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Writer @ Guardian, Independent, FT, Spectator, Economist, Quietus. Contributing ed @ Arena Homme +. Author: Denim and Leather, and The Gospel of The Hold Steady
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Sing when you’re winning: the 20 greatest songs about football – ranked!

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By Michael Hann 
| Yahoo Singapore
20. Rod Stewart – Touchline (2021) Ah, fathers and sons and football. Here, Rod gets teary-eyed remembering how his dad used to cheer him from the touchline: an inessential but sweet and heartfelt song. Though Rod once told me that he tended to shout at his own son from the touchline, because he never tracked back. 19. Sultans of Ping FC – Give Him a Ball (And a Yard of Grass) (1993) Pop and football are alike in that today’s heroes are tomorrow’s ghosts.
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The appeal of doom, stoner and sludge metal

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By Michael Hann 
| The Spectator Australia
Desertfest Various venues, Camden The Lemon Twigs O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire It was odd, walking around Camden Town during Desertfest – the annual weekend-long celebration of doom, stoner and sludge metal (we’ll come to what they all are later). Odd in particular to see so many men wearing tall, brightly coloured pointy hats: the kind your mum rolled and stapled for you out of a piece of card.
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Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

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By Michael Hann 
| Yahoo News UK
Bob Mould has never seemed to have much interest in looking back. The bridges to a Hüsker Dü reunion were burned long before drummer and songwriter Grant Hart died in 2017; the notion that Mould might revive Sugar, the band who scored three unlikely UK Top 10 albums of ferocious alt-rock in the mid-90s, seemed ridiculous. But here we are: after three New York shows, Mould, David Barbe and Malcolm Travis are touring the UK and Ireland.
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