"No Quick Getaway" - French Exit, live at O2 Academy Islington, London (September 2024)

"No Quick Getaway" - French Exit, live at O2 Academy Islington, London (September 2024)

Writer Kurt Duvel reviews South London indie rock band French Exit's performance at O2 Academy Islington in London, and one of their biggest live shows to date, where the Langston brothers and their bandmates brought a sweet slice of soaring, shoegazey indie pop-rock to the Inpop Presents event.

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Spotify Wrapped 2023 - Kurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs

Spotify Wrapped 2023 - Kurt Writes Things' Top Five Songs

It’s #SpotifyWrapped season, so here’s writer Kurt Duvel’s top five songs of 2023 and some thoughts about Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters, The Tubs, Mammoth WVH, and Fall Out Boy.

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"A Brisk Belgian Bloc Party" (Brussels, Belgium)

"A Brisk Belgian Bloc Party" (Brussels, Belgium)

When writer Kurt Duvel booked tickets for the Brussels stop of Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm album tour, he was already juggling the twin terrors of moving countries and planning his own wedding. Here’s his story of a race against time, as “I hope” eventually became “I do” in the Belgian capital.

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