Undercover

At last ... word from the Scratch ... alas not a gig?!? ... but in the shape of a new CDR ep ... the very luscious Undercover ... If I was the sort who went crazed on a weekend and took all sorts of mind altering substances ... this would be the track that I would play, just prior to the unsteady climb to bed and again just as soon as I returned from a polite Sunday hair of the dog session to really round off a buzzing weekend. I'm not the first to mention it for I have heard others remark on the tear jerking nature of some of the sounds that gently fizz through your brain as the chorus glues itself to your subconscious, in fact I was so confident at the melancolic beauty of it I sent it to the society of the hard hearted and apparently their president drowned in his own saline!... 'Time to Say' ... is the second track and one i've heard on numerous occassions live and though it's not as in your face as some of the bands releases, I love its quirkiness ... if I had to define it as a country, it would be East Germany ... or probably East Berlin ... looking over the wall from the window of a hip club in some Post War wasteland... "til you're chewed up and made obscene, like the clothes we spend our lives earning". The final track is a real Scratch staple 'Out FAking the FAkers'... classic riff, manic howl and crunching guitars, add to this as ever, just a soupcon of the unexpected ... in this case a cockney rebelesque 5 part harmony! in the bridge and you have a cd worth the wait. You know how I feel about the Scratch and we all know I'm not the only one ... Soon to be available as a download from the excellent new improved webiste, available NOW at www.roughtrade.com ... how about a gig!?

A band worth all the hype

last Saturday night Mrs. Trousers and myself went to see Interpol at Brixton accademy ... a venue as you know I have not exactly been enamoured with lately due to the poor sound quality. Well as of now I take it all back ... as we arrived the excellent M83 were thrashing out 'don't save us from the flames' a BBC 6 and one of my own faves. So it all started well ... and I'm not gonna complain about £3.20 a pint or a massive que for the loo ... why I hear you say ... well, because ... INTERPOL were absolutely, menacingly, beautifully, euphorically BRILLIANT ... now that is bold and I realize that such superalatives are normally only reserved for the fab 4 (The Scratch... u doughnuts!) ... but everything about them reeked cool ... the lighting, the poses and of course the music ... there's so many wannabe bands around who have just plundered there uncle's old vinyl but without the class to carry it off. Interpol transcend all the bullshit. I urge you to see them whenever you can.

DAVE T.