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93% Jez
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What about Mark's sister? Has she re-appeared since season 3? Tickety-Boo!
I'm sure she has been in it a few times since then, at marks wedding possibly. There was the shoplifter lassie when Jez was on jury duty and also the lads who mugged Mark.
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Cardiff, 100% home record in the league against bottom of the table Peterborough, pumped 2-1
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My ticket for Sigur Ros has arrived
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The Hives at the Arches tonight
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I too have seen them at the Arches, they played the barras in Oct 97 then done a dj set afterparty at the barras, was well good and in the days when I didn't need a lie down after a gig
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I get a free £5 bet every week with skybet so planked it on one of their enhanced accumulators
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free £5 bet with skybet on dortmond and psg returned £16.50
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A brilliant album and the third from my top 10
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I would probably change my choices now. I can't stop listening to Moderat, Modeselektor and Apparat.
I would do the same after recently discovering Android Lust and Pigface
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Half Man Half Biscuit at the O2 next year
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It's the same as that Tank Commander thing, it's equally gash yet Scots seem to lap it up. That and Mrs Brown's boys which is a heinous crime to comedy.
That's the scottish way, I've often said that scots like something purely because it is scottish regardless of whether it is actually any good or not.
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Superb, the mrs had never seen this before so we watched series 1 on friday.
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Dinosaur Jr at the Arches in January
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I watched it for the first time tonight and didn't really get it. Not for me.
I think it's an age thing, I've watched a couple of episodes and thought it was pish whereas the teenagers at my work find it hilarious and us old gits think it's a lot of pish.
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£20 on Man City, Bournemouth and Crystal palace retunrd £74.02
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This was the tune that got me into orbital, got it on a Select magazine tape along with this awesome tune
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I've been listening to a bit of pigface lately
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My number 2 album has joined my number 1 in the p and b top of the pops, I think that'll be my last unless theres some industrial fans on here
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Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Angles
(2008)
Coming straight outta Essex, the cult of Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip is an ever growing force, a word of mouth success that deserves a greater audience. Rapper/poet/singer Scroobius Pip delivers an ever fascinating and compelling flow of consciousness over the tapestry of beats, sounds and hooks provided by producer Dan Le Sac, and on this debut album it all comes together to form a hugely exciting and varied collection of tracks.
For a nominal hip-hop band, the pair have struggled to make the breakthrough with the purist audience the genre often attracts. An MC named after an Edward Lear poem was perhaps never likely to appeal to those weaned on the hollow subject matter of much of modern rap, but that's their loss. Whether name-checking Herbie Hancock and rapping about the periodic table on Development, or offering up genuinely touching views on self-harm and suicide on The Magician's Assistant, Scroobius Pip is the perfect guide through the record.
Dan Le Sac's productions share top billing throughout though, combining endless sounds and ideas that help make this a genre-hopping experience that still all sits neatly together. It combines electronic programming and live instrumentation, a mosaic of colourful shifting musical themes. The head nodding beats and stuttering breakdown of Rapper's Battle, pulsing synth of the title track, and chilling piano lines of stunning climax Waiting For The Beat To Kick In are just some of the highlights on an album that's packed full of them.
Musically the whole album has an endearing anything goes attitude - Radiohead's Planet Telex is chopped to great effect alongside acidic bleeps on Letter From God To Man, and Dizzee Rascal's Fix Up Look Sharp is mangled and stretched beneath interchanging rock guitar and synth riffs on Fixed, while elsewhere there are seemingly inexhaustible twists and turns through a maze of colourful motifs. Angles is an exciting and always fresh sounding experience that deserves wider recognition - a great discovery sitting here among other more celebrated albums.
This was my number 1 choice, a superb album. Scroobius Pip is re-releasing his debut solo album No Commercial Breaks next month as a double cd with the second disc being a live spoken word set from his current tour
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A bet of a friend.
Congrats to that bloke!
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Utah Saints
Utah Saints
(1993)
Utah Saints! U-U-U-Utah Saints! To those of us who grew up in the early 90s, it's impossible to hear the name of Michael Stipe's favourite dance act (now there's an endorsement) without reacting in this manner. “The first stadium house band” according to Bill Drummond, the Saints were unashamedly pop and their music became briefly ubiquitous as a result.
The big hits are all here – pilfering pop divas of the day to marvellous effect. Kate Bush and Annie Lennox are stuffed into the sampler and spat out alongside monster piano and rock riffs. Something Good, What Can You Do For Me and I Want You exploded onto the pop charts way back then, making everything else seem monochrome in comparison.
The rest of the album is mostly more of the same, and that's no bad thing. New Gold Dream-81-82-83-84, Believe In Me, Too Much To Swallow... in fact damn near every track is full of the joy of pop. Soulution, States Of Mind and Trance Atlantic Glide are relatively sombre in comparison, and it's probably just as well given the energy and excitement on display elsewhere.
Utah Saints should still serve as a reminder to many a po-faced purist how exciting pop music can be. I'm off to listen to Something Good again......
argh I forgot about this one, saw them live at either the Phoenix or Reading festival in the mid 90s, a magical chemically enhanced night!
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Who were the "celebrities"? I recognised 1 from neighbours and 1 from emmerdale, don't have a clue about the other ones.