Well that’s it, I’m just about off. I may have a secret special treat for you either late on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day itself, so come and check it out if you fancy. Other than that I will be maintaining radio silence for the best part of ten days, as I do not [...]
As an adjunct to my other post about being well and truly ready to finish for Christmas and basically being unable to concentrate at work, I thought I’d let you know what I actually am spending my time doing: Toad sketches! How come I can concentrate on these but not real work? Well these are [...]
Jesus fucking Christ almighty, please let it all end. I am in the last two days of work before my Christmas break and I am so fucking booooored of having to do a job. Honestly, I’ve refreshed my email and the Guardian football page and the Toad stats and the other email and the Teamtalk [...]
Either this is the easiest or the trickiest review I’ve ever had to write, which may be why it has taken so long. Basically, The Raveonettes have produced another album that sounds a lot like The Raveonettes, one that splits the difference between the slightly too soft Pretty in Black and the occasionally too distorted [...]
1. Grinderman - Grinderman
Oh yes indeed! While other artists fall away in their old age and run out of ideas, Nick Cave just gets worse, which generally means better. This is a snarling, strutting, menacing, virile beast of an album and perhaps the only hotly anticipated major record all year to deliver the [...]
First things first: what the fucking arse is that bloody stupid slash all about then? Do you pronounce it? Do you make some sort of corresponding sound effect, as in those idiots who named their band Chk Chk Chk and spelled it !!!? Actually that question mark is part of the sentence, the band is [...]
