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Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Take your average American rock band, put them in a dark room and play them everything Marc Bolan ever recorded
until it's all they can think about. Then get them to make a 'new' T.Rex album. That might not be what happened
but certainly this new album from Louis XIV bears a great debt to glams' godfather.
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Cuddly Toys - Young & Dangerous The Best Of Cuddly Toys
A relatively unknown band from the early 80s who released three albums. The first was pretty much a punk affair,
but then let their Bowie-esque influences come through on their second album, before trying to cash in on the
new-romantic wave on their third. Surprisingly they managed to pull off all three genres with aplomb and this
'best of' attempts to cull the best tracks from their last two albums.
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Bill Nelson - Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars
Back in 1974 Be Bop Deluxe were a little late for the glam scene ("the fag end" so to speak)
but still managed 6 albums and moderate success (a couple of top 20 hits) before disbanding in 1979.
Their first album Axe Victim was their glammiest and a great review can be found here.
Since then their lead singer Bill Nelson has been very prolific and here
Alan Sharif reviews one of his most popular 'demo' albums,
1992's Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars.
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Mignon - Electrogogo July 1st 2004
With two horns raised high and a third that lies eternally writhing beneath her black leather hot pants, there’s
nothing she wont bite and nothing she can’t chew and so little birds and well endowed men beware, Satan isn’t even safe from the bitch from Berlin…
Aslan witnesses Migon (Peaches sidekick) tearing up Electrogogo back in July, read his full review here.
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Vivienne Westwood - 34 Years In Fashion
Fashion & cultural icon; the Queen of the Wild Frontier, Vivienne Westwood has been creating
clothes and mayhem for 34 years now. The V&A has always been an inspiration to her, and now
it can be an inspiration to you as she has a major exhibtion of her work and art... ( more )
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Ima Robot - (self titled)
Alien & Androgynous, LA glam act (with members of Beck's backing band), Ima Robot, release an adventurous and
apocalyptic debut album. Taking it's inspirations from Bowie's Diamond Dogs & the film the Man Who Fell To Earth
it's a glam-pop space opera that's already getting lots of attention in the States... ( more )
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The Dresden Dolls - (self titled)
Self proclaimed 'Weimar cabaret punk' influenced The Dresden Dolls take their
inspiration from the past, mix it with very simple keyboard/drum melodies and have created
a humourous & heartfelt album that is truely magical... ( more )
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Scarling - Sweet Heart Dealer
Trip-pop, noise-rock outfit Scarling release a honey jar of a record filled with seven
tracks and seven ditty sins juxtaposed with the more composite sound of surging
textures, distorted guitars and vocals that teeter from the serene to the
schizophrenic... ( more )
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Die So Fluid - Camden Monarch (08/02/2004)
I stand in front of three points onstage from which a wall of sound is constructed and emitted,
built from the driving raw blaze of punk, a sound distilled to severe percussive poundings and
beautifully brash vocals that peel back a layer of your skin with each note... ( more )
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Jobriath
The first openly gay rock star emerged to a blaze of publicity in 1972 in New York. Far ahead of
his time he was scathed by both rock critics and the public. Now 30 years laters he is unknown, but
with famous fans like Morrissey championing his cause his star will soon rise again... ( more )
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Final Destination 3
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Kinky Boots
That's How People Grow Up
Stars Are Blind
Stop
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mad world
The Strange Death Of David Kelly
What's Left?
Straight
A Long Way Down
party monster (formally disco bloodbath)
Mr Solo
Star Scream
Patrick Wolf
The Riot Grrrl Movement
Science
Mapp and Lucia
Rock Follies
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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An exciting history of the handbag
Andy Warhol (self portraits)
The Dresden Dolls
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