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MGMT - Time To Pretend Live on Later…Jools Holland

If you haven’t heard the name MGMT you may be familiar with their single, Time To Pretend, as it has been used on television throughout the year.
Every now and then a true classic pop song is released, one in which I contniue to play for years after.  [...]

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The Kooks - Acoustic cover version of Kids by MGMT
Here’s a clip of The Kooks playing an acoustic version of MGMT’s great track, Kids.
The clip shows The Kooks being interviewed in a local radio station studio amidst their current US tour.
Allegedly, The Kooks learnt to play the song as it was being played and then [...]

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Foo Fighters - The Pretender / God Save The Queen, Live in 2007

Here’s a great clip of the Foo Fighters at MTV’s European Music Awards ceremony in Muich from 2007.
A great live performance showing their love of the Sex Pistols, and in the process sohwing, for me, why they are better than Nirvana.

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Public Image Ltd (PiL) - Careering & Poptones, The Old Grey Whstle Test
Here is one of the most powerful performances both Annie Nightingale and I ever saw on The Old Grey Whsitle.  Public Image Limited, PiL at their very very best performing Careering & Poptones in 1980.
Johnny Rotten was still known as John Lydon and [...]

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Stereophonics & Oasis - I’m Only Sleeping, live MTV Unplugged
Stereophonics have made six great studio albums: Word Gets Around (2007), Performance and Cocktails (1999), Just Enough Education to Perform (2001), You Gotta Go There to Come Back (2003), Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (2007), and this years’ compilation – Decade In The Sun: The Best Of [...]

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