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Samantha Charles

Samantha Charles is a UK based Bowie fan "he had me with that finger point on TOTP in 1972" with a love of most types of music from hip hop to rock to experimental jazz. She loves going to live gigs and dancing in the standing stalls.

Her kids say her music taste is “weird” but she has successfully introduced them to Flying Lotus, The Avalanches, Anderson Paak and Tame Impala most recently.

Samantha has an almost continuous internal soundtrack playing and can often name that tune in two.

contributions

Float On 06.16.2019
Kamasi - the new king of jazz 05.25.2019

What if Hunter s. Thompson formed a band?

Dantanna's brand of self-styled hedonism blows up and blows your house down.

300 Words From London: More Rubbish

Look out, wombles about... or the fine art of bin diving... or how to play FISH!

An Education

Tim Marshall has sold over a million books worldwide. How will he fit all those fans into Bearwood's Why Not Coffee on a Sunday morning?

Stop Me If You've Heard This Dinosaur Joke Before: Morrissey and U2

Once mighty forces that roamed the earth, the persistent embodiments of U2 and Morrissey may not pack the wallop the once did, but you still watch as the trudge by.

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