MM was clearing up an enormous pool of dog vomit and bile from the kitchen floor at 6.30 this morning after the dozy hound ate a pair of boxer shorts. It was the worst smell we've ever come across.Mrs Mackerel has cleaned the floor twice more and it still smells. It still smells.This has put an entirely different perspective on MM's week.Here are two appropriately dog related tunes. The first is

So January 1st has passed and Illegal Tender is now a year old, it's time to turn my attention to 2009. Here's the first of my tips for the year ahead: #1 The Velcro Quartet The brainchild of Glasgow-based Joe Rodger has been on my radar for a long time now and TVQ have been gradually gaining plaudits from all over the place for the past year and a bit, and it's [...]

Here is the official beginning of Christmas List season, here at Song, by Toad. If you want to get involved and write your own list, then please do. Go here for more details. The more of you that contribute to that the better the results we will get, so don't be shy. This is the first quarter of my Festive Fifty for 2008. I will also be preparing a list of my twenty favourite albums, but I might just neglect singles and EPs this time around. If you disagree with anything then do [...]

Part 1: 1-10 Part 2: 11-23 Part 3: 24-36 Part 4: 37-50 Here is the official beginning of Christmas List season, here at Song, by Toad. If you want to get involved and write your own list, then please do. Go here for more details . The more of you that contribute to that the better the results we will get, so don't be shy. This is the first quarter of my Festive Fifty for 2008. [...]

art by Bob London So the blogging world is pretty fickle, and especially as we don't use artist tags or post appropriate titles on Illegal , it's hard for the newcomers to experience the delights of our previous posts. Marking the day that we made it on to HYPE MACHINE - today - I'm going to post some of my favourite tracks we've posted in the past and link back to the pages if people want more background info, so here goes: Late of [...]
you sonsofbitches. you win at scrabble? no I win at scrabble. note the capitalisation. note it! this one time in france i used all seven letters on a triple wordscore. that was the fucking motherlode. how i partied hard that night, luxuriating in my own grammatical filth. following my return from the birmingham noisefest my inbox has [...]