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JULICONIC!

“We’ve gone on tour by MISTAKE”

I’ve been misquoting Withnail and I for the past few weeks, as The Tuesday Club have done just that - gone on tour by mistake. It’s easy to do, just book in a whole bunch of gigs quite close to each other with one or two quite far apart and bosh! Accidental tour!

I’ll be writing a full round up of this in the next issue (as we still have one date to play at the time of writing - Discovery 2 at AAA in Kensington) but one thing I must say right this instant is that it’s been one hell of a lot of fun and we’ve met some lovely people

(*waves at Salford!*) and done some very rock n’roll things...and then swept up after...because we’re like that. Basically, it’s been a (somewhat unexpected) blast!

Full coverage in the next issue... once I’ve wiped the blood from my scratchplate and gotten a decent night’s sleep.

The band that grace our cover this time are The Corner Laughers. They’re from California and talked about extensively in Mike Lidskin’s California Diner article. They’ve just finished a short UK tour and have also played a gig for us (which probably gives them

the distinction of the band that had to travel the furthest to play Great Escape 2011!). They’re also genuinely lovely people. Go check them out if you can - cornerlaughers.com”

j-rod Tuesday club

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ContentsCover star: Corner Laughers

Welcome and Schedule 2-3By J-Rod Tuesday Club

Minki’s Magic Moments 4-5Old before your time

California Diner 6-7Mike Lidskin

Ooh Matron 8Recharged Radio’s new agony aunt

Simon Says 9by @simonj68

Sound of the Suburbs 10-11August part 2, September part 1

20 QUESTIONS in 20 MINS 12-13With Sion Smith

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Minki’s Magic moments

itself is obsessed with youth and A&R departments get younger and younger), be revered for a whole catalogue of albums, or will we still be hankering after that never ending conveyor belt, where ‘older’ bands drop off the end, only to be heard on speciality radio stations such as Absolute xx’s and by the few music aficionados who are left and haven’t succumbed to the ‘yes great, but what next’ disease? We are also quick to dismiss a band because they are slightly older. In fact, I was once advised to sack the whole of 50ft Woman and recruit ‘young, good-looking poppets’ even though none of the line up at the time was over 30! Needless to say, I ignored this and in fact, have been seething from it ever since (I’m glad I finally got it out there!). In fact, when I was recruiting band members, I heard from quite a few ‘young poppets’ and most of them either couldn’t communicate or had only been playing in their bedrooms – no gig experience, not much to say and more importantly, no LIFE EXPERIENCE (Tru’ Dat. I reckon most bands are pretty damn dull

Aerosmith, Tom Jones, AC/DC, Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones, The Bee Gees, Shirley Bassey, Madonna, David Bowie; They are National (or International) Treasures, Golden Oldies, icons of our time. OK they may not all be your cup of tea but you can’t knock the fact that they’ve been around for years, doing their thing - or the fact that we still play their records over and over again. Recently, I was having a similar discussion (in fact, the one that prompted the chain of thought that brings me to write this) about F1 (you’ll know if you listen to my show, I  make no apologies for my likes but I do make apologies if it’s not your thing). In the hall of F1 greats we have James Hunt, Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart, Ayrton Senna and of course Michael Schumacher to name just a few - but who will we be talking about in years to come? Nowadays, it’s all about the new thing; the youngest thing; the latest thing, be it in fashion, F1, music – there just seems to be no longevity anymore. We gleefully pore the pages of magazine for the new thing to like, to wear, to listen to, talk about, to watch … This, to me, seems to be creating a generation of people who have such short attention spans (indeed, if you’ve managed to read this far without skipping to the next article, well done! ;) ) that there is no depth to anything anymore! Due to this, it seems we are too quick to cast aside a band, a jacket, a driver etc., etc. and have more and more pressure to BE the youngest, BE the first; without realising that we now seem to be ‘past it’ in our early twenties! So what does this mean for music? In 20 years time, what will we be listening to? Will any of the artists and bands around now have been allowed to develop a long career (seeing as ‘the industry’

