NFR December Download

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21 tracks, 72 minutes of demo mayhem it contains all these tunes by all these terribly fine soon to be popular beat combos:

Failure Mode – Twin Box Failure (Demo)
Working For A Nuclear Free City– Troubled Son (Working For A Nuclear Free City, Melodic)
Everyone To The Anderson – When Beasts Attack! (Doodlebug Ep, Toy Soldier Records)
Diagonal– Cannon Misfire (Demo)
Koala Part– You're Right There (Demo)
Voice Of The Seven Woods– The Fire In My Head (Voice Of The Seven Woods, Twisted Nerve)
Zettasaur– Grip Of A Caveman (Split 7", Signature Tune)
The Flesh Happening– Bleed (Single, Tamworth Records)
Hotel Wrecking City Traders – The Porch (Demo)
Blood Red Shoes– It's Getting Boring By The Sea (Blamma Blamma Remix) (Single, V2)
Transformer– Cinema Car (Long Version) (Demo)
Lonely Ghosts – Predictions (Split 7", One Inch Badge Records)
The Middle Computer– Fiction (Ultra Console Mayhem, Non-Applicable Records)
Pseudo Nippon - Fishlady (Demo)
The Hornblower Brothers – Android With A Heart (Demo)
The Melody, The Melodica And Me – Track One (Demo)
-A+M– End Up Like Superman (Dials, Lancashire & Somerset Song And Dance Society)
Woog Riots – Martial Arts (Demo)
Deliberate- XEXTXIX (Demo)
Wrath Of The Weak – Journey Of Many Days (Wrath Of The Weak, Bastardised)
Autumn Chorus - Remember The Dead (Demo)


Enjoy.


MxBx

Top 50 Albums of 2007

Yup. So my top 50 list begins today over on my MySpazz blog.

usually when people say 'It's been a great year' I never really knew what they meant because they tend to all be the same. Well, this year has been a great year.

MxBx

News just in

Not For Resale has moved home.

No longer at Fitzherberts, it will be starting a new life at The Penthouse (above the Freebutt) on the 27th November.

There will be a massive big party type thing with guest DJ's Old Mayor and The Dirty Socials spinning us some of their favourite party starting tunes, plus yer usual residents (Me)atbreak and Fokka Wolfe.

We'll also be giving away some special ultra limited handmade t-shirts and hand numbered NFR mixes to the first lucky few who want them.

Owen Old Mayor made us this beautiful poster to announce the occasion:



See you all there, yeh?

MxBx

"Hello We're Turbowolf, We're A Hell And Roll Band From Inside A Calculator Made Out Of Molten Meat And Old Flesh From...Rats"

"We don't want to pass by unnoticed"

No chance of that:

This video was put together by the fantastic Don't Panic crew, its a round up of what went on at the Mucha Marcha / Don't Panic show the Woof played at 93ft East a few weeks back. The music all over the first part is a preview of their new track 'Bite Me Like A Dog'.




Out of all those bands, tell me which one is the keeper.


MxBx

Like a Bearhead in the morning

This is the sound of one man outsider band Bearhead’s first release; working subcutaneously, entrancing every cell like an organic magnetic pulse forcing blood through your body. Immediately it plunges you into a well of shimmering radiance; layers of vibration and fuzz entwining around each other, dense cables of matted hum sinking downwards under lightning rays that break through the surface, plunging into the steady rocking turbulence.

“Yeah, they’re like ‘Why would somebody make music like that?’ Well, I’m just trying to find something that’s beautiful for me you know? I feel alienated by most types of music and most people and I’m just striving to make something that I consider beautiful where most people consider it ugly and dark, which it is” says Oliver Hill, the enigmatic, softly spoken, incredibly prolific man behind Bearhead when I meet with him to talk about his work. It’s one of the first things he says.

In his room, I am surrounded by the materials that inhabit this man’s subconscious. Several guitars stand against walls or out in mid use, various amplifiers and speakers in different states of repair flank the walls and mysterious, heavily used effects pedals litter the floor. Dominating one wall is a huge painting with ragged slashes and arced somber brushstrokes that appears to flow from the same source as his music. “Yeah, exactly, yeah I’m glad you could see that.” He says when I comment on the similarities “I feel like they’re pretty much the same thing. Doing one or doing the other is not really that different. It’s like, as you say, coming from the same place, or making the same kind of marks, or resonances or shapes which need to be projected outwards.”

It is this approach to music, the combination of visual and sonic elements that is his signature. All his projects are imbued with a visual element as does much of noise; lending itself to psychedelic descriptors more readily than conventional music. When I mention the narrative element in noise music, Oliver says “The thing I love about abstract kinds of music and experimental kinds of music is it really allows the listener to use their imagination as they go along with it. It’s completely unpatronising at times because there is no story being forced down peoples’ throats, they can take themselves on a journey in their mind and fly between the peaks and troughs and…” He closes his eyes and waves his hands before clutching his head to conclude “...Just ride on different frequencies. If somebody can allow themselves to be under their imagination, it’s more rewarding than listening to pop songs or rock songs or anything meant to make people feel a particular thing”

Bearhead grew out of his previous incarnation as Falling Boy which he moved away from because “for a long time it was all about sawing, really bowed guitars and bowed with saws” and he does mean a saw, the rusty blade is visible behind a pile of clothes in the corner; “it was very gliding music.” He pauses while he considers; “I was just shifting away from that, not entirely, I haven’t completely done away with that project, but Bearhead’s more kind of bludgeoning.” His group project Terminal Outputs, who have supported bands like Electrelane and Birchville Cat Motel, includes Dallas who also performs as the fierce Green Mist (“I met him 3 days after he got to Brighton. He’s a Canadian. We started making music immediately”) and occasional drummer James Edmonds who Oliver says plays “amazing freeform kind of jazz drumming that’s at the same time kind of clattering, but really moving, surging, always really in tune with how we play.” He is part of expired duo Aries “with Danya who does really amazing hip-hop kind of drumming.” Together they made a 3 CD epic narcotic haze of a concept called The Bear Trilogy which over the course of 3 hours built from lugubrious whispers towards a seismic climax; Aries, says Oliver “finished in a big cloud of smoke.” He has recently begun releasing tapes on his Constant Vertigo label; “I’ve had a few tapes out on the website; one from Adam Lygo’s project Invisible, I’ve released my Bearhead project and Dreamer as well. I was really pleased with the quality of music that people were giving to me, especially the Dreamer tape; it’s an amazing journey through really low frequency guitar that’s really beautiful. I think I’ve sold all of the run that I did already.” He printed only thirty copies of each, but is very enthusiastic drawing himself up, becoming more animated as he says “I’ve been thinking about reissuing the tapes on CD because obviously some people don’t have tape players and it’s such amazing music that I really want to share it with people.” The releases on his label are hypnotically compelling; the Dreamer album is two 14 minute tracks, the first a sub bass Burzum blow-out, endlessly riffing into oblivion.

