LIVE
06-07 CAT POWER
Again she ruffles her hair, and she lights a cigarette. ‘I
want this,’ she says, ‘to be my wedding song’
08-09 THE SLITS
Not fashion parade sterility, not male fantasy bondage, not ‘whore
or the angel’ pedestal shit – but glorious SEXUALITY
49 KID 606
+ More Dischord than melanchord + The chasm time takes to push neuron
to cortex +
50 KIMYA DAWSON
I was asked to write a review, I committed and so choose the middle
way and stay. I like surrender
53 SCOUT NIBLETT
Dusty Springfield on acid playing Nirvana
FEATURES
12-15 SLUMBER PARTY
‘That’s not flirting. That’s how we do interviews
back home’
16-19 THE WHITE STRIPES
‘It’s so funny to shock people with a conservative idea.
It’s shocking you should be nice to each other, to be sweet…
whatever’
38-39 DIZZEE RASCAL
Man, you’re only a teenager. How do you think people twice
your age feel?
40-45 YOUNG PEOPLE
‘Sometimes I remember to smile, and that’s good’
46-47 TIM KERR
‘The original idea of punk rock is the same as the beatniks,
as the hippies had – freedom of thought, self-expression’
78-79 M WARD
‘History, and textbooks, at least the ones in America, don’t
tell the whole story’
CARELESS WHISPERS
22 TROUBADOURS
Old school troubadours were popular because villagers could tell
they meant it
23 BAND AGAINST BUSH
‘All I want is a revolution! All I want is a simple solution!’
24-25 BOOTY BASS
Did she strap it in safely to the passenger seat, seatbelt neatly
bisecting the plump buttocks?
26 WHIRLWIND HEAT
Half these answers are real. Half are false. There will be a test
afterwards
28 MISS PAIN
‘Bryan Ferry never danced around in a turquoise mini-dress’
29 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
Like an old flame coquettishly batting her eyelids at you, despite
the fact you’re missing more teeth than ever
32-33 718 GATECRASHERS
Doesn’t anyone remember 20 years ago? Why are we so keen to
relive it now?
34-35 THE TRUE REPORT
Is it The Kinks? The Coral? No, it’s The… Woodentops!
36-37 GOLD BLADE TOUR DIARY
The army run over with a big fluffy Alsatian – but a dog will
always spot a dog-lover
80-81 METAL: KING SHIT
Being behind a DJ booth, like staff positions at music papers, turns
people into big-headed cunts
83 DETROIT CITY COUNCIL
He’s fresh blood. The girls in town haven’t slept with
him (yet)
87 HOLLY GOLIGHTLY
Some people says Holly drives a truck for a living, others says
she lives on a farm…
ALBUMS
55-75
Scout Niblett, Beat Happening, Dame Darcy, The Pastels, Quasi, ‘New
Deutsch’, Mommy And Daddy, Dance Disaster Movement, Melt-Banana,
‘Open Up And Say… @<%_|^[!]’ and a plethora
of shorter reviews, in a handy, albeit back-breaking, A-Z format
PLUS
56 IT’S ALL ABOUT ERASE ERRATA starring Erase Errata
59 BACK TO THE FUTURE starring the ‘Matinee 50’ compilation
63 IT’S MY DUTY starring Mu
64 HUGS AND KISSES starring The Mink Lungs
66 TRANSCENDENTAL NEUZE from unhinged manic monkey ridiculousness
to tragedy all in one chord sequence and not caring
67 PLATFORM 9 3/4 starring Patrick Wolf
69 YOU ARE WHAT YOU BUY (INTO) starring The Mars Volta
74 FREE MUSIC starring Haino Keiji
81 FUCKING ROCK! starring the ‘Sniffin’ Glue’
compilation
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