Our intrepid punk preacher Howlin Whippet hits town in search of thrills and finds them in the form of the world’s only all-girl Ramones tribute band. I still, to this day, find it amazing that people exist who don’t unconditionally love The Ramones. They epitomise everything that’s good about music. 2 minute songs, great melodies, energy, [...]
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It’s quite fashionable to detox these days. We live in a toxic world, full of bacteria, viruses and poor people, where lurking round every corner is a potential deathtrap contained in a pork pie or a pint or something. Anyway, what you do to defeat these demons is detox. This means buying some stupidly expensive [...]
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A great suggestion from Vespertine. Here are the boys doing ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’ (a Joey song about how right-wing bastard Johnny nicked his girlfriend. Honestly.)
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People, as Depeche Mode once so sagely noted, are people. Similarly unarguable are the merits of the Friday 5. ‘Ver 5′, as no-one calls it, can cover pretty much anything; it’s subject matters are as free range as Jamie Oliver’s dream chicken. Today we felt we’d go a bit Yellow Pages and prove sometimes we’re [...]
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Good day to you all, my fine friends. We are all buzzing here after seeing one of Glasgow’s finest bands, the mighty Fram , perform a surprise acoustic gig in the city last night. And that has been good for my mood, as ELM has not been very well this week. I know. It’s a [...]
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With summer potentially peeking out from behind the clouds, and ELM looking forward to sitting in beer gardens in silly sunhats, we thought we’d take a look at some songs which sound superb in sunny weather. I promise no Hold Steady (though you could do worse than ‘Massive Nights’.) The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail [...]
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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, [...]
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