Blog: galactic mystery solvers

JJ72, Oxford Zodiac, 7 October 2000 Lacking the hollow bombast and naked ambition of Muse and the pompous banality of Coldplay, JJ72 were in the more likeable half of bands touted as the new Radiohead. One of the few bands I saw purely on the strength of a press officer's bribe, they were a surprisingly canny live band; they did nothing much that 80s-tinged falsetto complaint-rockers like Geneva or Puressence hadn't done before, but Thom Yorke mini-me Mark Greaney at least knew his way around a chorus. [...]