Old Before Your Time?Minki’s Magic moments

before the members make it over the age of 25. Ed). Also, most of them never bothered to turn up for the audition or let anyone know they had changed their mind or couldn’t make it. All the older candidates communicated, turned up on time, got on with the job and .. er got the job! I know who I would rather be dealing with! The perfect example of this is The Tuesday Club, who have a wide range of ages – but indeed, bravely, flaunt the fact and use this as a USP, knowing full well this may count against them (OK, OK us, my alter ego The Minx is the TC-er with the gob and the cowbell) with ‘the industry’. Our collective experience allows us to just get on with it and don’t think that being over a certain age means we shuffle about on stage in slippers either (though that might be a good look for our 5th album). Indeed, a really lovely email from a fan this morning exclaimed that he was still reeling from our “sheer energy” from our Salford festival gig last Saturday. Not bad for a band consisting of 6/8 ‘old fogies’, if the cut off point is around 28. Also, take a band like The Union. They consist of a strange partnership of Peter Shoulder who is in his late 20’s and Luke Morley who is over 50...and it just... works. Pete has been writing and performing since he was in his early teens and has an old head on young shoulders (no pun intended). Luke is a revered songwriter who had a successful 20 year career with Thunder and love them, hate them or never heard of them, you just can’t knock that. Together, they make a fantastic partnership with such interesting songwriting that yet again they are up for this year’s Classic Rock awards. Just like I said in my first article, there shouldn’t be snobbery about a band’s status (signed, unsigned etc.,) and so there really shouldn’t be about age either. I really wish that the industry would all just stop constantly looking for the next new thing. OK, in my radio career, of course I am always looking for new music to play but you only have to look at the excellent Sound of the Suburbs show to see that ‘new’ music can be timeless; Andy and John playing songs from the 70’s, 80’s – it’s just been undiscovered until now! They celebrate music no matter what era, what status, how old the band are … and like I’ve always said, good music is good music. ADDENDUM:This was also compounded by the track I recently recorded for the Sound of the Suburbs project, where I re-recorded a little known ‘bedroom’ demo from 1978 by a pretty much unknown band called SternBops. To anyone else’s ears it’s a new 50ft Woman track, and yet to mine, it’s a chance to celebrate the longevity of really good music.

   

 

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A to Z of MMM Cats – I love dogs, but cats are where it’s at.

 Chorus - there is nothing better than a good chorus. I absolutely love the buzz of writing a stick-in your-head chorus, knowing it will pass the ‘old grey whistle test’. 

Cinema – I love going to the cinema; a big screen, surround sound, popcorn (coming when we get to ‘P’) but I don’t love going there when people feel that it’s OK to answer their phone, rustle wrappers (surely, a design fault? Why sell things in noisy wrappers in the first place?), talk, etc. It’s a luxury going to the smaller ‘boutique’ cinemas but it usually means that the higher price means that people want to be there to actually see the film, uninterrupted! Coffee – always tea, thanks. CFT, in fact (thank you Ben’s stepmum Joy for introducing me to this) – Common Fucker’s Tea. Perfect. (For those of a nervous disposition, you can read this as ‘Builder’s’). (No. Ed) Cowbell - who would have thought I would be proclaiming my love for the cowbell. Well, there now, I’ve said it. It’s my instrument of choice in The Tuesday Club and I love bashing the hell out of it at every opportunity. And it might look easy but it’s all in the wrist action, don’t you know! Clowns – no. NO, Just no. *shivers*

Greetings from California!

Summer is winding down in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in the Golden State, we’ve branded it and made it our own. The “endless summer” lives! It’s almost a cottage industry for us.

So is music. We’re blessed with lots of sunshine, and tons of great indie music here. This summer’s brought a wealth of new and exciting music my way, and I’ve got a couple of new offerings to focus on this month. I’ve been busy listening to all of it, and selecting the finest for my radio show, The California Diner. And I’d like to tell you about it.

