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Way back in the days when you only owned music if you paid for it, and owning thousands of songs necessitated having a storage space sufficient to house a small elephant in, there was the flexi-disc. This was a, essentially, a seven inch single which hadn’t been to the gym and was floppy. Music magazines [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: blur, flexi disc, hustle, NME, Oasis, Smiths, suede, tunng | 1 Comment »
Jamie Oliver, you lying fat-tongued bastard. ELM, being brought up in the 80’s when children were taught to believe everything they heard on television, was completely suckered by the whole organic food argument. I wanted my lettuce with cowshit on it. I hoped my chicken had been running around an area the size of Gloucestershire. [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: dolly parton, Glasvegas, Michael Jackson, music news, NME, Pop | 2 Comments »
Following on from last week’s news, NME.com reports that Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien is at the forefront of a new ‘Musician’s Union’. Here is the news on the Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC). The FAC, which aims to look after the needs of musicians and fans, held its first meeting last week (March 11), at London club [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: Billy Bragg, FAC, NME, Radiohead, robbie williams | Leave a Comment »
ELM’s resident curmudgeon Vespertine checks out the hotly-tipped electro act; I approached this gig with an open mind. I knew a few Ladytron songs but had no in-depth knowledge of the band or the set they were likely to play. But the company was good, and I was able to have a few pints and [...]
Filed under: gigs | Tagged: "Glasgow ABC", breadsticks, Electro, Glasgow, indie, ladytron, ladytron live, Live, NME, Pop | 4 Comments »
Glasvegas. Dunno if you have heard them yet, but you will. They have a Mary Chainish-musical style, low fuzzing guitars and big drums, Spectoresque production. The usual. They deal in emotional, overwrought lyrics, a bit of a cut above most stuff that the NME rave about. They look quite cool. They also sing in Glaswegian [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: Glasvegas, music, NME, Nude, Radiohead, Wainwright | 5 Comments »
I don’t hate Pete Doherty as much as you’d think I would. Hell, even as much as I think I should. His tabloid notoriety creates an obscuring fog over his body of work, but clear-headed appraisal shows he’s neither as talented as his fanboy-obsessives would claim nor as bad as his many detractors would have [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: Babyshambles, Doherty, Libertines, NME, shotters nation | 8 Comments »
Coventry’s Jam-clone hobbits the Enemy are apparently locked in a feud with stunningly average Manchester Oasis-copyists the Courteeners. It is unlikely, I’ll grant you, that we’ll need to send Henry Kissinger in to mediate on this dispute, but by God its tiresome. You cannot open the NME these days without seeing some band slagging some [...]
Filed under: General Stuff | Tagged: Courteeners, Coventry, Enemy, Horrors, indie, music, NME, the Enemy, Ting Tings | 9 Comments »
I logged on this morning to a busy inbox, amongst which were the usual spam mails offering all sorts of interesting things. While I was intrigued by the headline ‘tear her holes apart with your massive dong’ – and who wouldn’t be? – there was also a missive telling me of the benefits of ignoring [...]
Filed under: Album Review, New Albums | Tagged: Arctic Monkeys, Average, Courteeners, Indie music, Jam, NME, Oasis, Stone Roses | 8 Comments »
As Talking Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’ welcomes them onstage, it’s a sell-out but disparate crowd the Ting Tings have attracted to Tuts this evening. From the students at the front to the young urban professionals at the back, the place is quietly pulsing with anticipation when they take to the stage. A boy/girl combo, [...]
Filed under: gigs | Tagged: Blondie, CBGB's, Debbie Harry, Manchester, New Wave, NME, Patti Smith, Ramones, Talking Heads, Television, Ting Tings | 2 Comments »
I have a soft spot for British indie rockers The Cribs. They are a lot of fun live, and in frontman Ryan Jarman they have a laconic 21st Century boy with a line in dry one-liners. While I don’t think they have made a truly great record yet, there have been a few moments to [...]
Filed under: Album Review | Tagged: Cribs, indie, NME, Pigeon Detectives, replacements, rock, Ryan Jarman, Sonic Youth | 3 Comments »
