Bands

Ban(ne)d from thee pubs
IF MUSIC BE THEE FOOD OV LOVE /
Play on. Give me excess of it.

		Somebody from Black Tambourine (possibly even one of the editors of Chickfactor?) is involved in writing the band abstracts at the Lycos Music/Listen.com website, so... search with confidence!
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	The Magnetic Fields	Stephin Merritt "sings you about the long crawl and makes you have to listen" (thanx Stan Cornyn): youth and the loss of youth, love and the loss of love, over eerie calliope / evil fairground music, like a fucked-up ABBA being bent over a table by the boys from Depeche Mode. "The house we bought was really a lake / Otters scampered down the halls / There were whirlpools in the floor and sails..."
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	Orange Juice	I still remember thee halcyon days. They leapt on stage though they couldn't play. And furthermore they had nothing to say.
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	Robert Forster	104 degrees w/ a head full of steam Live @ thee Hub Cafe, Brisbane 28.8k
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	The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy	David Whittemore's labour of love. Every gig ever performed by the Butcher anywhere in the entire world; chatty letters from Butch himself full of egregious detail about the life of a world-famous popstar; photos of everyone who's ever been in the band; detailed reviews of all the LPs, a T-shirt, and links to both David's own band and thee Black Eg, Euroterrorist noisemeisters from beyond the Iron Curtain. Phew! Rock and roll!
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	Wank®Engine	Pisstake experimento from Richard Wossname which manages to be hilarious and touching at the same time. His eulegiac, Penis Dotter-on-deathbed meisterwerk "787" was the highlight of Spill's 3rd compilation and got played to death on Spiral Scratch.
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	minimum chips	Ian Wadley and his mates Swish 28.8k
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	The Fall	"We were spitting we were stepping! Hey there fuck face! Hey there fuck face! Mark did not join a conventional rock band, etc" (continued p.94).
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	Ham Steak	Gorgeous George got a Casio keyboard for his 14th birthday and never looked back. Hurrah!

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Mr Bernard Langham :: Perth, Western Ashtraylia
"It's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing" Stereolab "Ping Pong"

Last updated 04 January, 2003