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

I'd have to agree here.

Just tap them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and say "NO!" in a loud, commanding voice.

i'm almost 100% sure Zappa didn't take any drugs aside from nicotine and caffeine."

Beefheart has often claimed not have done so - however everyone I've ever spoken to who actually knows / knew the man tells me that this is utter bollocks.

It's slightly easier to believe that Zappa didn't because of his evidently rampant OCD - but only slightly

That is hilarious and so dead-on.

i must hear this! please!

er. um. i don't quite know what to say about this......

New drug euphemism?

... and the Lips (hi Wayne, remember the Foolkiller!) were from Norman, OK, a college town within doable gig distance. there was a midwest local tour curcuit - columbia, MO, Norman OK, Lawrence, KS, Topeka, KS, Lincoln NB and it was very cooperative, low key and close knit. Close knit enough for me to have lots of stories i won't tell you.

For as long as I can remember loads of people I know have used the term 'shit NME bands' for any of those boring, middle of the road indie rock bands that they trumpet, presumably because they're too scared not to (I give them the credit of not actually liking that pap).

I'm not being facetious, if someone I know said to me "oh, such-and-such are one of those shit NME bands..." I'd know exactly what they sound like and probably how they look and act too.

BTW a band doesn't actually have to be in NME to be a 'shit NME band', they just have to be the sort.

Recently though Kerrang! has got a lot more diverse so it's not so useful.

isn't this just a new version of "Steve Lamacq approved bands"?

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.)