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Has just been sent out; featuring the main article by Michael McHugh on The Factory Records Myth. Plus new music and gig previews from us.
www.thecuckoopress.co.uk/mailout2.html

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Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Info.
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The first weekly email Cuckoo Press is hitting inboxes in around 10 minutes - each edition features a lead article and updates about events and music.

A direct link is here: www.thecuckoopress.co.uk/mailout1.html

To subscribe, send me (debbora@thecuckoopress.co.uk) an email saying ’subscribe news’… and every Friday, you’ll get a little present!

Hope you like it - feedback welcome x

Posted: August 15th, 2008 under Info.
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check out www.thecuckoopress.co.uk/gigs
and www.myspace.com/thecuckoopress

for some sneak previews and some very exciting things coming up!

if you want to be guaranteed a copy of the new issue, drop me a line (debbora) to be put on the postal mailing list

love to all xx

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Info.
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Review of their beautiful album here

Posted: February 23rd, 2008 under Info.
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yes those cute little envelopers have got a widget on their website, you can download it and it plays you the whole new album for free!!!!

I have been listening to it for a while and it is beautiful and amazing. this is the link:

www.envelopes.se/herecomesthewind

the only problem is I can’t switch it off, and for about three hours it was stuck in the middle of my screen. which made my word document quite difficult to work on…..

mere side points.

Posted: January 22nd, 2008 under Info.
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The Colt 45s - Let’s Have an Accident

One More Grain - Isle of Grain

Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming

Leeds Festival 2007

i Concur - Lucky Jack / Build Around Me

The Belgrave Scandal - Brighton Away

The Mountain Movers - We’ve Walked in Hell and There is Life After Death

Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Info.
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This afternoon I really got that surge of energy necessary for contemplating how lax I’ve been over the past few months. Past six months really.

So, tonight will come a huge update with regards to CD reviews as I attempt to review everything I’ve been sent recently. And a gigantic apology to everyone who has spent money on stamps waiting patiently for me to review stuff.

Reasons abound; fundamentally boils down to:

1) alternative / guitar based music making me generally angry, festering negative energies in my system, making me have fights with people who I liked a lot and really didn’t want to have fights with, making tensions, making me write negative things just because I couldn’t think of anything good to say, making me averse to ever discovering anything old because it had influenced all this horrible music that I had no interest in and was making me angry, actually turning me in to someone I didn’t even recognise as I was that negative and horrible and ANGRY

you get the idea

2) getting so excited by dance music, and getting excited about meeting excitable people, feeling so happy in those environs, finding beats and hearts that went together and were fun and non-critical and loving and happy and happy and happy

3) having no impending deadlines and no real stress to create a deadline

4) on the other hand, having so much stress that my brain seems to have actually stopped working and the hint of a little stress makes me do something different like go for a walk, dance about, go to the gym, do some housework, do some daydreaming… anything but treat the source of the stress through the root, i.e. tackle it

all this applies to my terrible communications with all of the lovely bands who have asked to play at one of my nights and I just can’t summon the strength to say ‘well I’ll get back to you sometime’, instead leaving 1000 read messages with no reply in my myspace

anyway, the realisation. Old Chinese medical philosophy made me see the light. In Chinese medicine, they say that everyone should be really ill at least once a year, and this should not be treated in any way. It’s your body’s way of getting rid of everything bad that has accumulated over the intervening period since your last illness. Negative Chi, in all forms - from infection, from stresses, other external energies. etc. Since learning this (well, probably before this, as I have always been odd in this respect), aged around 18, I have refused to take any form of painkiller or ‘treatments’ for colds and flu, which effectively prevent your body from expressing the symptoms of illness - you block the bad Chi in for another year, maybe.

So I had a bad cold or maybe the flu (though I doubt it) for about 4 days, and let it run it’s course however painful that was. I went to the gym today and realised that I had been blocking a lot of negative Chi from it’s escape - evidenced in my hugely increasing pile of flagged emails and promo CDs.

write the review. write the email. release the Chi!!!

I am looking forward to tonight. fingers crossed I’ll get through it all. You’ll see the evidence in the morning no doubt.

Posted: January 16th, 2008 under Info.
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a week and a bit to go to the christmas party…. come to this in the new year too xx

Posted: December 8th, 2007 under Info.
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we are having a christmas party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

those lovely people

THE RESEARCH

are coming up to do a lovely little show

with their friends and our friends

THE LODGER

and we’ll be getting some extra special support too!

MONDAY 17TH DECEMBER
THE CUMBERLAND ARMS
NEWCASTLE

£5 ADVANCE
8PM

christmas tombola and christmas cake. for you.

TICKETS AND POSTER AND SUPPORT COMING SOON! XXXXX

Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Info.
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Oh, and with all this functionality we now have the gallery fully operational! I’ve got a few more pictures to upload as I did too many at once and it crashed, but have a look at what’s there anyway for a blast from the past two years!

Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Info, content, images.
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