Hold Back The Cavalry

  iLIKETRAINS – Elegies To Lessons Learnt (Beggar’s Banquet, 2007) I’ve been putting this one off for a while (it was actually the third of my Avalanche purchases) but not because I don’t like the record (I do) but because I’m not quite sure quite how to convey that. Overall iLIKETRAINS’s approach is quite highly…

Look A Little Closer

The Woodentops – The BBC Sessions (Renascent, 2007) At the same time as purchasing the Teardrop Explodes ‘Peel Sessions Plus’ LP, I also bought the Woodentops’ ‘The BBC Sessions’ again from the wonderful Avalanche in Edinburgh. To a large extent this is a record which illustrates the truism of Peel sessions being rawer, live takes…

Malcolm X-mas #1 (2)

It seems the bookies have slashed the odds on Malcolm Middleton’s Xmas single reaching the Xmas Number 1 from 1,000-1 to 500-1. Is this due to the Pop Cop‘s inspirational support? (from which this post’s title is nicked) Or the support of the highly influential Mr Toad? Or even the trans-Atlantic assistance from Your Moment…

Here’s One I Prepared Earlier

This so far has been a week dominated by work so this is likely to be the only post until the weekend. Sometimes there are albums that are so accessible that you just like them from the outset. ‘Technology Won’t Save Us’ by Sophia is one such album. Despite the fact that Sophia have something…

Progress/Reform

Another celebrity posting popped up on the site the other day with the frankly exciting news that a That Petrol Emotion reformation is on the cards. Given the origins of this blog’s name, it’s not really something I could ignore! It will be interesting to see how complete the reformation is going to be in…

Finger On The Pin

The first of my Avalanche purchases last week is the Teardrop Explodes’ ‘Peel Sessions Plus’. The CD pretty much does what it says in the tin, namely collecting the band’s John Peel sessions with a handful of other tracks. Peel sessions were, of course, important in breaking bands and tended to feature rawer versions of…