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Where to stay, what to eat, where to shop and what to see and do in Reepham in Norfolk

Where to stay, what to eat, where to shop and what to see and do in Reepham in Norfolk

Very few of their peers surpass Eurythmics in terms of artistic vision, musicianship, songwriting, and creative audacity. This is the history of the seminal new wave group.

Hot talent heads our way as Rewind and Doune The Rabbit Hole announce their line-ups. But the live music live music starts this weekend.

New material is afoot... The Specials are a British institution. The legendary 2-Tone band struck a chord with the nations youth as the Thatcher era choked the country, with two seismic studio albums seeming to set the pulse of the UK. Lynval Golding led the way, a key member of the group before easing into the world of Fun Boy Three. Re-joining The Specials for their 21st century re-union, he helped drive them to the top spot with their terrific album Encore. Anna Stephens spoke to Lynval Gol...

Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 05.19 EDT 2 Tone Records began in a Coventry flat in 1979 and peaked two years later, when the Specials’ era-defining Ghost Town went to No 1 as riots blazed around a UK in recession. The label launched the Specials and the Selecter from the current City of Culture, plus Londoners Madness, Birmingham’s the Beat and others, all to chart success, but also ended up naming an entire movement: dance crazy, sharp-suited, political, multi-racial ska-pop that ...

Fergal Kinney , March 1st, 2021 09:31 On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, 
Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail In pop music, and the cottage industry set up to auto-mythologise it, there’s little premium higher than the small coterie of bands whose skimpy discographies are inverse to their XXL influence – Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Slint, Television. You...

(3CD, Cherry Red) In retrospect it’s clear that there was more than punk in the air in the mid and late 70s. New York, perhaps, most clearly showed the musical divergence and synchronicity, as the city birthed disco, hiphop and punk from its broken and bankrupt tenements and slums. But something similar was happening in London too: pub rock, progrock, pop, dance, new wave, funk, jazz, experimental and improvised music had, of course, continued alongside and despite the headline-grabbing antic...

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