Mr Fogg is good. Not only is his song 'Stay Out Of The Sun' superb, it's got a great video (as seen above) and you can get it for free from his website . I asked him to choose a few songs that he likes to listen to and these are the ones he came up with. Listening to them gives you an insight into how Mr Fogg has come to sound the way he does. It's enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable. So without further ado, here is Mr Fogg's selection... [...]

Out of the two Peel Sessions recorded by Prolapse, and the two live broadcasts they did, do I have a full one to post? No. Will this stop me rambling about Prolapse for a bit? No. Prolapse came from Leicester, but had a member named "Scottish" Mick. Unlike Tiny Tim, or anyone who as ever called themselves "mad", this wasn't an ironic nickname. The second "Scottish" Mick Derrick opens his mouth it is obvious the name isn't a joke. They are also a band I hadn't listened to in years until fairly recently, [...]

Out of the two Peel Sessions recorded by Prolapse, and the two live broadcasts they did, do I have a full one to post? No. Will this stop me rambling about Prolapse for a bit? No. Prolapse came from Leicester, but had a member named "Scottish" Mick. Unlike Tiny Tim, or anyone who as ever called themselves "mad", this wasn't an ironic nickname. The second "Scottish" Mick Derrick opens his mouth it is obvious the name isn't a joke. They are also a band I hadn't listened to in years until fairly recently, [...]
PLAYLIST: No Joy - Indigo Child (Stereolab Remix) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - It Was There That I Saw You Dephot-home Cheap Time - Tight Fit Sennen - Broken Promise Beige - In Kind Wolf Ram Heart - Viewgirls Ghost Animal - Single Man Crystal Stilts - Converging In The Quiet White Sparrows - It's True (Demo) Glass Homes - waiting The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day Prolapse - Tina This Is [...]

A gigantic bag of goodies and just-okay-ies from a leading name in electro. Edward Upton, aka Ed DMX, is DMX Krew, which means he's his own krew, his own posse. He's famous for having roped in as many variations of electro as possible in his past 15 years or so of making music, including Detroit techno, European synthpop, New York freestyle, Miami bass, Italo-disco and Marioworld chiptune. He was already '80s-centric in the '90s, his name being a reference to the infamous Oberheim DMX drum machine used on...

Recently there was an article in the Guardian in which Louise Taylor pondered whether a democracy or a benign dictatorship would benefit a club more. I'm over simplifying a bit, go and read the article yourself. But the subject of an overall power at a club is something that I'm going to cover in this series... This originally wasn't going to be a series, but after researching and gathering material about the gentleman above, I found items about some "colourful" characters who run other top top football clubs. So now we have [...]

Do you remember the 1980s? I was there too... Tory government, strikes, riots in the street, papal visit and now a Royal wedding to boot. Yep, at the moment, comparisons of the 2010s to the 1980s are just serving to confirm the cliché that clichés are clichés because they're true, in that they're both clichéd and true. With that in mind, a revival of Prolapse 's 1997 not-quite-anthem "Deanshanger" might well be in order. Formed "under a table" at the University of Leicester student union, [...]

According to Jake Ryan, this is the coolest shirt in Manchester. I agree. PLAYLIST: The Smiths - London Blur - Fool's Day Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken Art Brut - Formed A Band Lilys - A Nanny In Manhattan Two Lone Swordsmen - Get Out Of My Kingdom Dead Cowboys - Twin Evil Stars McCarthy - Celestial City The Ruling Class - Flowers Prolapse - Move To Limit Slabs The Arcade Fire - Black Mirror (Full-Source Remix) All [...]

At the turn of the millennium, MJ Hibbett & The Validators released one of the world's first ever download-only singles, "Hey Hey 16K" , which was later turned into a flash video by Rob Manuel of cult site b3ta.com . It became one of the world's first viral video hits, racking up two million downloads in its first fortnight and spent several days in the top ten sites on the entire internet. As a result of this cover versions were performed not only by countless garage bands but by some of the [...]

I know this isn't a particularly original question. Indeed, it's a rather tired, cliched one that I've often seen trotted out in weak stand-up comedy routines and small-talk circles. But I'm going to ask it anyway: What is it about cars that turns men into drooling, acerebral, aggressive baboons? I ask because two separate incidents over the past week each brought the query to mind. Two times that led me to ponder whether castration might actually be a useful tool for social control. I usually drive into work fairly early each [...]
Prolapse came from Leicester in England. They formed in 1991. I first became aware of the band sometime in the mid 90s after hearing the band on the John Peel radio show. As always, I searched out the LP that was currently out. As it happens it was 1997's 'The Italian Flag'. I was hooked. I then found as much of their back catalogue as possible. But what did Prolapse sound like? Initially I was drawn to the band by the mix of male and female vocals. The gruff male vocals came from one [...]

It’s been busy this week. Work & travel are keeping me away at the moment. I promise to have something substantive up by Monday. Until then, keep yourselves out of trouble with this archival post (from January, back when all of four people were reading this), an article about Fall-obsessed C-86 misfits Prolapse. This was originally published in the late, much missed Puncture #37, late 1996. I discovered Prolapse when I was living in the UK. My boss at the time convieniently happened to be one of the most forward-thinking A&R [...]