Review: Squeeze release their ‘first’ album Trixies

You can imag­ine the scene. Teenagers Glenn Till­brook and Chris Gif­ford are rif­fling through an old card­board box in the attic. Noth­ing much here… but what’s this? Glenn brush­es a few decade’s worth of dust off a cas­sette, snaps it into the play­er, press­es PLAY… and the years melt away. The two are trans­port­ed back…

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Lael Neale dreamy new single Down on the Freeway

Indie singer-song­writer Lael Neale’s lat­est offer­ing Down on the Free­way from her upcom­ing album is a cap­ti­vat­ing and per­son­al explo­ration of Los Ange­les, accom­pa­nied by a self-direc­t­ed video that’s just as entranc­ing. Down on the Free­way cap­tures the pulse of con­tem­po­rary LA, the city Lael returned to after spend­ing three years back in rur­al Virginia…

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Jessie Buckley and band sing for frontline workers

It all start­ed with a set of pho­tographs of nurs­es on a Covid ward, tak­en by front­line work­er Han­nah Grace Deller. The work was shown on Grayson’s Art Club – a series pre­sent­ed by Grayson Per­ry on Chan­nel 4 – which Chris Dif­ford of Squeeze just hap­pened to catch.  Chris was impressed by Han­nah’s work and…

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