Short writings about pop records, and obscure references which I could,
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review posts
2022
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10 September …Pye Corner Audio Projet de Vie Cut City The Egyptian Lover and Hanky Panky / Jamie Jupitor Fridge
01 September …Sun's Signature Robin Guthrie Simon Raymonde
25 August …F--k / Windsor for the Derby / Wino / The For Carnation Microstoria Not Waving / Pye Corner Audio / Silent Servant Speed Bike / Melt-Banana / Jason Forrest / Donna Summer / Felix Kubin Shea / Air Miami / The Amps / Mojave 3 Labradford / Stars of the Lid Various Shift / Platzgumer / Con-Tact
19 August …Hovercraft / Scanner The Go! Team Bis Eat Lights Become Lights / Twelve
14 August …Ganger Mudhoney The Flatmates Cut/Copy The Girls at Dawn Madder Rose I am the World Trade Center
01 August …Marine Research Drugstore The Jellies Drop Nineteens
15 July …Rod Freeman and The Blue Men / Throbbing Gristle / Christian Zanési / Avrovane / Stereolab Sonic Youth / Mudhoney Add (N) to X / Fridge Cuban Boys
09 July …Black Devil Bis The Beta Band Bentley Rhythm Ace Appliance A.C. Acoustics Afghan Whigs Autechre British Meat Scene Collapsed Lung / Soul Coughing Black Dice
25 June …Luna Osymyso M83 Go Home Productions vs DJ Frenchbloke and Son Chris Morris / Osymyso / Adrian Sutton / Jonathan Whitehead Four Tet / Rothko
03 June …Senor Coconut SFV Acid September Girls Pond Scheer Stranger Son of WB Sand Serena Maneesh
30 May …Ui Von Hemmling Venera 4 Tortoise / Autechre Tortoise / Derrick Carter To Rococo Rot The Wedding Present
18 May …New Bad Things The Apples in Stereo / Breathers Arcwelder Various
18 March …Broadcast
20 January …Heavenly Large Plants
2021
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16 October …3eese Add N to (X) Adventures in Stereo AFX All Girl Summer Fun Band Apparat Organ Quartet The Auteurs
08 October …The Darlings Roadside Poppies Bugs Eat Books Littly My Tinyfolk Bunnygrunt Sunny Intervals The Just Joans
02 August …Peaches Sloe Noon
17 July …Remora / Coits / Ashtray Navigations / Ghostdad The Detox Twins The Epidemic / Rameses III Ms. Bliss / Flowchart / Moog Monday / Füxa Windy and Carl / Hopewell Magnétophone / The Groceries / Salomé / Our Glassie Azoth Mister Jolly / Ennui / Vanilla Pod / The Pitkins / Scarper! / Egg Stomp Talk Modstone
15 July …City Center Sissy Space Echo and the Invisible Collaborators / The Edible Eyes Group Modular / e Lush / Ivy / Solar Race / Splendora / Jale / Fuzzy Beautify Junkyards / Belbury Poly Tunic Seatman and Powell featuring Belbury Poly Blonde Redhead Echo Ladies
11 July …The Catenary Wires The Marcia Blaine School for Girls / d_rradio Molly Nilsson Robedoor / Yellow Swans Madonnatron / Meatraffle France Gall Cult 48
30 June …Soft Drinks
14 March …Mandarinaduck Slint
23 January …Screen Prints The Feeling Driving Past / Sleepy Township / Pip Proud / The Frustrations / Crabstick / Long Weekend / New Waver The Faded Tapes Temple Songs Kid 606 / ASCDI / Printed Circuit Gerald Tenderfly The Fairlight Myth
2020
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14 December …Paul Weller Meat Whiplash Terry Edwards Brilliant Colors Piney Gir Tender Trap Cuckooland / Rugrat / Phantom Pregnancies / Monkhouse / Wat Tyler / Spizzmas The Walnut Dash The Superions Bam! Bam! Hard Skin / Betty and the Werewolves / Thee Spivs / Tender Trap Talulah Gosh Good Grief / Eureka California
04 December …MIDDEX Hanno Leichtmann Dream Division Fred Schneider and the Superions Pale Saints
