caption]

There have been 90 murders so far this year in London. Only this weekend someone was shot down using a machine gun in a British city. Oil prices are skyrocketing, and big business is taking the money while we tighten our belts. The credit crunch is leading to depression, and the newspapers and general press are pulling us down with them. Iran may or not be building Nuclear ...]]></description>
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		<title>Latitude Festival 18th, 19th &#038; 20th July 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Elmahdi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_5753" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Franz Ferdinand"][/caption]

"More Than A Musical Festival." Well, Suffolk's premier festival likes to brand itself as such, and to its credit it's true- the literary and comedic talent on offer is easily the equal of the bands on offer, and despite the focus of this review I did get the opportunity to sample some of its more unusual delights. But ultimately I was there for the music, and on this count Latitude ...]]></description>
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		<title>Deerhoof and the Metropolitan Ensemble - Prospect Park Bandshell, New York, 18/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Melillo</dc:creator>
		
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Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell, one of New York’s best outdoor venues, is a summer institution.  It was only a matter of time before the ever-expanding Wordless Music series came, saw and conquered this historic venue.  And the weapons of that conquest on Friday night were San Francisco’s spastic noise-makers Deerhoof and local electro-acoustic chamber orchestra the Metropolis Ensemble.  The latter played an arrangement/recomposition of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring called The Rite: Remixed and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Eli &#8216;Paperboy&#8217; Reed and the True Loves - Rough Trade East, London 22/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Dowdall</dc:creator>
		
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Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and the True Loves are in London in the middle of a string of small venue dates after appearing at Latitude before moving up north for a couple more, and tonight generously turned out for a free set at Rough Trade East. Although criminally poorly attended, it was a great chance to check out Eli and the lads. And after enjoying his storming ...]]></description>
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		<title>Micah P. Hinson – Bush Hall, London 16/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Moore</dc:creator>
		
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Live, Micah P. Hinson sounds very unlike his records, while at the same time sounding exactly as you'd expect. Without the gorgeously layered strings, organ, vocals and feedback you'll hear on his albums (which, as he points out, would require "like, a 15-piece band" to recreate), his performance is a stark affair. Tonight, his gravelly growl is alternately accompanied by electric guitar, bass and drums, or just his ...]]></description>
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		<title>Truck Music Festival 19 &#038; 20th July 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Whyman</dc:creator>
		
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The evening of the Tuesday  before Truck, and my friend texts me, hardly completely out of the blue,  but still, asking me if I'd like to buy his Truck ticket off him,  because he's run out money or wants to go to London that weekend instead  or both or something, and I'm his last resort for actually getting  something out of ...]]></description>
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		<title>My Morning Jacket - London Forum 15/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerio Berdini</dc:creator>
		
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When you get to the last night of a long tour you don't know what to expect. The gap between a special treat and a night where the band is looking forward to going home is tiny and unpredictable.

My Morning Jacket closed their tour last week at the London Forum. Being one of those who suffered for the cancellation of My Morning Jacket Z tour dates few years ago, I arrive with great expectations. Entering ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Arabia &#038; Liam Finn - Rough Trade East, London 23/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Dowdall</dc:creator>
		
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The inflation-beating i.e. free fun continued at Rough Trade East with a double bill of Kiwi talent now based in the UK. New to me, Lawrence Arabia is James Milne with a variable selection of helpers, while Liam Finn was feeling 'naked' as he put it, even more solo than usual without the accompanying vocals of Eliza-Jane Barnes. But wire up some loop pedals and he proved ...]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Cohen – O2 Arena, London 17/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catriona Boyle</dc:creator>
		
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Let's have no bones about it, Leonard Cohen embarked on this tour in an attempt to reclaim some of the $5 million swindled from him by his former manager. But judging by this show, if he's worked half that hard during the rest of his career, he certainly deserves a comfortable retirement, whenever he intends to start it - age 75 perhaps?

Taking to the stage just after 8pm, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Duffy &#038; Duke Special - Somerset House, London 18/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Dowdall</dc:creator>
		
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A night at the annual Somerset House outdoor courtyard series really needs a warm dry evening to stimulate that feeling of relaxed revelry that allows you to make believe you're somewhere on the Continent only a short scooter ride from home (although to be fair, that would limit the drinking). The majority of punters working in the centre don't want to cart around protective clothing all ...]]></description>
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		<title>Death Cab For Cutie - KOKO, London 14/07/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bloxham</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[caption id="attachment_5351" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photographs by Valerio Berdini"][/caption]

Back in May, a few of my friends went to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Electric Ballroom. Anyone listening to them bang on about it upon their return could be forgiven for thinking that they had actually gone to see Jesus or Batman or something.

The incessant fawning and the constant reminders of how I "so should've gone, seriously" finally got the better of me. When a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sigur Ros - Westminister Methodist Central Hall 24/06/08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Elmahdi</dc:creator>
		
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Photographs: Ama Chana

Unfairly maligned as coffee-table bland-merchants after the BBC commandeered their back catalogue to score every trailer on the network, there’s still tons of evidence to suggest Sigur Ros’ sweeping post-rock crescendos stand head and shoulders over their many imitators. Although even the most ardent of fans must admit they stick doggedly to a tried and tested formula, it’s a formula that undoubtedly works- as is proved beyond doubt tonight.

Westminster Methodist Hall provides an ...]]></description>
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		<title>O2 Wireless Festival Diary: Day 4 [06/07/08]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Mariam from Wildbirds and Peacedrums. On board the Bella Union bus.

The final day. Bella Union have done a fantastic job of providing a little bubble in the midst of the madness - a haven of interesting performances from fantastic bands and not a market research questionnaire or corporate sponsor in sight. Incredible.

Pete has been raving about Kaki King for days now. He's lucky not to miss her set as he turns up half an hour ...]]></description>
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