The Burzum reference is one which is met with ample approval and I wonder what he thinks it is that seems to be drawing noise and black metal closer together at the moment; “Black metal’s quite alienated music isn’t it? A lot of noise; it’s music that’s born from feeling alienated from society, from the way I see it at least, even in finding ways of expressing that. There’s very clearly an overlap. I mean Prurient is about as black metal as you can get without using guitars, I mean, he’s the full thing; black hair, leather gloves, screaming, you know, absolutely…” he pauses and wrings his hands as he searches for the right phrase to use “…wretched dark lyrics.” “I really like painting to Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament.” He says suddenly, referring to a track off Burzum’s Filosofem album. “Just the other day I had three friends over and we did those paintings…” he gestures to three small pictures on the wall, heavily coloured segmented block patterns of rough texture. “We did them in about 2 minutes flat. It’s quite precious having fucked up friends.” Oliver’s friends include Wolf Eyes and some would say you can’t get much more fucked up than that. “I’m going to release some Failing Lights which was Mike Connelly’s project, from Wolf Eyes and Hair Police. I always hang out with them every time they’re in the UK, so I’m really looking forward to all that he’s going to put onto tape.”

I ask him about traveling around playing, as it seems to be such an integral part of the noise scene. He says that “It’s good to travel. It’s great to go and play this kind of stuff to people and see the different kinds of reactions and see how people from different towns react to you. Chicago was the biggest gig I’ve ever played, it was a solo show. I played to 400 people at the Empty Bottle, which is a really good gig venue. It’s really good to play to so many people. I was playing through such a powerful PA as well and we’d activated the subs under the stage, so when I was playing I could feel my knees being shifted towards the crowd by the low frequencies. I played one chord, let one chord ring out for 15 minutes to start the show off and it was just thundering and all these people were just like…” he opens his eyes wide, cowering slightly “…it was just so incredible, just infinite sustain, really amazing.”

One criticism that many people level at the noise scene is it’s reliance on effects trickery, pedals and machines to make the sounds, with people skeptical that great art can be made from just manipulating noise, that there is no musical quality or skill to it. Oliver says that “I think it can be like that, there’s quite a lot of people in the scene who just buy a load of pedals because it’s quite easy to do, because they can’t be in a rock band and just jump on the bandwagon.” He raises his eyes to fix me with a look of steely conviction; “They’re not people who are driven to do it.”


Falling Boy / Bearhead
Constant Vertigo
Terminal Outputs


Meatbreak

Is THIS Cool?!

It’s so wrong it’s right really. The NME Cool List is out and although it’s everything we hate – and we wouldn’t trust the mag to pick out a tie for us for a photocopying job at AMEX – we just lap it up. So the bloke from Gallows ‘won’ this year? Can’t say we’re too fussed either way but it was good to see Jamie Klaxons up there, and Lovefoxxx too. Foals’ Yannis makes a showing (we can’t imagine how pissed off he is about it), as does the lovely Joe Lean, the only Brighton related entries (both have been on our covers) meaning we might do our own version for the end of year mag.

Anyway, here’s the list, and our opinion on each. Enjoy.

1. Frank Carter of Gallows: are tattoos and shouting enough?
2. Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons (13): completely, effortlessly cool
3. Lovefoxxx of CSS (10): possibly the most fun girl in the whole world - wildly cool
4. Ryan Jarman of The Cribs: bog-standard indie bloke
5. Lethal Bizzle: grime fella finds coolness with new indie tribe, can't you hack it with the real MCs, mate?
6. Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys (32): clever fella but not really cool, almost anti-cool really
7. Kate Nash: a bit mumsy to be cool, tries too hard
8. Amy Winehouse (50): do drugs make you cool?
9. Beth Ditto of The Gossip (1): no-nonsense but not that cool really, rolling around the floor on every gig is funny but in danger of becoming self-parody
10. Keith Richards (26): old school cool
11. MIA: a bit of a twat, self important, some good tunes
12. Thom Yorke of Radiohead (9): shows that being fucked up isn't actually melenchollic like being in a movie, but has got a quality woky eye
13. Drew McConnell of Babyshambles: no one in such a half-arsed band is cool, but he's busy with the Love Music Hate Racism revival
14. Prince: was cool once but turning against you fans isn’t cool, and he was shit when we saw him live with all his jazz-funk jams
15. Tom Clarke of The Enemy: ratfaced midget who's about as uncool as it gets
16. Noel Gallagher of Oasis: funny but not cool – fuck off grandad
17. Hayley Williams of Paramore: quite cute
18. Brandon’s Tache – Brandon Flowers, The Killers: cooler than he is by far
19. Matt Bellamy of Muse (27): Muse like ‘em or not – they aren’t cool at all
20. James Smith of Hadouken: the coolest bloke ever if you're 14 years old, a fool if over 25
21. Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon: gave up drugs and fucking for religeon, apparently
22. Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys: couldn’t spot him in a line up
23. Eddie Argos of Art Brut: cool as hell, witty, silly, articulate, loads of ideas
24. Craig Finn of The Hold Steady: not a particually cool band but Meatbreak and Mrs Meatbreak love them and he said in an interview he's 56 years old - he's bloody cool for 5, if that's true
25. Morgan Yeah? of Does it Offend You, Yeah?: apparently very funny but we've never met him, so...
26. Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro (28): has a line from the Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows' tattooed on his chest - that's very cool
27. Simon Taylor of Klaxons: pretty cool, marrying Lovefoxx isn’t he?
28. Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5): yeah, and always will be
29. Kele Okereke of Bloc Party: no, moody, self important cunt
30. Meg White of The White Stripes (24): a role model for kids with low level Downs
31. Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav: bald with a massive beard, he looks like a real ale explorer and wears a babygrow on stage - very cool
32. Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance (8): goth fool, but has a sense of humour sometimes
33. Jamie T: pub entertainer, lose the band mate
34. Pete Doherty (28): smackhead, nuff said
35. Lou Hayter of New Young Pony Club: oh god, absolutely breathtakingly lovely and cool as ice
36. Ian Brown: yeah, 15 years ago maybe – a self parody now
37. Joe Lean of Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong: very much so, lovely bloke too, will be massive this time next year
38. Andy Burrows of Razorlight: no one in Razorlight can escape the Borrell touch, but Andy did play on Chris TT's album so all is not lost
39. Kyle Falconer of The View: no, The View are piss-weak
40. Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers: all mouth and skirts, an idiot basically
41. Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age: legend, a real man
42. Cole Alexander of Black Lips: lunatic who's stageshow involves piss, sick and nakedness of obviously very cool
43. Suki of Real Heat: never heard of her but she's wearing a cassette on a chain in the pic which looks try-hard to us
44. Brandon Flowers of The Killers (29): a bit of a twat, his band are too stadium but have two good songs though
45. Yannis Philippakis of Foals: fucking hero – feisty, intelligent and means it, man
46. Patrick Wolf: the indie Mika, a pastel-faced fool
47. Carlos D of Interpol: don’t care, the new album is weak
48. Santogold: r&b mate of MIA that we don’t know to be honest
49. Dev Hynes of Lightspeed Champion: bloke from average band goes solo - good outfit in the mag though
50. Spider Webb of The Horrors: the bloke looks like the Childcatcher for fuck's sake - scariest band we've seen at 5am when 'worse for wear'

Kendall

World changes forever tomorrow

New Biggest Selling US Solo Star Announced

Have a guess who the biggest selling American solo artist is. No, not Elvis. No. not Madonna, Dylan, Neil Young or even Jason Falkner. Apparently, with sales of 123 million units (now ahead of Elvis' 118.5 million record/CDs/tapes etc) it’s…

…Garth Brooks.

