Name: Greg Smyth
Dateline: Newcastle, England
Weblog: swingbatterbatter.wordpress.com [RSS]
Articles: 52
First Published: Monday, November 1, 2004
Last Published: Monday, September 18, 2006
Currently listing articles 52-1:
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Music Review: Joanna Newsom - Ys— I have a friend who calls Joanna Newsom an "irritating, squeaky woman" - some people just can't get past her voice.
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Concert Review: Howling Bells— Barring the collected output of the Brothers Finn, the Antipodean colonies haven’t had much luck in the musical department.
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Concert Review: Field Music And The Futureheads— Broken hearts? More than a few. A happy ending? Definitely.
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CD Review: The Black Heart Procession - The Spell— Grab your Moleskines, people, I can feel a melancholic funk coming on.
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CD Review: Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You— They wrote songs about downloading porn and, spookily, New York being a graveyard. Unfortunately, they also kind of split up.
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Album Review: Mogwai - Mr. Beast— Sometimes, it seems, getting older can be fun.
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Concert Review: Giant Drag— Annie Hardy: bookish wallflower or foul-mouthed harridan? Discuss.
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Concert Review: Ryan Adams— "It's Valentines Day, so if you're here that must make you a bunch of sad bastards."
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The Hot Topic: Writing Ambitions— What are your creative ambitions and how do you express them?
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CD Review: The Beatings - Holding On To Hand Grenades— Maybe it's personal intolerance, but this whole 80s bandwagon is beginning to really f--- me off.
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CD Review: Neil Young - Prairie Wind— Sometimes it's nice to return to the familiar and, if you're in the business of making money, the successful.
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Live Review: Josh T Pearson— The gangly ZZ Top-bearded Texan and former Lift To Experience frontman sits hunched contemplatively over his electro-acoustic guitar.
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CD Review: Babyshambles - Down In Albion— Neither the blindingly obvious classic the music press wanted nor the half-finished mumblings of Doherty's Tabloid Junkie Waster persona.
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Live Review: Be Your Own Pet— It all goes wrong right from the start. Before they even play a note Nashville's new hope, Be Your Own Pet, have already lost their
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The Hot Topic: Coffee and CDs— Would you be willing to buy music from a coffee company?
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Review: The Beatings - If Not Now, Then When?
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Review: Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger— ...
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Review: The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan— ...
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Ryan Adams And The Cardinals - Cold Roses— Which hat is Ryan Adams wearing this time round: depressive barfly, old school rocker or bedroom whiner?
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Dylan an' a muffin...— The Grauniad picks up on the new Dylan albums, including the new one Starbucks is selling.
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Frank Black - Honeycomb— ...
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"Al Qaeda" Bomb London— Current reports number thirty seven confirmed fatalities.
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Vetiver - Between EP— ...
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Xbox Review: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory— ...
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Darth Blogger— ...
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Live: Rufus Wainwright— Rufus Wainwright is naked.
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Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love— ...
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Weezer - Beverly Hills— ...
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Aaron McMullan - Songs From The Back Room— ...
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Heavy Trash - Heavy Trash— ...
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Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep— ...
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Beck - Guero— ...
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Album: Rufus Wainwright - Want Two— ...
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Handsome Boy Modeling School - White People— ...
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Live: Tom Vek— From Gay Day to Bloc Party a band's name and their coolness are intrinsically linked.
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Live: Eastern Lane— Eastern Lane, like any good illusionist, know that misdirection is all part of the trick.
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Brian Wilson - Smile— The problem with lost albums is that, sooner or later, some bastard releases them.
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Adam Green - Gemstones— The Moldy Peaches, one-time costumed leading lights of the New York Anti-Folk scene, made one patchy but occasionally inspired album before quietly disbanding.
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Live: Adam Green— If Adam Green wants to be taken seriously as an artist, he's got a strange way of showing it.
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Northen Irish Bank Heist OpEd— ...
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X-Men #166 by Milligan & Larroca + Miki— ...
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Y2K4: The (belated) year in music— ...
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Y2K4: Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines— ...
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Y2K4: The Polyphonic Spree - Together We're Heavy— ...
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Y2K4: Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs— ...
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Nirvana - With The Lights Out— ...
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Mactopia— They queued around the block for the opening of Apple's first purpose-built European store on London's Regent Street which opened Saturday.
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X-Force vol.2 - by Fabian Niceza & Rob Liefeld— ...
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Grant Morrison round-up: JLA Classified #1 & WE3 #2— Grant Morrison's (brief) return to the Justice League may be all but impenetrable to new-comers but it's a rollicking read nonetheless.
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Frank Black - Frank Black Francis— ...
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Roll on 2008! Clinton-Obama vs Cheney-Schwarzenegger— ...
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Madrox #1 & 2 by Peter David, Pablo Raimondi & Drew Hennessy— ...
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