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Music writer, football fan. Ranked by Feedspot in the Top 10 UK Indie Music Blogs of 2025. It's arcticreviews.co.uk if you want to read some stuff.
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Today’s good news: we’re down to the last two Kind bars! We started getting them in COVID times & Mrs Reviews had them on top up order ever since. At one point we had 8 boxes. I can’t even look at them anymore, like that time I got wrecked on Pernod at 14 & still hate the smell of aniseed.

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Theatre Royal – A Change of Weather review It's a hugely crowded market, so everyone in music needs a USP, right? Well, maybe, but not everyone's USP is an actual USP, being just in most cases a vaguely interesting "thing" that is neither unique or a selling point. Theatre Royal's defining quality…

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Turnstile – Never Enough review There's a lot of noise around Turnstile, so if you don't want to read much further, the headline in front of Never Enough is that an ostensibly hardcore band have made what will undoubtedly prove to be one of the year's best pop (In it's broadest sense) albums.…

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Released on this date in 2020, Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2020/06/22/p...

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This is who runs this account.

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Released on this date in 1996, Odelay by Beck #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2021/06/11/1...

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What a gig this was. Sat behind Johnny Marr, as you do.

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Is it definitive? Hell no. Is it lots of fun? Hell yes!

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Good job it’s water resistant too.

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The 50 Best Songs of 2025 So Far Get these songs on a playlist here. 50. Panda Bear - Ferry Lady 49. Biig Piig - Cynical 48. Adult DVD - Dogs In The Sun 47. Moss Side Sauna Club - My Weird Appetite 46. Ken Ishii - Giant Killer 45. The Cafe - Good Health Good Wealth 44. Snapped Ankles - Raoul 43.…

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Jaka Bijol is undergoing a medical at Leeds United's Thorp Arch training ground. #lufc www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Essential equipment

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Leeds United, unsurprisingly, will be live on TV at the first opportunity. Everton visit on Monday, August 18. #lufc Opening five: Aug 18 - Everton (h) - 8pm Aug 23 - Arsenal (a) - 3pm Aug 30 - Newcastle (h) - 3pm Sep 13 - Fulham (a) - 3pm Sep 20 - Wolves (a) - 3pm

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Arsenal away next

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On a Monday

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The Ev at home.

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Released on this date in 1966, Making Time by The Creation #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2024/01/09/1...

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Released on this date in 1991, Chicken Rhythms by Northside #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2024/04/20/n...

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Released on this date in 1979, Stay With Me 'Til Dawn by Judie Tzuke - quite the character #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/03/18/1...

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Released on this date in 2022, My Other People by TV Priest #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2022/06/13/t...

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To wade into the latest AI discourse' LLM chatbots are actually genuinely really useful tools. The problem is that their loudest advocates (and indeed creators) are mostly idiots using them for the dumbest things. And all of the crap created is understandably polarising people against it

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WE DID IT!! Over £50,000 for #AndysManclub !! Thank you to everyone who generously donated. If you still want to, you can at garyspeedwalk.com #LUFC #NUFC @thesquareball.net

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Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn review It's easy to get weary of the music industry's hype cycle in a "Which fresh set of cheekbones is this" vein, but whilst ok, so now impress me can feel like a necessary default mode to protect the self, occasionally the juice is worth the squeeze. Lifeguard come…

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Released on this date in 1997, Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2021/05/11/1...

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Is it “24 cans of Ace Lager for £6?”

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I have pairs of socks older than this LA club.

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Released on this date in 1986, The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths #musicsky arcticreviews.co.uk/2020/12/26/1...

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Wow. This looks like a real coup.

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You don’t mess with Leeds.

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On this day in 2016, Jo Cox was murdered in an act of cowardice and hate. The words below speak for themselves. RIP Jo. Thinking her and her family today.

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