Firstly, thank you very much to everyone who came to the shows in Edinburgh. I…
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“Don’t miss this show. Saw him in Southampton a few months back, it was incredible.…
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There was going to be a deft treatise here on the music-football phenomena that is…
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Not being ‘up to speed’ with these sorts of things recently (I’ve had my head…
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A hundred years ago, or in real time, in 2000, to celebrate 10 years of…
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So my compilation box set LOST ALTERNATIVES is out today. Nearly a year in the…
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I think, given their own referencing of it, that SQUID might quite like the fact…
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Read More →GOING DEAF FOR A LIVING is a music fans website, edited by myself Steve Lamacq, with occasional contributions from assorted guest writers, errant musicians and scholarly drinkers.
Touring Deaf For A living
It was about three years ago, while watching Stuart Maconie in the literary tent at Lattitude – segueing from stories about Morrissey into his days at NME (and coincidentally name checking yours truly) – that a friend turned to me and said you could do that.
Oh how we all laughed! The absurdity! The vanity!
Anyway, turns out I’m doing something like that.
The new one man show is called Going Deaf For A Living: The Story Of A Music Fan. It is not just my story, it’s the story of how a lot of us have fallen in love with music and the pitfalls that a growing obsession with bands can lie in wait for you
WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN ‘HEARTED?
Firstly, thank you very much to everyone who came to the shows in Edinburgh. I hope you enjoyed it. We met some lovely people. And saw some terrific things, not least the…
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“Don’t miss this show. Saw him in Southampton a few…
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It’s there in the shadows; in the back of our…
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There was going to be a deft treatise here on…
JOHNNY LLOYD – Next Episode Starts In 15 Seconds
Not being ‘up to speed’ with these sorts of things…
