Hey hey! My name is Mike. On this day 23 years ago, I was born- as such, today seems the perfect day for my first post here. And just to mess with y’all, it’s gonna be another non-punk post. Sacrelicious!
Momus is a Scottish-born artist who’s been kicking around the outskirts of pop culture since before I even came into being. The music itself? Ironic pop which rips the piss out of whatever genre of music is contemporary to the time. Add in an obsession with sex and relentless self-analysis, mix with an embrace of technology and japanese mythology and you’ve got one the most interesting musicians around (at nearly 50, Momus is still frantically creating music, books and performative art).
In a feat of Jeff Rosenstock-equalling awesomeness, Momus recently released his first 6 albums for free- and given that they are getting on a bit, they’ve held up remarkably well. 1988’s “Tender Pervert” is probably his best, a coyly intellectual gay-themed album about sexual perversity released against the backdrop of an archly repressed Thatcherian Britain.
Hello Internet! Todays post is Tilly and The Wall. What? That pussy indie band on team love? Truth is there probs way more punk than your band are spawnpacket, your band’s so punk and original cause you have a couple of guitars bassist and a drummer? Err Tilly and the wall have a tap dancer for percussion so a win for them, plus what’s the gender ration in your band? Oops! it’s only penis’s yeah, thought so. Suck it up and enjoy! (yeah the record sounds better but shit happens.)
Well, there’s been a few turn ups this week.
The one that’s interested me most is the forthcoming release of “The Original Cowboy” by Against Me! on Fat Wreck, which is basically the demos from the bands second full length “The Eternal Cowboy”. I couldn’t help but ask myself “why are they doing this?” what with Tom Gabels solo record seemingly desperatly tryna win back fans who hated New Wave and the bands new direction, I can’t help but think this is another stunt. However, through my horrific elitism I can’t help but be excited about it. I never thought I’d buy a new Against Me! CD again.
Moving on.
This shit is genius.
Finally, The new NOFX record “Coaster/Frisbee” takes a few listens but it is good fun, and cheap. I can’t help but love everything this band does.
So I assume alot of people that read this blog have been taking an objective view of the G20 summit, particulary the medias portrail. It looks like the Man who died at the G20 was battered by police http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson there are repots from indymedia abut how CPR wasn’t administerd and First aiders were ‘moved on’ by cops. it sems pretty shitty to use this guys death as a political tool bu the wy its lookng is the Met killed a man at the G20, thas bad news for anyone in the UK. I really hope the IPCC look at this properly,