Now, I consider myself to know a reasonable amount about music (I’m getting a consistent 75% on the excellent new Guardian daily music quiz) but I couldn’t tell you a single song of his. No wonder British bands fail to break America – we have completely different music taste. The only album of Garth’s that bombed was the one where he had a goth haircut instead of a cowboy hat. There’s a chance that he could top The Beatles, who have clocked up 170 million sales and are currently the top selling band in the US. That Macca dyes his hair so obviously could be a problem - what if they mistake him for a goth and stop buying the records. Garth would be a shoe-in.

Not For Resale news

Not For Resale's November Download is up now:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7vly85

With these songs:

Bon Iver – The Wolves (Act I And Act Ii) (For Emma, Forever Ago, Self-Released)
Medicine & Duty – Last Request For A Heretic (Clouds Burn Slowly, Foolproof Projects)
Musixux – No Chemistry (Demo)
Milk Jaggit – End Of Lake (Demo)
The Middle Computer – Electreau (Ultra Console Mayhem!, Non-Applicable Records)
The Cathode Ray Syndrome – Track One (Argh Ep Demo)
The Teenagers – Scarlet Johansen (7", Merok)
Lords Spiritual – Feel The Love (Demo)
Numbers – Kosmos Love (Now You Are This, Kill Rock Stars)
Duke Raoul – Flood Me With Kisses (Demo)
Jakobinarina – Do My Love (His Lyrics 7", Regal)
Hotpants Romance – Shake (It's A Heatwave, Big Print)
Gnaw Their Tongues – Nihilism; Tied Up And Burning (Spasming And Howling, Bowels Loosening And Bladders Emptying, Vomiting Helplessly, Self Released)
Die Zukunft – Noir (Demo)
Palm Springs – I Start Fires (I Start Fires 7", Random Acts of Vinyl)
Monsters Build Mean Robots – will I avenge or revenge? (Monsters Build Mean Robots, Nice Weather For Airstrikes)

Exciting.

NFR has also moved from Fitzherberts every other wednesday to the last Tuesday of every month at The Penthouse. Big Penthouse party launch for the new Not For Resale. Poster coming soon, but here's an advance of the details:

Not For Resale Relaunch!
NEW TIME: Tuesday 27th November
NEW VENUE: The Penthouse
Free entry
8pm – Midnight

Residents Meatbreak and Fokka Wolfe with Special Guest DJ's Old Mayor and The Dirty Socials!!!

PLUS: We'll be giving away speshul yoo-neek handmade NFR T-Shirts and CDs

Something to look forward to.

MxBx

RIP Stylus Magazine: 2002 - 2007

Sad news today as possibly the best online music magazine shuts up shop with no new posts as of the 31st October. As much as I like to think they are faking their own death and will reemerge the other side of the year meaner, tighter, sharper than ever I have a harrowing feeling that this really is the end.

The magazine? Stylus.

For those of you that don't know it, and those of you that do they have posted a Bluffers Guide To Stylus Magazine: 2002 - 2007

Being in a mild state of shock and a far inferior writer to errr..most? (haha) of the Stylus guys and gals I'll let you read about it all yourselves in their words. Seriously, some of the writing on this site has been as inspirational as anything I have ever read, coming from some of the most informed, passionate and measured music journalists around. I have no idea why Pitchfork is ever indulged more publicity than Stylus. One of the things most attractive about it is that there was never any ivory-tower attitude with it being one the very few sites with the balls to allow comments underneath all the reviews and features opening discourses in which writers were harried as much as they were congratulated. The range of music the site covered, the depth of features, occasional bouts of lunacy which affected it from time to time, the knowingly reader-baiting articles and both the authority the writing commanded and the antagonism it provoked were all second to none - an immense achievement.

Anyway, enough from me.

RIP Stylus. You will be sorely missed.


Meatbreak

Turning The Tables On Young Music

‘I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.’
LCD Soundsystem 'Losing my Edge'

In the ongoing battle between guitars and turntables, it would at first seem the bands are winning. The lack of musicians in my school is quite disappointing but those rarities who are in bands should consider this: what if that DJ Stigmatic (yes, you Zeek Braz) steals all the groupies that hang outside the music room, cause he can actually make them dance?

However (good) Indie bands do have the upper hand because not only are they live, with the interactivity of the perfomance, but have started incorporating that electronic, dancy feel to their music. Sitting behind some laptop with a ready-made playlist and some unnecessary headphones could earn one more credit than a slightly out of time cover of 'Valerie'. Which makes sense I suppose.

So what is cooler, the mysterious robots of Daft Punk, or the legendary riffs of the Arctic Monkeys? Picking up a guitar and finding that D chord to a mass of arms crossed audience seems far less productive than sticking on a bit of the Chemical Brothers resulting in a mass of bopping heads.

Your choice though.

Naomi Berrio-Allen (Longhill High School Future Music Reporter)

Ukuleles Or Just Giants With Acoustic Guitars?

We first saw them at the Big Chill in 2005, but a return to the Paramount Comedy Festival has reminded us how much fun the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are. Check out the clever cloggery of their multi-layered performance below.


Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Live

Kendall

Suited And Booted

Anyone wondering whether pop music has lost its bite just needs to consider Take That’s sartorial journey from S&M to M&S (they are modelling the new range of suits for Marks & Spencer).

Still, all that leather was not – as Heat magazine might say – a good look.

No More Sulking In The Studio For The Pixies

I’m really not sure how I feel about this one. The Pixies are my favourite band and I’ve worn out their old records and now Black Francis has revealed that Kim Deal has nixed any chance of a new album.
"While I may have tried to convince her otherwise, maybe she's got a point,” the son of incestuous union told The Gothamist. “She doesn't need a new Pixies record, so maybe there doesn't need to be one."

Mmmm… On the one hand you could ruin the legacy but on the other the four members have never really fired the way they did as the Pixies. Kim came close with The Breeders’ ‘Pod’ but since then things have been patchy. Black Francis/Frank Black clearly needs it more than anyone else – his song writing abilities have taken a massive dive since the glory days of band. He’s got a new album, 'Bluefinger', out now but much more excitingly The Breeders are apparently working with Steve Albini again. ‘Pod Pt.2’ is almost as exciting as ‘Doolittle Pt.2’.

Oh yeah, ‘Bam Thwok’ – their only post-reformation song – was crap. Best leave it to the excellent gigs then.

I Don’t Want A Rock Star Boyfriend

Us muggles find ourselves stiff competition in the midst of musicianly marriages. The über-cool and attractive seem to want to stick with their own. Or maybe they just don’t get out enough.

Recent couples include, Lily Allen and Ed Simmons aka Ed Chemical. Lovefoxxx of CSS and Simon of the Klaxons, have announced their engagement (sorry, a bit of sick came up). Meanwhile Jamie Reynolds of the Klaxons and that keyboardist Lou Hayter from New Young Pony Club acheive golden new rave couple status.

