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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
LEG UP
Amid the continuing barrage of new releases, here’s two more that I’ve been slightly obsessed with over the past few days: one of which has pulled off the unthinkable (joining my…
SELF CONTROL
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Credit Where It’s DU
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IF IT’S BROKEN….FIX IT
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#SaveOurVenues
Well this IS odd: it is now nearly eight weeks…
