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#176 > SEPT 21st 2006 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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| LEAD
US NOT IN TO TEMPTATION |
What
day is it? Wednesday? Thursday? Hey we got a TV show tonight? More Anti
Product and things? No it is Thursday and you got to laugh at subtle defects,
Little man Tate? Man I (nearly) hate your band, nah, hate is something
you have to earn, not good enough to hate, but it is your word and don’t
talk to me about your lyrics, your songs are all the same, kettle, pot,
black. Damn, it’s Thursday, quick, write something before we miss
the deadline again. Does it matter and who said that swan was kicking too
hard and it would all end in tears and the stench of plankton and broken
ginger biscuits, whores, swans and does any of this matter? Well does it?
Do hands cover ears and eyes and chuck it on, throw it off, next please,
lead us not in to temptation, stamp out this filth |
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THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME |
NEW
ELLIOT
SMITH DEMOS POSTED ONLINE - Four previously unheard Elliot Smith demos
have been posted online. The tracks, named 'Let's Turn The Record Over',
'True Love', 'Talking To Mary' and 'From A Poisoned Wall' are, it's said,
just some of around fifty such demos which have yet to surface. The songs
are online at www.elliottsmithbsides.com
JENNIFER TERRAN –
Sweet smelling package from France. Jennifer is actually from Santa Barbara
California, this rather intriguing set of songs came in from one of our
deliciously mysterious readers/listeners. It’s beautiful angelic (not too
angelic – both vulnerable and incredibly strong) voice and melotron warmth
and delicate loops and left field torch songs that breath in their own
quiet glowing dusty way. This is a treasure – think the quieter textures
of Radiohead or that Nearly God album that Tricky made, think the refined
breath and drama of Colt or a more delicate (and even better) Tori Amos.
Now I don’t know that much about Jennifer, seems there’s a whole load of
treasures to discover, albums and projects and such. Haunting and intense
and strong and delicate and beautifully textured and pure and although
we’ve done that lazy namedropping thing once more she really is like nothing
or no one else. You need to explore these treasures, they are treasures,
delicate treasures, it’s like finding treasure in a lost attic and disturbing
the dust so it caught in the shafts of autumn sunlight and radiant delight
Thank you. www.jenniferterran.com
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
| STAMP OUT THIS FILTH, WE
DON'T NEED THIS FASCIST GROOVE
CRADLE OF FILTH have a new
single, I got it today, in the post, it dropped through the letter box,
thud - it's called Temptation (on Roadrunner, hey, they sent it me, least
I can do is mention then you ca nknow who to blame - roadrunner roadrunner,
go one hundred miles an hours? Wot are the bleedin'
words again Sid?)
Have you heard it in the
news, about this fascist groove thang? Brothers, Sisters, fight the filth
that is the Cradle, crush them under the wheels of industry or something,
play to win, I can do anything, something ‘bout the way you deal, hands
of steel... Pram Of Shit as a certain stoner band who we won’t expose,
but who just might have the words goblin and orange in their name, once
referred to them whilst drunkenly setting fire to copies of Kerrang on
a central line tube train one evening – seems they were offended by the
sight of Harlot Church and his dreadful band on the front cover of said
glossy music comic, the name has stuck ever since, Pram of Shit, lead us
not in to temptation.
So Pram of Shit's new single is a preposterously bad bad bad goth metal
sledgehammer to crack a nut violation of the glorious Heaven17 track –
yes, be warned, their new single is a cover of one of the greatest songs
ever and it’s testament to the said song's brilliance that even Dani Filth
and his yappy frothing poodle gimp-dogs of badgoth metal can’t completely
utterly mess it up – they come damn close though, very very close. You
could be thirty-seven or seventeen, kiss the boys goodbye, come live with
me, but don’t be pushing no pram of filth, they really are the worstest
ever band in the whole wide known or unknown world aren’t they. Can you
name me a worse band? No you damn well can’t so don’t even try! It’s a
fact, pram of utter shitehawkedness and this is a new low in metaldom,
even worse than that dreadful Cliff Richard cover they did a couple of
years ago, even worse worse than anything Europe or Raven ever did, worse
than when Saxon all got perms, worse than any hair-metal crimes or that
time Ozzy and his fat talent-free daughter were on Top of The Pops, worse
than any band Paul Shortino has ever been in, worst than Megadeth's version
of Anarchy in The UK and clueless Dave telling us to all drive home from
Hamersmith O safely.
