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13-08-2010 Demos – Issue 27

I’m tired, I’m confused, I’m dirty and I’m hungry, and five yards away my girlfriend is trying to sleep… Guess I better review these demos, then.

13-08-2010 Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange

What can be said about the Doors’ back story that hasn’t already been covered? The truth, for a start.

28-07-2010 Wavves – King of the Beach

There could hardly be a more apt sounding death knell for lo-fi indie garage than Nathan Williams’ infantile pop farts. Both the genre and Wavves itself have been due a backlash for some time now.

27-07-2010 M.I.A. – /\/\ /\ Y /\

In another universe, parallel to ours but not too distant, Mathangi ‘Maya’ Arulpragasam is the pivotal character in Pulp’s ‘Common People’.

27-07-2010 Sleigh Bells – Treats

Everyone seems to hear something different in the kind of piercing racket that only the pairing of a former hardcore guitarist and an ex-girl group singer could produce

Reviews

Wild Beasts / Hoxton Hall, London

Far more than Two Dancers at London show

Gossip / Scala, London

Gift Of The Gab: No bad mouthing as the Gossip let their music speak volumes

Women, Wavves / The Lexington, London

Wavves washed up as Women go with the tide

The Phantom Band / Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, London

Glasgow’s Phantom Band put on quite a Spectrecal in London

R.E.M. / Waldbühne, Berlin

R.E.M. mercifully not automatic for the people in Berlin

Nissennenmondai / The Freebutt, Brighton

What in the blue blazes is this, I wondered? I was all set for a quiet Sunday night watching assorted friends go through their usual improvised performances (nods of acknowledgement here to Bad Orb, Little Creature and Vitamin B12), alongside, let’s be frank, a sparse hardcore of the more chin-stroking breed of music fan: us few who were neither still raving nor cripplingly hungover after Brighton’s legendarily hedonistic gay pride weekend. True, there were some mutterings about a Japanese band headlining, but I had no reason to suspect that the night would turn up anything as arse-shakingly tremendous as Nissennenmondai.

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The Edge Festival / Various venues, Edinburgh

Re-branded Edinburgh festival fails to cut to the mustard

The Wildest Cats In Town / Pontin’s Holiday Village, Kessingland

When a young sprite that helps us put The Stool Pigeon together asked if I was going to any festivals this year, I said, “Yes, I’m going to a rocking little weekender on the Suffolk coast.”

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