Tom Yates

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    Foy Vance at KOKO

    It can be easy to underestimate just how big a role the crowd plays in creating...

    Tom Yates 30th November 2013
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    Dirty Wars | Movie review

    When investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill’s story about the US Special Forces unjustly killing a US-trained Afghan policeman and two pregnant women was raised in a White House briefing, it was dismissed as “conspiratorial theories”. However, when exactly the same type of “night raid” resulted in the death of Bin Laden, the party...

    Movie review 25th November 2013
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    Aimee Mann at Union Chapel

    Upon entering the Union Chapel, an awkward and unavoidable question ...

    Tom Yates 19th November 2013
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    Scouting for Girls at the Royal Albert Hall

    Some venues and bands make for a perfect marr...

    Tom Yates 18th November 2013
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    Steve Mason at the Electric Ballroom

    Steve Mason has been a busy boy. Previously he has been...

    Tom Yates 2nd November 2013
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    Rhodes at The Waiting Room

    Like Plato or Moses, Rhodes comes with only a forename and, to start...

    Tom Yates 27th October 2013
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    Dirty Wars

    When investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill’s story about the US Special Forces unju...

    Tom Yates 22nd October 2013
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    Jonny Lang at The Borderline

    Referring to a guitarist as a veteran when they’re only 32 may ...

    Tom Yates 4th October 2013
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    The Wailers at Indigo2

    On the walk up to the 02, there is a wall that sequentially lists seminal...

    Tom Yates 2nd October 2013
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    Filth

    After the last two disappointing film adaptations of Irvine Welsh novels, The Acid House (1998...

    Tom Yates 22nd September 2013