Oh God, NME Tries To Start Yet Another New Movement ..... SHROOMADELICA - The music movement that will 'weird up your head',

Shit NME music
Shilola NME music
shoe shine nme bands
shoe shnme bands
shoegazer bands

So I bought the album (which turned out to be The Delays) and exactly three songs sound like that. And the rest of it is Doomie-bait sub-Byrdsian La's style jingle jangle. Sigh.

(If there were a style of music I could be said to hate, it would be Lame Kerrang Bands. There was an interview with the bloke what runs it in the Camden New Journal a few weeks ago, coz apparently Kerrang is run out of Camden and I wanted to stick a pencil in his eye by the end of it.)

I don't think they're the greatest anything ever, and I'd never start a movement around them, but their singer's voice is really nice. He sounds like a GURL and that is the highest compliment I can give someone.

not true, but the current editor 4shl3y B1rd lives right near the tube.

Also, Delays* are lovely and mmm. Singer sounds like Geneva's Andrew Montgomery, which is a bit of a bind for Andrew Montgomery who apparently now has a new band.

*there is no "The". There was never a "The". The band apparently spend half their time runnung around like Lynn Truss, armed with scissors, marker pens and Tippex, altering posters...

Delays are definitely Summer Sunshine Pop, but psychedelic? As psychedelic as milk!

x-post with Chuck... oh. I assumed Kerrang was run out of Camden, but if he lives in Camden, that makes him a "famous Camdenite". Apparently. I mean, the CNJ can't just go on running endless features about the Bloomsbury Movement, can they, but still! Kerrang? Fuck off!

OK, that's it, I'm writing to the CNJ to complain about Kerrang's inclusion when they should be covered only in the Southark Shite Journal or some such rag. THIS IS A LOCAL PAPER FOR LOCAL PEOPLE, NOW KEEP THAT NASTY BOYROCK OUT OF IT!!!

(I heart the CNJ, it is the best local paper ever, so much better than that pseudo-socialist Islington nonsense I read on the 19 the other day.)

Except I think I'd run a girlband rather than a boyband. So then I wouldn't run the risk of actually sleeping with any of them and getting arrested or the like...

Or is it South of Oxford Street and therefore not in the weird aberration area of Camden at all?

I know! I've been thinking that since I first heard them, then I learned otherwise the other week and my head hurt.

Graham's production is I think the secret to their success at their best. It's not him making them sound like BP or anything, more like he's got a great ear for teasing out some unexpectedly strong arrangements.

(Have low hopes from bands, then you'll never be disappointed.)

What does it mean when someone says "xpost", though? I mean, obviously they're saying "cross post" but I can't figure out what they mean by that. I would think this might be explained in the FAQ, but no luck, there.

I'm sure the Bees have been making records for as long as i've been a hack too.

They're gonna keep running with this Shroomadelica pish aren't they?

I eagerly anticipate the arrival of the entire Bees album, although come to think of it, they probably have more than one. Thank you Stevie for turning me on to them.

Alright, which one of you sarc barsts wrote in?

the bees have done nothing for me. dunno why?