Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026
Documenting the madness
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Tickets go on sale from Saturday, August 31st. Tour dates are at the bottom. “The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised.” - Oasis. After years of will-they-won't-they that would put Ross and Rachel to shame, th
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Follow this schedule with set times for the most enjoyable Field Day you've ever had. Highlights: Yves Tumor: See Yves instead of Romy for a more fulfilling performance. Junior Simba : This will be the last time you see Junior Simba on an unsigned stage. Yaeji (Live) : You'll hav
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It was 23rd November 2019. We’d just clicked publish on our first article, Album Review: Here’s to Christmas, by Chris Kamara. Yep. And No Taste was thrust into existence. Since then it’s had a rough upbringing, but an exciting one nevertheless. We’ve been laying the tracks while
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Life seems to have gone from online banking and 420p videos of someone getting slapped, to pissed-up Zoom gatherings, to taking over every aspect of human existence in a pretty nifty little personal best. <insert any word here> and AI has it covered. Yes, probably even that you
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Alongside cancel culture comes an attitude for being best-dressed whilst creating the most sonic mess for your record label. Sometimes it’s pretty cool and works. Sometimes it’s embarrassing and you’re the family's disappointment. Acts of rage caused the rebellion against three
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Enjoy your summer festival the No Taste way: hard on the liver, kind on the environment.
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In which we attempt to review tracks from the Spotify playlist 'Workout'... mid-workout.
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Arctic Monkeys has begun working on a new album... but what will it sound like?
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Good evening, my name’s Dan Hackett and I’d like to welcome you to Sexual Lyrics, with me, Daniel Scott Hackett. I’ll be your host tonight as we spiral madly through the anals of history to chart the gleeful rise of smut in pop. So turn on, tune in, strap in and strap on. Let’s p
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In the last 30 years music hasn’t really changed. This may seem a mad statement, but is there any truth in it? Well yes - quite a bit actually.
Reviews, Blog
As I sit down to bring you this article on whether cover songs are great or tragic, I’ve asked Spotify to play me a playlist of ‘Rock Covers’ to inspire me to bring you this piece. Within 3 seconds of this request, my ears have been violated with what can only be described as an
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These are the foulest, darkest, most haunted tracks in the universe. May they burn in the hot fires of Hell this Halloween!
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Soundtracking one of the scariest video games ever made was no small feat.
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“Karaoke?” you ask. And with a gale-like sigh, my head facing the ground and hands parked on my thighs, I respond “yeah, go on then”. What do we fear most about karaoke? The performance? The prophecy of how wrecked you’ll be in 4 hours time? The crowd you’re going to encounter in
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Here: if you're going to learn an instrument to be more attractive, these are the ones you're gunna wanna go for...
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Are tribute bands inarguably naff? Or are they sometimes… alright? Come - let us investigate together.
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Keen to attend gigs but terrified of disease? Mate: we've solved your problem.
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As you are probably aware, Glastonbury 2020 has been cancelled. No Taste was built to be our vehicle into the festival by applying for press passes. Bollocks. Below is the exact application we sent to the press team. We never received an answer from them before the festival was c
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Two side-by-side accounts of a particularly ridiculous weekend that should have been filled with band reviews - but wasn't. It deserves no more of an introduction than that and probably shouldn't have been posted at all, but we needed to voice it to someone. Click the tabs to rea
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If you’re banking on bagging a ‘free’ ticket to Boomtown Festival by volunteering, here’s everything you’re gonna wanna know.
Song Lore, Blog
A tale of violence, politics, and the fiery implosion of a once-perfect dream. Hehey!
Song Lore, Blog
Hello, welcome, step inside my office. Do take a seat, and please, help yourself to a cigar. There you go. Here, I’ll light it for you. Enjoy that. It cost me a fortune . Do you want an enormous flagon of bewilderingly strong wine? No? Oh. Well do you mind if I have one? Excellen
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Where does the band name Arctic Monkeys come from? I asked Dan this question years ago and he answered as if it was common knowledge. It’s only until today that I’ve realised it’s not. Let’s crack on. “It was Jamie’s fault, he came up with it and he’s never even told us why. If h
