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Various Artists – 15 Years Of Bella Union Records

By |September 20th, 2012|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , |

Bella Union, 2012 [rating:8/10] 2012 marks the 15th anniversary of the birth of Bella Union, a record label started by Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins that was created, initially, to release their

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Grand Atlantic / The Lovers of Modern Art / We All Want To – Brisbane – 26 June 2009

By |June 26th, 2009|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Not ones to throw angular shapes the boys here strive to find the right notes and the majority of the time they hit them.

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Ramona – London – 17 April 2011

By |April 28th, 2011|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

It's easy to love Ramona, even though everything about them is so flawless and en pointe, unheard for a scruffy bunch of Brighton by-way-of-New-York rockers. Picks in hand, they transform a handful of chords into polished punk perfection, fronted by the coquettish bleach-blonde tomboy Karen Anne, a second generation Edie and Debbie who knows how to hang from a mic stand like she was hanging from your shoulder. Absent from the stage this year so far, they cycle through their set in a brisk half hour, including encore, and you're crying out for a flubbed note, an unrehearsed run through a song they just wrote in the van, or general indifference to whether anybody is listening.

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