Monthly Archives: July 2005

Alright! Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys again, you know the drill. Since the previous post, Charlie and his brother, Spider, have gone out for a celebratory reunion incorporating Spider’s prescription of wine, women and song. The reading of this extract takes … Continue reading →

Neil Gaiman’s last novel (his first novel proper, if you look at it under the right light), while generally a breezy read and packed with humour, also contained lots of death, misery, extended scenes of torture and was hung around … Continue reading →

Jack White’s not litigious, right? He’d just turn up to your show and pimpslap you if he had a problem with sampling. So it’s a shame that Apathy’s “It Takes A Seven Nation Army To Hold Us Back” didn’t get … Continue reading →

Here’s a big one, so dial-up kids* can spend the weekend downloading: the EPK for Wiley‘s “Wot U Call It?”. Two years on, it’s amusing to see how the press kit spends so much of its time trying to defend … Continue reading →

The sad thing about The Firm‘s records being so perfectly suited to their format is that it made them so easily forgettable. By the time Star Trekkin’ came along, no-one remembered anymore that they’d already knocked the “novelty song about … Continue reading →

The Action Suits were something of a response by grumpy young men to their town of residence’s worldwide fame. Kicking back against grunge with ’60s-style pop songs and production (recorded with authentic 8-track wobble by Steve Fisk), they burst onto … Continue reading →

Due to some bubble in the space-time continuum, Australia did the Nirvana-breakout phenomenon more than six months ahead of schedule. By the end of 1990, the biggest indie record of the financial year was, legend has it, shaping up to … Continue reading →