There has been nowt from The Frenchmen since 2004's Sorry We Ruined Your Party album. The website has not been updated since around this time and i'm wondering if they have called it a day. However if you have not heard of them there are still tracks available on their site icluding a cover of Talulah Gosh's Steaming Train. You will need to get hold of the album to hear their version of The Flatmates Tell Me Why. The band stay truthful to the 1980's jangle pop sound and the album is an indie pop classic.

The Frenchmen - Unlucky Day
The Frenchmen - Hey Amelia
The Frenchmen - Steaming Train

Two more tracks available here.

Buy Sorry We Ruined Your Party

NB: The photograph came from Underexposed UK - check the site out for pictures of indie bands on the mainly London gig circuit.

Dutch indie popsters Persil have a new album out now in their native Netherlands and it has a release data of 18th June for the UK. Titled Comfort Noise it is the follow up to 2004's excellent Duotone.

The band have just completed a 17 date UK tour. Sadly I knew nothing about it and I am kicking myself at missing them - again.....

EDIT: Hurrah - the band are playing at Truck Festival to which I already have my ticket for.

Persil - Light Up My Life

Listen to the album here where you can also download tracks from various peel sessions they have recorded.

Buy Comfort Noise

My previous post on Persil can be found here.

This is a selection of bands I have been listening to via My Space over the past couple of weeks which have caused me to neglect listening to some of the CD's I still have for review. All links are to the My Space pages rather than the actual band sites and not all bands have made mp3's available for downloading but you can stream them anyway.

The Lodger - You Got Me Wrong
Hot Club De Paris - Slump Life
The Whip Recommended track - Frustration
Mighty Six Ninety Recommended Tracks - Northern Border or Leave This World
The Loft - Recommended Tracks - Why Does The Rain or Up The Hill And Down The Slope Reformed indie rockers still going strong.
The Ivories - Recommended Track - Disappointment
Bricolage - Check out all the tracks from these Orange Juice fans.
Final Boss - Here After
Snowfight In The City Centre - Recommended Track No Light Left (This lot used to be called Lisa Brown and have recently changed their name)
The Black Tulips - Just Keep Coming
The Carrots - Beverly
The Sweethearts - Come On Holiday With Me
The Fields - Song For The Fields
Amida - We'd Suit Each Other
Sky Larkin - Somersault Notes

Let me know via the e-mail address what bands you have been listening too or discovered by My Space and I will use them as a compilation for a future post.

Everybody move to prove the groove
Have you heard it on the news
About this fascist groove thang
Evil men with racist views
Spreading all across the land
Don't just sit there on your ass
Unlock that funky chaindance
Brothers, sisters shoot your best
We don't need this fascist groove thang

Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
The Fire Engines - (We Don't Need)This Fascist Groove Thang

Rock Against Racism
Rock Against Racism - Wikipedia Entry
Love Music Hate Racism
Stop The BNP
Rise: London United Festival 2006 Buzzcocks and Graham Coxon headlining this free event in London's Finsbury park on July 8th 2006.

Buy Higher & Higher by Heaven 17
Buy Codex Teenage Premonition by The Fire Engines

Somebody has uploaded many of the tracks from the Shelter Video Compilation onto You Tube. Some have been removed since the initial upload and the Mighty Lemon Drops, Derek Jaraman produced, Out Of Hand video is no where to be seen. Anyway here are a couple of videos that take me back to those hazy days of 1986/87.

The Shop Assistants - I Don't Wanna Be Friends With You



The Wedding Present - You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends



Here are links to a couple of Darling Buds videos - check out Andrea Lewis' dodgy hair in the second one.

Darling Buds - It's All Up To You
Darling Buds - Hit The Ground

I came across Revolution, the Spacemen 3 Covers project via The Left Outsides site recently. The Left Outsides are one of the many bands contributing to the project which collates versions of Spacemen 3 songs by contributing artists.

The Left Outsides contribute their version of Losing Touch With My Mind and it's a cracker. In a recent review of the band I wrote that I heard Spacemen 3 in their music and this reworking cements that view!

I have not heard all the reworkings yet but have linked to my favourites so far.

The Left Outsides - Losing Touch With My Mind
El Conejo De Gaia - Walkin' With Jesus
Dazzling Strangers - Take Me To The Other Side
Danny & Gabe - Rollercoaster

Loads more here.