Where’s Tipper Gore when
you need her? Can’t we start a metal branch of the PMRC just to get Pram
Of Filth banned, strung up, tortured or at least sent to a Cuban island
and put in chains and orange suits, Rip Cruncher sort it out, bring on
the frothing dogs and feed them Dani Feltch. This is a dreadful dreadful
dreadful version of Temptation and I'm not happy and something has to be
done and ah here’s Tipper in her post-woman hat, as if by magic, leave
no tracks, don’t look back, climbing higher and higher, adorable creatures,
right on time and that’s no lie.
HEAVEN 17 – GREATEST HITS: SIGHT AND SOUND (Virgin) and more Dani
filth squashing alchemy and magick and yes, how spooky, right here in the
very next package we opened - Heaven 17’s Greatest hits and the very best
80’s synth/funk pop band all drenched in soul and probably the greatest
pop song of all time - Temptation (I’m being careful not to go over the
top here). How spooky, in the very next package! Who’d have thunk it? Nineteen
tracks – work work, hah hah. Nineteen audio tracks and fifteen video tracks
And and and a really really good (and rather different) previously unreleased
original demo version of the aforementioned Temptation that sounds more
like a DJ Downfall vs Gene Serene version that just has to be danced to
(spin spin, clap clap) than anything (spookier and spookier) . Was that
a subliminal mention of Gene Serene there? We can do anything, keep us
from temptation, lead us not in to temptation, get in line now, get in
line now, dance and sing to the sound of the crowd, I can do anything.
Heaven 17, wonderful, Pram Of Filth, dreadful. Long live the British Electric
Foundation and all things evolved out of the Human League. Who’s Gene Serene?
Are you not paying attention? We can do anything...
Links? Here you go if you
must - www.cradleoffilth.com
/ www.heaven17.com or better still
seeing as you have to sign up to see the official site, go to www.heaven17.de.
Who’s Gene Serene? Are you not paying attention?
John
on the phone...... |
| LOVE DOCUMENTARY
PREMIERES IN UK NEXT MONTH - A Documentary about Love, and the band's frontman,
the late Arthur Lee, who died last month from leukemia at the age of 61,
is to be premiered at the National Film Theatre in London on 27 Oct. 'Love
Story', directed by Mike Kerry and Chris Hall, will also be shown at the
Ritzy in Brixton on 29 Oct. The documentary focuses primarily on Lee and
the band's first three albums, but there are also interviews with other
band members Johnny Echols, Alban 'Snoopy' Pfisterer, the late Bryan MacLean,
and Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman.
A SUGARCUBE ON THE
REUNION - Sugarcube Einar Orn has been speaking about that Sugarcubes reunion
gig, taking place in Reykjavik in November, almost fifteen years after
the band split.
Explaining that the group
had remained friends over the years, he said that the anniversary of the
release of their first single seemed like a good time to get back together:
"We said, 'Okay, let's celebrate that,' and everybody was game and we decided
to go for it. We were going to do it in a small bar. Everybody said we
would not get away with it because it only holds sixty people. So we're
going with a small sports stadium. It holds about five thousand people."
He continued: "We have asked
a few people to support, and they want to think about it, which I think
is brilliant. It's like, okay, that's what you call respect. Sugarcubes
ask you to warm up and you say, 'I'll think about it.' It puts us in a
bit of a jittery position because if they don't want to play, we need to
find someone else. It took us fourteen years to get together, and
now these people can't answer us."