But maybe we should consider ourselves lucky. Their inbreeding fashions have procured weird and wonderful creatures such as Peaches Geldolf and Jack Osbourne. Hurrah for the Hillbillies.

Naomi Berrio-Allen

Stock Markets Crash, Worldwide Riots, Moon Out Of Orbit...

Hot news from U2 manager Paul McGuiness: "We're great fans of the Spice Girls but rumours that Bono is to join them as a sixth member are sadly not true."

Thank fuck for that.

Kendall

All You Need Is Dove

How fucking good is this photo?! We saw it in The Argus Lite the other day and thought we’d share it with you. Basically the monkey was rescued but wouldn’t eat or look after itself. The dove took it under its, erm, wing and it got better. We still can’t decide between rolling on the floor laughing or shedding a tear or emotion. So we’re currently rolling on the floor crying. Anyway we can’t say it any better than Kim from Alabama on the Daily Mail’s website:

“We humans could learn a little something from this unlikely twosome: Tolerance, unconditional love, and respect for someone or something that's very different than us.”

Could this photo mend our broken world?

Kendall

New MySpace Player Tunes

Yes. I changed the songs on the MySpace player, so we now have Coin-Op, Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards, Palm Springs and Monsters Build Mean Robots. Some pretty different and worthy songs there if you ask me.


Meatbreak

Why Can No One Spell Arctic?

So, Q magazine spelt the Arctic Monkeys name wrong on their kinda undeserved award for Best Band On The Planet (or something). Now the subbing is normally pretty good on Q – better than the choice of bands they cover anyway – so how come ‘Arctic’ came out as ‘Artic’? Well, for some reason no one can spell this terrible but simple band name right. I was guilty of missing out that pesky c when they first arrived too, so this isn’t a bit of finger pointing, but we see it misspelled everywhere – from shop windows to The Guardian. A mystery for sure.

Incidentally what is going on with the Q Awards categories? Q Lifetime Achievement, Q Merit, Q Inspiration, Q Idol, and Q Icon? What is the difference in all of the above? Answers in the comments section please.

Kendall

Six Of The Best: Simon & Garfunkel Songs

They might not get the props of Dylan, Neil Young or some of the other classic 60s songsmiths but S&G have written some unbelievably moving and intelligent tracks. If you only hunt out a handful, skip ‘Mrs Robinson’ and try these:

1. ‘The Only Living Boy In New York’
Epic and uplifting but at the same time fragile and personal, this orchestral folk is cruelly missed off the Best Ofs even though it’s much better than Bridge Over Troubled Water. It’s about Art Garfunkel going to Mexico to act in a film btw.

2. ‘The Boxer’
It took six months to make and included dangling a drummer down a mineshaft to get that massive snare sound. But this would have still sounded great with just an acoustic guitar thanks to lines like “In the clearing stands a boxer, And a fighter by his trade… ‘I am leaving, I am leaving,’ But the fighter still remains”.

3. ‘America’
A brilliant, cinematic tale of the journey into adulthood. Loads of scenic detail but the “‘Kathy, I'm lost,’ I said, though I knew she was sleeping” line is the one that really hits home.

4. ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’
Acoustic rock that sees Paul Simon put his foot on the monitor. A great riff, but the melancholic lyrics remain. Later covered by The Bangles for the Less Than Zero soundtrack.

5. ‘For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her’
A love song for an imagined girl Paul Simon longed to meet, what seems to the sadness of loss is actually grief for love yet to be had. It seems like the song could fall in on itself at any time, especially on the famous live version.

6. ‘Wednesday Morning, 3am’
What starts out as a gentle love song (watching his love sleep) turns into the saddest song ever as it transpires that the narrator is calmly waiting to be arrested after robbing an off license. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Kendall

TechnoViking WTF

This might be the best thing we've seen on YouTube since that dominos-though-the-whole-house thing from Japan. If anyone has even the slightest clue what on earth is going on here, please enlighten us. Is it serious? We hope so.
Thanks to Pat for the find.

Kendall

A BRIT Of A Shambles

The organisers of the BRIT Awards have announced that this year’s bash will take place, and be televised live, on February 20th. This is good news for two reasons – firstly it’s live so you won’t know the results while watching it, and secondly it’s not on bloody Valentines Day like last year. Now all they need to do is sort out the voting.

The pedestrian nature of the nominees is the biggest problem with the event now that they’ve decided edgy presenters like Russell Brand, and live televising is the way forward. Remember those years that Annie Lennox won Best Female without releasing a record. How does that happen? Who votes for this mediocre stuff?

Actually, I know the answer cos I voted for a few years. Anyone who is a member of an music industry body can vote, which means people at record labels, in publishing and some retail. So you’d think that there’d be loads of quirky stuff on then, but two things get in the way: the fact that the people at the top of the industry are old and they’re self interested. Clearly a public vote would just have Westlife walking off with the awards so how to correct it? Simple – stop people voting for their own acts which will end block voting.

Right, sorted. Next stop electoral reform in Zimbabwe.

Kendall

Radiohead Invent Download Busking

The surprise news that Radiohead are releasing an album next week (did anyone even know that they were even close to finishing?) brings with it two important issues. Firstly, unless you want the £40 deluxe pack, the band are only asking you to pay what you think it’s worth [non-Radiohead fans insert own joke here]. Clearly this altruistic stance is easier to do when your loaded but it gives more credence to the idea that there’s no money in putting out records these days. Other news today says that The Charlatans are going one stage further and giving away their new album on XFM’s website. This follows The Crimea and, most famously, Prince, who both decided that getting more people down for gigs was the way to support themselves. Even Travis’ free best of in The Mail On Sunday this weekend had their new single on it.

The other issue raised by Thom Yorke and co is that by putting the album out on release themselves (although a supermarket/high street-friendly CD could appear through EMI next year) they are bypassing the record label completely. They’re probably the highest selling act to do this since Simply Red went it alone. Could this – with the other bands mentioned – be the end of record labels? Quote-happy Alan McGee (former Creation boss and current Charlatans manager) puts it thus: "Why would you volunteer to join the army for 10 years unless you had no choice? Record companies are kind of like the army; very regulated.”

Whatever, it’s an interesting time for music consumption. But no, it doesn’t mean you can download any band’s music guilt free. Consider it try before you buy.

Kendall

Give Me Coxon And TV

More on that Coxon/Blur reformation: apparently the reunion will take place this week with a lunch. According to the Parlophone big cheese we spoke to at Brighton Live, a studio is booked but the label aren’t banking on anything. Repeated enthusiasm from us (“But it look very positive, doesn’t it! It’s bound to happen…”) were met with stoic understatement. As Alex James says, "If we can all agree on where to have lunch that will be a good start". A long way to go.

PS The label boss, on table-wide agreement that the Babyshambles LP is actually pretty good, said that Pete Doherty “really wants it” and to this end has been clean longer than he has in the last three or four years. Admittedly that’s only three weeks, but, hey. The boy is definitely more interesting straight, so here’s hoping. Check the video below to for a glimpse of what Pete might have been like without the narcotics.


