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Credit: James Watkins/BBC Eurosonic Noorderslag is the Dutch equivalent of The Great Escape, the UK’s seaside springtime new music knees-up which sets the tone for following months’ festival season. Eurosonic typically takes place annually across four days in early January with every bar, theatre space, venue and fetish club in the city of Groningen, Netherlands turned into a stage as breaking artists from all over Europe set out to impress festival bookers and make a name for themselves. However, with international travel banned and a global pandemic not really lending itself to the art of squeezing yourself into a packed room, this year’s Eurosonic is a virtual-only affair, of course. For four evenings last week (Jan 13-16), four channels broadcast live performances recorded by the would-be lineup, while a fifth celebrates the best of what’s come before. It’s a very different sort of showcase to the intense venue-hopping that this event usually demands but ....