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ORGAN
ON YOUR RADIO @
RESONANCE 104.4FM -
NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - every Sunday night, 10.30pm, one hour of us on the radio.
X |
The new year long series
of
ORGAN TV is on your screens
in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm
on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY
173. And now due to the
fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.30pm.
What's it all about? Simple,
just good music, and the art of good video making... Same musical
policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts,
as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy
eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post
man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity
for the open minded
(and if you think your video
should be on then shout in our direction)
Music TV done ORGAN style
Coming up in the next few
weeks things such as Mastodon, Weapons, Zero Ciper, Cats And Cats And Cats,
Liars, Colt, MC Lars, Trencher, High On Fire, Tiger Force, 65Daysofstatic,
Spit Like This, Gene Serene, Hafdis Huld, Against Me, Soviettes, Amon Tobin,
Deerhoof and who knows who or what.... |
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DEMO TIME |
| Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos,
we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more
time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective,
when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
CHET
– What is with this package? Did they smoother it in rancid butter before
they put it in the post or something? It stinks! No it really does and
hey, I know they’re from South London but this really is having a serious
giraffe! Let’s get the damn thing reviewed (or rejected) so we can get
it out of here, it really does stink, hang on I got to go wash my hands
first (bet it’s going to sound bad toooooo) this really is a rancidly smelly
demo disc, what the hell have they been doing with it? More cradles of
filth. Hang on, hang on! The music certainly doesn’t stink. I rather like
the music, music tastes fine and they got this slightly English new wave
XTC meets Squeeze and maybe a bit of Scaramanga Six/Stranglers/C**di*cs
thing going on and these glorious chorus bits and shinny hooky pop bits
that are far too good to actually be called pop and are indeed slightly
prog-edged. Hey this is rather excellent, full of life’s twisted infections
and details and that Crazy Horses bit at the start is good and please don’t
hurt us futile species and is this a little Gog Magog around the edges?
Hey, actually I love this! We got a live one here, turn on the cooker and
grab hold of that synth riff and all the living on tin food and holding
out and I’m getting that itch again. We got one, nothing stinks here, this
smells sweet sweet sweet. Classic intelligent infectious hooky slightly
quirky English pop with loads and loads to hand on to. Four fine tracks
with weird edges and damn, looks like a trip to South London is very much
in order. We’re impressed, nothing stinks here (what have they been doing
with this disc though?). What is the stand out track, What could be a massive
track. www.chetsonfire.com
DEMO
OF THE WEEK 2
GRAVANZIA
– Classic old school Gong/Neu flavoured progressive psychedelic space rock.
This is good, this is very good, this sounds like a long lost classic bit
of treasure from deepest 1974 (yes, we did say that last time as well).
Hawkwind, Gong, strange krautish things, prog jams and freakbeats and tantric
flying and psyched-out West Coast pop-art organs and if these things sound
like your kind of things then Gravanzia now have the authentic thing nailed
right down and things are good. Gravanzia smell of Club Dog and The Crypt
and strange free festival gatherings and hypnobeats and Amon Duul and obscure
early 80’s prog and Silmarillion and Tamarisk and Chemical Alice and Here
And Now and floating anarchy and all kinds of strange sci-fi films and
Michael Moorcock and Philip K. Dick and H.P Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley.
