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Tonight’s the night
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— 22 Jul 2000 Tom Comment

Tonight’s the night when They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) party on at the Octocapsule in Stoke Newington. A long performance of their epical masterpiece “Blok Rock” is promised, plus DJing, belly dancers, and dodgy punch. No de[…]

Planet Revolution
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— 22 Jul 2000 Tom Comment

Planet Revolution: Revolution is the “music magazine for the digital age”, and its site is a joke: not a good start. It’s not a joke because of poor design or navigability, certainly not – even on my pretty slow home machine i[…]

Can we forgive Wagner?
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— 22 Jul 2000 Tom Comment

Can we forgive Wagner? “It would be naive to feel that we must whitewash Wagner’s works in order to be able to enjoy them, for such an argument suggests that there is such a thing as an ideologically unproblematic work of art. On the othe[…]

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