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Stiff Kittens - Strawberry Hill Demo
Radio 2 is now the most listened to radio station in the country: hooray for easy listening power!!! Stiff Kittens sound; like their playlist; as though they are stuck in a time warp circa the late ‘80s and have taken inspiration from the “wrong” Manics era: Post Richie. I don’t know exactly why but »
The Futureheads - Music and Song
Much in the same way that back issues of the Beano can be used to wallpaper the bathroom Sunderland’s The Futureheads decided to lovingly wrap my copy of this demo in dictionary pages which thoughtfully gave me something to read whilst listening to their CD. Then again, perhaps reading the wrapping-p»
My age? But barman I'm 18!
Sunday at Reading was a bit strange this year. The only little kiddies I had seen the whole weekend prior to that had belonged to various goth/ punk/ hippy types who were all quite young. On Sunday however the demographic changed. At the main stage I got stopped by sensible men in their forties in sensible shoes, we»
Oil Red O at London Bull and Gate, Wed 19 Sep
I arrive at the Bull and Gate slightly late and stumbled into the venue without so much as a drink to nurse. I nearly got blown straight back out of the door as I got confronted by the sort of sonic breeze that gives you trouser-wobble. And stomach-wobble. And you know exactly what the bass is doing as it travels th»
Oil Red O - Oil Red O
They call themselves “one of the finest 3 piece instrumental bands on the face of the earth” and they aren’t completely instrumental. Fan Letter contains a sample of a spoken word record by the American author Charles Bukowski. It’s a spoken word letter to one if his characters according to the »
God Love You For a Liar (formerly Plastik) at London Lil Backyard Club, Wed 05 Sep
Nobody will ever be bored at a Plastik gig. Their singer/ guitarist Gareth Moss looks like JJ72’s Mark Greaney, and dances like the bastard child of Muse’s Matt Bellamy and John Travolta. Bass player Andy Natt is a study in Indie Cool, but the real praise should be reserved for Plastik’s drummer. I know, »
Lorca - New Comer
Jazz has earned itself a particularly bad name in the past 30 years. It gets itself associated with that particularly awful pretentious crap that gets spewed out as muzak in coffee houses or by terribly arty people in black polo necks. ‘New Comer’ pilfers a lot of its sounds from jazz, not the 1940s swing or »
Swell - Everybody Wants To Know
Apparently first there was Swell – then came Grandaddy. Imagine a Grandaddy with no fizzle and you might have Swell. If you personified Everybody Wants To Know it would be wondering whether or not it should get up to do the cleaning. And then it thinks, “ah fuck it” and goes back to stru»
Monomania - In Your Element
The un-twee indie song has had some bad press lately. But then that isn’t surprising when the most successful examples of it at the moment come from Travis, and Starsailor – nice tunes but they lack a bit of oompf shall we say? “Your existence is burnt toast. That’s the bit I love the most. Your existenc»
one number: 23.
“OOOOOOOOOOOH!!! KESTREL STORY!!!!!YES!” Wayne Murray (Telletubby name: Bo!), Thirteen: 13’s lead singer has just jumped about 3 feet in the air with enthusiasm. His bandmates are groaning with embarrassment. “This is SUCH a true story, I swear. On my life. There’s no witnesses, and I’ll tell you why there’s »
Diastole - Gandhi Goes To Hollywood
Something odd has been put into the Suffolk water system as Blue Gandhi are yet another Band From Bury. They are yet another band with the potential to make people wet themselves with joy (though I do hope they don’t. Wet themselves that is. Shall we move swiftly on? Good good.). First track Obliv»
Angels write Beat Poetry
Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky are releasing a spoken word album of their work called The 3 Angels. The record, to be released on Barely Breaking Even on september 3rd, is a recording of a reading they did in New York City in May 1992. It's the first and only time the th»
Nancy's Dead - Personal Defects
Nancy’s Dead come from Braintree, they formed in 1998, split up after a rehearsal, reformed, and have spent the rest of their time dying their hair in a variety of different colours. Oh and supporting Queen Adreena and Spunge among others. Oh and organising a summer tour. Pretty impressive then. No»
The Suffrajets, The James Wright Band at London Monto Water Rats, Wed 25 Jul
The James Wright band play blues tinged rock. In other words proper music using proper instruments. I would give you three guesses as to the appearance of their frontman, but as you can’t answer me I’ll answer it myself: he looked a bit like Paul Weller. Yes my friends this is a Mod band, the bane of my short»
Baby Barbecue 2001 All-Dayer at Bury St Edmunds Pestellos, Sun 22 Jul
