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Mount Kimbie return to answer their London calling
  • Music
  • Ian Maleney
  • May 17, 2013, 01:00

Having spent the past three years on the road, Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker is excited to get back to the studio for album number two

New Found Sounds for May
  • Music
  • Aoife Barry
  • April 26, 2013, 06:00

Aoife Barry's New Found Sounds, The Ticket’s monthly podcast, shines a light on new Irish music - its new artists, new releases and new endeavours

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‘On his two-venue-a-night routine, on tour in Ireland, Jim Reeves he was timed to start the first at 10.30pm and the second at 12.30am. Some venues were in fairly isolated areas and with the huge crowds and the chaotic parking (of tractors in some cases), sometimes Reeves and his group (the Blue Boys) would have to walk down sheep paths to complete the final part of their journey.’ Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images Welcome to our world

 

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