THE GLORIAS
A new NYLPM feature – will it get as far as its third entry? You decide! Well, no, I decide probably.
A few years ago I was reading a comic called Starman. The hero of Starman is, frankly, a big nerd. This particular issue had him t[…]

Seelenluft-The Way We Go

It’s worth noting (and a real shame) that distribution problems have meant this record flew undetected past the radar last year. It’s probably my number 1 album of 2004. So it’s only an undiscovered classi[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
92. Girls Aloud – “Love Machine”
There is one good thing, and one good thing only, about indie zine The Fly. It is free, and handily available for homeward bound tube reading from Victoria HMV.
This month is the[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
93. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?”
Cis says:
I loved doo-wop when I was little. The black-and-white photographs on record covers, smiling boys in ill-fitting suits, close harmoni[…]

OK Listen Up
There are only TWO days to go until Club Freaky Trigger’s special 00s night. This will be one of the best Club FTs ever and you are strongly recommended to come. It is, as usual, at the Chapel Bar in Islington. Fingers crossed we w[…]

During The Goldrush
Never let it be said that I won’t take one visit to one club and grossly inflate it until it becomes a ‘state of the nation’ piece about a kind of music I don’t even like anymore![…]

Club Seal and the Indie Boom
You can tell a band has a particular grip on people when fans turn up to discos and dance only to their songs. Club Seal, on Friday in Islington, was the first ‘indie club’ I’d been to for about three ye[…]

Chemical Brothers – Push The Button
The big UK dance acts of the ’90s are fading. Underworld’s last album was their weakest yet. Massive Attack’s last two (including Danny The Dog) are pretty poor. The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim […]

Council Estate Of Mind – Skinnyman
A bit late, in that it came out last year, but I’ve only just got it, and really want to give it a bit of a push. I think it’s the best straight hip hop album produced in the UK last year (that is,[…]

From George Melly, Revolt Into Style
(1962)
“Band followed band from 9.30 PM until 7.30 AM the next morning. The audience were dressed almost without exception in ‘rave gear’. As the essence of ‘rave gear’ is a stylised […]