Archives – 1999 – May  

The Singles Bar
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— 31 May 1999 Tom 3 comments

A coin in a jukebox, a basement that smells of piss and rust, full of vinyl at ten pence a time, a tape in a cheap cardboard sleeve, bought in a train station, a green courier bag holed where the corners of 12″s poked through, a radio aerial, q[…]

THE LEXICON OF LOVE: The Go-Betweens, Live In London, 17th May 1999
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— 21 May 1999 Tom Comment

What was that phrase? Grace under pressure? No pressure here any more, twenty years into the game and playing in front of an audience that’s more like a congregation, but Robert Forster and Grant McLennan are still gracious enough and more so. […]

Let’s Just Say That Sometimes
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— 10 May 1999 Michael Comment

If he had been born in any pop era, Brian Wilson would’ve flourished at least to some degree with those mad skills of his. He wrote and co-wrote cunning songs about surfing, hotrods and teenage autonomy without any firsthand experience; doubtle[…]

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