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Superset Live – The Duck and Drake Leeds – 30/4/10

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Carps

Two words: fuck yeah. If last week’s faintly disappointing gig was a salutory reminder that sometimes gigs don’t work for Whatever Reason, the show at the Duck and Drake might well have been our best gig ever. And I say … Continue reading →

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Birkenshaw Liberal Club: Superset Live 24-42010

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Carps

W-e-e-e-e-e-e-l-l-llll. Typically at this stage of gig post mortems I open with a confident assertion of mercurial brilliance on our part. Can’t do that this time. This gig was a salutory reminder that no matter how well-drilled you are as … Continue reading →

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The Malt Shovel Drighlington: Superset Live! 8th Jan 2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Carps

Ah… pub gigs. The bread and butter of any workaday band who has given up on loftier callings. “Pub rock” is the kind of withering epithet flung at any band that is loud and kind of blues-y, but it also … Continue reading →

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The Hottest Sounds of 1997

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Carps

Fontacular! It was 1997. Britain was accelerating into the future… riding the crest of the youthwave unleashed by Tony Blair’s election. In shops and post offices up and down the land, people were talking about the novelty communication device that … Continue reading →

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The Bay Horse, Ardsley 18th September 2009: Superset Live

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Carps

Sometime around 5 years ago we effectively stopped being a live band. Prior to that, we’d done hundreds of gigs over the course of a decade. Then we gradually ground to a halt because, well, nobody was listening. Continue reading →

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John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band: revisited

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Carps

It’s the winter of 1970 and The Beatles are history. Rumours that they will reform will follow all the ex-members until a hail of bullets in New York put the final kibosh on the notion a decade later, but for now the fab 4 are letting it all hang out and the sense of relief in their solo efforts is palpable. Continue reading →

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