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  • Seeing Turin Brakes in a tiny student union with about 200 people was fantastic.

    7 days kisobel 2008

  • Music: Turin Brakes - Mind Over Money (in my head - must get their new album)

    The One With 9 Days To Go kisobel 2007

  • Brakes is playing a couple of festivals as well as a handful of shows in London and Brighton this summer, so check out their Live Info page.

    Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives 2005

  • Brakes is playing a couple of festivals as well as a handful of shows in London and Brighton this summer, so check out their Live Info page.

    ...and she slammed on the Brakes (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • Music: Turin Brakes - Underdog (Save Me) 8 comments

    The One With The Fictional Character kisobel 2005

  • It already had the makings of a good gig (I particularly enjoyed the melancholy pianist whose name I can't remember but apparently he did the soundtrack to Grey's Anatomy) but then the cake was iced when they announced the special not-on-the-bill guests, and they were Turin Brakes.

    7 days kisobel 2008

  • Now it must be made known, that the tract of land, called the Brakes, belonging to the Tracy family, lies adjacent to Swallow Barn.

    Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832

  • Where necessary, "Brakes" were often fitted out with variable bodies, which were only really used to carry along anything that may have been necessary for the hunt, for example.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • Where necessary, "Brakes" were often fitted out with variable bodies, which were only really used to carry along anything that may have been necessary for the hunt, for example.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • Only in the minimalist piano-led hidden track at the end of 'Brakes' do we really get a sense of Hesketh, as opposed to Little Boots, as her raw Lancashire tinged vocals are more mesmerizing than the constant overlays of synthesizers.

    The Line Of Best Fit 2009

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