California is a pretty big place--nearly 800 miles, or over 1250 km long. Lots of room to roam. If you picked it up, and laid it down over Europe, it would stretch from London to Bulgaria. (But please don’t, because we’ll spill our drinks!) In any case, I can’t decide which half to cover, so we’re going to feature artists from both Southern and Northern California this month.

And our Northern California treat: none other than perennial California Diner favorites The Corner Laughers. Their last album, the magnificent Ultraviolet Garden, was my pick for album of the year for 2010. So how do they follow that up? With what I would call a landmark release, Poppy Seeds. Yes, it’s even better than the last one. Every song is strong, in different ways. It’s a self-termed “love letter to California”, and if you grew up here, you get it. If you didn’t, you can still revel in the word and audio pictures that the Laughers have painted for you, and by the end of the disc, you’ll become an honorary Californian.

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The band realizes some nice growth on this one. Karla Kane is still the leading voice, both vocally and lyrically, but her husband, bassist Khoi Huynh steps up, and impresses with his vocals and songwriting offerings on a few songs as well. Founding guitarist Angela Silletto, who moved out of state last year, wrote some of the strongest songs of the set. She splits electric guitar duties with KC Bowman, a multifaceted singer/songwriter in his own right. They complement each other nicely--Angela’s style is reminiscent of early 1990’s alternative--zoomy, atmospheric electric guitars, where KC seems more influenced by traditional rock styles, and occasionally, he’ll throw in something that sounds like “world music”. And Charlie Crabtree fuels the whole affair with his powerhouse drums and

California dinerwhat I’m talking about. And take your time--you’ll hear more and more with repeated listens. This is a special album, and I highly recommend it.

www.nelsonbragg.com

There’s so much more great music happening here in the States, and we’ll be playing it on The California Diner. Look for exciting news about more great artists next month here in Sound of the Suburbs and on Recharged Radio. In the meantime, support indie artists--

buy their music, and see a live show or three. See you then!

--”Chef” Mike Lidskin

percussion. He and Khoi lock in the rhythms while the rest of the band takes off melodically.

Some standout tracks include the clever leadoff Grasshopper Clock, which starts off delicately and builds to a heady conclusion. Bells of El Camino has a throbbing, pulsing sound, while lyrically, in just two verses and one chorus, covers California history, geography, ecology, and literature. Now that’s some economical writing! The final song, The Perfect Weather, is another one that conjures up deep, longing feelings about my home state. Transamerica Pyramid features muscle cars and Beach Boys-style harmonies, while taking us for a cruise around San Francisco landmarks. Chicken Bingo features alternating whimsical and deep lyrics, while the ukulele and drums seem to be playing off against each other below the vocals. Returning producer Allen Clapp and mastering by Marty Rudnick ensure the proper polish on this disc. This is another must--it’s sure to wind up among my very top albums of 2012, and you need to get a copy for yourself.

www.cornerlaughers.com Speaking of endless summers, the Beach Boys were kind enough to turn their touring percussionist Nelson Bragg loose for a bit. Long enough for him to release a great solo record, “We Get What We Want”. We’ve been waiting for this one--his second release--for a few years, and it was well worth the wait.

What does it sound like? The Los Angeles-based Nelson is widely known in power pop circles, but I wouldn’t call it a power pop album. He’s known in Beach Boys circles--but save for a cover of the Brian Wilson-penned “Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long”, it’s not a collection of surf/beach songs. The songs are shimmery and bright, with perfect harmonies, clever lyrics, and jangly guitars--kind of reminiscent of Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey’s early 1990’s album “Mavericks”. But there’s also a deeper, darker undertone. This level of depth takes me back to the Jayhawks’ 1995 landmark album “Tomorrow The Green Grass”.

