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  • Looking back at … The Joy Circuit

    The Joy Circuit There are times when your sanity is put to test because you say you like bands that no one else knows. Are you crazy? Are you making that band up because you feel alone in this world? If you knew who The Joy Circuit was, I can assure you this: you’re not…

  • Unfortunate letters about incidents – 6

      Welcome to our new weekly column with Russ “chords of gold” Palmer. This week, he writes with grave concern to Toblerone… (Editor’s note: this might be the reason behind the name of his band, The Unfortunate Incident)

  • Singles – Hey Sholay!, Toy Horses, Smashing Pumpkins and Humanfly

    It’s Friday (hey, where did the week go, uh?) and we have a veritable selection of songs we’ve listened, either because we like them or because we were bribed with Mars bars. God, I love Mars bars. But I digress… This week brings us: Hey Sholay!, Toy Horses, (the) Smashing Pumpkins and Humanfly. Read on.

  • Lost notes – 2

    Previously, on Lost Notes… Lost Notes – 2. When I was 13, I had an accident. I was in a big school. 3 floors, 12 big classrooms in each high rise floor. We had three playgrounds. One was a grassy soccer field, one was a gravel and tarmac triangle-shaped area with basketball courts and volleyball…

  • Mancunian musical radiation

    I am Kloot @ Leadmill, Sheffield October 6 2010 As previously stated in another review in this very site, it’s hard to detach yourself from the sometimes impossibly high expectations of a band you love and the show you get. Such is the case for I am Kloot, a band that took me into a…

  • Maps, Maths and Marmite

    Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork Listen to this album on spotify while reading the review. The skinny : Hit and miss. The review proper : Arguably, more hit than miss. An acquired taste of an album, probably.

  • Restless Times – A review

    Restless Times : Art in Britain 1914 – 1945 They say that misery drives art. I don’t know who “they” are nor can I muster up to say where I got that quote. For all I know, it’s something I just made up. There’s no worse misery in this world than the misery we inflict…

  • The Janitor

    The Janitor One day I shall have my revenge, and I feel that today, Tuesday, shall be that day. Today is the day that bastard eats the most. I know his schedule thanks to the consistency of his droppings, the colours stuck to the porcelain and the reckless use of toilet paper. My name is…

  • El Limpiabaños

    El Limpiabaños Algún día tendré mi venganza, y presiento que será hoy, martes. Este es el día que el desgraciado come más. He llegado a conocer su agenda por la consistencia de sus heces, por los colores que se pegan en la porcelana, por las cantidades inconscientes de papel de baño que utiliza.

  • Rollerpalooza (or the pros and cons of gravity, wheels and alcohol)

    It was a dark and stormy night. But then again, it is the start of the autumn season, so a slant towards “nippy” is expected. I met Pips and Rucks at Cream in Broomhill and after lying our ways into 1970 (portrayed by the Bingo Hall of Queens’ Social Club), we went into Rollerpalooza II.…