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Hana Announce Mono Cartridge

The Japanese Hana cartridge brand has now launched a mono cartridge, a version of the Hana SL (Shibata nude diamond tipped, low output) called the ‘Hana SLM’.   

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Gary Numan – The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Nostalgia tours roll into town with rapid regularity.  Missed one Seventies or Eighties hit-maker?  There will be another along before you know it.  Nostalgia sells.  It’s less common though for someone who had their first number one in 1979 and their last top ten single in 1982 to come storming along with a set that […]

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Public Service Broadcasting – The Usher Hall, Edinburgh 

I last saw Public Service Broadcasting three years ago, here in the Usher Hall, opening for the Kaiser Chiefs.  As much as I enjoyed their set, I struggled to imagine how they might sustain their mix of electronics and newsreel audio and video samples over any more than forty five minutes without running out of […]

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Tellurium Q Win Queen’s Award For Enterprise

Every April The Queen’s Awards are announced and Hifi Pig is delighted to announce that this year Tellurium Q, the cable manufacturer based in the SW of England, have been nominated for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. 

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Bryan Ferry – The Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Bryan’s back in town and the Ferry fans are out in force; it seems unlikely that a bleached blonde in a blingy black blouse will anywhere to be seen outside of the Usher Hall tonight.  And that’s as it should be; after all, septuagenarian sex symbols are in short supply and who knows when this […]

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Affordable In-Ears From Flare

Following the release of last year’s award-winning Flares® PRO earphones, British brand Flare Audio now offer the affordable Flares® JET.