My Old Kentucky blog have a post rounding up more versions of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart than you can shake a stick at. There are also other posts rounding up covers of The Pixies Where Is My Mind and The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Pretty good posts.

The Wedding Present have released a new compilation. Titled Search For Paradise it rounds up the singles released in 2004 and 2005. It also includes a DVD of the promotional videos for the singles. The track listing is:

CD [DISC ONE] - The A-sides: Interstate 5, I'm From Further North Than You, Ringway To Seatac. The B-sides [previously unreleased outside the UK]: Bad Thing, Snapshots, Rekindling, The Girl With The Curious Smile, Nickels And Dimes, I'm From Further North Than You [Klee Remix], Shivers, American Tan. The Acoustic Versions [previously unreleased anywhere]: Interstate 5, I'm From Further North Than You, Ringway To Seatac.

DVD [DISC TWO] - Promotional videos of: Interstate 5, I'm From Further North Than You, Ringway To Seatac, Don't Touch That Dial. Perfect Blue [Three Minute Film]. Behind The Scenes.

Buy Search For Paradise

You can thank your lucky stars for Dogbox Records as it was this label that first launched The Bridge Gang onto our unsuspecting ears. Sadly that digital single is no longer available but their are plenty of aural treats via the free digital dogbox singles currently on offer.

There are currently five digital singles and their b-sides available. These range from the experimental electronica of Mitten, the synth pop of Bib to current indie-mp3 faves and the indie pop sweetness of The Sweethearts. The label is also the current home of Luxembourg who are the biggest name on their roster but, like The Bridge Gang, there is nowt available from them in digital format on the site. Don't let that put you off as I am sure you will uncover a gem or two from the available releases.

Mitten - Slob From The Record Shop
Bib - I Wanna Be A Better
The Sweethearts - Rainy Skies

Dogbox also have a brand new compilation out now titled Blue Skies Up and features tracks from all the artists on their roster. It's available for a bargain £8 plus p&p. Buy it from here.

There is much more available to download as well as links to the various My Space pages of all the bands on the Dogbox site.

Am I going to find a more sweeter version of the indie pop variety this year than The Sweethearts? To be honest i'm not sure but in the meantime the candy tinged tunes of this Cumbrian three piece will do for me.

The instruments used can give you a clue of the bands creativity alone. Choose from a banjo, ukulele and various toy instruments and you may get some idea. These instruments are used to great effect on the stunning Into The Woods accompanying the fine vocals from bass player/singer Amy. The other songs are just as good and you will be dipping into this box of treats time and time again. The band have had one digital release on Dogbox Records and judging by their blog there is more in the pipeline.

Forget the rain - listen to a piece of summer!

The Sweethearts - Into The Woods
The Sweethearts - Blue Skies

Judging by the photographs some of this lot still seem to be at school. I wish I persisted with my flute and erm, the steel band lessons!

Ponferrada in Spain can boast of beautiful scenery and some very attractive castles, and last but not least a very powerful female fronted indie-pop band called Juniper Moon. I just stumbled across a video of theirs on the YouTube website and I was hooked on them from the very first chord. Massive drum beats, attractive female vocals, added distortion in the chorus and loads and loads of fast and incomprehensible lyrics in spanish. What more do you want?

And might I add that the band formed in 1997, and they have a full length album out on Elefant Records called El Resto De Mi Vida.

Juniper Moon - Solo Una Sonrisa (YouTube video, rather good quality)

Amida hail from Manchester but they could easily pass for coming from Glasgow circa 1981 with some stragglers from Edinburgh hitching a lift such is the influence from the likes of Orange Juice, Josef K and The Fire Engines to name but a few. This is jangle pop harking back to Postcard's golden days and although the band wear their influences on their sleeve they also inject their own passion and creativity into the mix. These are with great pop tunes with glorious harmonies, catchy lyrics and you may well need them in your life right now!

Amida - Class Of 2000
Amida - It Started In Naples


More songs to stream or download at My Space. The band are also selling their It Started In Naples/These Are Golden Times CD for just one English pound online!

EDIT: See the comment below for details of how to get the new four track CD for a couple of quid.

On first listen you could be forgiven for thinking that The Debretts are another NYC band such is their sound. The truth is however that they hail from West London and recorded their first demo in May 2005. They are going to be compared with the likes of Blondie, The Ramones and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Lead singer Vonnie's vocals dominate whilst the rest of the band produce a full on background noise to match.

