DC is giving away all sorts of goodies on The Waiting Room this week. In fact, he’s giving away all sorts of things that I would rather like to win myself, bar a couple of things which I have already. I was supposed to write this last week, but given it appears I [...]
I feel a little trepidatious reviewing an album by a group with such a pedigree, given I really know very little about them. I remember buying Bright Flight back in 2001, but I really never got into it so I kind of forgot about them, if I’m being honest. Groups like this, with [...]
Fucking ciabatta. I can’t stand this stuff: mealy, floury, flavourless, inedible rubbish. I don’t mean proper ciabatta of course, but it’s been so long since I had one of those that I barely remember what they’re supposed to taste like.
Basically, we in the UK have done to the ciabatta what we long ago did to [...]
Why is The Waitsing Room a Muslim? Because it’s all covered up of course! Get it, get it? Fuck me that was poor, apologies to absolutely everyone involved - shambolic rubbish. What prompted that garbaggio? Well this week me old mate DC (who has taken somewhat obscure exception to my [...]
I’ve just recently heard a couple of versions of an old folk song called Barrett’s Privateers, and neither quite captured my imagination. Two groups I know - The Men They Couldn’t Hang, whom I love, and the now defunct Australian band Weddings, Parties, Anything, whom I quite like - have covered the song, and presumably [...]
Moshi Moshi Records do indeed seem to be Record Label du Jour in the UK at the moment, which is no bad thing. This month’s Welcome to Our TV Show is a Moshi Moshi special, with Slow Club, Hot Club de Paris and the superlative Wave Pictures turning up to play some stuff and do [...]
