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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 41
Back in the game… A year on, the the post Christmas malaise is not as horrific as last year when we learnt of a lockdown that was, for many, to prove far more difficult than the […]
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A very happy Christmas to all our readers
Well that’s it for us for this year, which probably feels like a good thing to most of us! Despite the ominous feeling to, well, everything, music was the proverbial slimline tonic which got us through […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed Week 40
Happy Christmas I think… So here it comes like a speeding bullet – the end of term. Feels more like the end of days when watching current news bulletins. Couple of questions: Why when reporters ask […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 39
Radio superseded by TV… really?? Schools gear up for Christmas from the middle of October when they return from half term. This is not a voluntary thing. Somehow Christmas begins to exert a gravitational pull way […]
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Classic Clips: The Beat Farmers “Gun Sale at the Church” – live in 1985
The Beat Farmers produced some of the most exciting music of the 1980s and were a real antidote to the vacuous electronic pop that was so prevalent during that decade. However their career was dogged by […]