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Neon Neon: in harsh light

• 09 Apr 08
• Written by Al Christian

Music Live Music

Gryff Rhys sure is a busy bee. Following last year's solo brilliance Candylion and the hugely catchy Super Furry Animals effort Hey Venus, the Haverfordwestian is now focused on an electro-pop sideproject. Neon Neon (http://www.myspace.com/neonx2) is a fantastic mixture of syth pop and Vitalic-esque demented electro with a drop of hip hop, all loosely wrapped around the life story of 80s automobile icon John Delorean.

 

 

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

• 14 Feb 08
• Written by Chris Ward

Music Album Reviews

It's awesome, readers, awesome!!!

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Connect Retrospective - An Old School Festival Diary: Part One

• 27 Jan 08
• Written by Chris Ward

Music Live Music

{smoothgallery folder=images/stories/music/connect_festival/jen_clark&sort=random} Chief Brazen Hack Chris Ward and Editor Gavin Summers spent the first weekend of September last year in fields around Inverary Castle, forced through their innate sense of journalistic integrity to listen to acts like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Beastie Boys and Björk at the inaugural Connect Festival. This is their diary, not just of the music, but of everything that happened that weekend, from Friday morning through Monday afternoon. Chris was there Friday through Monday; Gav came up for Saturday and Sunday. Here, in Part One, Chris Ward gives his informed perspective.

Photo slideshow by Jen Clark 

 

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