Issue 434

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

One could hardly accuse Sharon Jones of taking it easy since the dynamite singer's career renaissance at the start of this decade, but even by her standards 2007 was a busy year. Throughout our conversation she's bubbly and her words come out in a constant stream, but when she lists just the major events of last year that stream becomes a torrent as she tries to fit everything in.

The Phoenix Foundation
Happy Ending
Flying Nun/ Warner

They say (as always, who exactly they are is somewhat vague, but presumably it refers to forensic linguists, or some such) that the accents of New Zealand are the closest in existence to the English spoken in Victorian-era England. Presumably the migrants of the time perfectly preserved their way of speaking, and much of the music that comes out of New Zealand harks back to an earlier time in a similar manner.

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