Well hello my little dumplings of delight. And how have you been?

Me, well I quite fancy taking a nailgun and using it to permanently attach all the unbelievably annoying people coming to my library to each other in a painful bloody conga line. Apart from that I'm groovy.

I did see a few people yesterday whom I haven't seen in far too long. I've missed MechaPearlBass, Kate and lost_dog horribly and it was good to see them again, even if they did make me drink tequila. Was just a shame I couldn't stay for their gig. Still, at least I bought their album. Now I can say I was into Gin Panic before they sold out.

But that aside, I feel a stirring in my loins, a rising in my gullet. I must stand atop tyhe roofs and terraces of this town and sing out my own brand of musical enlightenment! Yes boys and girls, it's:

Big Poppa Creamy's Blogtastic, Blogerrific Music Blog (of blogginess) (still a working title) (Episode 2)

Gin Panic - Talking Violence - For the quicker-witted of you, you might know that this is Kate and MechaPearlBass's band. I first saw them, Christ, well over a year ago and I've been an actual, sincere fan (as opposed to going to support my mates) ever since. I just bought their album yesterday (Moved By Remote, not curerntly available but will be soon from ginpanic.com) and I've been enjoying the hell out of it.

The band themselves, well, I've never been too good with genres, but I wouldn't feel right calling them indie, I wouldn't feel right calling them metal, so we'll leave it at rock for the time being. They have a sound that lurches between a stuttering franticness and a tightly-focused fury, with some great guitar riffs. Talking Violence has always been a favourite track of mine, and a good example of the band. Enjoy, and you can hear mroe tracks (as well as order the album, once they get more in) at www.ginpanic.com

And once more for good measure, that's ginpanic.com


Mighty, Mighty Bosstones - Sugar Free - I've just been rediscovering how much I like A Jackknife To A Swan recently. The band left a lot of their ska roots behind for this one and went for a more straightforward 'rock with trumpets' kind of sound. Although one or two tracks still carried strong ska influences, it's a much differnt album to something like Let's Face It. It seems that everyone who used to play it is running screaming from ska and in this case it's worked out pretty well. It's hard to pick one track from the album but right now Sugar Free is doing it from me. Dicky, the lead singer, can't help but sound angry with his distinctive rasp of a voice and it works to great effect in this one, it's combined with a driving hook that makes me want to mosh around the lviing room.

Fingathing - Walk In Space - This is one of those random tracks I pick up from somewhere and like, but somehow enver end up following up on the artist. As such I can't tell you that much about Fingathing, who have produced a pretty interesting track here. It's an instrumental hip-hop track (yes, they do exist) that starts slow and doesn't really build that far, it takes it's time to get where it's going but you won't mind going along with it. Something for you to shake your booty to on this cold, miserable October evening.


Christ, it's deceoptively ahrd writing about music. Still, on the bright side, no matter what happens, I'm still better than Pitchfork.