Adverts for cereal don’t usually have much effect on me. Of course, it’s all about keeping the brand there in our subsconsiousness, not about teaching us anything we don’t already know about the sound Rice Crispies make when you pour milk on them. They snap, crackle and pop, I presume?
Anyway, I’m a Tesco fruit ‘n’ fibre [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 30, 2008
In breakfast cereal news: Honey Monster rips off Boosh, Tony the Tiger turns up in Tibet
March 24, 2008
Be Your Own Pet! - Get Awkward
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Be Your Own Pet! are one band who definitely sound better in the flesh than they do through your speakers, and although they claim to have progressed from their self-titled debut LP, the Nashville band are still in the terrible twos stage of pop-punk development. The guitar playing is ramshackle, breathless and elementary in equal [...]
March 11, 2008
The Futureheads @ Liquid Room, 2 Mar
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Having patented the style, The Futureheads do barbershop-punk better than anyone; even if there’s precious little longevity in such a musical straitjacket. So let’s get the inevitable it-all-sounds-a-bit-similar gripe out the way and get on with the gig in hand. Decent Days and Nights is a nought to sixty in zero seconds opener, with singer [...]
March 2, 2008
March in singles: the good, the bad, the Blunt
Attention all you closet Bryan Adams fans: was Everything I Do the soundtrack to your first game of school disco tonsil tennis? Then I’ll be kind. I Thought I’d Seen Everything (**, 10 Mar) heralds Adams as the new Bob Dylan. In a parallel universe where Dylan wrote infantile, wuvvy-duvvy swill, that is. On that [...]
