Who Knows What'll Happen Next?
You'd have thought after 15 years and about ten thousand songs i'd be bored of skinny blokes making an angsty racket with guitars. But no, time and time again another cracking debut single comes out and i'm like YAY! GIMME INDIE ROCK!
So these new young punks are called Elle Milano. That's french for 'Chip Butty'. Er, I think.
(and why has Miss Betty K not been issued with any superhero noises?)
So yeah, they're from the suburbs. And they don't like it. Well i'm from the suburbs and I don't like it either. The suburbs are shit. That's why there will always be bands coming from the suburbs singing about how shit they are. And why people will always buy records by bands........ ah, you get the idea.
And if you don't, go and visit Luton.
ELLE MILANO - SWEARING'S FOR ART STUDENTS
I should have written about this a few weeks ago when you could actually buy copies. As it is you might have a job as it was pretty limited and pretty much sold out.
Just in case you do see it poking out from the racks, the cover looks like this, and it is about 10 inches in diameter....
Someone else who's new, kind of, is Macaca Mulatta. I say kind of, as it's Chris Chinchilla's new band. He used to be in Art Brut you know. And he wrote some of the songs which you have probably sung along to in a quiet moment.
I don't know why he left the band. Perhaps given Eddie Argos' apparent resemblence to Phil 'The Power' Taylor it was a break-up reminiscent of the 'great darts split' of 1992. Maybe one band will take the BBC and the other will take Sky? I have to say Chris doesn't look much like a darts player though, so perhaps this is just speculation.
Anyway he has written some new songs, recorded with Fruitbat from unlikely 90s superstars Carter USM. Unsurprisingly they sound in places like Art Brut... and in terms of subject matter this first track has a bit of Arctic Monkeys' 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' in the mix too. Although Chris doesn't quite have Eddy's vocal charisma, i've found the songs on the demo CD very listenable indeed... and it's been getting a lot of play in my car.
MACACA MULATTA - DANCING ON A WEEKNIGHT
MACACA MULATTA - CHANGE
Once again I should have posted these up several weeks ago so that I could excite you with news of upcoming gigs etc.
But I seem to have left it a bit late for that as they've been and gone.
Except for this one:
15/9/06 @ Macbeth, Hoxton
Now I mention Art Brut, I was recently sent a live version of one of their popular sardonic ditties. I have to admit that the intro would probably have been more amusing if you were there, and under the influence of a couple of dry sherries.... but hey, they're still number 1. They're still Top of the Pops. And i'm still dreaming of drinking Hennessy with Morrissey.
ART BRUT - MOVING TO LA (LIVE)
So these new young punks are called Elle Milano. That's french for 'Chip Butty'. Er, I think.
(and why has Miss Betty K not been issued with any superhero noises?)
So yeah, they're from the suburbs. And they don't like it. Well i'm from the suburbs and I don't like it either. The suburbs are shit. That's why there will always be bands coming from the suburbs singing about how shit they are. And why people will always buy records by bands........ ah, you get the idea.
And if you don't, go and visit Luton.
ELLE MILANO - SWEARING'S FOR ART STUDENTS
I should have written about this a few weeks ago when you could actually buy copies. As it is you might have a job as it was pretty limited and pretty much sold out.
Just in case you do see it poking out from the racks, the cover looks like this, and it is about 10 inches in diameter....
Someone else who's new, kind of, is Macaca Mulatta. I say kind of, as it's Chris Chinchilla's new band. He used to be in Art Brut you know. And he wrote some of the songs which you have probably sung along to in a quiet moment.
I don't know why he left the band. Perhaps given Eddie Argos' apparent resemblence to Phil 'The Power' Taylor it was a break-up reminiscent of the 'great darts split' of 1992. Maybe one band will take the BBC and the other will take Sky? I have to say Chris doesn't look much like a darts player though, so perhaps this is just speculation.
Anyway he has written some new songs, recorded with Fruitbat from unlikely 90s superstars Carter USM. Unsurprisingly they sound in places like Art Brut... and in terms of subject matter this first track has a bit of Arctic Monkeys' 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' in the mix too. Although Chris doesn't quite have Eddy's vocal charisma, i've found the songs on the demo CD very listenable indeed... and it's been getting a lot of play in my car.
MACACA MULATTA - DANCING ON A WEEKNIGHT
MACACA MULATTA - CHANGE
Once again I should have posted these up several weeks ago so that I could excite you with news of upcoming gigs etc.
But I seem to have left it a bit late for that as they've been and gone.
Except for this one:
15/9/06 @ Macbeth, Hoxton
Now I mention Art Brut, I was recently sent a live version of one of their popular sardonic ditties. I have to admit that the intro would probably have been more amusing if you were there, and under the influence of a couple of dry sherries.... but hey, they're still number 1. They're still Top of the Pops. And i'm still dreaming of drinking Hennessy with Morrissey.
ART BRUT - MOVING TO LA (LIVE)
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