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produced Sleater-Kinney. Everything else is unimportant.

I always feel as though the first 2 Hefner records are all about how he knows he's messing things up, he knows it's him whose attitudes are wrong but he doesn't really understand how to change this. It is a very honest album with a great deal of empathy for its female characters and a great deal of confusion, self pity and at times almost self loathing on the part of its male protagonist. At no point does this record try to be cool or knowing and there just aren't enough records out their like it.

Anyway this record was the soundtrack to the sad, self interested and myopic teen I was and I love it to pieces. My completist nature means that as soon as I get paid I'm buying this even though I own nearly everything he's ever released.

Nina taking requests. It led to a really great and odd set.

Okkervil River were brilliant as well. I so wish they had fewer albums out so that buying them all wouldn't leave me broke.

I got there so early I watched Sunset Rubdown as well which was about the only thing I saw that I thought was "meh". Not bad but not incredible.

i need to hear more.

Its great how everyone saw completely different things from me and yet had a great time. I'm still shocked that something in my town can be so well organised.

Anyway Nina Nastasia FTW but I can only thing of about 3 artists who've ever existed who could top her so maybe that's a bit unfair.

I don't disagree with anything said about the bands I saw. I am definitely looking forward to hearing something from Telepathe on record. I suspect it will be mind-fuckingly brilliant.

If this was really a tribute to John Peel it would be headlined by a weird French techno act with a Norwegian death metal band on before them.

The brilliant part of John Peels show was not that he had a lot of skinny white boys on when not a lot of radio was doing that but that you were never sure what you were going to get from one night to the next. The Peel tribute discs were similar abominations in this respect.

expanded edition of The Fidelity Wars coming as well. :)

Anyway I love this but damn my completist heart - I actually got about 6 tracks I didn't already own with this but bought it anyway. I am a fool.

if it's half as good as they are live it will be immense.

and I'm a bit annoyed that I forgot about it when I wrote down my top 5 of the year. Anyway I'm going to try and make the Brighton show.

with the posters above - this isn't a Christmas record. The Great Unwanted is my favourite record of the year and I always think of it as a great summer pop record. Just a shame we didn't really get a summer this year to go along with it.

made it better as it was perfect, just the right degree of gloom and muck. I just hope its not too much worse.

song seems to get more exciting every time I hear it, it's brilliant. I hadn't had much time for them before this but if this is how the next albums going to sound then it will be brilliant.

even if I don't like a specific release it's usually interesting and challenging.

The Royal Festival Hall on the 29/9 and I got all excited.

Then I realised I was in Scotland that week. :(

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Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup Is Running is as good as its title. I suspect it won't be.

Hey Colossus should make a track called that. It would be better. And less earnest.

much about this but Kill Rock Stars think that SaveNetRadio that the charges are fair and that it's the only way that artists will get paid fairly for their work.

This news post is a pretty one sided take on a complex issue, it is a shame I don't have the last KRS email anymore to give a decent counterpoint.

about Meltdown. I got the limited edition live album with mine and the songs sound so much better on the live disc compared to the studio album. It's very frustrating.

Do I win a prize?

but it's still mental.

The last band I remember something similar happening to is the White Stripes who went from playing a half empty Concorde to headling festivals in the space of 12 months. Again thanks to a certain music weekly.

When I saw them in Brighton earlier this year they played the Ocean Rooms to about 100 people. Also wandering around ATP last year hardly anybody stopped Beth or even seemed to recognise her. The Dome is about 1500-2000 capacity I think, that is a menatl increase in popularity/interest in such a short space of time.

Actually

Double-mega-super-yay!

are we going to get a Fighting With Wire album though?

That's what I want to know.

then moved to Brighton and now they are sort of split between Brighton and London I think.

Live these songs are great so a trip into town to get this is needed on Monday.

...right.

they be but I hope AMG do something good with the hippodrome, it's been a rooting hulk for as long as I can remember so I'm glad someones taking a chance on it. After all you can't have enough venues.

to get this. They were great live, kind of like Tom Jines going Indie. That sounds rubbish but it was awesome.

I bought the Mika Miko album a few weeks ago, before DiS talked about them.

I am officially too cool for school.

I thank you.

