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Jake Bugg – 'Slide Away'

Jake Bugg – 'Slide Away'

Covering Oasis songs on an acoustic guitar is the sort of thing insufferable mouth-breathers do at house parties when they’re trying to impress drunk people. If only they were all as talented as Jake, whose finger-pickin’ version is so good...

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Jake Bugg - 'Jake Bugg'

Jake Bugg - 'Jake Bugg'

There's a great story about Jake Bugg that illustrates just how different he is from your average British teenager. Shortly after playing his first gig (not in some fauxhemian east London snakepit, but at his high school in Nottingham), Bugg's...

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Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg

Write what you know, runs the old adage. If that’s the case, then the Yoda-esque head that rests on Jake Bugg’s young and narrow shoulders must have had a few past lives to draw on. It’s not just the 18-year-old’s songs of life and love on...

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Jake Bugg - 'Taste It'

Jake Bugg - 'Taste It'

Notts newcomer Bugg is undoubtedly the best of the bunch in 2012 when it comes to channeling the great lineage of British pop into his own concoctions. ‘Taste It’ is his finest tune yet, beginning with a fine burst of La’s guitar, bass...

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