Mon - April 12, 2004

Jesus Jones Instant Remix


The first new single in ages from Jesus Jones includes a complete kit for budding remixers - in fact for anybody - to reconstruct the 'A' side "Culture Vulture". The challenge is more than I can resist.

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Sat - April 10, 2004

Auditioning New Releases


Came home fwith a dauntingly heavy carrierbagful of CDs sent by pluggers, record companies and bands, and finally made a start listening to them about 11pm on Good Friday night. ...The principle is to pull five CDs from the pile our of their sleeves at random, load them into the carousel without reading the labels, then sit down with pen, paper and the remote control and start listening.

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Thu - April 8, 2004

Jim White, Martina Topley-Bird, Hamell On Trial


Jim White's new album is Americana Gothic in the mould of The Handsome Family or Joe Henry...the man himself turns out to be a charming and erudite conversationalist
My feeling is that what Ed needs is fresh blue sky strategic planning from a visionary manager, rather than more touring of his astonishing one-man show to club-sized audiences.

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