What’s really interesting is that the more upbeat and poppy the songs get, the darker the sentiments are. A three song run, late in the album, of “She Used To Love Me”, “I’m In No Mood”, and the co-write with Rich McCulley, “Welcome To Nowhereville” exemplifies this. Strong melodies, soaring vocals, and yet the lyrics reveal an inner turmoil--waning relationships, a desired escape from a familiar, yet dead-end life. There is so much depth to both the sound and lyrics--you just need to explore this album to hear

Mike Lidskin@TwirlRadio

http://www.twirlradio.com

OOOOOH Matron...

Dear Matron

I need a new phone

tariff, which one should I go for?

Yours truly,

Mr Fung, Staines

Sigh. The lack of communication

that’s growing up. All because of

these new fangled mobile ‘phones. I have only just got one of

those pager thingies for when they let me off the ward. Bee

p

beep off it goes. Oh, I hate telephones at the best of times.

You can’t see who you’re talking to. Can’t see their face. H

ow

do you know if they’re lying or not? No, never been convince

d,

myself. And most young people today use their mobile telepho

ne

for everything BUT talking! I tell you, we are all going to end

up with huge thumbs and no tongues. Tappity tap texting, no

talking. We’ll probably end up with mobiles integrated into our

body with a screen on our foreheads for people to read what

we are saying. And no more the beautiful art of letter writi

ng.

No lavender scented thank you note, beautifully written, with

a

sturdy cream envelope that I can reuse if I open it carefully

(waste not want not). No, now you’re lucky if you get a text

saying ‘thanx’. They couldn’t even be bothered to put the k an

d

the s on. What did they ever do to you? It’s a shame what

we are doing with the English Language. In fact it’s downright

disgusting. And don’t get me started on the damn emailing …

Dear Matron, I don’t know how to skip, can you tell me how? Howard Taylor, Worcester Skip what dear? Class? Meals? To my loo? Talking of which, I haven’t passed a motion for 2 weeks. No, dear, not in the boardroom. After that unfortunate incident with the pestle (it’s not my fault that I misheard the doctor when he said pessary, he talks as clearly as his writing, silly old codger) I’ve been somewhat delicate in my nether regions. Anyway, dear, do write and let me know how you get on …

Welcome to the new Recharged Radio AGONY column

Matron Good God woman, I’ve been asked to make tea for Lady Trelawney. What what? Earl Grey Always have it as hot and steamy as you can. Use a stringed tea bag. That way you can pull it out when you’ve had enough. (but be careful when pulling it out or you might pull it off) And don’t be temped to have a good squeeze. When you feel like a stirring be careful, as you don’t want to come on too strong. Then when think you’ve had enough, grab the bag firmly so that the flavour can come out. Always check the colour. And as for the ‘before or after’ question, I like to do it after, that way you have more control. And I do hear Lady Trelawney has an especially iced bun. Enjoy!--------------------------If you have an etiquette dilemma, a conundrum or a something you want Matron to ponder on, feel free to email: matronscarryon@gmail.com.

blog and twitter legend @simonj68’s column in Sound of The Suburbs

Simon Says

As we are all aware, the web now rules us all; people queuing overnight to get a new phone; excitement at an update to on-line maps and the all-powerful iTunes holding our digital musical collection hostage behind a wall that one day we will have to pay to get the key for, I am sure. Music has changed, like sport and TV and films, and due to the quantity of music about, the changes happen faster and are more visible. Remember Napster, letting you have free music? Now legal versions like Spotify exist and instead of even burning CDs now people share using DropBox without even thinking. And as I often say, if people are sharing music that others would never have heard otherwise, and it opens them up to new bands, then this can only be a good thing.

The other side of this is thxe need for bands and artists to have an on-line presence and sadly this is an area where so many seem to get it so spectacularly wrong. If I hear of a new band, the first thing I do is hit Google, where I expect to find links to a few videos; some reviews; a gig list and the band’s home page. And, often it does, but more often it is a mess of links to MySpace, Twitter and the demon of them all, Facebook.It is essential for a band to have a good on-line presence, and by good, I mean simple. Your own site, not just a myriad of small profile pages on all the gig and band pages. Of course you need them as well, but the key focus has to be your own place on the web; somewhere that everything else points to; something that is open to and accessible to all. Which brings me to my Facebook point. Despite what you may think, not everyone is on Facebook! By having your main presence as a Facebook page means you are restricting access to your stuff (as well as being limited in how it actually looks).

