Given that Paul Weller commenced his career in ‘spit n sawdust’ outfit The Jam, before carving out an impressive four-decade indie career, his decision to cover Joe Smooth‘s Promised Land

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The Prodigy’s seminal Experience celebrates its 25th birthday today, having been released on 28 September 1992. The fact that the band are still going strong is testament not only to

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Today, 25 September, marks 18 years to the day since the Homelands Ireland 1999, a landmark festival in Irish clubland… While the UK had played host to a myriad of