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  • So are audiences on the hunt for more stripped-back shows?

    From The Only Way is Essex to Made in Chelsea: has reality TV been reborn? 2011

  • His last album, 808s and Heartbreak, was infused with melancholic gloom and a stripped-back sound completely at odds with the boastful machismo of most hip-hop albums.

    Kanye West: Mister Perfection is stylishly reinventing the rules of rap Elizabeth Day 2010

  • Since 2006, the chapel has hosted the annual Little Noise Sessions, featuring stripped-back sets by the likes of Amy Winehouse, Florence and the Machine, and Coldplay.

    10 of the best music venues in London 2011

  • You can watch it until tomorrow at bbc.in/r1grllz, where there's also a similarly stripped-back and beautiful version of the band's own Melancholy Hill track.

    Click to download: You've got music ... Chris Salmon 2010

  • It's perhaps worth noting at this point that Praise and Blame is an album of stripped-back spiritual songs and not, as the press might have you believe, an unlistenable concoction of ketamine-fuelled dubstep.

    Call that a change of direction? 2010

  • The film is similarly cold and stripped-back, with a heavily desaturated colour palette and a certain remoteness to the directing style which only lightens in some of the more emotional scenes between the father and his son.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

  • No! It was (half of) Radiohead, with a rather brilliant stripped-back acoustic set

    Radiohead fill the Glastonbury festival rumour slot 2010

  • This Finnish circus show is an underground hit that comes on a stage resembling the aftermath of a riot and which has a stripped-back DIY aesthetic.

    This week's new theatre Mark Cook 2010

  • The film is similarly cold and stripped-back, with a heavily desaturated colour palette and a certain remoteness to the directing style which only lightens in some of the more emotional scenes between the father and his son.

    The Road Adam Whitehead 2010

  • This was a very stripped-back set: just me and a guitarist that I don't perform with very often.

    seanan_mcguire: WorldCon 2009 set list. seanan_mcguire 2009

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