The Stool Pigeon issue 15, March 2008

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Home News

Something fishy about Topley Bird’s three-way love nest

We met for the interview in Chinatown in London, sat down for some food in a quiet backroom, poured sake and waited for the bento boxes.

Boredom and misery spurs Charlottefield to move into pastures new

Thomas House, vocalist and guitarist in Brighton’s finest exponents of emotive whatevercore, Charlottefield, is ambivalent about his adopted hometown.

Primary 1’s number up, no one can hold him down

London’s Joe Flory, aka 21-year-old Primary 1, is an enigma.

Crooner Bozz to enter the pressure tank again with Hiem

It’s, a trek and a half from Prestatyn in North Wales to Berlin, but it’s a journey made by big-hearted electronic crooner, David Bozzwell.

School of Language sees Field Music man get classy

“Field Music was starting to restrict my creativity,” says David Brewis, one third of the Sunderland group that seemed to earn the affection of nigh on every leftfield-leaning muso before announcing their shock retirement last year.

The drama of The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, Chapter XV: Jon Richards comes clean

There are so many hilarious stories about Jon Richards, singer and guitarist with London trio The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, it’s hard to remember where one ends and the others start.

Fans waking up as Wave Pictures find sea legs in London

“It’s hard to imagine a world where Tom Waits is a superstar,” sighs the Wave Pictures’ Dave Tattersall. “It’s a nice world, and I don’t know where it went.”

Things changing for Warrior Queen

We’ll admit that this is probably not the first paper to pick up if you wanted the low-down on fresh new Jamaican music.

Nothing sluggish about Sheffield’s Slow Club

Slow Club are: boy shivering in Russian hat, girl shivering in tartan rug.

No twee indie poetry bollocks for Ulterior

Be very clear: Ulterior are not your mates.

News From The Ends

Watcha Enders. Been a while. This is the ‘no excuses’ issue because me, you and everyone from the Ends all knows this year is about getting our grind on and making some p’s.

Good Golly Miss Polly!

It was hard getting back to work after Christmas so we invited Miss Polly Rae into Pigeon HQ to help whip us into shape.