We’ve told you about them before, they’ve always been rather intriguing,
they seemed a little more focused and in control of their spaceship now,
a little less freeform. It’s an unfashionable acquired taste but hey when
has fashion ever mattered around these parts? This is rather recommended
and I do like the sinister undercurrent and the sense of menace – they’re
from London by the way - www.gravanzia.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
VANCOUVER
DELUXE – The Black Hearts - They claim to be goth cowboys on rave horses
and indeed they could well be. They’ve got drum machines and remedial electronics
and a hint or two of Southern Death Cult Stooges and it’s all alternative
goth like a million things we heard in 1991 opening for Balaam And The
Angel or The Screaming Marionettes down the Marquee. You can decide if
that is a good thing or not. House Of Dolls would have loved them, Creaming
Jesus would have taken them out on tour and stolen all their beer, they
sound like they’re fuelled up with liquid MDMA and a crazyhead or two and
here’s the link, off you go if you feel you need to. They’re from Glasgow
and the CD came in a red cover with skeletons on the front – www.myspace.com/vancouverdeluxe
Last
week's demo of the week - LADY PROMISE
Previous
demo's of the week FTSE100
/ STEAL GANDHI /
ALL
DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE
/ THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH
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THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS
/ BLACK JACKSON / INNER
RAGE / ALLERGO
/ BROOKE / CARTRIDGE
/ PERHAPS CONTRAPTION
/ THE PROCESS VOID |
'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK…… |
| ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
HOLY
SMOKES - Talk To Your Kids About Gangs (Skingraft) - Confession: when the
package containing this and one other album was opened I danced around
the room singing 'Happy Birthday To Me'. This does not guarantee a good
review. (Especially when the other album happens to be a Koenhyakkei re-issue).
But there's this one-minute downloaded sample of the previous Holy Smokes
album on my hard drive that I can quite happily leave on repeat for long,
neighbour-maddening periods, lacking anything else from them. So,
birthday, Christmas, etc, yes? Oh yes...
Let’s predict that, barring the odd civilisation-demolishing apocalypse,
musicians will be referring to Zach Hill as an influence in decades to
come. It's not just the drumming, which has to be heard to be believed:
there's the synth work, the combination amounting to this waterfall-of-noise
sound: not a wall but a turbulent, shimmering, pummeling force. You
simply will not hear such a unique style anywhere else. Very very
fortunately, this doesn't occur in isolation but as part of an intensely
creative cluster of musicians and composers, in a time and place hindbrain-plugged
right into the zeitgeist (the one that actually exists, not the marketing
consultant version). Zach Hill is best known as one half of Hella,
composing with extraordinary guitarist Spencer Seim, and both collaborate
with other, mainly California-based musicians in circles of what seems
from here to be an exceptional flowering of creativity. Holy Smokes
is the ultimate expression of this lucky convergence of brilliance, this
colliding of comets.
Listening to Pretty Much None Of Us Know Anything made uncontrollable spinal
chills - who is driving that bass along, why is it so frighteningly beautiful?
Let's look... it's just Zach and Rob Crow... wait a minute, isn't that
the Rob Crow of Heavy Vegetable and glorious, magical Thingy? Yes, and
adds his fragile voice to a new hybrid. There's more: other members of
Holy Smokes include members of The Advantage, The Flying Luttenbachers,
with one Dan Elkan involved in the majority of tracks, contributing some
of the lyrics and most of the vocals.
Talk To Your Kids About Gangs is a dense, intensely multi-layered, album
twitching with its own life. Fragments of guitar and broken machine
sound bob to the surface of an irresistible flash flood of drums, whirling
currents of synth. Teetering between brutal and delicate, bright
almost-pop vocal and guitar melody rises for a while, is swept away.
Yes, there are freeform avant-noise passages, but songs are in the ascendant,
well broken out of the mould of your average song structure, but tunes
are there. Too Many Wives (All You Need Is Blood) shudders
and surprises, hinting somehow at Frank Zappa as much in attitude as sound...
and the Luttenbachers. And then there's the stand-out number: Quantum
Leaper Of Los Angeles County. Stunning. A jaw-dropping hyperdrive
in a silver machine tarnished and battered by post-millenial violence,
an epic, spun through with unbelievably good lyrics (sideways, harsh, subtle,
working with the music).
