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Smiffy follow-up

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19/10/09 Friends
by Nick Holloway

If you enjoyed the interview with John Smith we featured last month then you may be pleased to note that several more videos of the folk guitarist and singer - performing tracks from his second album, Map Or Direction - have recently appeared online More

Hold the phone...

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01/10/09
by Nick Holloway

Two weeks since last post... busy times... a summary if you will:1. My GeppettoWe’ve had another of these bad boys, this time by me, since we spoke to John Smith. Here it is in Flatline issue 6 (aka Mercy Magazine, resurrected as a weekly e-zine).Flatline issue 7, featuring Gary Daly in the Geppetto hot seat, should be available any minute now. Sign up to the mailing list on Mercyonline if you want.. More

My Geppetto #7

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13/09/09
by Nick Holloway

A series of interviews exploring the influences of some of our favourite artists and clever clogses... who is your Geppetto?We follow hot on the heels of Chivers with guitarist and songwriter John Smith. His latest album, Map Or Direction, is released today (Sep 14th).What artist / human / thing would you say you have been most influenced by?Pink Moon, by Nick Drake.What is it about this ’thing’ that.. More

My Geppetto #6

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10/09/09
by Nick Holloway

A series of interviews exploring the influences of some of our favourite artists and clever clogses... who is your Geppetto? This week we hear from Tom Chivers, poet and founder of his own small press, Penned In The Margins. Tom’s poems have been described as ‘perfect little machines of their time, which will grow all the more beautiful when they begin to rust’ (Stride).What artist / human / thing(s).. More

Yearbooking baby... and other things

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08/09/09
by Nick Holloway

It’s hardly a new fad, but I couldn’t help myself. They’re not me without make-up, before you ask, but they are satisfyingly creepy (and, as one of Mercy pointed out, begging to be worked up into characters for ’Saved By The Bell - The Mutant Years’... I’ll let you decide which one is the new Screech...)And, last of all, my favourite: What do you get if you combine Bilbo Baggins (on Ring of Power cold.. More