25 October …Lake Ruth ISAN Tsunami / Superchunk / Rodan / Unrest Pet Shop Boys Magnétophone Joy Zipper Talking Heads Aztec Camera Stylus / The Freed Unit / Avrocar / Brickwerk
22 October …Absolutely Fabulous Marshmallow Coast / Midget and Hairs Epic45 / 100 Pets Billy Bragg Donna Summer Bloomer
17 October …Pet Shop Boys Adam and the Ants Thomas Dolby Lorelei ISAN Erasure Matthew Hattie Hein / Sarah Dougher The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Giorgio Morodor and Philip Oakey Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam Saloon Electroscope / Longstone Army of Lovers
09 September …The Nix Food Pyramid / Deep Earth Scorpio Scorpio / Fast Lady Bobby Birdman / Selector Dub Narcotic Librarian Jel and Joashino Naytronix Ice Choir LOVELIVES The Pastels Hiking Yek Koo The Vaselines / The Pooh Sticks Rollin Hunt The Haiduks Shana David Astrel K
24 August …Group Photos Constant Smiles CIEL
01 May …David Lord / Inigo Kilburn Axolotes Mexicanos Erleen Nada Fists Molly Nilsson Silent Diane Copper Glove Petit Mal
07 April …All Girl Summer Fun Band / Cars Can Be Blue Bunnygrunt / Phil Wilson The Marbles / Casper and the Cookies Velcro Stars / Keith John Adams Apples in Stereo / Patience Please High Water Marks / Love Letter Band of Montreal / James Husband Boyracer / The Faintest Ideas Tullycraft / The Smittens Andy from Denver / Red Pony Clock Fishboy / Baby Calendar Always Red Society / Sunshine Fix Poison Control Center / Ideal Free Distribution
16 February …XX Teens The Witchdoktors Wild Billy Childish and the MBE's You Say Party! We Say Die! Xerox Teens The Wombats Wio
26 January …Peggy Sue and the Pirates Peggy Sue Pete and the Pirates Poppy and the Jezebels Flyscreen The Nubiles The Motherf--kers The Noisettes The Futureheads The Coral The Candyskins Charlie's Angels Badly Drawn Boy / Doves The Catherine Wheel The Raconteurs Pusherman Slingbacks Morrissey Glasvegas Ikara Colt Mika Bomb Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman The Raveonettes Animal Collective
24 January …Pet Shop Boys
2019
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23 December …The Sunflowers / Smashing Orange Rothko Sissy Space Echo and the Invisible Collaborators / The Edible Eyes And the Lefthanded Archers of Loaf Kensuke Kimachi / Lo Moto / Baby Doll / Postalowa Kelly Clarkson Pylon Sontag Shogun and Morkitoo The Coolies William Shatner
03 December …Four Hour Window Jay Reatard / Sonic Youth Kid 606 / LSR Betty Boo Hovercraft Gibbous Taylor Swift
22 November …Taylor Swift The Soundcarriers / Gloria
28 October …The Bardots Capitol K Teenage Fanclub The Wedding Present Pusherman Kingmaker Erasure The Fall Kitchens of Distinction The House of Love BMX Bandits Julian Cope Lush Animal Collective The Stone Roses The Jesus and Mary Chain
01 October …Transparent Thing Labradford Stasola / Electroscope Kid 606 / Tigerboy The Tourists E\*VAX Yellow6 Grenadine Ellis Island Sound
20 September …Talking Heads
28 August …Airport Girl / The Static Waves Ui Beanpole / Wack Cat / Recycledpop / Bunnygrunt Electroscope / Mount Vernon Arts Lab / Castaway Stones Eugene Chadbourne and Evan Johns The Male Nurse Hydroplane
23 August …The B-52's Fake Laugh Howes
25 June …Makita The Workhouse Kinski No Monster Club Atomizer Public Image Limited Carmino Capobianco Bomb the Bass James Goldie Lookin Chain
08 June …Right Said Fred Cocteau Twins God Help the Girl Global Parasite / The Arteries
