Farina’s early nineties post-rock scene contemporaries Codeine and Bitch Magnet are hauling gloriously their brontosaurus bodies over the comeback coals, but Farina’s band Karate always stood out from the tranquilised hardcore crowd, with their diminished sevenths and jazzy licks.
Today he’s a born again acoustic troubadour, laying rewarding mid-west poetry professor verbiage over finger-picked traditional sounding tunes, not unlike that other bookish math rock graduate, David Grubbs.
Prick Up Your Ears describes small town soldiers departing for Iraq with commendable sobriety, in a folksy idiom that emphasises the their timeless circumstance.
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter