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Subscriber of the week: Teresa Bradbury

New Statesman 15 Jan 2025
What do you do?. Primary-school teacher. Where do you live?. St Ives, Cambridgeshire. Do you vote? ... I saw Tracey Thorn at the Cambridge Literary Festival and was interested to read more of her writing ... Tracey Thorn, Pippa Bailey.
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The 50 Best Original Christmas Songs Since ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

New York Magazine 19 Dec 2024
Snow Jams. We’re making our lists and playing them twice. Illustration. Carolyn Figel ... Yes, “All I Want” is indeed wonderful ... 50 ... 50 ... Tracey Thorn, “Tinsel and Lights” (2012). Thorn’s songwriting and resonant alto distill bittersweet moments into pop gems ... 9.
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Tracey Thorn shares review of Charli XCX concert in London: “Am I too old to ...

NME 02 Dec 2024
Tracey Thorn has shared her own review of a recent concert by Charli XCX, whom she declares as an “artist of the moment” ... A post shared by Tracey Thorn (@traceythorn).
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Tracey Thorn Reviews Charli XCX’s London Show: “Am I Too Old To Join In?”

Stereogum 01 Dec 2024
When Everything But The Girl’s biggest hit “Missing” came out, Tracey Thorn was the same age that Charli XCX is now ... Thorn, now 62, recently brought her Zoomer son to see Charli XCX ...
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Letter of the week: Rebalancing our debts

New Statesman 20 Nov 2024
I loved Tracey Thorn’s article about why songs about motherhood (or, to me parenthood) struggle to gain traction (Off the Record, 15 November) ... I completely empathise with Thorn’s diagnosis of the fear ...
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Subscriber of the week: Mike Harle

New Statesman 13 Nov 2024
What do you do?. I work supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Dorset. Where do you live?. A Geordie living in Poole (a reverse Eddie Howe). Do you vote?. Always, often tactically ... Four years ... Central Europe ... Andrew Marr, Tracey Thorn.
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Letter of the week: Democracy in chains

New Statesman 07 Nov 2024
Sohrab Ahmari (Cover Story, 1 November) makes a curious case for approving a second Trump presidential term ... Tracey Thorn quotes Rachel Kushner’s interpretation of Bob Dylan’s line, “He not busy being born is busy dying” (Off the Record, 1 November).
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Mark Kermode on… British director Carol Morley, who sees the surreal in the real

The Observer 06 Oct 2024
Watch a trailer for Typist Artist Pirate King ... Meanwhile, an evocative score by Tracey Thorn adds a touch of homemade Wicker Man weirdness as the Alternative School Orchestra provide an onscreen link between the worlds of the real and the imagined ... .
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Gemma Hayes: Blind Faith – A most welcome creative return after a 10-year absence

The Irish Times 26 Sep 2024
Blind Faith.     . Artist. Rock/Pop. Label. Self-Released ... Like Patti Smith and Tracey Thorn, among many others, Hayes disappeared because she’d swapped songwriting, recording, performing and touring for raising her children ... [ Gemma Hayes ... .
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By Any Other Name: Protection and the Sweetness of the Trip Hop Sound

The Quietus 26 Sep 2024
The record’s slow enveloping grooves were bolstered by standout vocal appearances from Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn, Nicolette Suwoton, reggae legend Horace Andy and frequent collaborator Tricky, before he left to pursue a solo career.
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Letter of the week: Growth mindset

New Statesman 25 Sep 2024
We should not repeat these mistakes ... Richard Bernard, Chicago, Illinois, US ... False logic ... I read with sympathy of Tracey Thorn’s attempt to escape a busker’s rendition of “Wonderwall” by disappearing into a nearby church (Off the Record, 20 September).
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 22-28

Hindustan Times 16 Sep 2024
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 22-28.. Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 22-28. Sept. 22. Singer-dancer Toni Basil is 81. Actor Paul Le Mat is 79. Singer David Coverdale is 73 ... Sept. 23 ... Singer Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl is 62.
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Letter of the week: Starmer’s rhetoric gap

New Statesman 11 Sep 2024
Finding solutions to the problems facing this government is by no means easy (Cover Story, 6 September) ... Geoff Brown, Walton-on-Thames. Fuming Farage ... Tracey Thorn (Off the Record, 6 September) is both courageous and wise ... Thanks for your honesty Tracey.
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Subscriber of the week: Simon Tyler-Murphy

New Statesman 28 Aug 2024
What do you do?. Urology nurse specialist. Where do you live?. East Sussex. Do you vote?. Yes. How long have you been a subscriber?. Ten years plus. What made you start? ... Andrew Marr, Tracey Thorn.

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