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Smoking ban? Think about the music! Smoking Band is more like it.
Written by Jimmy
We give you a Top 10 song list of Songs About Smoking, featuring Tiny Team, Rufus Wainwright, Fiery Furnaces, Princess Chelsea and Arctic Monkeys. We’ll try to keep it a secret that we added Brownsville Station…
Abubilla Goes On Holiday: Africa Oyé Festival
Written by Rosie
This weekend a small band of Abubillans are heading up the long and winding road to Liverpool (see what I did there?) for the 20th anniversary of one of the…Read more
Background to Songs: I’ve Just Seen A Face, KHT
Written by Jimmy
I’ve Just Seen a Face is the 7th Song on our fourth album, King Henry’s Tears. Like Machivelli’s The Prince, we tried to put our favourite parts smack dab in…Read more
A seriously geeky, but seriously cool Beatles website…
Written by Ed Stone
You know that weird ‘honking’ sound at the start of ‘Back in the USSR’? Or noticed someone shouting obscenities halfway though Hey Jude? Well with this website, not only can…Read more
Classic Performances for the Old People and by the Old People: Vol 1
Written by Jimmy
We have a lot of artists from 60’s and 70’s still touring… Let’s look back at 10 of their performances when they were a wee bit younger…(doing this is somewhat…Read more
Separated at Birth: Monkees vs. Beatles
Written by Jimmy
First, it is really hard to take a blog seriously with words like beetles or monkies in the title – but we’re talking about music so it all makes sense….Read more