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Indelicates blowing up in Lewes
“Everyone was like, ‘Oh my god, another Brighton band,” Julia Indelicate sighs. “So we moved to Lewes, and the whole character is a little bit different…”
“They’d been packing parking meters full of explosives and just blowing them up,” explains guitarist and singer Simon. “And in the paper this woman said, ‘Well the thing you’ve got to know about Lewes is we do have a population here who are all rather intelligent, all don’t like being told what to do, and most of us have a working knowledge of small explosives. So what the fuck did they expect?’ I think reading that is when we decided to move there.”
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Booty before age as Toddla T proves he’s in the know
Sinden, Hervé, Duke Dumont and Switch may be causing a stink down south, but it’s Toddla T’s jackin’ sound that’s currently fondling the booty of dancehall-inspired electronics here in Sheffield.
Nourished on the rhythms of ragga, garage and bassline, this 22-year-old’s talents have raged fiercely throughout 2007, both as one half of electric soul duo Small Arms Fiya and prime rinser at nomadic late night institution, Kabal. He’s now a solo artist proper with his debut riddim, ‘Do U Know’, proving to be a prime slice of future bump.
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Pop proggers Chrome Hoof on the rampage
It’s about 10 years since brothers Leo and Milo started jamming under this particular moniker – and lest the robes confuse you, they really are related and not monks. What began as a “seasonal band” has now become as synonymous with summer as floods and hosepipe bans. Chrome Hoof blossomed from a readymade rhythm section into less of a jam and more a full-on case of congestion, picking up musical waifs and strays wherever they met them, until their ranks swelled to “around twelve” mavericks with an ear for the weird and weekends to spare.
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Kid Acne putting the meat and two veg back on UK hip hop’s plate
MC and illustrator Kid Acne might not look typically hip hop – bearded, dressed as town crier, shaking his bell on the cover of his new album – but then acting how a UK rap act is expected to act is not Ackers’s act.
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Emmy The Great goes it alone
Emmy The Great, Emma Lee Moss, takes a deep breath and says: “Pretty much for the whole of last year I had writer’s block. It was weird. I used to write songs whenever I fancied it, but then I got this manager and, because I went to Chinese school, I think you have to listen to authority. I listened to her and she went, ‘We don’t do anything until you write more songs.’ I freaked out. Couldn’t do it.”
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Day of the Dead Kids coming, if singer can stay alive
It’s a Friday afternoon and Mike Title, Dead Kids’ singer, is walking down Folgate Street in London. The sun is shining and he’s just stolen a tree of multicoloured balloons from a children’s party. A woman shouts, then lets him off. He gets the balloons, the kids get cake, everyone is happy. This is a recurring theme with Mike: he gets away with murder.
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New Gravenhurst dead impressive
Nick Talbot is standing outside a fast food joint on London’s Oxford Street chowing down on a burger and talking. Mid-sentence a drunk guy lurches into view asking for, or rather demanding, money. Nick says he hasn’t got any and tries to pick up his thread again. “But you’ve got a phone,” says the guy, his voice heavy with implication. Until now, Nick has been the model of politeness and wit, but suddenly, for a moment, he explodes. “Look, just FUCK OFF!” he yells and the guy stumbles off shocked. “That was so rude,” he adds, unconcerned about the subtle threat of violence that was made, just the lack of manners. After the briefest of pauses, he continues like nothing has happened: “Yeah, that’s right, I play pretty much all of the instruments on the album, bar drums, but there’s a heavy amount of computer processing going on as well. There is a certain haunted look that you can see in the face of electronica musicians as they stare into what is just a never ending string of ones and zeroes.”
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The Minah Bird
Outlaw country hero Guy Clark on Texas.
