Scenester

Scenester lives in London and Brighton, as time allows. Enjoys music, film, television, books, design and anything else which won’t leave well alone. Old enough to know better.

Indie
ScenesterApril 29, 2014
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Apr 2014 by Scenester
Arriving in a world dominated by Culture Club, Pet Shop Boys and their lion-pop ilk in the mid 1980’s, The…
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Music
ScenesterJanuary 3, 2015
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Jan 2015 by Scenester
Marc Almond Ten Plagues A Song Cycle (Strike Force SFE034D) Unlike many of his pop contemporaries, Marc Almond has never…
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Music
ScenesterMarch 20, 2014
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Mar 2014 by Scenester
Dropping down my chimney via Albatross Post the other day, ‘Poppsaga’ is a pleasing, welcome and sometimes puzzling peek into…
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Hotplugs
ScenesterFebruary 26, 2014
270
Sproutless reviewed by Scenester
It’s not often that a CD turns up on my doorstep, packed with the most perfectly manicured pop and acutely…
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Music
ScenesterFebruary 26, 2014
200
Cherry Red Album Reviews – Feb 2014 by Scenester
Opening with polymath George Melly enthusiastically rolling his ‘r’s around the surrealist poem, ’Sounds that saved my life’, it perhaps…
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Dark
ScenesterJanuary 6, 2014
340
Cherry Red Album Reviews – Jan 2014 by Scenester
Cherry Red has come up with a neat package of three CDs spanning the Stiff Records tenure of Any Trouble,…
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Hotplugs
ScenesterNovember 19, 2013
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – Nov 2013 by Scenester
Those of you with time on your hands have undoubtedly played the game at some point. Why do some bands…
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Folk
ScenesterNovember 4, 2013
262
John Lennon McCullagh – Eyefocus 359 Music
John Lennon McCullagh – his real name – is a fifteen-year-old from Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He’s been playing guitar and…
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Hotplugs
ScenesterNovember 5, 2013
195
Chris Grant – Eyefocus 359 Music
A Liverpudlian through and through, Chris Grant has always performed straight from his heart. “Chris’s main preoccupation is writing big…
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Hotplugs
ScenesterNovember 5, 2013
219
Mineral – Eyefocus 359 Music
So, who are Mineral? Well, imagine an indietronica outfit who hail from Paris and Dublin and cite as their influences…
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Beats
ScenesterNovember 12, 2013
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Cauldronated speak to Eyeplug
Cauldronated are A punky, drum-centric, techno adventure featuring Eva Menon (Italian extrasolar poetess), David Harman and Dave Barbarossa (Drummer with…
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Features
ScenesterJuly 20, 2015
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Cherry Red Album Reviews – July 2013 (2) by Scenester
Otherwise known as their ‘Stonehenge’ LP, due to the perhaps ill-advised cover artwork, The Association’s self-titled fifth LP is all…
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