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Popcorn Double Feature – Half Man Half Biscuit / Manic Street Preachers
This week is “Swearing Week” on our website. Tomorrow we’ll be publishing our latest podcast, a swearing special. Both these bands get a mention in it and both these songs have the f-word in. But...
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Podcast number 12: The Swearing Special
Right then. This podcast is a special wherein the Wizards investigate swearing in songs. There is a lot of bad languge in this one, including what Simon Bates would call “sexual swear words”! So if...
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Chorizo’s top 50 Manic Street Preachers songs
The blog site New Chart Riot are currently collating votes for a “top 50 Manic Street Preachers” song so I thought I’d join in with the fun. As can be seen from one of our past polls, the Manic Street...
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#AdventCalendar Day 4: Johnny Boy
Greetings and salutations. Here’s another blast from the past for you. Chorizo selected this Spectoresque stomper for his “Best of 2004″ mix. Whatever happened to this lot I wonder? View all of our...
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Chorizo Garbanzo’s Favourite Things from 2013
Just a couple of days left before we say “arrividerci” to 2013 so it’s time to share with you my favourite things from the year. Top 25 albums: The first 5 on the list are my top 5, the rest are in no...
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Live review: Manic Street Preachers at Albert Hall, Manchester 10th December...
An evening of culture, alienation, boredom and despair for our wizard Chorizo tonight as he went to watch the Manic Street Preachers play their “difficult third album” The Holy Bible in Manchester. You...
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Chorizo Garbanzo’s favourite things of 2014
A few weeks too late I know but here are my favourite things of the year 2014 A.D. You can hear lots of this music on my “Best of 2014″ podcast. Favourite album The album I’ve enjoyed the most this...
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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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