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marvel: a character guide
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— 8 May 2013 mark sinker 23 comments

As a kid I only read British comics (Beano, Dandy, Topper, Beezer, Sparky et al), and never graduated to — or really understood — Marvel or DC. They were too vast in conception to catch up with, I felt: too big a universe, filled with too[…]

Start As You Mean To Go On… Eurovision nation intros
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— 7 May 2013 Pete Baran Comment

So on Saturday we ran a fun little club night called Europoptimism, which was partially to celebrate the fact that Eurovision is coming up. And all the Eurovision songs are available now so we wanted to try to pre-empt the competition, but we didn&#8[…]

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all the europop we can draw*
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— 5 May 2013 mark sinker Comment

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Club Action Presents… EUROPOPTIMISM
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— 2 May 2013 katstevens 1 comment

Club Action returns THIS SATURDAY!
Join DJ Chlorine & The Barnet Ape for a celebration of the best of German technobosh, Italo-disco, Russian girlpop, Swiss post-punk, Irish jigs, Serbian turbo-folk, Spanish holiday hits, Scandinavian hair metal,[…]

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