Rashied's
Music Hour
ft The Telescopes, The Piskie Sits, The Sailplanes, The Rogers Sisters,
Girlmonster
The Telescopes - Hungry Audio Tapes
When I was a young man, and Cheree Records was just starting, the Telescopes came to see the band I was in, when we played a scout hut in Snaresbrook and I swear, they stole our Rapier 44 all tuned to the same note through a fuzz through a delay sound for their early period. Bastards! They've gone all Sunroof! nowadays though, and that isn't a bad thing at all, my friends, oh no no no! 'Another Sky' is a bit Suicide-y, a bit Spacemen 3-y but goes more noise freakout-y at the end. Great. 'Where It Comes From Where It Goes' is like some Wicker Man thing. Fuck knows how they got some of those noises in the background. Scary. 'Household Objective #2" is a bit drone-y, a bit They
Came From The Stars I Saw Them-y. 'Demon Landscape' is Sunroof! with a low end. Nice! 'Winter #7' really is what Winter sounds like, when you think about it. If you lived in the middle of nowhere and there was just some Eraserhead style industrial plant nearby that you had to walk past. 'The Perfect Needle #4' is the last track and again is a drone that gets noisy and ends in random blurps. If you're looking for yr drone fuzz skuzz buzz fix, man, you could do a lot worse. Dig?
The Piskie Sits - What Is The Point?
'What Is The Point' is cheapo drum machine, cheapo
guitar fetishism with a nice chorus. It's alwight. 'Jelly Ring' sounds
like a Graham Coxon record. It's alwight as well.
Now this is what I'm talking about. This makes you sit up and listen from the first second. There is a real urgency to the Sailplanes that I really really like, and this is by far and away their best work yet. Stacey's vocals remind me of Ut & early Siouxsie. Tim has a really great vicious snarl, spitting out the words like his life depended on it. They're playing for their lives on these tracks! And what I also like as well, is that the Sailplanes are a band who live and breathe and recall what it used to mean to be an 'independent' band, from the days before irony and Zane Lowe and AC/DC t-shirts and Pitchfork and stupid haircuts. Gunshot drumming, scratchy guitar, fuzz guitar, noise guitar is where it is at. The Sailplanes have got all those. "Shoulders back, show some respect' - yes ma'am! 'Motorway signs put dots in my eyes and coffee stains my teeth' -
we've all been there. 'Smoking is boring and sleeping is lazy' - these are my mottos too. Though I like sleeping. 'Won't you come in from the cold?' spits Tim at the end of The Wild Huntsman. I wish the music buying public would welcome the Sailplanes in the from the cold, with this cd in every house in the land! Yes! Let's do it, kids! Great recording as well.
The Rogers Sisters
- Why Won't You
'Why Won't You'
starts like 'Psychotic Reaction' by the Count Five. And then turns into
um, Jet? That's a bit unfair, actually. It's alright. I imagine they're
pretty good live in a small venue. But I'd rather listen to the Count
Five. Or The Nazz. 'Sooner Or Later (remix)' is a new genre of music altogther.
Dub/Club/Trashy Garage all thrown into one. I'm not sure it worked.
V/A
- Girlmonster
This is a (girl)monster 3 cd set of girls/grrls/ladies/females
whatever, just not any smelly boys ok! Well, ok, just a few. Paul was
hoping for a feature from this thing and I thought it would lend itself
to it, but having played it all - sorry Paul! No feature here. It is trying
to say, yo girls, it's not all men out there making music! You can too!
Check these out! Other girls, makin' noize! Cool, huh? Well, uh, kinda.
Some of it is Peaches club trash electro but not good electro like Hashim,
but instead some white middle class half remembered idea of electro with
fake dominatrix I'm so bored and cool in NY type vox and look at my Miu
Miu babydoll honey ooh laptop glitch stuff) but so what?! Girls Aloud
are not one of the featured acts here, despite the fact that 'Biology'
kicks the
ass of most of these tracks. Some of it is great however. The tracks that stood out for me, e.g.
Hot Topic by Le
Tigre
Mountain Place by Barbara
Morgenstern
Me Saw Me Momma by Kevin Blechdom
(one for playing with mum and dad in the room, this one)
Super Hero - Sir Alice
Plastic Surgery - Chicks On Speed
(of course)
Lauderette - Vivien Goldman (I
have always wanted to
hear this, and I wasn't disappointed - this is a must have track)
Break Dance Hunx - Kids On TV -
super homo
Dust - the mighty Erase Errata
Typical Girls - the mighty Slits
Mind Your Own Business - Delta
5
Mr Chang - Cobra Killer
Storm - Bjork
Panic Of The Square - the mighty Tobi
Vail
Die Matrosen - LiLiPUT
Sedition - Lesbians On Ecstasy
- mental
Godzilla - The Creatures
- I miss Siouxsie
Somos Las Perras - Las
Perras Del Infierno
Fom Fom - People Like Us
Heroes - Suzanne Brokesch
Your Turn To Run - Malaria!
are either great cos they're honest music, played by people who want to make music, like Erase Errata, or they're great cos they're demented, like Kevin Blechdom. The other stuff was either just bland or silly or too cool to realise it wasn't any good. Juliette and The Licks? Per-leez, Louise! Just cos a lady made it, don't mean it's any good. I mean, it works the other way too, right? I bought Evangelista by Carla Bozulich the other day - now there's a sister who's doing it for herself, and I recommend you get that, girls, if you're looking 4 role models, instead of this. Sorry, Chicks on Speed. Whatever, they won't give a fuck what I think, and that's what it's all about anyway. For I am just a Mops. Get some Lydia Lunch everyone, for the real deal in this vein.
Finally, this is my favourite song at the moment. Who else knows it? It goes
Doing it, doing it, together
We'll be friends forever
Join in, have some fun
You and me and everyone - cha cha cha
Great, innit. Bye!
All reviews by Rashied Garrison