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A Guide to Great Live Albums (Part 4 of 4)

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Hello Everyone! It's me again, back to deliver you a mammoth diatribe on something music or comically related, as is customary with me. I know what you're thinking though "where the fuck are the first 3 parts?" Good question. Well, as you may have seen in my update post last September, I started posting my articles on Soundsphere.com with the kind permission of the editor. However, I recently decided I'd start posting on my personal channels again, whether it's on here, or finally uploading to my YouTube channel again, in a much more casual and fun way. So, if you'd like to read parts 1 through 3, you can do so here . I the meantime, join me as I give you some of my last, most recent examples of utterly brilliant live recordings. Believe me, these are absolutely deserving of the biblical word vomit coming your way. Gathered in Their Masses - Rod Laver Arena, Australia, 2013 (Black Sabbath) It should be relatively uncontroversial, I think, to say that Blac...
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New Gen Graphic Novels & The Supremacy of ‘Big Nate’

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New Gen Graphic Novels & The Supremacy of ‘Big Nate’ When I was younger, me and my friends grew up in a time where what I’ll call “new-gen graphic novels” were becoming a phenomenon in the kids’ literature world, where the writing style of children’s books was combined with the in-your-face graphics and humorous presentation of comics. Of course, as far as children’s books in general went, Rhold Dahl would always be the frontrunner, but there were a fair few new kids on the block, with serious appeal in this new style. You got precursors to the trend with things like Jacqueline Wilson’s ‘Tracy Beaker’ books in the early 1990s, but arguably the trend really hit the ground running with the arrival of Dav Pilkey’s ‘Captain Underpants’ in 1997.  Speaking from experience, if you were a 7/8/9 year old kid in juniour school reading these, we thought it was the funniest shit imaginable. After all, it was fat, stupid, mean teachers being made to run around in their underwear by two ten ...
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