This is music that is raw and infectious as all good music is meant to be.

The Debretts - Hole In the Head

The band will be playing at the Camden Barfly next Wednesday 24th May alongside the likes of The Metalists, The Mekkits and The Happiness.

If you are a fan of the likes of The Pipettes then you are going to love The Carrots.

Hailing from Austin in Texas the band take much of their inspiration from 1960's girl bands. Both tracks are sugar sweet and you are left wanting for more. Sadly there is no website nor opportunity to listen to anything else and you are left, literally, with a dangling carrot on a stick!


The Carrots - Beverly
The Carrots - Kissing and Telling

Despite Labrador being a Swedish label, signing home grown bands, only one of these sing in their native language. [ingenting] have released their latest EP titled Sommardagboken. It features five tracks including a cover of the Radio Dept's Strange Things Happen.

[ingenting] - Släpp In Solen (which according to an online translator means flabby in sun!)

Stream via the bands My Space page. You can buy it direct from the Labrador shop.

Faith Over Reason featured one Moira Lambert on vocals. I picked up the bands first two singles in 1990 because they were on the same label as some other band I liked. Simple as that. Moira's voice was truly superb and she is most probably better known as the vocalist on Saint Etienne's cover of Only Love Can Break Your Heart. Lambert went on to form Ova and also appear on a single by Perfecto's Grace act. I'm not what sure she or any other members of the band are doing now.

The track here was the lead track from the debut EP which was self titled.

Faith Over Reason - Believing In Me

Verboten is a newly created band featuring members from My Teenage Stride, The Consultants and Birds and Bees. The band resides in NYC and includes two drummers who play guitar and bass, and Jenny on vocals. As they point out on their page neither of the drummers can actually drum while playing guitar or bass, so they could use a full-time drummer to accompany them on their various adventures in pop. You can head to their MySpace page to listen to their first demo song; "Girls in Cars".


My Teenage Stride, fronted by one Jedediah Smith, caught my notice long before I got to see them play live in the USA last fall. They were amazing live and yet I was stupid enough not to buy their record then and there. Check out "Reversal of a Red Bird" and that amazingly catchy song "Happy Mondays".


If The Consultants page is to be believed then NME once wrote of them: "The Consultants are so indie that they make Belle & Sebastian sound like Cannibal Corpse". I've never heard them before but I'm pretty sure I've been seeing this name rather often lately. It probably has to do with their CD being released by Shelflife whose whole catalog I could very well imagine in my possession.

In other more shoegazey news, The Year Zero is about to release their first album next month and you can hear what it will eventually sound like on Skipping Stones Records MySpace Page. Lili de la Mora has one of the most beautiful voices since Lush and My Bloody Valentine. Albeit not as loud, their music certanly has much of the same elements as the shoegaze I loved in my heydays and still love. And they use a Dr. Rhythm drum machine which is always cool in my books.

Lili also happens to sing in a band named Sidecar, another dreamy band that probably stares at their shoes in deep concentration when playing. Head to their MySpace page and take a listen to "I have known Love" in particular.

Update 14. may I just found out that it seems to be a problem pasting links copied from MySpace into the blogger.com editor. The links contain a space in the name of a variable, i.e. the song name in the url, and so the link eventually saved in the editor contains no info after that space. Thus preventing you from downloading the songs, but linking to the MySpace main page instead. Until I figure out how to bypass this stuff, I have removed all the direct, and unusable, links and suggest you head to the band pages and stream their songs.

Audrey have released their debut album Visible Forms in their native Sweden earlier this week. The track listing is:

1. Mecklenburg
2. Views
3. Six Yields
4. Treacherous Art
5. The Significance Of Being Overt
6. Plain Pieces
7. Leaving/Letting Go
8. Vague
9. Traverse

If the rest of the album is good as the preview track Mecklenburg (which is the name of a German state) then we are in for the possible treat of 2006.

Audrey - Mecklenburg

It should be released in the UK on Stereo Test Kit Records although I am not sure of the date but it should be around June or July. It is however available now from Tender Version Recording who post outside of Sweden and accept Paypal.

Indie pop is a global delight!

Whilst Mike from Take Your Medicine was away recently I was one of three bloggers "blog sitting". I wrote a piece on Sweden - It's The New Black which has been used as a basis for a radio show in Brazil!

