A few weeks ago, Will Self claimed in the New Statesman that the Met's armed police had placed themselves beyond reproach. Not by behaving well, but by letting it be known if any one of them was ever properly punished for breaking the rules, they'd all walk. That sort of beyond reproach. If they were firemen and said that, it'd be all over the tabloids before you could fact-check. It's perhaps this apparent belief that they're untouchable which gives the backdrop for the claims that an armed officer had dicked about hiding song titles and lyrics [...]
thinking that number 4 was lost in the mists of time thanks to my tardiness in posting it, crayola went ahead and did another. and be thankful he has - this one is dedicated to the cover version and his selection is pretty damn special. ::: 14 iced bears - coming down (originally by the united states of america) ::: pale saints - feel from the sun (originally by opal) ::: the shrubs - another age (originally by phil ochs) ::: terry & jerry - bias binding (originally by yeah yeah noh) ::: polysics - my sharona (originally [...]
It's finally here. The Day of 200 Songs held in honour of my 200th post, which happened way back in April of last year. A brief recap for those who don't know the whole story: to celebrate my 200th post, I decided to try a little community-building project. I wanted to get 200 people who read this blog (or perhaps those who even only read that 200th post) or friends they know to submit their favourite songs so that I could then compile them into 10 mixes for everyone to share. While I received several submissions, I didn't receive many, [...]
whoops, went a bit quiet there for a bit... back again with another podcast. i've been hugely enjoying john robb's "death to trad rock" book . for the uninitiated it covers all those difficult, angular, wonky uk bands from the 1980s that small numbers of men can't talk about without getting slightly breathless and/or misty-eyed. sarandon has the distinction of being the only contemporary band to be included, and while we wait for the release of the accompanying compilation album , crayola has dun a podcast: ac temple - all hail discordia [...]
a second podcast from crayola, including two of my favourite songs from bob hund (didn't they get ripped off by blur or something?) and martin white, plus a bit more talking this time! ::: bob hund - instället för musik: förvirring ::: besh o drom - 9s ::: xerobot - huffing ::: richard hell & the voidoids - the kid with the replaceable head ::: chocolate overdose - tricky nose ::: the dragsters - albino ::: kate bush - army dreamers ::: luminous orange - puppy dog mail ::: the coachmen - thurston's song ::: martin white - [...]
The Membranes, the eighties post-punk noisenik band fronted by John Robb, have been asked to reform for All Tomorrows Parties- The Nightmare Before Christmas gig on December 4th by hosts My Bloody Valentine.
"Like King Arthur's knights buried beneath the soil of Merrie Englande we are ready to be called on in the country's hour of peril," Membranes frontman John Robb recently proclaimed to The Quietus . 'We were called. And we will play ... Only noise and confusion can save us from the apocalypse ... the thunder of hooves and the clash of metal armour ... rise up ... rise up." Confused? To put it in layman's terms, the Lancashire based punk outfit has reunited after almost 20 years to perform at the upcoming ATP Nightmare [...]
The comebacks which delight are often, it seems, centered on All Tomorrow's Parties, and this one adds to that strike rate: The Membranes are getting back together at the behest of My Bloody Valentine. This is the Nightmare Before Christmas one. John Robb is, naturally, verbose in his excitement: Like King Arthur's knights buried beneath the soil of Merrie Englande we are ready to be called on in the country's hour of peril. We were called. And we will play. It's not clear where they were during the time of Gareth Gates, [...]
In preparation for the upcoming WFMU Radio Greats Weekend , I've been sorting through old tapes of my WFMU radio show (I refuse to call them "airchecks"—that's down there with saying "imprint" instead of "record label" if you ask me—"check, check, is this mic on?") and I came across this entertaining interview with England's The Membranes . The Membranes were three (sometimes four) funny-as-hell lads from Blackpool, and for pretty much their entire existence as a band I was a huge fan. In fact, one of my first dates with the young woman who eventually became [...]
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