Soooooo according to John Peel Bury St Edmunds is the “New Seattle”. That possibly doesn’t quite fit seeing as Bury is a little town with a disproportionate number of bloody good bands covering most genres whilst Seattle is flippin’ huge and the birthplace of grunge. For the opening band Lamina, howev»
Antihero at London Islington Hope and Anchor, Mon 09 Jul
Unless you are incredibly new to this site and have yet to check out our messageboards I’m pretty sure you have heard the name “Antihero” being bandied about the place. So really apart from saying that they are tipped to be massive I really need no other introduction. They (especially bassist Davo) d»
Big Sur - Desert Song
The driving force in commercial indie music at the moment seems to be simple songs with soaring vocals and at least one acoustic guitar. On that premise then Big Sur are headed for the big time. Just as long as people hear about them before they get bored to tears with Coldplay, Starsailor and Travis. »
ATB - Two Worlds
…And two CDs. According to ATB’s press release “The two CDs are mood mixes not a string of big numbers stretching after hit single status. CD1, The World of Movement is the come-up, CD2, the relaxing World, is the come-down.” That’s just as well then because to paraphrase the Reduced Shakespeare Compan»
Skinny - Morning Light
Curse those radio stations with their playlist policies!! Roughly 2 and a 1/2 months ago I heard a brilliant song on XFM. It had a trip hoppy beat, with a little bleepy riff, a gorgeous black vocal juxtaposed with a wispering male one. The ideal song to come down to after a night on the tiles. The fact that XFM go and »
Super Furry Animals, DJ Vadim, Killa Kela at London Kentish Town Forum, Sat 30 Jun
Accoustic Gig: Heavenly Social Club: 1.30pm It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. This was to get hold of a vintage bingo machine, have a board up numbered with SFA's entire backcatalog, and whichever number came up, the song was played. In reality Gruff Rhys is sat on a stool in a packe»
Murry The Hump hit the road + video.
According to the Murry The Hump news list you can catch 'em at the following dates on their tour:
Lampeter University Drovers Festival - Friday 8th June 2001
Tonbridge Wells Forum (SUPPORTING CLEARLAKE) - Saturday 9th June 2001
Blackwood Miners Institute - Sunday 10th June 2001
Cardiff Clwb Ifor»
Molina - The Demo
I obviously made a huge mistake when I joined Drowned In Sound. In the spirit of open mindedness I said I’d review anything…unfortunately I get given the dregs that nobody else wants. Which is lovely. I put the Molina demo on and was left thoroughly uninspired. I put it one repeat for 2 hours and was»
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Now I’m afraid that this will be a slightly biased review. Super Furry Animals could release an album with the magnified sound of a cheese melting and reforming in an interesting fashion and I’d love it. If they went and recorded the sound of paint drying to plonk in their tracks I would still go googly-eyed »
Missy Elliott - Miss(e)...so addictive
However striking Missy is as a woman she will never be accused of having got where she is by having a small pert bum. She invites you to give up the drugs and get hooked on something that will send ping pong balls up your spine, give you butterflies in your stomach, mess with your mind and tickle your toes: Music. <»
Pete Rock - PeteStrumentals
“In early 2000 BBE hooked up with Pete Rock and he decided to produce an eclectic album for our BEAT GENERATION. A fusion of jazz, pop, folk, rock and soul laces this ground-breaking project. A scattering of MC tracks (featuring a new crew called the UN) are also present to whet the appetites of Pete’s traditiona»
Jennifer Lopez - Play
The Butt is back. She has dumped Puffy (no, I never will be able to bring myself to call him P Diddy as I get the giggles each time I say it.). She has changed her name to the infinitely snappier J-Lo. And she is releasing a nice little r’n’b number that is a bit like most of her other tunes. »
8:58 - The Weakest Linc
I should warn everyone that this thing ‘ere is a novelty club track, sampling, funnilly enough, excerpts from that popular self-esteem lowering quiz show “The Weakest Link.” The proper song is shit. But then proper novelty club songs always are shit, ‘cos the black box noodlers are trying too hard. Ok, »
(Untitled)
For all I know Jet Johnson could be aliens with bulging eyeballs and pink and purple glittery stripes. They could be very twee and look like Belle and Sebastian. Or to buck the trend they could be Amen in disguise showing off their “sensitive” side. I wouldn’t know as this interview was conducted across several tele»
Ben's Symphonic Orchestra - Schoolgirl
Ben’s Symphonic Orchestra like opening their songs with abstract recordings of people talking in the background. The also seem to be French and appear to fit into the same category of wilfully weird pop songs as Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi. Y’know, the sort of songs that seem to have been recorded by people who’ve got to»