Thanks to babelfish I translated the Portugese into English:

In this special edition of Sweden the UV surpassed the Brazilian borders and arrives in port in London with a very special guest, the Tone of blog Indie MP3. Initially the Tone published this list in blog Take Your also English Medicine and soon later in it disponibilizou them for the Last Volume. Tone has very good taste for indie rock and is an admirer (as we) of indies Swedish and in it offered them with bands Happydeadmen, Acid House Kings, Club 8, Boy Omega and how much in such a way good others. You can directly lower these musics in the publication of the Tone in blog Take Your Medicine in link http://takeyourmedicinemp3.blogspot.com/2006/04/263-sweden-its-new-black.html

Thank you Tom for this special broadcast.
Be sure that´s a pleasure for us have you like a UV´ special guest.

My pleasure!

You can hear the show here. And it's pretty good. I would say that wouldn't I!

Note that you may need to view the page in Internet Explorer or any other IE based browser.

Taken From Pitchfork:

It must be hard being a big-name author, pretending to care about your high-profile speaking appearances, private readings with literary groupies, and Oprah's Book Club nominations when all you want to do is release a celebrity "Under the Influence"-type compilation album like Bob Geldof and the guy from the Libertines who isn't Pete Doherty get to do.

Well, sometimes writers do get to be rock stars, sort of. Pop music journalist extraordinaire Simon Reynolds, author of the recently published book Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84, has compiled a companion disc of the same name, due out this coming Monday, May 15 on V2 in the UK.

The comp features many of the acts gloriously and glowingly written about by Reynolds in his book, including like the Fall, the Slits, the Raincoats, Devo, and Young Marble Giants.

Tracklisting:

01 The Fall - "Fiery Jack"
02 Devo - "Praying Hands"
03 Pulsallama - "The Devil Lives in My Husband's Body"
04 Cabaret Voltaire - "Sluggin' for Jesus Part 1"
05 Josef K - "Sense of Guilt"
06 Scritti Politti - "PAs"
07 The Slits - "Spend Spend Spend"
08 Fatal Microbes - "Violence Grows"
09 Robert Wyatt - "Grass"
10 Siouxsie & the Banshees - "Slowdive"
11 The Raincoats - "Only Loved at Night"
12 Young Marble Giants - "Choci Loni"
13 The Human League - "Dancevision"
14 Thomas Leer - "Tight as a Drum"
15 The Associates - "White Car in Germany"
16 The B-52s - "Give Me Back My Man"
17 John Cooper Clarke - "Beasley Street"
18 The Specials - "Friday Night, Saturday Morning"
19 Heaven 17 - "I'm Your Money"
20 The Blue Orchids - "Dumb Magician"

Buy Rip It Up And Start Again Book by Simon Reynolds
Buy Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984/Compiled By Simon Reynolds

http://www.simonreynolds.net/

Taken from The Rip It Up Newsgroup:

The Fire Engines are splitting up and I'm gutted to say this time it's for good.

The legendary Scots rockers - fronted by singer Davey Henderson - will play their last gig at Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, on Saturday (13th May 2006) as part of Tigerfest.

The band reformed in 2004 - after 23 years apart - when offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to support their rock heroes The Magic Band. Davey and the group - Graham and Russell Main and Murray Slade - also opened for the Sun Ra Arkestra, their biggest music influences, during last month's Triptych Festival.

But the reunion has lasted longer than their original career and now Davey has decided to kill off the group.

Luckily I managed to catch the band last year when they played London's ICA and it was well worth it. So if you are around in Dunfermline I suggest you get yourself to Carnegie Hall on Saturday night.

The Fire Engines - Untitled One

Stream and download tracks from their My Space page.

Is this C(20) 06? Germany's Firestation Records have compiled an album of the new sound emerging from Britain. The label is better known for it's wonderful compilations and re-issues of the UK jangle pop scene of the 1980's and therefore it's no surprise that many of the bands featured are actively influenced by that era and in the case of The Bishops further than that!

The past two years have certainly been excellent for the British 7" singles but does the compilation actively reflect that fact? It doesn't start too promising with a weak demo track by Neat People. However with one or two exceptions it picks up and whilst not every single track is a worthy inclusion there are some real diamonds sparkling through. There are excellent contributions from the likes of Milburn, Pipettes, The Sequins and The Lodger whilst the stand out tracks are Lucky Soul's Spectorish My Brittle Heart and Decoration's underrated single Pine, which harks back to the early days of The Wedding Present and Reception Records. There were surprises from The Brights and Redcarsgofaster as well.

