>GOOD STUFF
Clor at Brixton Windmill, 23 Apr - absolutely amazing.
Devo, Sparks, pure noise, songs you can sing along too, people were dancing,
it was loud, it made me smile, they are great, brilliant, all the things
I need right now in my life. Mr Singer Clor has learnt some Jarvis type
hand moves as well, which are pretty darn good. Front people! Bands need
decent front people. We don't want to see spotty boys who'd rather be
at home staring at their Zoom pedals. We want to see people with presence.
Mr Singer Clor is getting good at it. Good! More please! They've signed
to Parlophone, single in early summer - please don't disappoint me Clor,
make it a good one, get to number one, the world will be super cool and
we will all come alive with your magic touch!!!!!!
Joyzine's
Clor Page.....www.clor.co.uk
Lightning Bolt at Scala, 30 Mar - pummelling ecstatic
frenzy man in a green mask drumming his brains out, man on a bass with
the hot licks, put em together jeeeeez what an incredible noise. My new
pin-ups.
www.loadrecords.com
Franz Ferdinand - Matinee
They are the nuts, aren't they? Cheer me up everytime I hear them on the
radio. Another stomper from my favourite chart act.
www.franzferdinand.co.uk
>NOT BAD STUFF
Boredoms at Scala, 30 Mar - Zen out of ten, I kinda liked
em but I was tired by the time they arrived on stage, wished I got into
it more. Nice arrangement of 3 drum kits on stage, neat 3 drummers drumming,
and Yoshimoto Eye or whatever his name is was pretty neat looning around
on stage seemingly shaking two glow in the dark rocks to make wonderful
cosmic sounds, maan. I'm not making that up.
www.boredoms.co.uk
>BAD STUFF
Black Dice at Scala, 30 Mar - poop. Little boys with
too much money and equipment make underwhelming racket which sounds not
unlike Joe Meek's "I Hear A New World" which he made in 1960
with 2 tin cans and a piano wire. I know which I prefer.
www.dfarecords.com
Sophia - Oh My Love
It says on the blurb that Mogwai are huge fans. I knew there was something
really terrible about Mogwai. Proof! This is like a Flock of Seagulls,
but without the good parts (crazy hair, crazy syndrums, overblown to 80s
excess).
www.sophia-music.com
Powderfinger - Love Your Way
Shall we put a bet on that they're big fans of Neil Young? They certainly
have a good go at ripping him off, along with Bryan Adams. Dreadful. Next!
www.powderfinger.com
Kinky - Atlas
Is it likely I'm going to like a band called Kinky? Especially as they're
"the coolest Latin band to emerge since Gotan Project"? Well,
instinct prevails, and yep, Kinky are rubbish. Hear them on the Robert
Elms show soon.
www.kinkytheband.com
Goudron - Raw Voltage
This sounds like me and my mates in 1983. One had a Roland SH101 and a
Boss DR110 drum machine (later to be replaced by a useless digital Korg
thing), another had a Realistic Moog copy. I had a Westone Thunder 1-A
and tried to interject Cocteau Twin type flanged guitar on the top of
their synth drones. Well, we were all 12 at the time, and it was the era
of synth pop and electro. Anyway, we were poop then, and twenty years
on, whilst this only has synth noises and not the full horror of Rashied's
Robin Guthrie impressions as well, this has an extra twenty years of poop
heaped on top. Smells pretty bad.
www.ersatzaudio.com
Peter Doherty and Wolfman - For Lovers
Much as I want to slag this right off, as I hate the Libertines and everything
they stand for, bleedin' public school twits that they are, if the last
half of this record had Thurston Moore singing it, you'd think it was
an ok Sonic Youth track. Which says a lot about how I've forgiven Sonic
Youth many sins over the years. Hang on though, have you seen the video,
with Petey boy moping around gay Paris, looking for the ghost of Baudelaire
so they can shoot up together and then look for Jim Morrison's grave.
God I hate the Libertines. Drugs are cool yah? Especially if you live
on some Scottish housing estate and your only path in life, predetermined
for you by your very existence, is to take mind-bending drugs from the
age of 2 to escape your awful realityand then you have to sell yourself
to pay for your next fix. Yes, drugs are cool. Smoking is also cool, cos
it's cool to have cancer isn't it. Yes, fall in love with someone, get
cancer, and then put them through the hell of watching you die. I love
you darling, I've got cancer, I'm going to die a horrible death before
your very eyes, aren't I cool. I wish Peter Doherty lived on such an estate.
Or had cancer. Or both. Then he wouldn't make such stupid songs and videos.
Grr.
www.roughtraderecords.com
Automato - Walk Into the Light + album with no name
(surely it's not called Advance CD)
DFA production? Check. Andre 3000? Check. David Axelrod? Check. Pixies?
Check. Can? Check. Common? Check. Does the total add up to the sum of
the parts? Nope. Rubbish white boy beatzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
www.dimmak.com
Mountaineers - I Gotta Sing
Oh my, what a rotten song. And what a rotten singer too-oo-oo.
www.themountaineers.com
Tamion 12 Inch - Let's Suffer
Let's suffer indeed, as we listen to this sub-goth electronic mess, with
dreadful nursery rhymes about the devil and the like, masquerading as
lyrics. Music for middle-class suburban latex fetishists, or something.
www.ersatzaudio.com
>DIVINE COMEDY STUFF
Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
Well, what were you expecting? A D Bowie 'mash-up' album? Suicide? Butthole
Surfers? Merzbow? No, it's a Divine Comedy album. They all sound the same,
you know what to expect: if you like 'em, you won't be disappointed and
the rest of us are disappointed he's not given up yet. Be gone, Neil Hannon.
www.thedivinecomedy.com
Tata for now, Rashied Garrison