30 May …Pet Shop Boys Grab This S-Express Public Image Limited The Housemartins Talking Heads Cocteau Twins This Mortal Coil The Wedding Present The June Brides Dusty Springfield Ivor Biggun and the Red-Nosed Burglars The Jam
02 May …Beat Happening Pussycat Trash Tarantel / Lilienthal Magnétophone Happy Flowers KaitO / Cato Cato V/Vm Tsunami Harry Dean Stanton
03 April …Pet Shop Boys The Jam Andy Williams The Seekers
20 February …Blood Oranges Cayucas Big Search The German Measles Seafang North American War Nosoträsh
01 February …Low Accelera Deck Buddha on the Moon Electroscope Sound Smith The Feminine Complex
15 January …Denim
2018
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31 December …Light Vagus Nerve Yellow 6 Flowchart Windy and Carl Arovane / Christian Kleine Yellow 6 / Portal Husbands
22 November …Daphne and Celeste Quintron and the Violent Hordes of Nature Jeffrey Lewis Windy and Carl / Grimble Grumble Spearmint Milk Kan
17 September …Laura Veirs Ted Chippington Marc Manning of Montreal Julee Cruise
27 July …Spearmint Cocteau Twins
21 May …Shrag Shrag / Tunabunny Black Box Recorder The Undertones Goldie Lookin Chain Jeff Mellin Sourpatch Welfare
22 April …Brian Eno / Kevin Shields Belly
14 April …Psapp Nice Nice Giorgio Luma with Malik Moore Free School Cass McCombs / White Magic Catapult Electronic Music Composer Sean Baxter Deerhoof Shrag Girl One and the Grease Guns / Jen Schande Agent Simple Orca Team Week of Wonders Jacques Caramac and the Sweet Generation Coasting Quilt Boy Basemint Terri vs Tori
10 March …Rema-Rema Toy Sverige Mole Says Hi Lord High Fixers
16 February …Big Jon Spencers Blues Explosion The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Barry Adamson / The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
19 January …Bowery Electric
2017
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29 December …Hard Left Girl Ray Seafang Pjaro / Radical Boy The Children's Suite / Kevin Blechdom / Ad Hawk / Sick Fick / MC Dodgy Sexist Summer Moon Drinks Lee Marvin Computer Arm Arborist with Kim Deal Hooton Tennis Club Mister Squinter / Ellen Reid Lutto Lento Mark Wynn Movie Brain
01 November …Shy Boys The Normal Driver Drive Faster The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Sleigh Bells Keane Pye Corner Audio Pye Corner Audio / Silent Servant / Not Waving The Breeders Various
24 June …Horsebeach / Rain Paints Shrag Jessica and the Fletchers / No F--ks The Primitives
15 April …The Miserable Rich Terminal Gods Nancy Wallace Hannah Peel Luke Haines The Vaselines Dean and Britta Daniel Land and the Modern Painters The Voluntary Butler Scheme Dylan Ettinger James Jefferson
09 March …Camera Obscura The Pheromoans / Horsebeach Thin Lips / Modern Baseball / The Superweaks Pye Corner Audio and Faten Kanaan
2016
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03 November …Lush The Watchmakers SUR Mini Dresses Tape Waves
26 October …Mercury Rev 18th Die Various Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Cocteau Twins Voodoo Queens
22 October …The Upholsterers The Sea Urchins Deers Allo, Darlin' Buzzcocks Mogwai Tame Impala The Apples in Stereo Pulp Draculas Daughter Broadcast Stereolab The Olivia Tremor Control The Male Nurse Johnny Foreigner The Pastels Joanna Gruesome St. Vincent Animal Collective Lilys
07 August …Luke Haines Yeah Yeah Yeah Industrial Lost Tapes Woods Totem Joanna Gruesome Jessica and the Fletchers Boyracer Cheap Red
24 July …XAM
13 April …Crystal Stilts Lush The Safe Distance Boyracer / American Culture Shark Toys / UV-TV Culte
19 January …Melt-Banana / Senyawa Dean and Britta
