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LIVE REVIEW - THE KOOKS, BLACKPOOL EMPRESS BALLROOM

Alexandra Johnson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:45:30 +0000

The Kooks
Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, 08-12-08

A gig that can be summed up in one simple word: unexpected. Okay, so maybe not so simple but I’ll endeavour to explain. It was like a bedroom full of perspiration and big tits (courtesy of Jackie). There were multi-coloured lights, strobes, dripping drapes. It was a basically a bloody great show.

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LIVE REVIEW: IDA MARIA @ RESCUE ROOMS, NOTTINGHAM

Alexandra Johnson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:48:53 +0000

Ida Maria
Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
22/10/08

The Rescue Rooms is a little gem, hidden away from the prying public. In its sultry and sexy canopied layout , the cheery bounce of Nouvelle Vague’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ set the mood for a nicely eclectic crowd of older gentlemen and a smattering of student types (oh, and a plastic parrot).

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STUFF TO LOVE ON MTV TWO: GONZO ON TOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL

Alexandra Johnson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:24 +0000

oN THE TELLY BoX:

GONZO ON TOUR 08 WEEKEND
Tonight from 7pm and all weekend!
Dear viewers, the wait is finally over. For weeks now, the MTV TWO team have toiled to the ends of the earth and back (OK, Aberdeen - but close enough) to shoot the finest bands in the country who joined us on the mammoth, era-defining (too much? Nah…) GONZO ON TOUR ’08.

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Let's Get Political

M.O.G.G. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:28:54 +0000

Today is the day of days. Well, that's what they'd have you believe anyway. Will anything actually change??? Who knows, but it'll be fun waiting to find out.

Thank god that there are still artists willing to put their nuts on the line and make ANY kind of statement about ting and ting, even if it is in an ever-so-slightly odd way...

"The Story" is the first track taken from The Matthew Herbert Big Band "There's Me And There's You" album – a highly politically charged album, released on Matthews's own Accidental Records on 10th November.

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LIVE REVIEW: The Walkmen at ULU

Alexandra Johnson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:57:28 +0000

Last Monday, MTV TWO reviewer Emmet Mannion braved the unseasonable weather to see The Walkmen at London's ULU.

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75% of the ULU crowd tonight will have seen American band The Walkmen before and followed their path intently since influential album ‘Bows + Arrows’. The other 25% will have either tapped into their wall of sound via the route of the O.C’s sickening dross, or discovered The Walkmen through indie anthem, ‘The Rat’.

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LAST SHADOW PUPPETS AT HAMMERSMITH APOLLO, MONDAY 26 OCTOBER

Alexandra Johnson — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:00:21 +0000

We despatched Emmet Mannion, one of MTV TWO's team of intrepid gig reviewers, to Hammersmith Apollo on Monday to review them there Last Shadow Puppets on the last date of their UK tour. Herewith his ponderings...

Last Shadow Puppets
Hammersmith Apollo
26/10/08

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Have YOUR Say In The Playlist!

Jee — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:03:50 +0000

We’re looking for people to join our research panel and give us their views on the music videos we’re playing...

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ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF THE KING (I.S.K.)

Tamba Emes — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:18:59 +0000

Just wanted make a song and a dance about ILLEGITIMATE SONS OF THE KING (I.S.K.)
They will be playing 333 on the 24th of October so if you like what you hear go check them out!

http://www.myspace.com/iskmusic

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Jeffrey Lewis - he's our hero

M.O.G.G. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:18:00 +0000

Hot off the press:

And we shot this in Austin, Texas, earlier this year:

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BLOC PARTY BRING GONZO TOUR 08 TO A CLOSE

Alexandra Johnson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:07:12 +0000

As the last dregs of the MTV TWO team - and boy do we feel like dregs today! - trundle home from Glasgow with Iglu & Hartly's "In The City (Put A Donk On It Remix)" still ringing in their ears, we thought you might like to read wee review of the final night's show at http://www.rokbun.com There's some pretty awesome pictures of Kele Bloc Party's crowd-surfing excursion during the encore too.

Can't believe that's it for another year - although my liver is very grateful and I'm looking forward to sleep and vegetables.

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