Gestated over three years, Talk To Your Kids About Drugs is out on November
7th on Skin Graft Records. Uneasy and astonishing listening, utterly contemporary
and thus frightening, alive, complicated and sometimes gorgeous. (Marina
A)
www.skingraftrecords.com
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK 2
GALLOWS
– Orchestra Of Wolves (In At The Deep End) - Shouty abrasive post-hardcore
yelling and constructive intelligent barking and thrusting and thrashing
and pointing right at you (and a debut album from a former demo of the
week band as well, pay attention at the back now, if it’s spurting from
yer throbbing organ then its worth a great big fuck). They’re from Watford
and may they have your attention please? Mayday! It’s a healthy mix of
early Discord sounds, and (not too complicated) discordant math rock that’s
laced with some violently urgent shouting and screaming, And just when
you think you’ve sussed their relatively straightforward musical complexity
and pounding and punching they hit you with some clever detail and an off
kilter left hook or two to go along with that confident we-know-we’re-good
swagger they’ve now got. It’s delightfully volatile and jagged and uncompromising
and rust thrust in a open would and go get the nurse. Real deal clever
challenging hardcore punk rock with delightful detail. Oh yes, just as
we expected it to be, right at your head and f’ing some serious shit up
and going off and things like squalor is alive and such, things let on
the floor (yes you know what that means), this orchestra of wolves
eat leaves and they run oh so very fast, if you want to catch one you had
better take a big bag of self respect – there it is right on your doorstep,
go grab it and love it, ask me nicely, la la, la la, we’re screaming we’re
screaming we’re screaming, we’re scheming... www.iathe.com
/ www.lastfightofthelivingdead.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
YO
LA TANGO – I’m Not Afraid OF You And I’ll Beat Your Ass (Matador) - Starts
off with this extended kind of Grateful Dead psychedelic alt.rock Byrds
thing, rather fine start if you’re in the mood. Second track kind of sounds
like Pavement doing The Beatles, then we go in to this beautifully lush
strings and piano piece that really is rather wonderful and wholesome.
Forth track is this breezy jaunty thing with happy trumpet sounds and like
an alternative retro sunny day down Sesame Street - kind of cooler, less
obvious, far more subtle Sister Sisters for chin stroking indie geeks with
good taste (and who don’t like those over hyped twisted Sister Sisters).
Now they’re doing this kind of mild locked-on krautrocking thing with a
these warm retro analogue organ sounds, kind of Stereolab – and that’s
the thing about Yo La Tango, they always sound kind of good without ever
grabbing hold of anything and claiming it as their own. They’ve never
really had that X factor, they’ve always sounded like a good American indie
alt.rock band should, a band who make all the right moves and tick the
right boxes and never sound like they’re forcing it but they never ever
sound like anything you can hold on to. What do they sound like? Does anyone
know? Right now it’s this wistful minimal quiet glowing eight and a half
minute thing of pure radiant beauty called Daphnia – and then it leaps
to another flavour and another style and they could really be any one of
many 80’s/90’s alternative American bands. Hang on they’ve gone all garage
rock n’ roll and Stax and I don’t know, Yo La Tango never quite pull it
all together as one whole thing that can be embraced and loved. I really
don’t know how I feel and I’m not sure if I care enough to want to know.
Almost, Yo La Tango are an almost band, i like them but... – www.yolatango.com
/ www.matadorrecords.com
SKID
ROW – Revolutions Per Minute (SPV) – The last album (and first with Johnny
Solinger) was extremely forgettable (I had indeed totally forgotten about
it until this one turned up a couple of days ago), they don’t have no Seb
Bach anymore and with him went most of their identity and hey, they were
never that good anyway were they? Not that Johnny Solinger is a bad front
man or anything, it’s just that he’s not Seb Bach and Seb B was the sound
and style of Skid Row surely? Revolutions starts off sounding pretty much
like 2003’s Thickskin did - standard faceless unremarkable inoffensive
tired forgettably dated US hard rock and things are not sound too good.
