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WHY? Thekla, 20th March 2010

Marcus Siddall

Yoni Wolf, aka WHY?, has been a cornerstone of the Anticon records label since its inception in 1997. On their website it’s described as a genre-defying collective and when talking to Yoni it’s easy to tread on his desire for it to remain so – when mentioning the ‘Anticon sound’ conversation is immediately stalled as he questions “What is it?!.”

An Interview with Ellie Goulding

George Rowe

So, it’s been a pretty crazy six months (with two awards and a number one album and all), how you holding up?

Yeah, I’m fine, not feeling overworked really! Though I have been doing a lot of travelling, I also get to do a lot of sitting around. There are some days that are really hectic, but you forget about them.

Has everything that’s going on sunk in yet?

Festival Competitions !

Marcus Siddall

Your Student Newspaper has sorted out competition tickets to some of the best festivals on the continent, with more competitions next month too ! Entry info below.

       

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GORILLAZ TO REHEARSE LIVE SHOW at Trinity on Monday

George Rowe

Electronic conceptual pioneers will be playing a special live rehearsal gig at Bristol Trinity on Monday 22nd, so if you want a chance to see the band like you never will again, get on down. 

Hot Chip at the Academy

Sean Pritchard
Hot Chip at the Academy

O2 Academy, Bristol

7.00pm

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 

Hot Chip with support from Casiokids

With only two acts on tonight’s line up, ‘Casiokids’ had giant boots to fill opening for the UK’s royalty of electro-pop: ‘Hot Chip’.

Although the most part of the crowd, of which 50% seemed to be parents accompanying their teenage ‘scene’ kids, decided not to show up for the support, Casiokids were not phased and provided an energy filled set which delighted those who turned up early.

NME Awards Tour 2010

Sean Pritchard

Sunday 14th February 2010 7.00pm

02 Academy Bristol, Frogmore Street, Bristol.

With a line up that can open with 2010’s vital breathe of fresh air, The Drums, this is a show not to miss out on.

Fresh from their 2009 success from album ‘Wall of Arms’, The Maccabees stand tall as headliners of what is set to be one of the principal tours of 2010, hitting many major cities across the UK.

RATM vs. XFACTOR

Tom Goldring

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NME's Top 50 Albums

MIchael Whiting

Another decade reaches its zenith and predictably NME have produced another list decreeing what you should have heard or what discs the ‘Topman’ shirt-wearing indie crew should be telling their best mates about. The full list offers a diverse list of choices including Relationship of Command by At the Drive-In - never would I think that a magazine like NME would offer kudos to post-hardcore – and other smaller bands like Wilco and Sufjan Stephens. Here is a run down of the Top Ten (cue Top of the Pops music...)

 

Conveyor Belt Culture

Robert Wells

As X-factor enters the final stages of hysteria, two bothers with moronic hairstyles divide the country into three groups: the ‘Love’ group, consisting of fourteen to sixteen year old girls; the ‘Worried’ group, the boy friends of fourteen to sixteen year old girls, and the ‘Recently purchased a Gun’ group. Also known as ‘us’.

Daniel Johnston and Laura Marling at Trinity

Sammy Maine

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