Surely as an artist you must realise that the visuals can be as important as the music, and having something that is yours is key; a place with all your videos, tour dates, reviews, Twitter feeds, links and all the other stuff you want to have on your site. This sounds a lot more daunting than it is, but it is simpler than creating a Facebook page. First and foremost, have you got the URL of your band name? If not, why not? It costs pennies and is important as it means you only have to say one thing, instead of having to recite lots of places to find you. All you ever need to say is “you

can get everything you need at www.rumblesandgrumbles.com”. (Obviously, don’t call your band that, it is my site and is a silly name, but you get the idea.)

Once you have your custom url, then building a site will cost you in the region of zero pounds. Yes, nothing! It is actually one of those things that is free. WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and

Welcome to the new Recharged Radio AGONY column

Music 2.0 many more sites have full web design tools, all there, free to use and take what you want. When you are U2 you can employ a team to build your site and shop and so on, but the rest you can do yourself for nothing, except some initial frustration at how much you want to cram on the pages!

It is simple, I can do it, so it must be.

From here you add in all your on-line presences; videos from YouTube, audio from Soundcloud, your shop for T-shirts, badges and CDs, on-line downloads (free and paid for), photos, reviews, and so on. You lay it out how you want, and it will look like you want it to. No one will know, or even care, how you built it, but there you are; your little bit of the internet. You can add all your links to Facebook for the Likes, and Twitter for the chatting rubbish and even Google +, if that is still going, but the central hub is yours.

There are companies that will charge you hundreds, if not thousands of pounds to set this up for you, making it sound very complicated and scary, but if you can type and use a mouse and have the ability to follow basic instructions this will be the best use of a day in your bedroom on the computer that you have had for a long while ;-)

The most important thing to do now is maintain it. No need for a complete rebuild on a daily or weekly basis, but just the basics. Have the details of your Autumn tour for 2012 on the page, not the Christmas 2011 dates. If your release has happened make sure it is referenced as “out now” not “coming soon”. Put new stuff up there to make people want to come back and look for more. Engage with the people who do. There’s no need to write personal letters or replies to everyone who contacts you, but do enough to show it is really you, not a marketing agency, and be yourself. This is a shop window visible to the entire world, so make people want to look into it and listen to and buy your stuff.

It works, trust me. As a music fan, and talking music with others all the time, the one thing we all agree on is that this is part of consuming music nowadays. I am not going to just trawl mindlessly through Soundcloud or Bandcamp in the hope of finding a new band, but if someone sends me a link to a site, I will go and look and listen.One final point – never ever think it is a good idea for the music to play automatically when people land on your site. Many of us are at work, and a sudden burst of death metal into the office tends to get noticed for all the wrong reasons!

Web: www.rumblesandgrumbles.comTwitter: @SimonJ68Skype: rumblesandgrumbles

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THE RADIO SHOWTUESDAY’s 10pm

with Andy Scratch and John ‘Vintage’ Viney Dear Suburbanites, welcome to our now familiar (for those who read last month’s issue) extended and more in depth Sound of the Suburbs column. We decided that it may be good to expand a little on the show ethos and more importantly the great bands and people out there keeping the dream alive and helping to expand the DIY ethic’s legacy for great and interesting music. We know this is backwards compatible, but it means if you missed the show, you NEED the podcast to match up with the text... we’re not as dumb as I look :-) ... ahem anyway, happy hunting...

Sound of the Suburbs PART 12 - AUGUST PART 21) Flash Fiktion - Me and Mr E - First track from the bands debut album. This is my favourite album of 2012. Check out more at: http://www.myspace.com/flashfiktion

2) Boys Cry too - 50ft Minki - The 50ft Woman front woman, goes solo with a little help from her friends - Boys Cry Too is a track that originates from 1979 by the band Stern Bops from St.Albans who featured future Everything But The Girl singer Tracey Thorn on rhythm guitar. http://www.satellitestalbans.co.uk/bands/sternfulltext.htm This song is due to feature on a special forthcoming Recharged compilation of SOTS covers, slated for 2013.

