Orange Crush (With Eyeliner)

There was a mini REM night on the BBC the other night. Quite why the 2 programmes (R.E.M. At The BBC and REM on Later) were tucked away after midnight is something of a mystery when you consider the lesser talents who have had full blown themed nights. But as ever with these things they…

Forthcoming in 2012?

Field Music – definite release date Thought it might be worth turning my attention forwards to 2012 having spent much of the last month or so looking back. Let’s start with records I know that are definitely coming out this year. Chemikal Underground will be releasing the next LP from Malcolm Middleton – the self…

MPT LPs of the Year – Nos 11-25

Got to call a halt at some point. There’s two or three 2011 LPs kicking around which may well prove good enough to make it into this list when I’ve had a chance to listen to them properly, but I could go on for a while. So, with apologies to Low and United Fruit at…

Diminished

I suppose if you’re not going to be first then you might as well be last. So I think that I can claim that distinction in terms of reflecting on the demise of R.E.M. The irony is that I’d been meaning to write about the band for some time, in fact well before the announcement…

MPT Quarterly Review

I’ve done 6 monthly reviews before but occasionally I’ve felt that I’ve barely had enough to do a proper annual review. So the notion that I would have been looking back on the first 3 months of 2011 with excitment would have seemed faintly ridiculous 3 months ago. But instead of catching up on last…