Young Pete queues to buy Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’

Kendall

SOURCE TV: Blood Red Shoes

We just stumbled across this video for one of our fave songs of last year on ITunes. It's ace - although on YouTube the visuals lag a little to the music so it's not quite as impressive. Great song, great band, great video.


Blood Red Shoes 'You Bring Me Down'

PS We saw Laura-Mary cosying up with Felix Maccabees the other day. Brighton's new indie power couple?

Kendall

Jens Lekman And The Jing Jang Jong

In our Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong interview (out on the streets around about now) Joe talks about being so inspired by seeing Jens Lekman that he knew he wanted to form his own band (he was the Pipettes drummer at the time). Since writing about him we’ve seen Jens’ name pop up a few places, and we can see why everyone holds him in such high regards. Falling somewhere between Richard Hawley’s soft-edged crooning nostalgia and Morrissey’s bittersweet early solo work, it’s lovely stuff. A fascinating article in The Guardian highlights how good his lyrics are. You Are The Light offers this gem: "I got busted, so I used my one phone call to dedicate a song to you on the radio." Ahhh!

Great stuff, maybe we’ll start a band too. Joe Lean and his boys have done quite well out of it – industry rumour has their advance as approaching a million quid.

Website - what's going on?

basically, we're just in the process of udating the website. at the moment the listings work, and this blog, the link for myspace, and hopefully by the time you read this, the bands section and the FAQ. when you see how much better it is hopefully you won't mind the inconveniance. in the meantime, here's a snippet of the forthcoming Bestival review:


Bestival: We Were There – In Body At Least
“Much better than their hip hop set was the Beastie Boys band set. Flagged up as an instrumental performance, the reality was much more interesting. After a meandering groove start the final half battered home with hardcore classics from Ill Communication and Check Your Head. Heart Attack Man and Sabotage never sounded better, despite the grey hair of these punks. Beardyman coped with following one of the best sets of the weekend by providing the funniest and funkiest beatboxing set that charmed the massive crowd in seconds. It was just one of many of the Brighton performances that made us proud…

Bet For Lashes

So Bat For Lashes didn’t win the Mercury Prize then? That’s a shame, but of all the artists she’s probably the one that’s gained most from the affair. She went from “Bat for who?” to “I can’t believe she didn’t win” in two months. That she became favourite by the end of the betting shows how much these new listeners loved the amazing Fur & Gold. Still having a flutter on the winner of the Mercury is like put money on the Grand National – the whole affair is totally random. We still believe that our gigs writer Ben won his £250 on the Klaxons by luck alone. But Bat For Lashes was the real winner. The skeleton gloves are yours if you want them Natasha.

Rwanda Hilton

“Socialite Paris Hilton is living up to her promise to be more charitable - she's planning a trip to Rwanda,” says the news on IMDb. Sorry, but when has going on a bad holiday been ‘doing charity work'. Organisations fly stars round the world and show them how fucked up it is and for what. Oh, Paris knows: “There's so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help.”

Really, is that it? Maybe you could go and, say, spend a week of hard graft looking after the many orphans, or try and help educate the farmers away from subsistence farming. Maybe you could just stay at home and send some money, save the patronising visit. Haven’t they suffered enough already.

“I know there's a lot of good I can do just by getting involved and bringing attention to these issues,” she says. We doubt anything will sink in from her visit, nor will there be any lasting effect on Rwanda. Still, at least it’s good PR for Ms Hilton. “I want to visit more countries where poverty and children's issues are a big concern,” the vapid, self-interested waste of natural resources says. Oh, she’s amazing, isn’t she!

James Kendall

Not For Resale September Mix

Hello,

Yes, the free Not For Resale September mix is up now for you to download here:

www.sendspace.com/file/qxar38

77 minutes of the intense demo mayhem, dancefloor carnage, thrills and spills that we've been playing at Not For Resale and NFR LIVE! this month.

Featuring the likes of:

Future Of The Left
Iron Pirate
Thunderheist
Modeselektor
Monsters Build Mean Robots
I.R. Tiger
Wolves In The Throne Room
Heavy Winged...........

...........and more more MORE!!!


Start's off quite hairy so turn it up and hold on to your butts!



MxBx

Another Reformation. Post TLC.

Just read this on the Organ blog.

"BLUR REFORM - After loads of speculation and suggestions one way and the other, Blur have announced that they are all set to record their new album, their first since 2002's 'Think Tank'. And when we say all we mean Graham Coxon as well as Dave Rowntree, Alex James and Damon Albarn. No time scales have been offered on when the four will return to the studio, nor when they hope to have something to release."


Interesting news indeed. What can we expect? Chart punk songs with fretless bass and marimba accompaniment with fancy animations about organic cheese production?

It's a strong possibility.

One Leaping Loop Loser: What I Saw From The Stage

As someone stood on stage looking into the crowd you’d probably think that I was the best person to tell you all about what happened to the Loop leaper, but I have to be honest, I didn’t have a clue what was going on. As compare for the Futures stage I was trying to hype the crowd up to get Fujiya & Miyagi back on for a much deserved encore and was failing miserably. Now I know why. As I was shouting, "You’ve got to make some noise if you want them to come back" the audience were hearing "You’ve got to make some noise if you want them to come down". At that point he was hanging with 100 feet of sweaty air between him and the floor. It must have seemed like I was goading him to jump.

Certainly that’s what The Argus reporter thought when he tracked me down. Obviously I’d never do that, but he took some convincing.

It’s a shame because the rest of the festival was incredibly good-natured. Sure, it was tricky getting into the two main tents, but people seemed to get on with the business of dancing around the bar.

We’ll talk about the music another time (it was great btw) and get back to the idiot hanging from the rafters. Inevitably he lost his grip, but against the odds the crowd didn’t cushion his fall. Instead he fell on his feet, rolled onto his back and said, like a bad anti-drugs advert cliché, “I can fly!” Erm, no.

Apparently he walked out of hospital at 1am that night regretting what he’d done and has been trying to get hold of the organiser to apologies for putting the future of Loop in doubt. The organiser, Jason Clarke, told us that the council are happy that the situation was handled properly and don’t hold Loop to blame for what happened. Thank god.

So, that’s what happened while I was shouting like an idiot on stage. And Fujiya & Miyagi never did get that encore, despite my enthusiasm.

Dropping like flies

So the Sussex Arts Club has been sold and will be closing down. I don't know anything else about this. Are we getting another private members club like the Hanbury? I bloody hope not. Just as the light of the Freebut bursts back into flame another venue bites the dust. Balance has not been restored!

So does anyone know what's happening?

MxBx

Summer Sundae Set

After winning the BBC6 Listener's Mix the other month I got my prize of a DJ set at Summer Sundae. The results were broadcast on the radio last night. Stream it from here to listen again all week: www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/listener_6mix/

Here's the setlist. Can you believe the stuff I got on National Radio!!! I am happy with this.