It looks like this is heading quick time for the giant red reject pile
in the corner until When God Can’t Wait kicks in and hang on, what’s this?
Social Distortion style country punkrawk sounding like something off of
one of Fat Wreck’s better moments or something! What’s going on here? Things
are suddenly kicking off, they were stuck in first gear and suddenly they’ve
got it cranked up and all fast and shouty and full of bad attitude like
they suddenly remembered they don’t give an f. Shut up Baby I love
You follows in like some kind of bad ass don’t mess with me rock beast
and hey, if you didn’t know who it was you’d be thinking hey. Shut Up is
kind of Kid Rock kicking the crap out of the Crue and that can’t be no
bad thing can it? Of course we can’t say we like it because that would
not be cool and I’d not want you knowing I have any kind of time for the
Row and Ricky was a young boy and blah blah. What we have here is a classic
case of strip out the crap and the fillers and the bits that sound like
a tired version of what you’d expect Skid Row to sound like, change the
band name to get rid of the baggage and we’d have a half decent five or
six track mini album. White Trash is indeed classic white trash pissing
your life away rawk - his sister she got three babies, she don’t remember
who the daddies are, now she’s a porn star and we’re so proud of her. You
Lie is the highlight. Southern country redneck baiting love gone wrong
so pass the moonshine Kenny Rodgers stomping punk-rawk bluegrass (with
fiddles and banjos and things), but it can’t be any good because this is
that glossy MTV metal band Skid Row right? We get another couple of fillers
again towards the end, in fact the rest of it is fillers and most of it
is average average faceless tired passed the sell-by date bad hair metal
– there’s a damn fine mini album ep thing lurking on here though so when
it comes out in Late October go borrow it off someone who’s sucker enough
to pay actual cash money for the thing, copy the good tracks then give
it back. Don’t be telling anyone I said that though, home taping is killing
music and it’s not big or clever to rip off record labels now, I mean they
don’t over charge us for albums do they? Bang bang, shoot it up, the bullet
hits the bone, I always did kind of like Skid Row (in very small doses.
Never managed to get through a whole album) but don’t be telling anyone
I said that either will yer, I have a reputation to keep intact you know.
Ok, time to get out of here, rippppppppppity doo and it’s mostly the hair
metal horse pooop you’d expect but hey, check it out, lead us not in to
temptation...
UFO
– The monkey Puzzle (SPV) - There we were, the other side of midnight,
caught in the combat zone, riding that subway train (with Joey) fast from
east to west cause only you can rock me rock me, come on back now do it
again (doctor doctor please). Lights out, lights out and these guys must
be older than the Rolling Stones by now? Still most of the ‘proper’ line
up intact, some guitarist I never heard of (he fits the bill though), the
rest of them are here and hey, they still sound alright. I could start
on about how Strangers In The Night is the ultimate classic double live
album and how indeed UFO were, back in their day, one of the greatest hard
rock bands ever. This new album is kind of OK, sounds like you expect UFO
to sound, sounds a little flat and I really hate to say a little
uninspired and a little UFO by numbers. There’s nothing here that deserves
to be on a best of collection, massive respect to the legend that is Phil
Mogg, Pete Way and co but this is only alright, it sounds like UFO should
sound, just lacking the spark of magic from days of old. www.ufo-music.info
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terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! |
CRAP
ARREST OF THE WEEK (as reported by our good friends at Schnews)
For wanting take-away food...
Two foraging dumpster divers*
were recently sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and were hit with a fine
for 'stealing' food that had been thrown out by a fruit shop in Colorado,
US. This in a country that wastes an estimated 43 million kilos of food
every year!
* SchNEWS vocab watch: Dumpster
diving, or 'skipping' as it's known here, is the act of reclaiming edible
food that has been thrown away by shops. Extra thanks to supermarkets who
take the time to spoil their waste by opening or covering in bleach etc.
