Jack Riley

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Music!

In Uncategorized on April 1, 2010 at 12:50 am

Pavement, Brixton Academy, London

Camden Crawl, Camden, London

Arctic Monkeys, Royal Albert Hall

The Invisible, The Borderline

Ok Go, Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Caught in the Net: Rise of Rose and LoneLady

Caitlin Rose: 2010′s honky tonk heroine

Field Music, Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen

Jamie Thraves: The art of the music video

Rachid Taha, Royal Festival Hall

Mika, The Roundhouse

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Post Barack’n'Roll with Death Cab For Cutie

In Uncategorized on November 25, 2008 at 11:10 am

Back in May, when Death Cab For Cutie front man Ben Gibbard did his best to drum up support for a man who, at the time, seemed a million miles from the White House, the crowd in which I stood to watch them play were unsure what to make of the political outburst for Barack Obama, sandwiched as it was between heartfelt ballads to broken relationships and pessimistic rocking-out. It didn’t help that we were in Camden, and that most of the crowd had no more than a passing interest in the fledgling presidential election.

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Top of the songs-to-resuscitate-someone-to Pops

In Uncategorized on October 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm

A team from the University of Illinois medical school has found that the optimum tempo at which to perform CPR on someone who has just suffered a heart attack is 100 beats per minute. Attempting to help make the figure easily remembered in a crisis, the researchers suggested a song as a reference point for the tempo. And the song? "Stayin’ Alive" by the Bee Gees. Yes, really.

 

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