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Chorizo’s top 50 Manic Street Preachers songs… again!
Back in August 2013, I contributed to New Chart Riot’s survey with my top 50 Manic Street Preachers songs. Since then the Welsh wonders have released 2 new albums, I’ve seen em live 2 more times and...
View ArticleChorizo’s favourite things of 2018
Coming soon to this very website, podcast number 85 featuring lots of my favourite songs released in 2018. In the meantime have some of this! Favourite Albums of the Year – The Top 10 No Dogs Allowed...
View ArticlePodcast 86: Chorizo’s Best of 2018
Here’s podcast 86, our 2nd and final end of year round-up for 2018. Chorizo Garbanzo has selected 25 tracks featuring musicians from Finland, Israel, USA, France, Uruguay and St Neots! Download here or...
View ArticleChorizo’s favourite things of 2019: Part 1 The Gigs
Most years I manage to get to around 20 gigs. This year I’ve more than doubled that ending up on 42, a number that’ll please any Douglas Adams or Mozart fans reading this. Actually it’s even more than...
View ArticlePodcast 101: Isolation Pod #10
After the excitement of completing their first century of podcasts culminated in the celebration of lots of short songs (some songs are shorter than others), the wizards are back to begin their next...
View ArticleBook review: Manic Street Preachers (Modern Music Masters) by Stephen Lee Naish
In comparison to their 90s contemporaries, the Manic Street Preachers have already been the subject of a number of well-respected books. Simon Price’s “Everything” written with the co-operation of the...
View ArticlePodcast 122: Festival special, Reading 1992
30 years ago today Nirvana brought the Reading Festival to a close with the most legendary performance in that festival’s entire history. And then there was also the weather, as described in Melody...
View ArticlePodcast 123: Chorizo’s favourite songs of 2022
Here we go then. The elves that work behind the scenes of this website have been especially motivated by the threat of being kicked and they’ve managed to get you Chorizo Garbanzo’s favourite songs of...
View ArticleChorizo’s favourite things of 2022: Part 2
If you haven’t done so already, then have a read of my round-up of the 36 gigs I went to this year. You can also hear us play and discuss 24 of my favourite songs of 2022 in this podcast right here. So...
View ArticleThe Wedding Present in Leeds
This weekend I am going to see The Wedding Present in Leeds, the city where bandleader David Gedge was born. He actually grew up in Middleton, just north of Manchester on the other side of the...
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