We like music. We listen to it. We write about it. We don't do favours & we don't tell lies. Contact for neither: unpeeled@tiscali.co. uk
updated 23rd July 2010
I've gone right off cupboards...
MELONHEADMAN
RICHARD HASWELL
SILENT FRONT
THE TAMBOURINES
THE OUTDOOR TYPES
TOWER OF DUDES
VARIOUS "AVON CALLING 2"
BEING 747
BLUBA LU
COLD SEEDS
D-RRADIO
GTAA
I ALEXANDER
DIVA JONEZ
GOLDEN HOURS
JIL IS LUCKY
KAH
LA CHERISH
NADINE KHOURI
NAKED REMEDY
PAUL RODERICK
SON OF KICK
STOP EJECT
THE HILLFIELDS
THIS HUMAN DISEASE
TOM WILLIAMS & THE BOAT
WAKE UP LUCID
WAY PRISTINE
d-rradio
Chris Watson lends an eye or two and a fully mature brain to a brace of two books from Stool Pigeon and a book of three halves by David Peace.
DAVID PEACE: "The Damned United"
SON OF DAVE: "We Need You Lazzaro, You Lazy, Greasy Bastard"
VARIOUS: "Grace Under Pressure And Other Stool Pigeon Stories"
She's the proud author of an actual, classically inspired, folk opera, but....
we let a less than odoriferous Chris Watson share a cupboard with her.
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BATTLEPLANS
CHARLIE INDESTRUCTIBLE
FELL ON BLACK DAYS
SUBSET
THE CELLOPHANE FLOWERS
The Revellions
THE REVELLIONS
THE VOLITAINS
THIRD LIGHT
TRIBAL MACHINE
Hallo, good evening, put that down, turn that up, shut those, open them and ponder the never ending battle between the Good and the Evil that's all around us. We've been doing just that and this is our take;
"HELTER SKELTER" Acid drenched thrashola from the saintly Beatles 'Double White' album. "I got blisters on my fingers" yells Lennon to the clattering finale of McCartney's finest moment in a Beatle shirt.
"RUPERT & THE FROG SONG" Tea stained asthma alternative for the hard of thinking from the drug free Beatle formerly known as Paul McCartney. "La la la, Keeping us warm in the night, La la la, Walk in the light, You'll get it right" he wibbles.
FORMING A BAND
Ad in music mag with emphasis on the musical attributes sought; "The Nips require tight, melodic rhythm guitarist. Backing vox essential". Result? A new member joining a band to make music. Or someone else cluttering the industry, not being awfully good and vanishing after 18 months with their soul and self respect largely intact.
FORMING A BRAND
Ad in The Stage mag. Emphasis on image and attitude, "Young Teen Pop Girl Group seeking strong singers, real talent with confidence, energy, enthusiam & young teen image. Parent enquiries also welcome." Result? Music made by people who can't cook or present kids television.
GOOD Vs EVIL
GOOD Vs EVIL
POP MUSIC: Represented by the plucky, cancer-beating, stage school (see above and this is how you spell 'hypocrisy') child star known as Kylie. A creature of pure plastique, unbridled ambition and apparently limitless energy. Kylie came from soap to pop and confounded her career advisors while annoying critics by making less enjoyable, but more credible records with people like Nick Cave. Kylie is a fine torch bearer for music in general and pop in particular. Kylie is an embodiment for much that is good in pop.
INDIE: Represented by the simpering, self-centred, self-obsessed, self venerated, over-educated, under-learned nonsense peddled by someone very much like Kate Nash. We pick on Kate because she is representative of the wave of 'careless careerists' who, quite correctly, identify Indie as the easiest musical genre for someone of little substance to make headway.
Hey, I used to be Jarvis Cocker!
INFO SPLAT
WE'RE NOT RACIST, BUT...
The sights, sound and placement of
young, white boho boys in Brixton is
enough to put teeth on edge and that'd
usually be more than enough natter
about the debut Will & The People "Morning Sun" album, but there are redeeming features, extenuating circumstances, if you will. Namely that young Will is a dab hand at the kind of sparky, perky and pointedly, studied pop-tunesmithery that our favourite Lily Allen is supposed to purvey. It's all here in it's hateful cleverness and brain-snagging unholy joy.
GOOD Vs EVIL
I'M NOT SELLING INSURANCE
Said the golfing Iggy Pap. Which is why... "Swiftcover.com has won the Marketing Initiative of the Year award at the British Insurance Awards 2010."
FINE, WE'RE BUYING "RAW POWER" INSTEAD
Why? Because insurance is gambling, just that and "Raw Power" is just that.
Get some here.
WE'RE NOT RACIST, BUT...
The sights, sound and placement of
young, white boho boys in Brixton is
enough to put teeth on edge and that'd
usually be more than enough natter
about the debut Will & The People "Morning Sun" album, but there are redeeming features, extenuating circumstances, if you will. Namely that young Will is a dab hand at the kind of sparky, perky and pointedly, studied pop-tunesmithery that our favourite Lily Allen is supposed to purvey. It's all here in it's hateful cleverness and brain-snagging unholy joy.
INFO SPLAT
IT'S KITTEN KILLING TIME
We have mail from Emma Ballard and
she says "Hi there, I'm pretty happy with
these new songs, and the in progress
stuff is even better! Will someone please
sign me up soon so I can get touring! Am open to all opportunities...Think Dido slash Everything But the Girl slash Cranberries. I'm so ready, come and get me!!"Alright, okay,we will, Emma, we will. First off, we love her email, because we'd quite forgotten that we were supposed to slash Dido and the god awful Cranberries and being invited to "come and get me" by some delusional, technology enabled and thoughtless waste of space is just too tempting. Dear Emma, the best review and the best word of advice you will ever get is this; Stop. Emma does that New Age Writer stuff here.