17 January …The Scottish Enlightenment Unhappy Shoppers Adult Books Troubleshooter Lost Tapes Yosoy
10 January …Mahogany Stump Manic Street Preachers / Fatima Mansions Half Man Half Biscuit The Phantom Pregnancies / Rent Boy Assassin Bettie Serveert Linton and Stewart / The Aislers Set Cougar Vox / Enemy Anemone The Lovely Eggs Menace Beach / Cowtown Eat Lights: Become Lights Hinds / The Parrots Politico The Primitives Reworked by Modular David Bazan Kishi Bashi Blikk Fang Matt Valentine Woodcraft Folk / Movement The Death of Pop The Grubby Mitts Cavern of Anti-Matter ToiToiToi The Hanging Stars Eerie Summer
2015
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16 November …Broadcast
26 September …Jacco Gardner Jonathan Rado The Dodos
09 July …Ducktails of Montreal Skylar Spence
11 June …Pye Corner Audio / Belbury Poly The History of Apple Pie Jeffrey Lewis and The Rain The Advisory Circle
09 June …Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Inch-Time Please Bonde do Rolê The British Public Bruno and Michel are Smiling / Skipperrr The Beets The Catenary Wires Cloudland Canyon Norse Horse
10 May …The Lovely Eggs Daphne and Celeste Cam Deas Steve Reich and Ensemble Avantgarde
27 April …Telekinesis Crooked Fingers Deerhoof
16 April …Miss Pussycat / Quintron / XBXRX Charlie Parr and the Black Twig Pickers Umberto Cloudland Canyon
02 April …The Hanging Stars Snails Mike and Cara Gangloff The Lucid Dream
2014
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26 November …Woodcraft Folk The Soundcarriers Cherry Glazerr The Smiles and Frowns Trwbador Savaging Spires Tranko The See See Whysp
10 November …Charles Douglas Karen Novotny X Brilliant Colors Yair Yona
06 November …Ten Benson Ampersand Sylvester Anfang II By the Sea Delia Derbyshire / Anthony Newley Deers
09 October …Dreams of Tall Buildings CYK Joynes and the Restless Dead Karen Novotny X - Ubertrager Karen Novotny X / Samantha Glass High Hazels Irma Vep Woo Woods / mv & ee Two Sunsets Death and Vanilla
13 September …Delia Derbyshire Two Sunsets Listening Centre Ampersand Oneohtrix
21 August …Tyrannosaurus Dead / Joanna Gruesome Comet Gain J.P. Massiera Kate's Bush Meatbodies Girl One and the Grease Guns
08 August …Deers Brooks and O'Hagan
20 July …Jonas Reinhardt Luke Haines Straight Arrows The Voluntary Butler Scheme
16 May …Quintron Neko Case / Kristin Hersh / pretty much everyone else Toy
29 April …of Montreal John Robinson-Pierce Füxa Kim Deal and Morgan Nagler Max Mathews Ringo Deathstarr Pussy Galore Linda Guilala
17 April …Various Neil Halstead
31 March …Tracey Ullman Daisy Chainsaw Curve Catherine Wheel Anthony Child / Stock, Hausen & Walkman Spearmint Showaddywaddy Madder Rose Airport Girl
02 January …The See See Thelightshines The Space Lady Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie "Prince" Billie Windy and Carl Death and Vanilla
2013
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15 November …Coasting Various Anxieteam Wevie Stonder Tumbledrier Babies Desalvo Retrosexuals Herzfeld Deletia The Makeshift Conspiracy / Sourtooth
12 November …The Advisory Circle / Belbury Poly Belbury Poly / Spacedog Roj
21 October …Camera Obscura September Gurls Girl One and the Grease Guns Spook School Bikes Hintermass
25 June …The Crookes Girl One and the Grease Guns Porcelain Raft Man or Astro-Man? Füxa / Dean and Britta English Singles Violet Woods High Wolf / Kunlun
2012
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15 November …Saturday Looks Good to Me David Cronenberg's Wife Shrag Joanna Gruesome Girls Names The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing
21 May …Band of Susans / Throwing Muses
01 April …Goatbang Autopsy Bausch Breadweiner Bonehandlecockhammer Shyoki Kajikawa Will Dexter The Dronfield Selfish Parking Consortium F--k Walter Koenig Lemon Lettucecake Harlan Benford Surgery Enthusiast / Nailbombs Tore Out My Anus / My Cat Had Kittens
28 February …Jilted John The Magnetic Fields The Wurzels featuring Tony Blackburn The Maladies of Bellafontaine The Hairs
26 January …The Breeders Various Hefner / Fort Lauderdale / Misty Dixon Kid Atom / MOtel / Fiel Garvie / Dullshine The House of Love Dakota Oak / Alfie / Sirconical / Mum & Dad / Badly Drawn Boy The Azusa Plane Appliance Elastica House of Love Lush Melt Banana / Chung Tunng / Woodcraft Folk / The Laughing Windows / Shady Bard / Adam Leanard & P.G. Six Th' Faith Healers / Stereolab / PJ Harvey Bardo Pond / Pre Lucky Luke / The Smoke Rings / The Transparent Fan / Orange Alabaster Mushroom / The Clientele / Southall Riot Bis El Hombre Trajaedo Death in Vegas Cracker Come Throwing Muses The Jesus and Mary Chain Quickspace Stereolab Sonic Youth Frank Sidebottom Slint Ringo Deathstarr Kingmaker Liechtenstein Midnight Movies I, Ludicrous Madder Rose Lamb Frost Suite The Jesus Lizard Mogwai Daniel Johnston Girls Against Boys Los Campesinos! Le Tetsuo iLiKETRaiNS Hardvark Rollerskate Skinny The Field Mice Helen Love Holly Golightly Sun Ray Boss Hog Fur Reverend Horton Heat Herzfeld Gorky's Zygotic Mynci The Hidden Cameras The Knife Labradford Aloha Hawaii Hammerhead Yeah Yeah Yeahs Man or Astro-Man? To Rococo Rot The Vichy Government The The Various Vegetables Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Wooden Wand and the Omen Bones Band Royal Trux Nilon Bombers The Shortwave Set Mustafa et Monique Scout Niblett The Orchids Seefeel Trembling Blue Stars Scott and Charlene's Wedding Cocoanut Grove The Primitives The Memory Band with Belbury Poly and Granby The Barry Gray Orchestra The Brian Jonestown Massacre Ski
2011
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16 November …The Lovely Eggs Big Troubles The Bobby McGee's Still Corners / The New Lines By the Sea
10 October …Sonic Youth
03 September …Savaging Spires Snails The Fresh and Onlys Spectrals Puffy Areolas
10 July …V/Vm One Fathom Down / The Humms The Give it Ups / Santa Monica Swim and Dive Club The Blanche Hudson Weekend / Horowitz Andrew Beajon / Edsel / Heartworms / Low Stock, Hausen and Walkman The Blanche Hudson Weekend
08 June …Sons and Daughters The Trimdon Grange Explosion Tenniscoats / Tape The Lovely Eggs Kids Love Lies Orca Team Sweater Girls Sourpatch The See-See / By the Sea Elephant Micah Grimble Grumble of Montreal / Casiokids Füxa / Martin Rev
2007
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13 May …Tilly and the Wall Ma Cherie for Painting Lucky Soul Low Foals Stock Hausen and Walkman / Vomit Lunch
27 April …Lavender Diamond Camera Obscura The Lovers D
09 February …Aereogramme Camera Obscura Hatcham Social Tokyo Police Club Tillmans Clinic Field Music Errors Husky Rescue
11 January …Archie Bronson Outfit Arab Strap Jo Apps Blood Red Shoes The Boyfriends The Indelicates L.R. Rockets I'm from Barcelona Das Wunderlust The Butterflies Of Love CSS Lucky Soul Ladybird
2006
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22 December …Camera Obscura The Crabapples Tapes 'n Tapes New Young Pony Club The New Rhodes Serena Maneesh Scissors for Lefty Screaming Mimi / Repo Men Monster Bobby Meneguar DJ Methodist Mekon Presents Stereolab The Grates Tilly and the Wall Misty's Big Adventure Tunng Tokyo Police Club The Sounds Tiger Force The Shortwave Set 586 Holly Golightly LJ Kruzer of Montreal Deerhoof