Bucks & Gallants – Paid Professionals (Mark, Hey Person)
Milk – Don’t Eat The Sweets (Sweet Tooth Demo)
Turbowölf – Do Me Wrong (Demo)
One Unique Signal - Dravy (Tribe, Castle and Nation, Genepool)
Coin-Op – Favourite Subjects (Demo)
The Tumbledown Estate – Voodoo Wave (One Inch Badge Split Series Volume One 7”)
Kotki Dwa – Pad (Demo)
Wooden Shjips – Shrinking Moon For You (10”, Self Released)
Power Up!’s Radical Not For Resale Jingle
Liars – Plastercasts of Everything (Liars, Mute)
Black Strobe- Brenn Di Ega Kjerke (Burn Your Own Church, Playlouder)
Lords Spiritual – I Am The Satellite (Demo)
The Flesh Happening – Masochismo (Demo)
Bone Awl – Culture Denied (By Ropes Through Dirt, Klaxon)
Loveteam – Rats N Cats (Demo)
Revenge of Shinobi – Champ (Demo)

Much longer story about the whole thing here on my BLOG

Enjoy.


MxBx

It's written all over your face

I noticed the headline of today's Argus on a folded copy of the paper. It reads: Bong arm of the law. The most I could read of the story was "A Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator has been raided by drugs cops. David Vernon, 40, owned up to a £50-a-day pot habit after police discovered a number of the plants at his property in Heathfield Avenue, Saltdean...." The rest disappeared under the fold and all I could see was the top of the photo. Wondering what this man looked like I flipped it over to discover that the dude has a fucking hash leaf tattooed on his face. That is the funniest thing I have seen for a long time. What the hell did people think he was in to? Amazing. "Man with cannabis leaf etched on face smokes pot shock!" No shit. Check it out: http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1586750.0.bong_arm_of_the_law.php


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Best Band Ever and we haven't even heard the music

So, it decided then – Gay For Johnny Depp is the best band name of all time. Most band names are awful until you hear the music and take on lots of connotations. Obviously some names – Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, for example – are so bad that even the biggest fan can’t divorce the words from the music, but some, like Gay For Johnny Depp are so good you don’t even need to hear a note to be a fan. Any suggestions of a better band name in the comments box if you dare.

Source Video Diary #3

The Flesh Happening just released their video for last years single Waste. One would have expected more bodily fluids, but maybe we should be grateful their debut is such a tasteful affair:




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In my defense....

"Just a reminder that if anyone fancies a rant...."

Well, I do. Just a little one.

A couple of times this weekend I got asked "What the f*** is that Rasta piece all about? Are you taking the piss?"
(is it fair to * an f and not a p? a discussion for another day perhaps).

Firstly, no. Secondly, I didn't submit that particular title. Thirdly, I'm sure that whoever chose the title Brighton Babylon didn't count on it being misinterperetted as a direct reference to those pictured. Fourthly, when critiquing articles it's traditional to read them, as opposed to judging it by the title and photos. Fifthly, can we all just stay friends and forget this happened? I think it's what the Big Jah Man would want.

There, all done. Sorry x

SOURCE TV: Fujiya & Miyagi

If you were wondering why we put F&M on the cover - even though they were on two years ago - then check out this killer Gondry-inspired video for thier best song, Ankle Injuries:

Oh my god, have you seen the amazing new Bat For Lashes video

Just brilliant - great song too.

sourcey work experience

hahaha...i'm doing work experince at source as a sub.
now i'm fairly new to brihton and working at source is awesome, i now know a lot of bands i didn't know existed before (the bobby mcgee's, guillotine, blood red shoes) and working for The Kendall is good as he seems to know everything...i have considered poisoning the current sub so i can steal his job.

however,i have been to many a gig in the city...some bands who are not yet mentioned in source that i have seen and can appreciate are: INVISIBLE JIM, i used to hate ska till i saw them...they are spot on. they are partly in redhill or some such surrey place but a few of them are in brighton and work at fidlers elbow so after listening to them on myspace you should stalk them down for an ep as it's well worth a listen.

also playing with them that night were bad sandwhich and swervin' merv who were (surprisingly) good, that's not to discredit them at all just that it's not what i would normally listen to...

if you're after some funk (though i'm not sure many source readers are) there's edd meme and the forms (or something like that) they usually play at jooglebury or casablancas, they are lovely and even gave me a lift home when i was stranded/drunk after their gig, what nice chaps.

there's also a man down my road who is in a band (there's probably at least ten men down my road in a band but i talk to this one...i don't know why though as he's a bit of a cunt) anyway, his band is called my fabric and they are heavily influenced by mr buckley. they sound suspiciously indie (or maybe just, heard it all before) for me but they are doing really well so obviously doing something (or maybe someone) right.
the actual sub only comes in for a few days a month apparently, and i met him for the first time today. it was a wee bit funny as he also subs for the magazine 'rocks' and he called a woman prostitute 'ageing' and she has threatened to sue. the thing is, she's in her fifties... is that not ageing? i'm 20 and am ageing...if she has found a miracle way to stop my beer belly enlarging (although the oestrogen in beer makes your boobs grow...hence moobs) and the dark circles under my eyes from getting worse with age then i hope she lets me know, but from what i undersand, she has not.
anyway. because the real sub has come in i am on a shitty computer that doesn't have word or anything else basic or useful...so i'm writing a blog. i'm a blog virgin and a tad bored so please excuse the rambles...

Sartorial satisfaction

I am a very happy bunny today for I am wearing my Turbowolf t-shirt. Here it is:



Turbowolf make me so very happy in so very many ways. I think I'll invent the term 'Groin-Rock' to describe them.

We're livin' in a playland baby!



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NFR 6th June Setlist and BBC 6 Mix Result>>>

I had a lot of fun during the week with the voting for the BBC 6 Mix Virtual Tour competition that we're in. Thanks to everyone that voted and gave their support, there was so much of it, I really couldn't believe it all. Quite overwhelming. Thank you – I love you all! The voting got pretty insane. Crazy even, and there were loads of great comments on the BBC site. Thank you all!

Oh how I enjoyed the irony of the BBC cutting The Flesh Happening from my set when we're up against a pair of DJ's called Ban This Filth.

They announced the winner of our round tonight. Who do you think won it?

Well come on, how could NFR have possibly lost? Yup, we did it, Not For Resale into the final of the competition. Not sure what happens next, whether we have to do another mix or if they play a bit of the previous set. Would be good to get some more stuff out there but we'll see. I'll let you know what's happening when I do.

Thanks again to everyone for voting and I look forward to your support in the final.

You can stream the set again from the site if you want to hear it, or download it here if you don't want BBC trails, the news and my voice getting in the way of everything. Plus, this version includes The Cleft Palettes, Surkin and Flesh Happening tracks the BBC cruelly excised from the final cut: NFR 6 Mix.mp3

Also, here's the NFR bit.......Wow, what a great night we had this week. To everyone that was there at Fitzherbert's; thanks for coming, hope to see you again and I hope you enjoyed yourselves! Saw a few pale faces during Bone Awl that lit up straight after when Holy Fuck kicked in. That's the point of what we do – throw you for a loop and have you enjoy it all whilst introducing you to stuff you might never otherwise hear.