3) VINYL - X_x - No Nonsense: Features on the excellent Jon Savage compilation. SECRET HISTORY OF POST-PUNK 78-81. www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/03/21/jon-savage-compiles-secret-history-of-post-punk/

4) Plugs - Bat Brain Moon Man Boiler Boy: Taken from the 1981 RUPERT PREACHING AT A PICNIC LP and much featured on our show. Has to be one of the best track titles, we’ve featured to date.

5) VINYL - Big in Japan - Nothing Special: A band that featured pretty much all of the ‘movers and shakers’ from the Liverpool music scene of the late 1970’s and early 80’s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(band)

6) VINYL - Kleenex - Ain’t You: Classic track from this legendary Swiss all girl punk band from 1978. Much championed by John Peel. http://www.punk77.co.uk/wip/kleenex.htm

7) The Frets - Two Choices: Another track from the RUPERT PREACHING AT A PICNIC LP.

8) VINYL - Blonde Redhead - DNA: Blonde Redhead is a New York based ‘No Wave’ band alternative rock band from 1993. This track appears on the album DNA on DNA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_Redhead

9) SCONEHEADS - Larry Grayson Is A Gestapo Agent: A UK Punk single from 1981. A dubious homage to the former Generation Game host. (It has never officially been established that he was in fact anything to do with the Third Reich!)

http://amiguilty1978.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/sconheads.html

10) New Kick - Message from Mars: Taken from the 1984 cassette single. The Bucket of Blood EP. New Kick were a Beds, Herts based Punk outfit. who have the dubious pleasure of being the first band I ever saw live!

11) Vinyl - The Adverts - Bored Teenagers: At 1.49 this is a classic track from T.V. Smith’s Adverts, dating back to 1978. TV Smith still plays live today as a solo artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adverts

12) VINYL - Comsat Angels - Waiting For a Miracle: This track by the Sheffield/Doncaster foursome comes from the Waiting for a Miracle debut album by the band. Released in September 1980 on Polydor.

113) Bona Dish - Actress: The last track from the RUPERT PREACHING AT A PICNIC LP for this show!

14) VINYL - Perfect Zebras - Mixing with Wildlife: A post punk/funk gem from 1983. http://saltyka.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/perfect-zebras-zebra-1983.html

15) VINYL - Nick Haeffner and The Readymades - Back in Time for Tea: This was a 12” single featuring much of The St.Albans glitterti cira 1986, including Gary Hawkins and current Fixx bassist Dan K Brown. Released on St.Albans’ Bam Caruso label started by Phil Smee from the dying embers of Waldo’s records.

16) The DODO - I am the Purest: Taken from the DIYorDIE organisation debut album. http://thedodo.bandcamp.comwww.thedodo.org

Sound of the Suburbs PART 13 - SEPTEMBER PART 131) The Tuesday Club - Dolly Dynamite : Lead track from the bands debut ‘3p’ Dolly Dynamite, available as a FREE download from http://thetuesdayclub.bandcamp.com

2) David A Doll - What There Could Have Been: A long awaited return to our show for the prolifically, highly talented, ‘Squeezey, Lennon-alike’ from Borehamwood, Herts. @davidadoll - Singer/Songwriter/Producer http://www.automatmusic.com

3) Dekay and the D’Mans (The Camden Calling Charities Collective) - Street I Love: A track taken from the band’s debut album - Darkness Visible. http://www.dekayandthedmans.com/p/darkness-visible-album.html

4) VINYL - Das Psych Oh! Rangers - Medea Tearorists: Taken from 12 inch EP, The Essential Art Of Communication. Mid 80’s band signed briefly to ZTT. See a video of their appearance on The Tube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwvFwYq1po

