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Pop music runs through Jennifer Gannon's veins like raspberry syrup swirled over ice cream. She misspent half her youth with her finger on the rewind button and her eyes gazing dreamily into the latest issue of Smash Hits...
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Life Tracks: Ike and Tina: River Deep-Mountain High
Love songs, true love songs should only be written by the insane. To fall in love is to be party to your own self destruction, to pull the trigger to complete annihilation, the loss of self through the bizarre idolatry of another, an idle worship that can last…
May 05, 2013
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Live Review: Frankie Cocozza – The Academy 2, Dublin
When Gary Barlow made the seemingly bewildering choice to put skunk-headed Frankie Cocozza into The X Factor the jig was finally up. Here was a boy that looked like a sore that had fallen off Pete Doherty and mutated like a fungus into a fully-grown human being paraded around…
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Live Review: Girls Aloud – The 02, Dublin
We seem to have gotten used to the idea of ‘reunions’ now. The cash-ins and fake smiles, the backstage bloodbaths, the aching dead-eyed misery etched into familiar faces as they canter once more round the circuit begging to be adored, desperately trying to invoke that sliver of genius that…
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It’s Different For Girls
There has been some chatter around the local Twitter hub of late about that old thorny issue of women in music. Last week when a music website decided to publish a Daily Fail style reader-trolling/baiting review that ‘ironically’ rolled out that old ‘hilarious’ observation that having a vagina means…
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Brit Awards 2013
This year really should have been all about One Direction’s hair. It should have been a camera-trained tribute to the five gleaming superstar pompadours sitting on their polished heads like official pop-star halos. They should have opened the show, should have exploded from beneath the stage in a humid…