Here's what we played on Wednesday. No one anywhere can top a set like this:



Cats And Cats And Cats – You'll Never Make It Home (7", Field)
Lords Spiritual – I Am The Satellite / People With Good Hearts / Turn On My Radio / Music Makes Me Cry (Demo)
Tired Irie – For Those Who Swung Hips (7", Field)
The Customers – Black Water (Demo)
The Butterflies Of Love – Orbit Around You (7", Fortuna Pop!)
The Be Be See – Discover E (Single, At Large)
Metronomy – You Could Easily Have Me (Pip Paine, Pay The £5000 You Owe, Holiphonic)
Turbowolf – Do Me Wrong (Demo)
Of Montreal – Cato As A Pun (Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, Polyvinyl)
Surkin – Ghetto Obsession (12", Institubes)
The Black Ghosts – Any Way You Choose To Give It (The Whip Remix) (7", Chrysalis)
Fujiya & Miyagi – Photocopier (Transparent Things, Tirk)
Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards – Cut Yr Tits Off (Demo)
The Cleft Palettes – Stand Up Sonic (Demo)v
Love Team – Rats N' Cats (Demo)
Kotki Dwa - Pad (Demo)
Shy Child – Noise Won't Stop (Noise Won't Stop, Wall Of Sound)
The Death Kit – Tarantino's Culo (Demo)
Grails – Silk Rd (Burning Off Impurities, Temporary Residence Limited)
65 Days Of Static – The Conspiracy Of Seeds (The Destruction Of Small Ideas, Monotreme)
Sudden Infant – Bleachole Boogie (or something like that, I can't read the writing or find it anywhere on the web) (Three Puppets Ep, Needle Soup)
Wooden Shjips – Shrinking Moon For You (Wooden Shjips 10", Self Released)
Bucks & Gallants – Paid Professionals (Mark, Hey Person)
Catnap – Onward Christian (Snakes & Ladders Compilation)
Milk – Don't Eat The Sweets (Sweet Tooth, Demo)
Vile Imbeciles – Licking Venom With A Reproach Muscle (Ma, White Heat)
Extinction – Down Below The Fog (Down Below The Fog, Todestrieb)
Bone Awl – In Eternal Dark (Magnetism Of War, Klaxon Productions)
Holy Fuck – The Pulse (Holy Fuck, Self Released)
Crystal Castles – Xxzczx Me (Demo)
Parts & Labobr – Fractured Skies (Mapmaker, Jagjaguwar)
The Flesh Happening – Turpitude (Demo)
Air Conditioning – Where To Litter (Dead Rails, Load)
Revenge Of Shinobi – Champ (Demo)
Spoono – Oh, So Relentlessly Mortal (Oh, So Relentlessly Mortal, Demo)
Girls From Egypt – Demons & Liars (Demo)
Old Mayor - Sirens (Demo)
The Horrors – The Next Rain I See (Demo)
Meatbreak – They Will Follow The Stick If It Has A Good Beat (The Introvert Perversion, Fucking Racket)


It's a BIG Not For Resale LIVE! coming up next Friday with Raised On Replicas, Catnap and My Device. MD are playing us their new album in it's entirety, which we are very excited about.


See you at the Greenhouse Effect on the 15th.





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Keep your friends close, but the NME closer

I'd like to chuck my titfer into the ring with regards to the NME and the offence it seems to have caused my fellow scribe. Now first of all, the NME has always, always been just one step up from shit tickets. It hasn't needed to dig itself into any kind of black hole, it has always lurked somewhere beneath the lowest rung of the journalistic ladder (the very same ladder that up which we tappy-tap-tappers all aspire to shimmy)
My point is this: If, in their severely restricted wisdom, the editorial weasels (a business of weasels i believe is the correct collective noun) behind the inky rag wish to cover the front page with a bit of flesh then mores the better. Granted, the Ditto-potamus isn't one to make my jeans creak; i wouldn't touch her with kens, but at least she's up for cracking them out. Let's hope this is the NME setting their stall out. Let's hope they've seen the error of their ways and from now on we'll see them negate the opinionated drivel and opt for a decisive movement towards smut; good old fasioned prostitution, instead of the covert, industry driven lip service that has all but swallowed up the burgeoning UK music scene. Maybe one day, and this is a big shout, one day the NME will be reduced to basic service journalism: a huge picture of some fitty from a shit band with her feeders swinging on one page, and the other with a running tally of which bands have had the most money chucked at them by hand wringing A&R departments and shadowy record executives.
Just a thought.

The World Russelling Federation

Oh how I hate the NME so.....

When will the NME stop digging itself into its black hole of tabloid idiocy? Yesterday I saw a few people looking at a copy and did a double take over the front cover. Is that Beth Ditto completely naked? “Yeah” they replied “It’s disgusting!”

Errr…No, it’s not. Not in the way they meant anyway. People sadden me more and more each day. It is disgusting that the NME feels it appropriate to use a naked cover shot just because the person is overweight. I’ve never seen any other girl completely naked on the cover before, but along comes someone overweight and willing and there she is. Is it some kind of irony, or is it just o.k. because people consider it non-sexual (except chubby chasers and people with brains)? Miss Ditto can do what she likes, no problem there at all, but I can only imagine that weasel faced arse of an editor thinking ‘yeah, this is going to gross people out so much, hahaha.’ Arse faced weasel. I notice that on their website they have a photo story of the shoot for the feature without a single image of her starkers, except for one checking the cover shot on a computer. So if they felt it was such a beautiful image to put on the cover, why not show us more? I can only surmise that it was not fascination of the sensual curves of a renaissance figure.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but…who still buys the NME, and why?

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For the sake of Brighton nightlife, quit smoking now

It’s a conspiracy from the government to stop us having fun of course. First they change the licensing laws so everyone stays in the pubs later. Great, you think, but what about the clubs. Emptier and emptier. Now they’re gone it’s time to think what to do about those perky pubs. Aha! Ban smoking. So, now everyone is going to start drinking at home. Eventually you’ll stop inviting your mates over and just watch TV. And we all know that TV is: governmental propaganda.

So, for the sake of society and rebellion, give up smoking. Your social life depends on it.

Velvet Rufus

So, the new Rufus Wainwright album is out. It’s sitting by the CD player waiting, I think because Mika has really put me off Loudon Jr. All this camp pop has really started to take over – I guess the Scissor Sisters are to blame – and I don’t like it. Since when has Elton John been the great influence on music? A handful of good songs, a heap of foolishness and a tantrum or two do not a legend make. Thanks to the inexplicable success of the aforementioned Mika we can expect more of this show tune-esque nonsense, something I’m less than happy about…

Right, I bit the bullet and listened to Rufus. Utter flamboyant crap. Although at least he’s personable, unlike that twit Mika.

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Not For Resale news

This is from my Not For Resale Myspace blog; but bigger and better:

They've rearranged Fitzes! It's actually pretty good now; decks by the window which is nice for the balmy weather, more space, some of which you can dance in if the feeling were to take you, same number of sofas too. Almost a miracle of physics, but obviously not. Yeah, I like it except for the horrendous funk band playing downstairs whose clichéd thumping was too much to bear for too much of the night. I'm going to try and move NFR to Thursdays and see what happens. Apparently that's a better day for most people anyway so we'll see.

Thanks to everyone who turned up, is always a pleasure to have a decent group of people to chat and play stuff to.

