Interactive and Intelligent

A couple of months back, I flagged up the financial difficulties being experienced by Kristin Hersh whilst touring her wonderful ‘Learn To Sing Like A Star’ LP. Here’s an email from Kristin today: • I often feel there is an inverse relationship between quality of output and material success in the music business.  This is…

A Soundtrack To Our TV Lives (3) – Sharks Infest The Waters

More familiar sounds emanating from our TV screens of late. Mercury Rev‘s ‘Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp’ has been used with the trailers for a new Channel 4 programme, ‘Dumped’ (which apparently records the attempts of 11 brave souls to live off (and on) a rubbish dump. Assisted by a Chemical Brothers remix, ‘Stomp’ was actually…

TV21 Are Shite

“Hey, Norman, Man U have just scored!” Of course they’re not. But having bemoaned the law of diminishing returns last time, I thought I’d resort to shock tactics to get your attention this time around. Because in actual fact, unlike the Rovers the previous day, TV21 were anything but shite at the charity Rock The…

Feedback Ballet

I guess I better post a sensible review of last night’s SY show just in case anyone feels that the previous nonsense was in any way a veiled comment on the performance. The weeks preceding this show were a mixture of anticipation and puzzlement. Every opportunity to see Sonic Youth is to be relished (I’ve…

Senile Youth

Elderly rockers Sonic Youth are preparing for a show at Glasgow’s ABC. Thurston – So, what are we going to play tonight? Mark – Well, we’re billed to play Daydream Nation, so we should really do that. Lee – Isn’t that one of our old ones? What would we do that for? We’re a forward…

Drowning My Heart & Hopes In Alcohol

Twenty five years after their last single TV21 released new material via their Myspace site at the weekend. It’s been a productive year in the studio for the band so far as the 3 tracks available for download follow hard on the heels of the 5 re-recorded tracks for the Future Revisited EP. What’s different…