Robert Cooke

This Tumblr is primarily a feed of my work for The Fly, where I am a staff writer, Drowned In Sound and The 405. My day job is as a reporter for the Dewsbury Reporter and Mirfield Reporter.

I have previously worked for Exposed and The Star in Sheffield, and at the Edinburgh Festivals for ThreeWeeks. As a student I was arts editor of Forge Press.

E-mail: rob_cooke1@hotmail.com.

Twitter: @robertcooke_.

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Refused / The Bots @ Manchester Academy, Manchester, 14/8/2012 for The Fly

Six weeks ago, 225,000 people saw the Stone Roses down the road in Heaton Park. It’s hard to imagine that any of the hardcore punks crammed into Manchester Academy tonight were there, but at least now they know how it must have felt. Because, for these guys, seeing Refused is the same as seeing the Stone Roses was for those Madchester devotees – it’s the gig they never thought could happen.

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