So yesterday I went to BBC 6 Music to be interviewed for the Virtual Tour competition. Not For Resale/me has been entered into this competition to win a DJ set at a summer festival. Hmmm. Wonder what I could do with one of those. So I get a 1 hour mix played (Which has been pre-recorded. Not sure if I should tell you the tracklisting or keep it a surprise. What do you reckon?)

Anyway, yeah, so my mix and interview get played next Sunday, 3^rd June at 8pm. Here's the link to the shows site so you can vote for me. BBC 6 Music 6 Mix

I'm looking forward to this. I wasn't sure whether I was or not and I wasn't interested in winning until I heard the DJ I'm up against in the first round is from Cambridge. Brighton Vs. Cambridge? They wouldn't even open a book on it. I have also realised the enormous potential of me getting a set at a festival. They can't drag me off the decks can they? They wouldn't dare. That's the best environment to hear totally fucked up music, people are always much more open when they're in the fresh air and I’ve got a whole lot to give, yeh?

I'm sure some famous political quote that I should really know the originator of says: "A vote for me is a vote for you" - but that could have been from a film. Well it applies here fictitious or not.

So yeah, exciting. I have no idea what degree of awfulness my interview will be, so don't expect anything. It's all about the music anyways, maaaan.

Here’s your monthly NFR mix download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/bzm14q

So this isn’t the biggest unwieldy blog entry ever, the tracklist is here: Not For Resale Blog

Here's last nights tracklisting. It's a mash of me and Fokka Wolfe (as much as I can remember of what he played:) since we kept swapping over - so no defined personal sets. Watch out for Turbowolf – they’re from Bristol, sent me the best packaged demo ever all wrapped up in tape with matches, balloons, stickers and a little cake card. Now DFA 1979 have gone we need something to fill the void and Turbowolf are it::

The Butterflies Of Love – Orbit Around You (7", Fortuna Pop!)
Turbowolf – Do Me Wrong / Mystery / Playland (Demo)
Dragonette – I Get Around (Single, Mercury)
Parts & Labor – Unexplosions (Mapmaker, Jagjaguwar)
Yeborobo – I Was Injured At Work, Help Me Wreak My Revenge (What A Fantastic Barrier, Mentalist Association)
Good Shoes – Morden (Think Before You Speak, Brille)
The Dirty Socials – Smokin' Gun (Demo)
Dungen – Sa Blev Det Bestämt (Tio Bitar, Kemando)
Blodulv – Grimness (The Purest Cold Precision, Total Holocaust)
Charlottefield – The Eleventh Day (How Long Are You Staying, Unlabel/Jonson Family)
Enid Blitz – Bedtime (Demo)
Catnap – Onward Christian (Snakes & Ladders Compilation)
The Banned – Godspeed (All The Good Things, Demo)
Foals – Hummer (7", Transgressive)
Holy Fuck – The Pulse (Holy Fuck, Self Released)
Hadouken! - Superstar (Demo)
Of Montreal- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?, Polyvinyl)
Ben Frost – Stomp (Theory Of Machines, Bedroom Community)
Go Johnny Go – Mama Please Don't Go (The Spend Ep, Demo)
Bucks & Gallants – Paid Professionals (Mark, Hey Person)
The Chedington Incident – Cut The Cord (Demo)
Sick Buildings – IDK (Demo)
Does It Offend You Yeah? – Weird Science (7", Chrysalis)
Shy Child – Noise Won't Stop (Noise Won't Stop, Wall Of Sound)
Kap Bambino – New Breath (7", Alt/Delete Recordings)
Crystal Castles – XXZCZX Me (Demo)
Grails – More Extinction (Burning Of Impurities, Temporary Residence Limited)
Turbowolf – Do Me Wrong (Demo)
Monotract – Muddy Thunder (Trueno Oscuro, Load)
Revenge Of Shinobi – House (? – I Don't Actually Know Anymore – I Think All Shinobi Songs Are Called 'House') (Demo)
Milk – Don't Eat The Sweets (Sweet Tooth, Demo)
Kotki Dwa – Pad (Demo)
Howlin' Rain – Calling Lightning With A Scythe (Howlin' Rain, Birdman)
Herman Dune - I Wish That I Could See You Soon (7", Source)
Teen Evil – Relapse (Demo)
Vile Imbeciles – Licking Venom With A Reproach Muscle (Ma, White Heat)
The Middle Computer – Eating Bananas reminds Me Of the Old Days (Demo)
The Horrors – Gloves (7", Loog)
Let's Wrestle - Song For ABBA Tribute Record (7", Marquis Cha Cha)
Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position (The Magic Position, Loog)

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I'm disappointed that I never got to play the Dreamer and Bearhead tracks I was planning on playing. Next time, next time.

Next Fitzes Not For Resale is on the 6^th June, unless I do change it to Thursdays quickly.

Next Not For Resale Live is coming up soon on the 15^th June in the Greenhouse Effect Basement, with Raised On Replicas, Catnap and My Device. It's going to blast.

See you soon.

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Give up the films Quentin

I never thought I’d say this but I’ve got no interest in the new Quentin Tarantino film. Back in the 90s I was such a fanboy – to the point I went to a Q&A screening of Reservoir Dogs and met him – but he’s really gone off the boil. Kill Bill was a disappointment in its patchy Part 1 and its conclusion was a waste of time to the point that I’ve forgotten what happened. Too long and too long coming. If Death Proof is shit he’s down to a 50/50 rating in my book. And already the reviews are very mixed.

Kill Bill did, however, have a great soundtrack again – Zamfir’s The Lonely Shepard is almost worth the admission price alone – and that looks to continue with Death Proof. One of the tracks on it is April March’s Chick Habit. It sounds like a playful old rock’n’roll/girl group record but was actually made in the 90s. It’s a cover of a Serge Gainsbourg track, translated into English.

He’s got a great ear for music, and an obvious passion (strange that this is not shared by many other directors – Martin Scorsese being an obvious exception – you’d think that the two would go hand in hand). Perhaps he should start his own record label and go into music. Now, that I could get enthusiastic for.

BONUS TRUFACT: April March is also one of the key animators for Ren & Stimpy.

Hear Chick Habit here but buy it if you like it.


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News from the horse’s mouth: The Stone Roses will never reform

I’ve got loads of stories from the Great Escape – it’s pretty good fun if you can find a way of avoiding queues – but here’s my favourite. I met Mani from The Stone Roses at the Happy Mondays gig on the pier. He came and sat down next to me and fellow SOURCE writer Ben and did an interview with BBC News. They kept asking him if he was going to reform the Roses and he was polite. One question too far and he whispered in Ben’s ear, “I’d rather lick the Queen Mum’s twat.” Ben looked aghast and said, “But she’s dead.” “Exactly!” cackled Mani.

Ben had already interrupted the interview with his assertion that the Roses should never reform, and I have to say he’s right. The comeback circuit is pretty much based around live gigs and they weren’t a great live band. Primarily cos Ian Brown can’t sing. A new Stone Roses album? I’m not sure I fancy it to be honest.

Strangely though, the reformed Monday’s were rather good. And they were dreadful both when I saw them in ’92 and when Ben saw them six years ago.

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