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MUSIC REVIEW: Everything You’ll Ever Need – Jake Shears’ flies solo

Craig Hanlon-Smith August 14, 2018

Jake Shears and his Scissor Sisters were the stealth queens of LGBT+ acceptance and progress upon these island shores now more than a decade ago. It was almost as if under the cover of darkness their uplifting brand of acceptable queer stage performance dragged the wider heterosexual music buying public unwittingly into the circus and our heterosexual brother in-laws and their mates were proud of their 02 Arena show tickets even though they’re a bunch of gays.

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GIG REVIEW: Reef @Concorde 2

Ray A-J May 20, 2018

It’s a revelation, Reef are back with a new album and tour to boot. But is their roaring rock still as good? “I JUST WANT to make a complaint actually,” the man on stage quips, dripping with sweat as he gasps for air, grabbing the nearest bottle of water. “I’ve been given a bathtowel. Who do […]

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MUSIC REVIEW: A sweet decay into darkness

Ray A-J May 20, 2018

Ciaran Levery opens the stage up to a beautiful pain on his latest album Sweet Decay.   THE STAGE opens up, and in the dim glow of the dilapidated spotlight a fragile ballerina tiptoes into view. He’s tall, so tall, but holds himself with the shame of a fleeting lion in the Serengeti outcast by […]

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MUSIC REVIEW: Tommy Down – Superficial

Ray A-J May 9, 2018

Tommy Down has us asking: Isn’t it all just a little ‘Superficial’, with his funky track. A funky twist here, a chirpy twang there – this relaxed summer night soundtrack from soul and jazz man Tommy Down somehow has me pondering the politics of selfies, but surrounded by the sounds of a synthy speakeasy.

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REVIEW: Walking in the air? More like dancing

Ray A-J January 1, 2018

Explore the snowy scene of a Christmas classic reimagined, through the voice of Velma Celli. Chord. Then twinklingly melancholy piano notes. The intro to a, dare I say it, Twilight film complete with sweeping camera shots of a desolate snowy landscape rushes into your conscious.

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