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Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks

The Wu Xing. I bet you’ve never heard of it right, but in Chinese astrology it describes the five phases that show how everything here on earth interacts and relates. So you have five elements: wood, fire, earth metal, water. Wood feeds fire, fire creates earth, earth creates metal, metal carries water and water nourishes wood. It’s a ‘paper-scissors-stone’ kind of thing. But it’s water we are really interested in here. You can build a bridge over, you can lead Continue Reading

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For Simon Fowler and Ocean Colour Scene life is an endless series of sunny afternoons, waterloo sunsets, and loafing around boutiques on Carnaby Street in your Chelsea boots and your favourite crewneck sweater. Fowler is still growling as sweetly as the engine on his Lambretta and the band are still churning out songs about Monday mornings, weekend living, waiting for trains and buses and the barmaid knowing your name. In some respects it’s a bit like the last forty years Continue Reading