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The Local combines cinema and music in Islington

22 April 2010
By Lynn Roberts
The Local combines cinema and music in Islington

Our friends-of-friends the Local have announced a brilliant-sounding series of gigs at Islington’s Screen on the Green cinema. The weekly shows feature a set from a brilliant artist — Caitlin Rose, Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards and Natty are lined up — followed by a screening of that artist’s favourite film. The folks at...
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Tags: Caitlin Rose, Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards
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Peggy Sue release single, announce album launch and offer free download

22 March 2010
By Helen True
Peggy Sue release single, announce album launch and offer free download

Brace yourselves, folk fans, for more Peggy Sue news than you can shake a drumstick at. Firstly, Peggy Sue released their single, Watchman Today (22nd March), a spiffing video of which is below. Besides that lovely news, in a fit of spring-cleaning madness Peggy Sue have decided to offer their fans, and indeed anyone...
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Tags: Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Peggy Sue, The Mariner's Children
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WIN: A pair of tickets to Shhh… feat David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon, Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards

21 January 2010
By Lynn Roberts
WIN: A pair of tickets to Shhh… feat David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon, Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards

There’s nothing better than a gig with a quiet audience where you get to hear great music without any blutered punters inspiring homicidal notions you didn’t know you were capable of. Well the lovely chaps at The Line of Best Fit and The Local are giving you a chance to spend your Saturday at...
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Tags: Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, David Thomas Broughton, Jon Hopkins, Sam Amidon, The Tim and Sam Band
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Special deal at Peggy Sue album launch show, download Lover Gone

10 January 2010
By Lynn Roberts
Special deal at Peggy Sue album launch show, download Lover Gone

The wonderful Peggy Sue are celebrating the very exciting release of their debut album with a London show on 29th March. The Brighton/London trio are offering a special admission + album ticket to the show for £14. Fossils and Other Phantoms will be released on Witchita records a week after the show. The gig...
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Tags: Anna Calvi, Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, Peggy Sue
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TLOBF announces Shhh… gig with Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards, Jon Hopkins, David Thomas Broughton and more

18 December 2009
By Lynn Roberts
TLOBF announces Shhh… gig with Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards, Jon Hopkins, David Thomas Broughton and more

Music website The Line of Best Fit has announced it is to host an “all day celebration of quiet music” in London in January. The gig at Cecil Sharp House in Camden will feature Jon Hopkins, Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards (a particular FFS favourite, see our album review here), David Thomas Broughton and...
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Album Review: Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards – Saltwater

19 May 2009
By Lynn Roberts

Saltwater is the debut solo album from Absentee frontman Dan Michaelson. The songs which he originally wrote after the release of the critically acclaimed Schmotime, were rejected by the band because they didn’t fit the Absentee sound. It has become one of those stories passed so freely between reviewers, you wonder if there isn’t...
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