Spiritualized - Live

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... ever so with-it student crowd, the type of people you would imagine buy each years top 10 essential albums just so that they can keep it real. The music transcends it all and whereas a few years ago it perhaps provoked a discussion of what music can be - now you can actually sit back and enjoy the show. Its shows how much Spiritualised have moved on over the years, transforming those experimental jazz workouts into more cohesive structures - after all there's Mogwai and a host of others if we simply want to ...more

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Spiritualized - Live (Manchester Academy Oct 1st 2001) (418 words)
by - written on 30/10/01 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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Its a brave man who enters the world of Jason Pierce, but its a man who's all the better for it. Jason Pierce's world of love and drugs is a tale of one that has been round since Adam & Eve first walked this earth but when you can articulate it in simple words you often avoid the inevitable - rock & roll suicide. I say this generally as in another 50 years time they will be the next generation of Richeys, Kurts and Ian Curtis who seem so eloquently to explain their outlook on the world but who ultimately can't cope with reality of it all. Perhaps the audience aren't entirely fitting with Jason's lifestyle, a mixture of 30 something Guardian ... Read the complete review

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