| stewart lee,
the sunday times Alan Bennett
fronting the Velvet Underground,
or George Formby singing Hank
Williams. With a little spit and
polish, they could be as quirky a
commercial proposition as Pulp
once were. |
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| james jam,
n.m.e. Look beyond singer
Adrian Shaw's glorious
Liverpudlian (sic)
mumble and you'll find songs as
charming as Pulp, as sordid as
the Velvets, and as magnificently
maudlin as Lambchop. |
|
| lost music It's like hearing
out takes of some great lost
band... The band have a DIY ethic
that is admirable. They didn't
wait around to be found. They
just did their own thing. Making
their own CDs and video's and
getting their own gigs and taking
their kicks where they could find
them. They have made countless
CDR releases and have sold them
at their gigs and later online.
Who needs the music industry? You
really can do it yourself. |
|
| the
exclusive John Shuttleworth
singing songs written by Jerry
Sadowitz in the style of Half Man
Half Biscuit, released on K
Records. Songs of the everyday,
songs of love, heartbreak, the
seaside, adolesence and magic
mushrooms - is there anything
else? Jingle, jangle, lo-fi, with
a huge sarcastic Yorkshire
heart... oh, they make me swoon. |
|
| bibabidi When I first saw
the name, the Teenbeat, I
immediately thought of the record
label, