Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou - Quality First Last & Forever

Posted in SHOFT on 24th June 2011

Folk music. Love it or otherwise, it's everywhere lately. With even the biggest acts keen to break out the banjo and brush up their authenticity by referencing traditional music of various strains, it would be easy to get cynical about the way it's become so marketable in recent times. However,...

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Edinburgh School for the Deaf - New Youth Bible

Posted in SHOFT on 20th June 2011

Having returned to attempts to express myself about music after a very long break, I'm sometimes alarmed how easy it is to slip into old, tired cliches with surprisingly little effort. It's particularly worrying because I don't really read much mainstream music critique these days, and certainly the days of...

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An Aimless Wander

Posted in London on 18th June 2011

Ever since Homegame, I've struggled to find a purpose for some things. Work in particular has suffered - the pointlessness and the lack of progress suddenly foregrounded, and my part in the whole process left exposed by a bunch of colleagues who are downright suspicious of my political motives. So...

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