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28 Feb 2007
The road to musical hell is paved with good intentions. This year’s Comic Relief charity single sees two of our most treasured girl groups unite for a cover version of Aerosmith’s ‘Walk This Way’ (Fascination/Island - 2 stars). Unfortunately, while the…
1 May 2008
Yet more fresh new gigging dates for your diary: Original country-rock matriarch Emmylou Harris plays Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 9 September. Ex-Beta Banders (and Lone Pigeon) The Aliens play Edinburgh Liquid Room on 16 June. In addition…
18 Jun 2007
(Photo: Cherry Ghost) After the sugar-rush, bubblegum-pop of ‘Girlfriend’, the dreary ballad that is Avril Lavigne ’s ‘When You’re Gone’ (Columbia, 1 Star) is blandness personified. Andrea Corr ’s ‘Shame On You’ (Atlantic, 1 Star) meanwhile isn’t as…
13 Mar 2007
ROCK POP After two songs of the Aliens’ debut long player (an outdated description, but at 72 minutes, a justified one), you might be praying for invasion by some little green ones to take you away from it all. The hackneyed and tuneless 60s funk…
4 Sep 2006
Were the Singles and Downloads desk to dish out an award for Most Obvious Candidate For Being in an Advert of the Fortnight, it would have to go to Zero 7 featuring Jose Gonzalez ’ ‘Futures’ (Atlantic) ***. Just imagine that for a minute . . . it’s MOR…
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13 Mar 2007
