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Live: Divine Comedy / Alela Diane Duo: Salle Pleyel Webcast, Paris

Live: Divine Comedy / Alela Diane Duo: Salle Pleyel Webcast, Paris

I don’t know if this really counts as a live review, even though I watched it live. I suppose that is the only dilemma with the webcast, as everything else about it seems to be brilliant. They’ve become something of a trend recently, and being a student a free gig you can watch from your...
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Tags: Alela Diane, The Divine Comedy
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Brian’s Mixtape #27: Hot to Trot

Brian’s Mixtape #27: Hot to Trot

Following last week’s shameful booze-fuelled fiasco, Brian’s plunged like a lead balloon into a pit of depression so deep and wide that it’s been necessary to rescue him from his slum of a nest and reinstall him (temporarily, we hope) in a cosy shoebox at FFS HQ.  This way we can keep an eye...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Isobel Campbell & Mark Laneghan, Kimya Dawson, Nick Drake, The Divine Comedy
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Brian’s mixtape #24: Because We Want To

Brian’s mixtape #24: Because We Want To

Readers, we’re a little worried. After his absence a couple of weeks ago, Brian’s been acting a bit strangely. He used to be such a lovely tidy, polite owl but now Brian’s stomping about like a petulant teenager, his roost is an absolute shambles and he’s taken to shouting “boring” whenever he loses interest...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Amadou & Mariam, Belle & Sebastian, Eels, Field Music, Jackson C. Frank, Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor, Stars, The Band
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EP: Alela Diane and Alina Hardin — Alela & Alina

When this collaboration between Alela Diane and her touring companion Alina Hardin opens with ‘Amidst the Movement’, one of Diane’s trademark gutsy folk songs that defies you not to join in with its sing-along chorus, it’s easy to think this EP is merely a supplement to her well-received album To Be Still. It soon...
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Tags: Alela Diane, Alina Hardin
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