Blue Zoo: new songs and a new direction

Eight­ies band Blue Zoo got back togeth­er in 2010 with ‘unfin­ished busi­ness’ as far as their old mate­r­i­al was con­cerned. Now the band are shak­ing off the past and mov­ing for­ward with new mate­r­i­al set for immi­nent release plus live dates on the cal­en­dar.  The band still com­pris­es front man Andy O, with drum­mer Mick­ey Spar­row and bass play­er Mike Ansell. In 2013…

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Do you own the dance floor? This Hacienda fan does

One Haçien­da devo­tee and DJ loved the place so much, he bought the flat where the famous Man­ches­ter club’s DJ booth was. The film Do You Own the Dance­floor?  went on release in June 2015. It’s an affec­tion­ate, some­times hilar­i­ous, and decid­ed­ly good-natured account of the sell-off of fix­tures and fit­tings from The Haçien­da, Man­ches­ter’s famous…

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Interview with Stuart Drummond of The Bedroom Hour

Inter­view: August 7 2014. It hard­ly needs to be said that I’m a big fan of The Bed­room Hour. I man­aged to catch up with their singer Stu­art Drum­mond as he was rush­ing down to the stu­dio one evening. He and the band are very busy at the moment with debut album Hin­ter­land deserved­ly get­ting a great recep­tion, a summer…

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