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\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s Album Club<\/a> #138<\/a>. One of the many, many, reasons I love it is that I get to hear bands like this. A band whose name I\u2019ve known since I was young, but I\u2019ve never heard anything beyond the odd radio-friendly single.<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s Album Club #138. One of the many, many, reasons I love it is that I get to hear bands like this. A band whose name I\u2019ve known since I was young, but I\u2019ve never heard anything beyond the odd radio-friendly single.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":218,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/from-soho-down-to-brighton\/","url_meta":{"origin":9370,"position":0},"title":"From Soho down to Brighton…","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"19 June 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just had an absolutely excellent weekend, topped off by a visit down to Brighton with Mat to see The Who. 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