NAPALM DEATH
If you ask anyone it the music business about Napalm Death you will invariably get just the one response. “Lovely chaps” – they will say, almost as if they were the Kray Twins. You would expect them to then extoll upon […]

COMPASS OF CRIME – NORTHSIDE
If there is one band whose I Hate Music entry is self explanatory, self-reflexive and damnit just one word it is Northside. Northsides one word to describe them would be “Northside” a term of abuse so pr[…]

COMPASS OF CRIME – THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
I rejoice when a band splits up. To me its like Christmas and my birthday all on the same joyous moment. Especially when a band as rancidly unambitious as The Housemartins called it a day. Apart from appro[…]

COMPASS OF CRIME – GO WEST
No – not the godawful paean to that homosexual homeland (or homoland I suppose) San Fransisco by the Village People. Not even the ironic – yet not – yet still rubbish version by the Pet Shop Boys (wh[…]

Ah – the east. The mysteries of old China, the lure of exotic spices, the charms of the orient. Or alternatively my old china, smelling of Old Spice and supporting the charming Leyton Orient – why if it isn’t those charming young ch[…]

TANYA HEADON’S COMPASS OF CRIME
There is nothing I like better than getting away from it all into the countryside, tramping with map and compass by my side – escaping the bustle and cacophony of city life. Actually there is one thing I li[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH:
XTC: Mayor Of Simpleton
?Never been near a University?
So was it some sort of XTC tribute band (Ex-TC maybe) that played the following gigs:
April 21 1979 – University College, Dublin
April 22 1979 – Queen’s Univer[…]

THE BE GOOD TANYAS (like hell I will)
In the film Candyman you needed to say the name of the films bogeyman (and particular nasty sixties kiddies song which is much more horrific) six times in-front of a mirror for him to appear. To invoke me all you[…]

IHM APPOSITE BAND NAME OF THE WEEK: The Blockheads
Narrowly beating out The Dum-Dums at having the most fitting band name, The Blockheads managed to pick on a fizgog which summed them up to a remarkable degree. I would always hate them of course, sin[…]

1: Have sex.
2: Get up and have a cup of tea.
3: Try and think of a first line. Fail.
4: Notice that your tea has gone cold and frankly you would much rather be back in bed shagging the bloke who has given you that ear to ear (and exceptionally punch[…]