Well, perish anyone getting it free...
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LIVE |
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The further adventures of
McCULLOCH and those ASSAULT CHARGES - Echo And The Bunnymen frontman Ian
McCulloch has successfully defeated those assault charges made against
him (that we told you about last week), though he has been convicted with
the lesser crime of breach of the peace relating to that previously reported
incident backstage at the Glasgow Barrowlands last October. The dispute
was between McCulloch and two (former, presumably) fans, Gary Duncan and
Juliet Sebley. For reasons that still haven't been completely fathomed,
they found themselves backstage after the Echo And The Bunnymen gig, and
made use of McCulloch's back stage toilet facilities. McCulloch confronted
them as to why they were in his dressing room - and that's where the two
sides' versions of events differ.
McCulloch says that he politely
asked the couple to leave but, when they didn't, he pushed the toilet door,
which was unlocked, and which swung round and knocked Sebley in the face.
Duncan and Sebley claim McCulloch became loud and unruly when he came across
them, that he made threatening comments, that he pushed Duncan forcefully,
and that he kicked the toilet door in, injuring Sebley.
Hearing the case, magistrate
Robert Hamilton ruled that McCulloch could not be found guilty of the assault
charges, but did rule the singer had been guilty of a breach of the peace.
On that, he added: "I'm going to take a very lenient view. This took place
in an area where there were very few members of the public".
Leaving court, McCulloch
reassured reporters that the incident would not stop him playing Glasgow
in the future. He said: "I love Glasgow. It is brilliant and the Barrowlands
is the best venue in the world. I'm just glad it is all over. I look forward
to playing Glasgow again."
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SINGLES |
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
EINSTELLUNG
– Sleep Easy Mr Parker (Beardos) – Ah now this is soothing, one track single
but hey, twenty-eight minutes, almost twenty-nine and not a moment too
long (fine artwork as well). Simple soothing slow building washing kraut/prog
that starts off in a slow delicate minimal way. Slow driving, takes a few
minutes to reach the first soothing key change (and when we do get there
it’s hardly noticed). Just sit back and relax like you do with your very
best Neu tunes. I don’t know why this is so good, there’s nothing that
revolutionary going on and it shouldn’t really be so brilliant, we hear
lots of things like this, but hey, for some wonderful reason this just
hits the spot and reaches the places the others don’t. It’s just beautifully
dynamic and pretty much perfect. Einstellung pick you up and wash you away
with their soothing warm slow building sound – this is brilliant and beautiful.
Somewhere around 13 minutes and 43 seconds there’s a subtly dramatic gear
shift that just lifts you up even further, ah yes this is so right in every
way. Einstellung are from Birmingham, they’re Steve Hough (ex Godflesh/Cable
Regime), Simon Rider (ex Grover), Andy Parker (ex Sally/Katastophy Wife)
and Andy Smart (who doesn’t own up here to any previous form). Incidentally,
examination of the small prints reveals some kind of involvement from Vanessa
White from the much loved and much missed Twist. Just go get it and let
is take you where it wants you to go – highly highly recommended, one of
the singles of the year. www.einstellung.co.uk
/ www.beardos.co.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE
LATE GREATS – Destroy My Brain (Izumi) Kind of kind of sounds like a lot
of kind of things that kind of sound like The Fall – kind of (in a vague