However it is sadly let down in parts by a lack of diversity which results in several tracks blurring into one without any distingushing features amongst them. Tracks from The Boyfriends, Harrisons and Keith are proven examples of these. Whilst they are not bad at all, the tracks struggled in the main. Others like the Rumble Strips Motorcycle and This Et Al's All You Ever Be Is A Dancer are somewhat baffling choices when you consider the gems that didn't make it onto the list such as Snowfight In The City Centre, Good Shoes, Bricolage or The Bridge Gang. Those omissions become more confusing considering the album relies on a number of demo tracks or those yet to be released.

A very mix and match album worth picking up if you didn't get hold of the singles the first time around or you want a quick and easy introduction to what isn't played on UK mainstream radio - it's just a question of separating the wheat from the chaff. 7/10

The album is released tomorrow. If you are in Berlin or Hamburg there are launch parties tomorrow and Saturday night. More details and access to downloads from the bands can be found here.

Buy direct from Firestation Records.

Secret Shine, the recently reformed and ex Sarah Record Label shoegazers have made two live tracks recorded in 1995 available on their site. The band recently released their first new material in 10 years and which I reviewed here.

The band have asked for no hotlinking to the mp3's so head here and download them. They are pretty decent live recordings.

It was not all jangle pop in 1985 and '86! For some reason I was partial to the Leeds rockers Rose Of Avalanche. The poor sods got labelled as goths by the unimaginative UK music press when they were compiling the mid 1980's Leeds scene that also included the likes of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry who also got labelled in the same way.

After picking up a couple of singles the band soon passed me by and I lost interest in them after their Velveteen single from 1986 and I was surprised when I saw the number of releases after that in their discography. The band looked like they called it a day in 1991.

The track here comes from the 12" of their epic single 1985 L.A. Rain and is titled Conceal Me. It is a great track and one that has always stuck with me. The guitars, oh the guitars!

Rose Of Avalanche - Conceal Me

There are a number of other tracks available for download from the unofficial site.

I have not visisted the Bobby Baby site for some time now but I was pleased to read she opened for The Radio Dept in Stockholm recently. I hope she went down well as her music is delightful. I also noticed that Bobby Baby posted a new song last month titled Lucky Moments which is accompanied by a video for the track Goodbye Love.

Bobby Baby - Lucky Moments
Bobby Baby - Goodbye Love (video)

There are plenty more tracks to download from her site if you wish to indulge further!

Voxtrot, the American band who sound like they could have come from anywhere in England, have made available a number of cover versions via a not so secret page on their site and pretty good they are too! I cannot remember the blog I stumbled on where I found the link but if I do I will post a link back.

Voxtrot - Love Vigilantes (New Order)
Voxtrot - Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow (Felt)

More cover versions here.

It also gives me an excuse to repost a track each from the bands first two releases.

Voxtrot - The Start Of Something
Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives

Stream more tracks via the bands now mandatory My Space page.

From the Go-Betweens Site:

On Saturday 6th May 2006, legendary Australian singer-songwriter and member of The Go-Betweens Grant McLennan died in his sleep at his home in Brisbane.

The Go-Betweens influenced many of the C86 bands as well as the likes of Belle & Sebastian.

More details here. indie-mp3 passes on it's condolences to his family & friends and posts the Go-Betweens first two singles from the "Lost" album as a tribute. Both were released in 1978.

The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick
The Go-Betweens - People Say

We interupt this broadcast! Something I thought I would never see. My beloved Leyton Orient gaining automatic promotion for the first time in 36 years. I was two years old the last time it happened and according to that average I will be either 76 years old or long gone the next time it happens!

After our heroics in the FA Cup this has been as good as 1988-1989 which was the last time we were promoted via the play-offs. Happy days indeed!

What can yesterday's post have to do with todays? Well Jane From Occupied Europe rose out of the ashes of the short lived Bubblegum Splash. The band's sound was far removed from the Splashies jangly indie pop and drew influences, and comparisons, with the likes of Spacemen Three, The Telescopes, Ride and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The band lasted a slight bit longer than Bubblegum Splash recording two singles and one album between 1989 and 1991. Dave Todd who was in both bands e-mailed me previously and gave me a more in-depth history, as well as providing most of the material, but sadly the e-mails have been lost. So Dave if you are reading this and fancy expanding on the post please do!

