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24 Hour Garage People : The White Hotel calls time
The semi-legendary Salford music venue and nightclub has announced it will close down in January 2027 after ten years of gigs, parties and happenings at the fringes of art, music and culture in the city. The White Hotel is many things to many people. To me it has primarily been a live music venue and…
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A Fine Bromance: The Accidental Duos of ‘Heritage Rock’
From Pete & Rog, to Mac & Will – we celebrate the enduring world of the ‘heritage act’ and explore the ‘accidental’ duos that have emerged as a consequence The Rolling Stones are still writing the unfinished book on how long an archetypal rock & roll band can go on and filling stadiums and arenas.…
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Don’t Cut the Crap
Why the NOW! Yearbook series is preserving the good AND bad taste of our times – and all the better for it To paraphrase something Simon Bates may well have said if 1980 was the ‘Golden Hour’ on his Radio 1 “mid-morning matters” style show – “It was the year we lost John Lennon, but…