FIGHT THE POWER For those of you without MTV UK and Ireland a brief precis of *that* Alt Nation Special: Lots of super 8 style wobbling, black and white bits, all yr fave songs (Century of Fakers, Boy with the Arab Strap (from Bowlie), Modern Rock Song, Dirty Dream, Weathershow, Dog on Wheels, Wicked Not to Care, Lazy Line Painter Jane, Ballad of Ray Suzuki (but not nesessarily in that order, and I think I've missed something)). A rather bizzare TWATTYBUS from Bowlie which seemed to have been "panned and scanned" you know like when they put cinemascope films on telly and everybody looks a bit stttrrr--etc--hhhhed, with crowd shots, but I only recognised Dave Moore, Chelmsford, UK briefly glimpsed in the corner of the screen. Also Weathershow and Ray Suzuki (and a Dr Pepper ad in the break!!). Personal highlight: Struan's face in LLPJ when his t-shirt gets sprayed (tee hee). Personal lowlight: NO BLOODY "UP THEIR OWN ARSES" instead two ~very appropriate~ videos to finish the hour off "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy and "Kelly Watched the Stars" by Air. Now I'm not dissing Chuck and Flav, none of my heroes have appeared on no stamps either, but I'm sure they could have dug out something that fitted the mood a little better. GLASTONBURY Glastonbury was great fun as the sun shone and I didn't see The Corrs. I must second Ms Ross' enthusiasm for Whistler who really are very good in an acoustic, swappy instruments (Jew's Harp ahoy!), lovely female vocals kinda way. Other top moments included Younger Younger 28s (Human League for the next Millenium), Billy Bragg (with Ian McLaghan (sp?) on keyboards), Cornelius (just pure fucking genius, beg, borrow or steal to see them live), Mogwai (including people near me asking other rowdy people to shut up during the quiet bits) and the Manics doing Motown Junk and Motorcycle Emptiness (say no more). Also the Hash Cake Fairies in the Stone Circle on Thursday Morning who were really cute, dressed in pink with little wings (and doing a roaring trade). Not so top moments included Gomez noodling on for hours, Mercury Rev noodling on for hours, Travis making it rain, having to walk about two miles to the New Band tent where there was NO BAR!! One Lady Owner making possibly the most boring noise ever and not talking to the two people at Cornelius with Belle & Sebastian badges on. STUFF Re B&S/Smiths thing, lets hope our current heroes dont split up in two albums time and go on to release infinitely inferior material. Re Helter Skelter, although not necessarily the first "hard rock" song (I don't really want to get into that) is almost certainly the first "pop" song with pure *noise* in it, and all the better for it (and probably the best thing macca has ever done). Re Sleater-Kinney, When I saw them at Bowlie, it took me a while to realise they didn't have a bass player (despite a rather bassy sound), I asked the sound man if it was a DAT, but he said he just turned the bottom end up. Do they sound really tinny through shit PAs?? (I'm assuming that if people are from their locale they will have seen them doing shit pub gigs) I think that's enough waffling for now, I'm off to see Hefner tonight. xoxo CarsmileSteve
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