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Fight club
Published on 2010-08-26 14:01:00
A little extra something as we head into the last bank holiday weekend before Christmas, a track we commissioned for our fifth birthday hullaballoo (the tracks from which can still be streamed/downloaded from Soundcloud) but the band have only just managed to get together. Mascot Fight, who played one of our nights last year, are from Derby and play not uncatchy, wryly affecting indiepop somewhere in the Pavement realm. For our purposes they give the slacker-pop treatment to the XX's most minima
New Vic
Published on 2010-08-26 07:55:00
Here's a pleasant surprise we found while clearing out the inbox, a new song from Vic Godard. Going to need a quick history here, we think...Vic Godard was a nascent punk singer who, at Malcolm McLaren's suggestion, formed a band to play at the 100 Club Punk Festival in 1976, the watershed for the nascent scene (the Sex Pistols, Clash and a debuting improvisational Siouxsie and the Banshees were on that same bill, the Buzzcocks and Damned heading the second day). They supported the Clash on the
Green days
Published on 2010-08-25 13:21:00
A few words, then, on Green Man 2010.FRIDAYWet. There's one. Very wet. There were pretty much ten minutes' leeway at most at any one time from constant rain between being set up at about 1pm and the headliner finishing at 12.45am. Wellies were a given (unless you were particularly foolhardily brave in a very English festival way, as the groups of young men in just shorts proved), and even then didn't stop the odd slip. Parts became a trudge, seats were at a premium, covered areas even more so. I