5) Vas Deferens Organisation - Hubbub In The Ectoplasm: One of SOTS favourite discoveries, Originally based in Dallas, Texas, these dudes make their own rules. Check out the video for this track here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHt9vHGeBE. http://vasdeferensorganization.com

6) VINYL - Venus and the Razorblades - I Wannna Be Where

the Boys Are. A shortlived LA New Wave band, put together by Kim Fowley after he severed professional relations with The Runaways. Fowley sought to put together a band with a teenaged male singer and teenaged female musicians backing him up. This is the result! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_and_the_Razorblades

7) VINYL - The Distractions - Pillow Talk: Pillow Talk is taken from early Factory Records’ 7 inch single Time Goes By So Slow. They shared bills with the likes of The Buzzcocks, Magazine and Joy Division.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Distractions

8) The Manic Jabs - Autophagous: Possibly the strangest track we’ve ever played, about a boy Horrace who eats himself! An aboslute KILLER bassline/sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVpuNMwa3g

9) VINYL - Age of Chance - Disco Inferno (cover of The Trammps classic). A 12 inch single from the mid 80s Leeds based band. A sonic collision of punk, hip hop, industrial rock and Northern Soul. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Chance

DEMO CORNER: Not 100% sure of the origins of either of these bands, but Medical Melodies was provided to us by serial cassette contributor Pete Langford and this live track hails from 1989 at gig in Brixton.

10) The Cockroaches - The Radio Song 11) Medical Melodies - Coming to Get You

12) VINYL - Frank Chickens - Cheeba Cheeba Chimpira: Taken from the We Are Frank Chickens album. A Japanese female duo from the early 80’s - a Peel fave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chickens

The next two are tracks from the Satellite compilation - Satellite 13) The Bears - Whacky Scout: The group got together during the summer of 1977 at Watford Art School and sadly only lasted a year, but still managed to produce this little beauty.

14) Lucky 7 - Walk Small: Alas, can’t find anything at all about this track, but if anyone was in Lucky 7, please fill us in :-)

15) VINYL - The Ruts - In a Rut: Played from 7 inch debut single from The Ruts, a band from the second wave of punk.http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/ruts.htm

16) They May Look Cute But These Dogs Bite - The Tuesday Club: The third track on the band’s debut ‘3p’ Dolly Dynamite, available as a FREE download from http://thetuesdayclub.bandcamp.com

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20 Questions in 20 Minutes:

We decided, after throwing 10 questions at The Tuesday Club’s The Minx in the last issue that we quite liked the gruelling session involving a naked lightbulb, a bottomless chair and some Chinese water torture. However, The Minx said she couldn’t be bothered to torture us again, so after crawling off with our tail between our legs we thought we had better ask someone else some pertinent questions; someone slightly less scary. Note, we said slightly less scary ... Sion Smith is a writer and also the editor of Skin Deep magazine. He also has a ton of hair and his hero is Dee Snider. We pimped his ass because he's written a rock book called Black Dye White Noise which is a collection of writings and interviews with a lot of his heroes: the aforementioned Dee Snider, Slash, Kory Clarke, ZakkWylde, Paul Stanley to name just a few. It’s really rather good and isn’t your usual, oh-I-wrote-some-interviews-so-have-now-bunged-them-in-a-book type affair.–You can find him, his book and a raft of other stuff at www.sionsmith.co.uk