07 October …Clinic Füxa The Flower Machine The Hidden Cameras Love is All The Gossip It Hugs Back
26 September …The Pipettes The Dead C Tilly and the Wall Fury of the Headteachers Bromheads Jacket The Boyfriends Kirsty MacColl
11 September …Adventure Time Keith The Far Cries / Popular Workshop The Telescopes Helen Love Methodist Centre
08 August …Sennen The Broken Family Band Hatcham Social Clearlake Sunday International Peter, Bjorn and John
07 August …TV on the Radio Powder The Black Neon Sarah Nixey Viva Voce Monkey Swallows the Universe Manic Cough Polytechnic Tillmanns Red Sparrowes / Made Out of Babies / Battle of Mice
19 July …Superthriller The Russian Futurists The Grates Ladyscraper
05 July …Volcano! Tender Trap Jose Gonzalez Yeah Yeah Yeahs Jawbone Love is All Trencher / The Phil Collins 3 Belle and Sebastian Best Fwends Tunng NBOs The Loft Quack Quack Seeland Pissed Jeans
22 June …The Whizz Kids / The Revolving Unseen / Electric Babies / The Losers / Angry Chair Copy Haho You Say Party! We say Die! TV on the Radio Au Revoir Simone The Assemblers Ween Voxtrot The Research The Concretes
17 June …The Patty Winters Show Jesus Licks Various The Curtains Jeremy Warmsley Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
30 May …The Pipettes Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins 586 Oppenheimer Jad Fair and Teenage Fanclub This Et Al Justine Electra
17 May …Sonic Youth Stuart A Staples Schneider TM Camera Obscura Animal Collective
12 May …Adam Green Oxfam Glamour Models Team Doyobi Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins Luke Toms
29 April …The Sugars Polysics Various The Raconteurs The Immediate Charlottefield
15 April …Field Music Bearsuit Yeah Yeah Yeahs Data Panik Darren Hayman The Organ Lucky Soul The Queens of Sheeba / Lavender Diamond Islands
16 March …Sunny Day Sets Fire The Chalets Be Your Own Pet of Montreal Mighty Six Ninety Les Georges Leningrad The Cribs Tenebrows The Gossip Hauschka
08 March …Shout Out Louds Planningtorock The Concretes Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Stereolab
06 March …Sing I am the World Trade Center / Phofo Black to Comm
14 February …Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory Additional Moog The Research Levy Sing
08 February …Balor Knights/Scarlet Tuesday Noisettes Music and Movement The Cribs Television Personalities
18 January …Tender Trap Cat Power Smack Miranda featuring Spinmaster Plantpot Ben Lee Joe Meek The Mules Arco Box 2676
2005
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14 December …Jim Noir Semifinalists Field Music Pink Mountaintops Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Negative for Francis
02 November …The Dears New Bad Things Brakes Envelopes Hydroplane Man from Uranus Electrelane Giant Drag Nine Black Alps The Chalets
19 October …Mustafa et Monique The Bug ft. Warrior Queen iLiKETRAiNS Arctic Monkeys Brakes Kicker / The Butterflies of Love / Comet Gain / Airport Girl
27 September …Guppyboy Battle Ladytron The Fall The Ladybug Transistor
14 September …Stereolab The Aislers Set / The How DJ Scotch Egg The Concretes Chips for the Poor Tigerforce
22 August …Broadcast Sons and Daughter Jawbone The Hit Parade
18 July …The Aislers Set I, Ludicrous Bathtub Shitter Must
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