Placebo
You ever have those days when you re-alphabetise your music collection, listen to every single Half-Man Half-Biscuit song in chronological order and plough through ancient issues of the NME in search of half-completed crosswords? Days when you do all this and still feel bored? Well, here's a solution: Take a dictionary and look up band names. You'll be surprised what you find....
Music: Crocketts
"My life is awash", are the words spoken by Jack in the penultimate episode of Dawson's Creek. Oh Jack, how I feel your pain. First I find out that Dianne Louise-Jordan isn't a Christian, then Paula Yates dies, and now I have to review the latest single by The Crocketts with one of those 'open mind' things. Damn.
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Music: Feeling Blue?
YES, ALRIGHT. I know what you're thinking. The Bluetones: whiney, untalented middle-class chancers who should have been chucked away sometime at the end of the last century. Of course, anyone who witnessed their explosive performance at a packed and sweaty Zodiac last June, or one of their festival appearances over the summer, will know that the Bluetones deserve much more than this. The fact that they have actually survived, more than survived, where so many of their contemporaries fell apart has surprised many. Not least the band themselves, who admit to having found it much harder in the current dance-orientated climate. As they themselves put it, "there's a lot of shit music around"....