1. If you could look like anyone else, who would it be? It would be great to look how I think I look when I look in the mirror, but keeping with the spirit of the question, you can’t go wrong with Johnny Depp. A man can achieve a lot with that face. 2. Favourite flavour of Pot Noodle? The ultimate garage snack! That Bombay Bad Boy can be OK in an emergency but there used to be a Chicken Curry flavour Pot Rice that I was quite partial to as well. Jesus – I haven’t had a Pot Noodle in maybe ten years or more. I like getting

older. It’s quite dignified now I look closely at it (getting older – not Pot Noodle) 3. Stoned, drunk or sober?100% sober. I’ve done my time with the other two thanks and they suck. I never liked stoned. Stoned = Bed. Drunk is slightly preferable but only when you’re alone. If you’re looking for how I get my kicks though, there’s a big curtain hidden in the corner of the universe – get behind that and we’re talking serious business... 4. You are a puppy, what breed are you and why?Nice question. A Briard perhaps. I got caught in the rain a couple of days back and sure as hell smelled like one by the time I got home. I saw somebody I hadn’t seen for years last week and he commented on how grey my hair was getting and said pretty soon I would look like “A Gandalf that got left out in the rain.” I can live with that. 5. Shoes, trainers or boots?I did nothing but wear one single pair of boots for something like 20 years but they died so in the last couple of years, I’ve taken to wearing shoes and they’ve turned out to be pretty cool – I’m pleased with the decision. Trainers? People that wear trainers outside of doing something that looks like exercise should also be forced to wear a big sandwich board. It wouldn’t say anything on it – it’s just a punishment for not thinking about life properly.

6. What would you have been called if you were born a girl?Most people think I am a girl when they look at my name – word on the street from my Ma is that she was going to call me Sian. Imaginative huh. It was the sixties and she had never been out of Wales. I guess the choice was limited. Apparently, I nearly got the name Dylan – taken from both Thomas and Bob – which I could have more than lived with. 7. Everybody wants some … what? Body. There really is somebody for everybody. There’s some seriously odd looking people out in the world with a special somebody on their arm. If you’re single right now, maybe you should lower your expectations. 8. Which monopoly playing piece are you and why?The rope in the drawing room with Miss Scarlet. Wait – that’s the wrong game isn’t it. 9. Favourite word and why? Yes. You can achieve so much by using it even if you don’t mean it. 10. Boiled sprouts, cabbage or spinach?Is there a correct answer to this? Certainly not the first two but spinach is OK – when you cook with it, spinach pretty much disappears to nothing and gives you arms like Popeye. Sprouts and cabbage were created by Lords far darker than I – last I heard there was a bounty on their heads but better men than I have tried to find them… 11. Last time you had sunburn and where?That means you have to go out in the day, right? Let me think. Probably when I was about 13 and it would have been across the back of the knees which is about the most inconvenient place ever. 12. You have hit random on your i-pod – what’s the first song that comes up? For all my rock-ness, today that happens to be Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry. For every 20 rock songs on there, there will be at least 1 funk tune lurking somewhere. Jury is still out on whether or not that’s the coolest answer ever or the saddest… 13. And what was the last track you deleted in disgust?There are lots. My kids have iPods that are sometimes loaded from my iTunes factory. It was yesterday and it was that Whore of Babylon, Nicki Minaj. No idea what the song actually was but I took it off their pods as well. Nobody should have to live through that. Life’s too short. 14. What would you like to have total control of?Today? School dinners. My kids went back to school a couple of weeks back and all that good work that Jamie Oliver did was apparently for nothing. Either that or Doctor Who (the show, not the man). I can’t decide if it’s going in a great direction or not at the moment. By the time I find out, it will probably be too late. 15. What is at the top of your To Do List today?Well until this interview came along, I’m only a couple of days from putting the next issue of Skin Deep to bed, so I had better concentrate on that, but I’ve also got a story to finish later. Maybe I should have made something interesting up for that answer… actually, I do need to find some tears from a howling dog, but it’s not top of my list. 16. Favourite insult?“Nobody likes you. You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny. Now smile you fucking douche.” 17. Perfect night in?Saturday. 18. Perfect night out?Tuesday? 19. Who would win a fight between deer, a goat and a boar? It has to be the boar. The deer would run away. The goat would get hammered because it was too busy eating a shirt hanging from a washing line. Definitely the boar – a boar would win most fights with anything. Ever. 20. Describe yourself using three words...Supermassive Black Hole

“Now this is a cheeky little track isn’t it?” Q Radio’s @carolinethedj

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