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Book review: Stuart Cosgrove’s Young Soul Rebels

January 2, 2018by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber enjoys Stuart Cosgrove’s personal history of northern soul, the enduring and often mythologised youth culture which rescued forgotten stomping soul records from America’s black inner-cities and blasted them out […]

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Live review: Radiohead – Old Trafford Cricket Ground, 4th July 2017

July 7, 2017by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber heads up north to catch Radiohead’s rearranged super-gig at Old Trafford cricket ground. Despite some serious sound issues, a triumphant final hour makes it just about worth it. […]

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Live review: Spiritualized – Barbican, Tuesday 8th November 2016

November 11, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber is left dumbstruck by a rare in-full performance of Spiritualized’s vital cosmic masterpiece Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at London’s Barbican. It’s a rare and personally unprecedented […]

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Classic albums: Global Communication – 76:14

September 21, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Following the release of Mark Pritchard’s mighty Under The Sun LP, Piers Barber invents a new feature in order to pen an ode to one of the pioneering producer’s finest moments to date: […]

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Live review: Massive Attack – Hyde Park, 1st July 2016

July 15, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber watches an angry Massive Attack occasionally reach their thrilling best during a politically-infused headline slot at the first British Summer Time date of the summer. The opening show of this […]

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Album Review: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

May 30, 2016by Buster Stonham 1 Comment

After five years of waiting, we finally have a new Radiohead album to enjoy. Here’s Buster Stonham on whether it was worth all the fuss. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) After five […]

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Prince, the performer

April 26, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Prince lived for the stage, and his live show will forever remain one of the most memorable to ever grace the world’s clubs, theatres and sports stadiums. In the days since […]

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The story of Wattstax 1972

April 8, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

In August 1972, the iconic soul and R&B label Stax hosted an unprecedented, star-filled day of music to commemorate the 1965 Watts riot. Piers Barber looks back at an event which sought to […]

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Album review: Fatima Al Qadiri – Brute

March 16, 2016by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Piers Barber checks out Fatima Al Qadiri’s characteristic take on protest music and discovers a record often stunning in its relevance and condemnation of authoritarian state violence. Fatima Al Qadiri – […]

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The Music Factory’s Favourite Albums of 2015

December 22, 2015by Piers Barber Leave a comment

Here it is, another edition of the Music Factory’s world famous List Of Some Albums We Liked Most Out Of The Ones We Had Time To Listen To This Year: 2015 edition. […]

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