About kate

avatar Kate Goodacre is a freelance writer, copyeditor and photographer. She founded The Fugitive Motel in late 2006, and her taste in music has been broadened greatly by her co-contributors over the years that the site and the Motel collective has been in business. Kate likes pink lady apples, sunflowers, mixtapes, recycling, open-wheeled motorsport, the smell of a well-kept park, the Today Programme and that strangely invigorating stillness you get in a city early on any weekend morning.
Website: http://www.thefugitivemotel.org.uk
kate has written 385 articles so far, you can find them below.


Death and All His Friends

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Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral (4AD)
February 6, 2012
5.0/6.0

Blues Funeral is easily the finest album of the year so far.

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Eugene Genie

Eugene McGuinness 'Lion' still

Eugene McGuinness with Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains and Trailer Trash Tracys
Camden Barfly, London
Friday February 3, 2012

You know you've stumbled across someone with a truly great voice when they make singing look like the easiest thing to do in the world.

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Nordic Noise

casiokids

Casiokids
Trof Grosvenor Street (The Deaf Institute), Manchester
Friday January 21, 2012

As one might expect from a band who once performed in a hot air balloon, Casiokids' otherwise conventional stage layout has two noticeable additions - a newspaper supplement and a pitta bread.

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Review of the Year 2011 availability

Review of the Year cover - Catriona Mole and Ceri Williams / HOTCAKES

Find out where to pick up a copy of our (delayed) review of 2011, starring Tune-Yards, Ghosting Season, The History of Apple Pie and Dry the River.

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YouTube Disco: Franz Ferdinand/Field Day 2012 special

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It's only Franz bloody Ferdinand and they're only bloody well headlining Field Day 2012! Kate names five old songs she'd like to see them play...

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Your New Favourite Band: Part 17 – Boy Friend

boy friend

YNFB! returns, and it's about time. In which Texan duo Boy Friend cover ABBA's 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' (it's really good, honestly) and write beautiful, stylish, melancholy synthpop. YES.

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S?n 2011 clockwatch: Sunday, October 23

Gwdih? means 'owl' in Welsh. It's also the name of a pleasant little cafe-bar just around the corner from Queen Street station.

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S?n 2011 clockwatch: Saturday, October 22

If we were actually in the late '50s, there'd be Pathe News footage of screaming young girls fainting in the front row with a clipped commentary riffing on how The Jim Jones Revue are mad, bad, and dangerous.

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G?yl S?n/S?n Festival 2011: complete coverage

Complete coverage of 2011's S?n festival from The Fugitive Motel.

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S?n 2011 clockwatch: Friday, October 21

Any X Factor hopefuls would do well to study the meaning of the words 'sing for your life', because if you ever had to actually sing to guarantee your survival, then this is how you'd go about it.

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