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Nostalgia Week: We Had A Cold War Too, Y’Know.

  By Lisa McInerney | September 30, 2010 - 2:00 pm | Music, Nostalgia Week, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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In a case of not so much looking back through rose-tinted glasses as looking back through a tose-tinted kaleidoscope, Bloc Party, in their track Hunting For Witches, referenced the transition from 90s to Noughties with the lyric “90s: optimistic as a teen / Now it’s terror…” And while the 90s was indeed a great decade to grow up in, with a slap bracelet on every wrist and a poster of Lee Sharpe on the inside of every locker door, I feel that Bloc Party are glossing over the terrible conflict of the summer of 1995, a scuffle that divided best mate from best mate and brought the spirit of football hooliganism into what was previously a foppish kind of hobby. I refer, of course, to the Blur vs Oasis War, the lowest, nastiest point of which was the release of Blur’s Country House and Oasis‘ Roll With It on the … There’s more →

Midway Through The Journey of Our Life

  By Darren Byrne | July 14, 2009 - 12:03 am | Events, Featured Post, Music, The Culch
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Blur release their ‘Best of’ album, Midlife, just in time for their reunion tour. Having killed at Glastonbury, I was bouncing with excitement at the thoughts of seeing them at Oxegen. Like many people, I first took note of Blur on release of their third album, Parklife. Girls and Boys, Tracy Jack, End of a Century and To The End all went down a treat on Friday night. I’ll admit to being a bit apprehensive when the set started. By his own admission, Albarn was heavily stoned and he looked it. But it didn’t detract from his performance at all. If anything, his wistful, gazing into the distance added to the mystique of the reunited Brit-poppers. I have been listening to Midlife for the past few weeks and it’s easy to forget how many awesome and now classic tracks Blur produced. Everyone remembers Country House, Coffee & TV, Parklife, Girls … There’s more →