The tracks here come from the two singles. Ocean Run Dry was the debut single whilst Horizons In Blue comes from the Little Valley Town 12".

If there is much interest I will post some more tracks in the future. However if one band needed their back catalogue re-issuing Jane From Occupied Europe is it!

Jane From Occupied Europe - Ocean Run Dry
Jane From Occupied Europe - Horizons In Blue

Sambassadeur have released a new EP on Labrador Records. Titled Costal Affairs the track listing is as follows:

01 - Kate
02 - Think nothing of it
03 - Marie
04 - Claudine

Claudine is a cover of The Bats track.

Sambassadeur - Kate

Stream more tracks, including one from the new EP, at the bands My Space page.

The Charade have finished the recording for their new album which is titled A Real Life Drama and is due for release later this spring. They have now made available a second preview track from the album called Dressed in Yellow and Blue and is dedicated to the Swedish football team's entry into the World Cup in Germany later this year. It's a better effort than the England one by erm, Embrace!

Based on the two tracks available it looks like new album will be a s good as their debut The Best Is Yet To Come which was released last year. It looks like they were right!

The Charade - Dressed In Yellow & Blue
The Charade - A Tough Decision

Straem song more songs from their My Space page.

It was the seventh Pow To The People at the Camden Barfly yesterday. The event was a mix of Swedish, reformed, American and other bands associated with the Track & Field Label. The event was marred by below average sound and over-running but was still entertaining none the less especially with the performance of Dressy Bessy.

Firstly the bands who I missed due to seeing before or that I was not interested in were The Chemistry Experiment, The Keys and Ferry from Semifinalists. During this time I headed to a nearby pub to watch the football or food as not even I can stomach the Barfly for 8 hours plus without a break despite the excellent Track & Field merchandise stall!

The first band I caught were the Swedish outfit Speedmarket Avenue who seemed to have aquired a female joint vocalist somewhere down the line. Their shimmering brand of indie pop sat nicely with what is currently coming out of Sweden as well as my ears! Nice pop tunes, friendly banter and smiles all round. Isn't that what pop music is supposed to be about?

Next up were the reformed (or out of hiberanation) Beatnik Filmstars whose lead singer seemed to spend most of the set complaining about the sound which was overtly apparent in the practically empty Barfly at this stage. The band, who have links with The Groove Farm, sounded quite dated even on the latest material and were certainly not as good as when I caught them at The Water Rats supporting Darren Hayman a couple of months back.

El Perro Del Mar was pretty dreary and gave more than one of us a downer. I like some of her songs which can be beautiful at times but this was a bit too much and I can only think someone ran over her cat that morning. A time and a place for this sort of music and slap bang in the middle of the day wasn't it.

I was looking forward to seeing The Loft having missed them the first time around before their acrimonious split in 1985 which was the year I started going to gigs. They played a great set with Winter being a highlight and finished with Why Does The Rain and Up The Hill And Down The Slope. I'm not sure how long this phase of the band is going to last so catch them why you can.

However Dressy Bessy were the band of the night. A strong performance from the band, particulary singer Tammy who was dominant on stage throughout. Most of the songs were from the latest, rockier Electrified album so much so that the keyboards have disappeared. However they still managed to play a track or two from their finest hour Pink Hearts Yellow Moon. The crowd were at their most animated during their set with friendly moshing taking place but it was Tammy's stage prescence that caught most peoples eye especially as the others in the band seemingly taking a step out of the limelight. Fantastic stuff.

Final band was Mazarin who did nothing for me during the couple of songs I caught which a droning psychedelic sound which sounded out of place with what had come before before. Yawning, I headed for home with my 7" singles and a couple of freebies and reflected if that Dressy Bessy hadn't played how average a Pow To The People it would have been.

Some tunes:

Speedmarket Avenue - He's A Rebel
El Perro Del Mar - Loneliness

Stream tracks from the My Space pages for Beatnik Filmstars, Speedmarket Avenue, El Perro Del Mar, Dressy Bessy and Mazarin.

Bob from Underexposed catching my appreciation of Dressy Bessy along with more of the Sounds XP erm, posse. Pretty bunch eh?