Tag: neil dowd
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INTRODUCING: COLOURSHOP
How did you start Colourshop? Colourshop was born roughly 7 years ago, when my brother and I moved to London from a little town south of Rome. We started playing concerts all around London. We played open mic nights and bars and busking in the streets to pay our bills. After a couple of years […]
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INTRODUCING: MORGANE LOLA
How would you describe your music to anyone who hasn’t heard it? I would describe my music as cinematic pop with R&B and Eastern influences. Born of French/English parents, I have employed the French language into my writing, and often sing in a mixture of both languages Franglais. I began my debut EP with a […]
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ORIANA CURLS: INTERVIEW
Oriana Curls is a French singer-songwriter based in London, with a style that spans jazz, French chanson and cabaret. Neil Dowd caught up with her to discuss musical development, feeling out of place and her first foray into the world of reality TV. Tell us more about your background in music – how did you […]
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LONDON RUNWAY’S 2019 FESTIVAL CHOICES
The end of the winter season is rapidly approaching for us Brits and for music lovers, the blossoming of spring and summer can only mean one thing: the festival season is nearly upon us. With this in mind, Neil Dowd sinks his teeth into everything confirmed, hinted, rumoured or speculated to bring you his top […]
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DRUGS IN MODERN MUSIC: THE FINE LINE BETWEEN USE AND ABUSE
Neil Dowd explores the subculture within the music industry that glorifies and encourages drug use – and how this has quickly turned to abuse for many musicians. ‘Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’. The colloquial phrase popularised in 1977 by Ian Drury refers to the debaucherous lifestyle stereotypically linked to rock musicians in the 1960s and 70s. […]