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The blues was music made by dead people for old people. Then a 'brother and sister' duo kicked it back into life. Andrew Perry, one of the White Stripes' earliest champions, recalls the impact of their first UK gigs ... London was melting in a rare summer heatwave when the White Stripes landed for three gigs in the capital that would alter the course of popular music, worldwide ... It was 2001, and the outlook was grim. Britpop had died a death. America was in thrall to ugly-mug Fred Durst. It

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Sounding Off: Miranda Sawyer on Simon Cowell

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Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:10 p.m.

In a decade of change and confusion in the music business, one figure came to rule it all. Unfortunately, it was Simon Cowell ... How to describe the past 10 years in music? Perhaps we should turn to Nicola from Girls Aloud who in OMM's review of the decade describes the Noughties as "white with small dots ... but not as stylish as a dalmatian". Surreal, but you know what she means. There has been no defining, overarching movement. No one colour, no single design. No acid house, no punk, not

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The Holloways To Support Shed Seven

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Published Nov. 27, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

North London indie kings to play alongside Britpop legends ...

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Brett Anderson, Tabernacle, London

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Published Nov. 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

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Much has been made of Brett Anderson's apparent happiness in the musical "wilderness". After the hedonism of the 1990s (all that energetic, drug-fuelled positioning of himself away from Britpop), the 42-year-old is now very much a solo artist and seems more content for it ...

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