Articles by Robin Seaton
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Robin Seaton
By Robin Seaton — February 27, 2008
Thinking about a recent Jonathan Ross interview with Ringo Starr the other week, I found myself using the half-comprehending undergraduate poststructuralist’s word of choice: ‘discourse’.
Robin Seaton
By Robin Seaton — February 27, 2008
The first few weeks of any new year are apparently a time for doing things that will prolong the first flush of youth; joining the gym, giving up drinking and other such stupid pursuits.
Bestival – Isle of White – 07/09/07-09/09/07
By Robin Seaton — October 11, 2007
Bestival has successfully carved out a special niche for itself over the past few years; halfway between a village fete and a children’s birthday party.
Chairman of Drax power station to receive honorary degree from University
By Robin Seaton — June 20, 2007
The chairman of the company which owns the UK’s second largest producer of carbon dioxide is to be amongst those who will receive an honorary degree at this year’s BA graduation ceremonies.
Jarvis Cocker, The Plug, Sheffield, 15+16/02/07
By Robin Seaton — February 13, 2007
[rating: 5]
Jarvis returns! Again! This time, not only has he lost the glow-in-the-dark skeleton suit of Relaxed Muscle but his surname has also been discarded. Fortunately, his ability to craft anthemic choruses and create vignettes in a few couplets remains intact, as owners of the new album Jarvis will already be well aware.
Which Cake?
By Vicky Hallam, Lucy Peden, Robin Seaton and Laura Street — November 7, 2006
The Bar and Restaurant team like eating lots of food and never do any exercise. The section was on the verge of being shut down by the combined force of Jamie Oliver and Ian Wright, and so we launched a campaign against our collective inertia. The campus run was highly successful but we were sad to learn that it did not count as a healthy activity owing to the frequent cake stops. Here is what we found…
Singles Reviews
By Robin Seaton, Kathryn Bromwich and Shan Vahidy — November 7, 2006
Tiny Dancers – Lions and Tigers and Lions
Despite being hampered with the name of an Elton John song, and putting the weakest song first, Tiny Dancers have produced a twee gem. Opener ‘20 to 9’ is indiepop by numbers, but by ‘Hemsworth Hallway’, they’ve evidently decided that jingle is the new jangle, and have upped the numbers of glockenspiels and bells accordingly.
The Needles, Live at JJ’s Halifax College 19/10/06
By Robin Seaton — November 7, 2006
Buen Chico opened URY’s second gig at JJ’s in two months. Despite losing their bassist to illness, the Leeds-based band frenziedly whipped up a surf-pop storm in the ever-so-slightly souless Halifax bar.
Singles Reviews
By Robin Seaton — October 11, 2006
Betty Curse – Girl With Yellow Hair
Goth, apparently, is the new black. Riding on a black-laced wave comes Betty Curse, spewing Avril-esque guitar hooks and silly couplets about a girl who doesn’t want to do what other people want her to do, and the terrible angst this state of affairs causes her.
Albert Hammond Jr, Yours to Keep
By Robin Seaton — October 11, 2006
“Goodnight, I say to you: goodnight” begins Albert Hammond Jr’s first solo record, sounding ever so slightly like The Sound of Music’s ‘So Long, Farewell’. It’s a slightly disingenuous beginning, because the second song, ‘In Transit’, immediately returns to more familiar territory for the Strokes’ guitarist. Although his vocals never manage to be quite as laid back or half-arsed as Julian Casablancas’, Hammond is definitely in the region of the musical map labelled ‘Strokes album tracks’.
York’s music talent impresses
By Robin Seaton — June 27, 2006
YORK’S BIGGEST music event of the year provided a range of talent from the acoustic stage, story tent and stalls in addition to the main stage.
Neil Young, living with war
By Robin Seaton — May 26, 2006
Neil Young’s latest album comes with a sense of urgency in tow, arriving hot on the heels of his last, Prairie Wind. It was written in two weeks, and released over the internet before the CDs began to shoot off the presses. Let’s be clear: this is as anti-war an album as you could hope (or fear) to find.
Self-consciously polemical, Young is also clear about the album’s place in the history of protest music: ‘Flags of Freedom’ refers to Bob Dylan in both its lyrics and title.
Signed bands to play Halifax
By Robin Seaton — May 4, 2006
Thursday of week three will see the first Halifax gig by a signed band in years. Ireland’s Director will headline the gig, with support from Lamacq favourites The Hair and Battle of the Bands finalists The Memos. Director recently had an Irish top ten with their single ‘Reconnect’, and look set for similar success here, [...]
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