When there ain’t anything in the news that’s exactly new or exciting then what do the media do? Big up a Stone Roses reunion, that’s what. This month it is the turn of Mani to start the rumours with the hinting in his interview with The Sun that if the money was good, there might [...]

Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Max
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Some bands just ooze confidence. They are the bands who don’t say a thing onstage or just refuse to be interesting in interviews. They let their music do the talking for them. Unfortunately, not everyone is like that. Some bands just refuse to let you gout of their stranglehold for attention until they’ve told you [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Max
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V Festival is a pretty ‘meh’ festival. Some years, like last year, will see a pretty solid bunch of headliners but a pretty drab lineup otherwise. This year The Killers and Oasis are headlining, which itself sounds pretty average and non-exciting. The rest of the lineup has a small smattering of decent names scattered around [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Max
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The Killers are the last of the headliners to be announced for Benicassim, the Spanish seaside festival. They will close the festival on Sunday night. They join Oasis (Thursday), Kings Of Leon (Friday) and Franz Ferdinand (Saturday) as headliners, and also alongside Paul Weller (who should be headlining as well, in my opinion). Vince Power, [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Max
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Oasis are leading the way at the NME Awards next month with seven nominations. Several hundreds and thousands of deluded NME readers voted for several categories, and alongside the Manchester band in terms of mass nominations are Kings Of Leon, who have four nominations. Best Live Band seems to be the most interesting category with [...]

Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Max
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