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Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 5, Christy-Popper

Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. Fifth in line is the indomitable lion of Hixet Wood…Mr Christy-Popper. 10. Local Natives … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 5, Christy-Popper

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Alternative, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

The Mackerels go to Truck

This weekend was our first visit to Truck, an intimate and friendly music festival held on a farm near Oxford. This was their 13th such event and was blessed with sunshine throughout. Mrs Mackerel and I took the three Mackerel sprats along on both days and had a thoroughly good time whether it was learning the Poyes(? – top left) , sampling the Rotary Club’s … Continue reading The Mackerels go to Truck

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Folk, Indie, Music

New Album from Common Prayer

Common Prayer’s debut album, There Is A Mountain, was officially released yesterday through most digital retailers. The band is the new project from Jason Russo of Hopewell/Mercury Rev acclaim. The album is one of jangly off-kilter pop songs, often somber in theme, and concerned with the lives of the heartbroken, reckless, romantic and mentally ill from a reflective and victorious post-everything perspective. To begin with, … Continue reading New Album from Common Prayer

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