When I heard the BBC 6 Music Festival was going to be held in Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse I was pretty interested. The Warehouse is of course the venue of the legendary WHP parties where I (and thousands more) have enjoyed lively rave-ups. I was interested in returning in a more civilised music festival context to […]
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If you have read my review of Franz Ferdinand at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound 2012 (published in The Herald), or Paul Smith’s review of Franz Ferdinand and Rustie at Primavera Sound 2012 (published in The Scotsman) you would be forgiven for thinking that us Pin Ups chaps were a model of professionalism, surveying the festival with […]
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I’m part of a merry band of characters that are off to Primavera Sound 2012 in Barcelona next week, and I’m going to earn my shiny press pass by writing a review of the action for The Herald. The line-up for the festival is amazing, with lots of obvious highlights such as SBTRKT, The Rapture, […]
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So farewell to the Pin Ups “Ladies Nights”, the most successful Pin Ups franchise we ever created (with the exception of “Hogmanay”, which I must say the world and his granny has shamelessly ripped off since we came up with it in 2008). Our final Ladies Night would have been No. 5, but we decided […]
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