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3 Idiots, A Single Man, Bank Charges Fightback Part 2, Talk To Your Computer and Short Web Addresses
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Film Review : 3 Idiots Stumbled by accident into my third Bollywood film ever last week. It concerns an Indian engineering school, and 3 students under considerable pressure to graduate with distinction so that they can variously lift themselves out of poverty, or fulfil parental dreams. <!--break--> Aamir Khan plays Rancho, the delightfully elliptical thinker,...
Hunx & His Punx UK tour
The excellent Hunx & His Punx are touring the UK in April. Dates as follows… <!--break--> 7 Apr 2010: PRINCE ALBERT BRIGHTON 8 Apr 2010: Camp Basement LONDON 9 Apr 2010: Chameleon Nottingham 10 Apr 2010: The Corner MANCHESTER 11 Apr 2010: Penelopes Sheffield 12 Apr 2010: Captains Rest GLASGOW 13 Apr 2010: The Faversham LEED They’re then skeeshing off...
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, and Google at TFMA
Andy Serkis as Ian Dury Film Review : Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll There have been several music ‘biopics’ over the years, and there seems to be a rash of them recently with Control, Telstar, Nowhere Boy and now this. Who’s next? Elvis Costello ‘My Aim Is True’ or Paul Weller ‘The Ego Has Landed’? I think we must be sitting at a time where...
Wild Palms cover Bjork, give away track
Wild Palms are giving away the B-side to their new single to all and sundry. It’s a cover of Human Behaviour by Bjork and you can get it after the break. <!--break--> Download Human Behaviour The new single is the first release from the band’s sessions with Gareth Jones (Grizzly Bear, Clinic, Interpol, Wire, Depeche Mode) and gives an indication of the flavour of...
Steve Gullick's exhibition in Manchester.
  A retrospective exhibition by legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick runs from March 12th til March 27th at the KRAAK Gallery, on Stevenson Square in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, featuring photos that were taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his own publications Careless Talk Costs Lives and Loose Lips Sink Ships. <!--break-->  Thursday March 11th 20:00 -...
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Turning Japanese
The Japanese War Effort From: Scotland, United Kingdom The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog!) initially formed the band as probably the world’s first ambient joke band on Aprils fools day a couple of years ago and his tongue remains firmly in his cheek. There can’t be many bands,...
Cutting Some Shapes
Not Squares From: Belfast, Northern Ireland On debut single ‘Asylum’ (Richter Collective) Irish punktronic (we really do love inventing these meaningless genres !) trio Not Squares sound like they’ve been wired directly into the national grid. It’s a bundle of nervous energy, a frenzied four and a half minute sensory assault that sounds like Liars after a red bull...
DOWNLOAD: Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (Breakage Remix)
Don’t know what angle to go with here. I could talk about how the fact Florence always sounds like a wailing widow means her vocals are perfect for playing the role of anonymous diva to club remixes’ throbbing machismo (by The xx, Seiji, Boy 8-Bit and now Breakage). Alternatively I could talk about how it’s Friday, and that means this song will have you gagging for the night...
Mondrian, Cakes, Pastries and Mille-Feuille
There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne. It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from the two terrible world wars that were fought there. To the French, the town may not mean a lot. It’s certainly insignificant compared to the great hulking city of Paris just a few...
Wu Lyf (Finally) and The Great BBC 6Music Sham
I knew something didn’t add up. The BBC 6Music kerfuffle drags on and on – with more and more music fans, politicians and BBC bigwigs all competing to see who can yelp their opinions the loudest. And yet, all along, something just didn’t seem right. How could the BBC continue to make slack-jawed idiot-vision programmes like I Believe In Ghosts: Joe Swash and Hotter Than My...
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Piskie Sits - Churp Churp
  Churp Churp is the newest single from Wakefield’s Piskie Sits, due to be released on the 29th of March (CD/digital) from Louder Than Bombs Records On first listen, I was fairly sure that I’d not be a big fan of the track. Not that I’d have any vitriol towards it - more just ambivalence - which is probably worse. Undertones of a nicer, cleaner cut Kings of Leon (is...
Wild Beasts @ Koko: It’s not for the cock, its for howling through the night
  Wild Beasts- Koko, Camden- 4/03/2010 Girls. Boys. Drinking. Love. Fighting. Crying over that lost love again. Shocking me like an electric eel. Turning me on with your electric feel. I’m not saying the current crop of bands aren’t up to much, but these are maybe some of the common themes which they like to sing about that ties them loosely together. It would be hard to...
Laneway Festival 2010: Review
Laneway Festival February 1, 2010 Britomart Square, Auckland Last week our Melbourne friends told us that the Laneway Festival is one of the least respected festivals in Australia, we were surprised, but it meant we entered the first Auckland Laneway festival with a hint of scepticism. We’d been told stories of forty minute-queues to see bands, poor facilities and an even poorer...
the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP
Ahhhh. I love this. When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there! Review us?  Hope you dig it." along with a download link. Beautiful. This could have gone either way mind you - such confidence is usually an indicator of an arrogance that often comes...
Spaghetti Anywhere EP
photo: Jorge Stride This may come from being a Scot myself, or more simply a backlash against the Twin Atlantic-ism of sounding very fucking Scottish when singing, but I’m really not a fan of over-enunciated accents on recordings. Although back when I was in a band I remember being criticised for not sounding Scottish enough, so maybe it’s Freudian. I’m also very...
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