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Artist: It Hugs Back





Left With Pictures, It Hugs Back and Stars of Sunday League for My Latest Novel album launch

25 May 2009
By Lynn Roberts

For those Londoners going stir crazy this bank holiday weekend we've got a last minute gig suggestion for you. My Latest Novel are launching their second album Deaths and Entrances at Bush Hall tonight, with support from It Hugs Back, Left With Pictures and Stars of Sunday League.
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Great Escape confirm NATW, Peggy Sue and Sky Larkin

2 April 2009
By Lynn Roberts

Noah and the Whale, Peggy Sue and Sky Larkin have been added to the bill for Brighton festival The Great Escape.
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Tags: Beth Jeans Houghton, Blue Roses, It Hugs Back, Noah and the Whale, Peggy Sue, Slow Club, Woodpigeon
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Album Review: It Hugs Back – Inside Your Guitar

5 March 2009
By Lynn Roberts

I’m sure I’m not alone in my pre-occupation with this band’s name. What is ‘It’? A kitten? Your drunken Uncle? The monster under your bed? Even more disconcerting then, is the suggestion that whatever ‘it’ is may well be lurking inside your guitar, waiting, perhaps, to catch you off guard before bursting forth and...
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Single Review: It Hugs Back – Workday

9 October 2008
By Lynn Roberts

Indie folksters It Hugs Back have released 'Work Day' their first single taken from their debut album Record Room, due to be released at the start of next year. The sleepy autumnal vocals are juxtaposed with jangly guitar on this end-of-summer release. The 7" would be worth buying for the artwork alone, were it not...
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Giant Cardiff music festival back for triumphant second year

1 October 2008
By Lynn Roberts

Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens brings his South by Southwest mimicking bandfest to the Welsh capital for a triumphant second year.
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Tags: It Hugs Back, Jay Jay Pistolet, Peggy Sue
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It Hugs Back

23 September 2008
By Lynn Roberts

They Say: Matthew, Paul, Dimitri & Jack began making thier soft-centered dream pop back in early 2006. Switching between joyous pop-punk delight and delicate melancholia in a heartbeat, It Hugs Back melt layers of fuzzy vocals and guitars into their reassuring blend of endearing shoegaze and heart-on-sleeves vulnerability. Band Members: Matthew – Guitar and...
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