Tickets bought under the ‘depository’ scheme for Glastonbury 2009 have now all sold out. Fans who have bought the tickets at the initial price of £50 that will go towards the £175 total price have until midnight on the 1st February to settle their balance. Fans can still register to buy tickets when the rest [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Max
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Mother Nature is a big theme on The Crying Light, the new album by Antony & The Johnsons. Whilst his previous album, the widely-acclaimed and Mercury Prize winning I Am A Bird Now in 2005, focused mainly on sadness, these songs look much wider at the world around Antony Hegarthy. On Another World he misses [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Max
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This is more of a reminder than anything, but if you’re stuck with nothing to do tomorrow evening with nothing on TV, then a good idea is to tune in to BBC Radio 2 at 9pm for a special performance by Elbow. They’ll be performing the whole of their astounding album, The Seldom Seen Kid, [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Max
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Nearer to the Brit Awards themselves, I will be doing my own version of the awards to honour those not recognised (or the ones that didn’t sell as well as the nominees, given how close the awards mirror the UK charts) where I’ll be doing alternative winners for each category. For now though, I’m going [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Max
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Field Day is returning this year on the 1st August. The small festival at Victoria Park in East London is now in its third year and the initial line-up has been confirmed. Scottish post-rockers Mogwai will be headlining. Other acts also announced were Four Tet, James Yorkston, Apes And Androids, Malcolm Middleton, Fennenz, Errors and [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Max
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