Archives – 2000 – November – 30  

IAN CRAUSE – Elemental
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Like Life Without Buildings, this is on Tugboat Records, who make their CDs lovely, with fold-over waxy cardboard sleeves. There’s a strict two-tracker policy going on, so I’d guess the aesthetic is to get CD singles as beautiful and cont[…]

BRYAN FERRY – From Roxy Music to Poxy Music
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BRYAN FERRY – From Roxy Music to Poxy Music
It?s a conundrum. The organisers of Miss World 2000, looking through their post-ironic lenses, have to choose a venue, a host and a musical star for their event. Of course, this year’s Miss Wo[…]

Sorry Pete
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Sorry Pete you are indeed a world renowned expert on all things beery. I should never have implied otherwise.
My foray into the ladies toilets of London’s pubs continues to take me into fairly rough territory. The Crown and Two Chairmen feature[…]

LIFE WITHOUT BUILDINGS – Young Offenders
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Good packaging is so important, and Life Without Buildings records look supercool, really hard post-punk fonts at angles, light green and off-white on stark black background, minimal information but not making a point of it. They look like they could[…]

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  2. Count me as one of the people oddly affected by issue 300. Although... The thing I most remember about this…