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December 15th, 2000

ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH

ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILTH
7: ST ETIENNE & TIM BURGESS - I Was Born On Christmas Day

You didn’t expect to see this amongst the hoary old chestnuts roasting on an open hell-fire below. If you didn’t then you obviously still do not understand this site, and you are also possibly deaf. The man with a lifejacket for lips and the graverobbers of pop - together for the first time in Christmas excrement shocker.

The Et (a nickname based not so much on a shortening of the bands name - rather Bob Stanley’s resemblance to the film character) fancy themselves as post modern pop pioneers. Apparently they do this playing simplistic pop in an arch style which Kylie would not touch with a bargepole. The Charlatans, are charlatans and also know a good thing when they steal it. I’m surprised the pop police were not snuffling round when this aural aquivalent of getting a pair of socks for Christmas limped out.

Hey, it was the Christmas single indie fans were allowed to like. Indie fans being students and generally poor, managed to rocket the single to number 16. Sarah Cracknell was so glad she just got her pay, I assume it was not a bumper pay packet, especially after paying for Burgess’s colagen top ups.

Proof of this tracks true lack of worth though is its subject matter. For neither Cracknell, Wiggs, Stanley or Burgess were born on Christmas Day. Instead this song was ghosted by the true culprit, the true evil spirit of Chritmas. Noel Edmonds was born on Christmas Day - and this song is obviously about him.

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Eminem voted Christmas favourite

Eminem voted Christmas favourite: note misuse of word “coveted” in first sentence. Note also 2% of UK population certifiably insane for voting for Craig Phillips.

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Melody Maker to merge with NME

Melody Maker to merge with NME - and it’s all our fault. “The magazine’s publisher IPC said increasing competition from music sites on the internet had prompted the decision” - well, OK, maybe they’re not precisely referring to Freaky Trigger.

Anyway, a mercy killing (and one which I’m late in blogging, too). Spookily we were in the pub reminiscing about IPC comics the night before the news was announced, and talking about how the comics would trail a merger with the dread phrase, “Great News For All Our Readers!”, i.e. “We are about to kill off three-quarters of your favourite characters.”. We speculated on an NME/MM merger - this one though seems particularly savage with only the bloody musicians section surviving, though frankly you can’t imagine there’s much else in MM nowadays worth saving.

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