kind of way). All that staccato angular Art Brut and kind of shouty Furturehead
and bits of subtle glitchness and all very kind of current and rather kind
of good in a kind of oh I don’t kind of mind it kind way. Yes they are
kind of bright and nervous and all very indie and kind of good I guess
from up here where I sit on the fence and I’ll probably play them on the
radio next week a (and you kind of know I only play good things – kind
of). www.myspace.com/thelategreatsuk
ROYAL
TREATMENT PLANT – Carry Me (Human Condition) Polite English Throwing Muses/Sidi
Bou Said with a little bit of post-punk personality threatening to burst
out, polite girl fronted lightweight Gang of Four flavours. www.humancondition.co.uk
WHEN
GRAVITY FAILS – Bitter (Astro:Nought) – More of the London band’s trademark
big riff rock, skyscraper-high riffs and Breed77/Soundgarden/Tool/Cave-In
flavours for people who like their rock music to sound very very big. www.whengravityfails.com
DARTZ
– St Petersburg (Xtra Mile) That pointy jointy indie short sharp guitar
emo/angular Franz for Reuben fans catch all thing that ticks all the current
boxes and dismemberment plans without really leaving any lasting impression
in any of them, gang of two and a half, get cape, get hat, go – www.xtramilerecordings.com
/ www.dartz.co.uk
THE
TRUDY – Lost Summer Of Love (Tuntribe) Second single from the born again
(after a ten year hiatus) Trudy, more of their shinny happy retro indie
pop bliss. St Ettiene style dreamy pop and a pleasant breath of joyfully
fresh air. www.thetrudy.co.uk
Last
week's single of the week - SPIDERBABY
Previously
- THE VITAMINS / THE
GRESHAM FLYERS / THE DRESDEN DOLLS /
THE
ANSWER / DEAD DISCO / THE
BLACK TULIPS / METRO RIOTS / PATCHWORK
GRACE / TANGAROA / SHRAG
/ LOSTPROPHETS / STASI
/ DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH
/ DECORATION
/ i LIKE TRAINS / THE
OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
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1:
LADY PROMISE – The Battle
2:
CATS AND CATS AND CATS – Young Person’s Guide
3:
PATCHWORK GRACE - Lovely
4:
PET SHOP BOYS – Numb
5:
ANVIL – Mothra
6:
I-DEF-I – Prosthetiquette (new track they just put up on My Space)
7:
ELECTRONIC – Getting Away With It (that best of album that just came out
is taking up lots of ear time)
8:
MOTORHEAD – Fools (we hate you fools who make the rules)
9:
THE ADVERTS – One Chord Wonders
10:
OPTIMIST CLUB – That new album has us hooked
11:
THE GRESHAM FLYERS - Shiftwork
12:
CATS AND CATS AND CATS - Kites
13:
CATS AND CATS AND CATS - Hotel At The End Of Youth
14:
CATS AND CATS AND CATS - Fight Fight With Fight
15: CATS AND CATS AND CATS:
Every Handshake is A Wolf
16: CATS AND CATS AND CATS
- Splatterheart
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RIP
CRUNCHER'S VIDEO OF THE WEEK
MANOWAR
- Return Of The Warlord
Ohhh
I'm absolutely sick to the back teeth of these simpering weak~kneed 'BOY'
metal
bands
& the rest of this pussy assed generation. THIS is what I want right
now!!!! Politically incorrect, smack mouthed MEN in leather, astride POWERFUL
motorcycles with a f’kin' broadsword at their side!!!!! HAIIIIIIL
TRUE METAL!!!!!!!!!!! DEATH TO FALSE CLUCKIN' SPANDEX!!
LOVE
AND KNUCKLEDUSTERS
RIP
C.
PATCHWORK
GRACE’s favourite ten bands in the whole wild world this week are as
follows, now I ask you, what the hell are Bowing for goddamn festering
Soup doing in there!
1)
TrashLight Vision
2)
Teenage Casket Company
3)
Wednesday 13
4)
Motley Crue
5)
DIP
6)
Bowling For Soup
7)
Danger Danger
8)
Mindless Self Indulgence
9)
Green Day
10)
Engerica
Front
grrrrl Miss T from Patchwork Grace
says “Hey just been confirmed to play at GLAMMED OUT @ Bar Monsta (aka
G-Lounge) in deepest Camden, North London on Saturday 7th October!
come down and Keep it sleazy!”
Miss
Trash x
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