The albums bloody brilliant by the way.

I saw Apes ages ago, even had a t-shirt at one point. They were nuts live but I'm sure a friend of mine bought a record and it was shocking.

you are not

As I am marrying him tonight.

He doesn't know this yet.

review says people were 'counting the minutes' during 'Lost Girls'. Seeing as i it was the first song of the encore and was played after they asked the audience what song they wanted I don't think anyone else was 'counting the minutes'. 'Lost Girls' is always one of the songs the audience asks for and it's beautiful, probably my favourite song of theirs. Grr.

rubbish and I'm not convinced they really need to be a 6 piece, it didn't seem to add an awful lot over the 4 piece version.

They were ace though and I've yet to take some one to a show who hasn't loved them, they are impossible to resist.

Thanks for pointing out that the tap dancing isn't a gimmick, so many people seem to decide that it is before even listening to them. I was worried about it before I saw them the first time but it is such an integral part of their sound.

I think I have listened to the Ice Storm, Big Gust and You about 5 times today, it's brilliant.

Didn't really like Kate Nash, just another singer-songwriter who happens to have a very distinctive accent.

I've seen the Little Ones before and they were better then they were on lWednesday night. I do agree that some of the songs seem a bit weak, it's the reason I haven't bought the record yet.

with my little eye something beginning with 'B'.

Brighton date - woo hoo! I will see if tickets are on sale for that tonight.

on Tuesday and I haven't listened to anything else since, it's great.

They were good live as well.

supporting Hot Club De Paris (HCdP if I wan't to shorten it?) and I was very impressed. I am definately looking forward to any records they might make in the future.

They should get a proper website as well, myspace annoys me.

their best tune.

1993 would be 2009.

Unless I've slept for 2 years (I live in hope) it's still 2007.

for the first time the other night and thought they were great.

I hope you have a great mind.

Mclusky reference.

is a shit venue but I wo will be there to check this out because DiS says it will be good and say itt in a way I find interesting. One day DiS will be seriously wrong and upset me. Maybe this will be that day.

My ratings of last night.

Boy Least Likely To - 6 Fun but I don't think the songs would stand up to much without the stage act
Loney Dear - 8/9 Really blown away by them and I wish I had had money last night as I would have bought all their records. Lush harmonies are a GOD thing.
The Little Ones - 7/8 Also really good but the Shins comparison is a bit too close to the bone. The songs are really good though and once again lush harmonies are a GOOD thing.

Overall 8 and anybody who likes jangly inie should really go and check this tour out as it's 3 very different bands, all with something to offer.

with this news story? I have had a ticket for ages and there have been posters all over Brighton. I am quite looking forward to hearing the Little Ones.

never ever come to Brighton. Now I have to decide whether I can afford to go to London or not.

Bis get in the hcarts as unsigned band a few years back? Or was that just a really random TotP I saw?

Wooooooooooooooooooooooo

I'd go to London as well but I'd need to use the internet and I am trying to avoid internet ticket agencies as they are the modern eqivalent of highway men.

shall still be in Brighton

Ha.

and it has a well stocked bar.

It is also not far from me.

I shall be there.

Nina Nastasia and Jeff Lewis last night in Brighton and they were both wonderful. Nina Nastasia manages to say so much whilst doing so little it is impossible not to be a little awestruck. I loved the Creeping brain song as well.

One thing that is bugging me is the growth of plurks who think it is ok to talk REALLY LOUDLY through quiet shows. This wasn't so bad during Ninas set but at times it was really difficult to hear Jeff Lewis. Seeing as a significant part of his show is made up of the wit of his words its really annoying not to be able to hear them.

money have to change hands or wil free downloads count?

They've been around for 5 years
They've made 4 albums
Their sound has eveolved from being very bluesy punk 5 years ago to what it is now.
Even if you have just heard the last record their are songs that are more then 1 note riffs and disco high hats.

Sometimes I wish NME would stop writing about bands I like as it always leads to aimless drivel from too cool for school kids. It doesn't happen often but when it does this is always the result.

Plus Lily Allen is bang on.

for the first time last night. It is indeed ace and much better then anything they have recorded previously. I can't wait until I have the house to myself so that I can turn it up LOUD.