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Into Music: The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard – Chapter 5

…………………………………………………………………… EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD The true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard …………………………………………………………………… Chapter 5 – Going Down in a Blaze of Pale Custard The Rock Garden on Queen Street was just the kind of place for a cool band get together.The singer from Hipsway works behind the bar, for […]

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Into Music: The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard – Chapter 4

…………………………………………………………………… EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD The true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard …………………………………………………………………… Chapter 4 – Bella Bella, Billy Bremner. ‘Yeah, it’s going good.  Listen, I won’t be home for dinner.  Might be quite late. Don’t worry, I’m doing … alright, I suppose. Love you too Mum.’ I didn’t have

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Into Book Review: Trouble Songs: Music And Conflict In Northern Ireland by Stuart Bailie

Book: Trouble Songs: Music And Conflict In Northern Ireland Author: Stuart Bailie Publisher: Bloomfield Music is a creative force for good, an outlet to express, ranging from whimsical nonsense through to the damn serious and everything in between. Throughout history, there are songs about oppression, politics, war, struggle, belief, belonging, riots and rebellion. This is sometimes written

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Into Music: The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard – Chapter 3

…………………………………………………………………… EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD The true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard …………………………………………………………………… Chapter 3 – Talking with the Taxman about Duran Duran, Monster Munch and the Nitshill Ball Lickers. It’s the morning after the Church of Scotland debacle and I’m back on Bath Street. My normally lustrous mane had

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Into Music: The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard of – Chapter 2

…………………………………………………………………… EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD The true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard …………………………………………………………………… Chapter 2 – Wendy, Penelope, Felicity and the First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Scheme Scum The family living room, Orange and Brown flame patterned wallpaper. You know the type. Mismatched mugs of

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Into Music: The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard – Chapter 1

……………………………………………………………………EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLDThe true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard…………………………………………………………………… Chapter 1 – Socrates,Tony Bennett and Toblerone The airport terminal building is laden with colourful decorations. Seasonal music plays. A dog is taking a piss on a fake tree and my heart is rock heavy. None of this makes sense.

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Prendergast’s Fall by David Cameron – Into Books

Into Creative are delighted to announce that our new imprint, Into Books, will be launching its first publication on Saturday 22 June 2019 in Waterstones Books, Byres Road, Glasgow at 7.30pm. The launch event will feature readings from the book’s author, David Cameron, and an opportunity to purchase your signed copy of this groundbreaking novel. The

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Into Book Reviews: For The Good Times by David Keenan

Book: For The Good Times Author: David Keenan Publisher: Faber & Faber Browsing through Twitter recently a tweet from Spider Stacy (Pogues tin-whistle player extraordinaire) perked my attention. “This. This is what’s happening. Seriously brilliant. Fair puts a song in your dark heart and a smile on your cracked lips so it does”. Of course,

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Into Book Reviews: He is Mine and I Have No Other by Rebecca O’Connor

Book: He is Mine and I Have No Other Author: Rebecca O’Connor Publisher: Canongate Opening with a chalk outline of a body on a classroom floor, the fifth chapter of Rebecca O’Connor’s debut novel invokes the morbid seriousness of murder mysteries in fiction and forensic crime series on TV. The chapter goes on, though –

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