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Spoken Word

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Is Spoken Word considered indie?
    Depends on if it's independent or not ;)

    Also, this guy...



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    JCC one of the best alright.

    More than welcome in this forum


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭jane82


    Tom waitts- what is he building in there?
    Brilliant


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Rollins is always good stuff too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭Eroticplants




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    William Burroughs' Dead City Radio is as close to essential as you can get. It was described by Q magazine (this was twenty years ago, back when it still had credibility) as the one spoken word album that justified the existence of spoken word albums.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Stuart Murdoch, Lyle Lovett, Stuart Murdoch, Wolf Alice, Camera Obscura, Rewind Festival, The Corrs/Imelda May/Natalie Imbruglia, Iron Maiden, Neil Young/Van Morrison, Lana Del Rey, Weezer, Sparks, The Doobie Brothers, Billie Eilish (x2), Oasis, Sharon Van Etten, The Human League/Blancmange, Deacon Blue/Turin Brakes, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (x2), Nerina Pallot, Sleeper, Wolf Alice

    2026 Gigs and Events: David Byrne, Belle and Sebastian (x2), Metallica (x2)



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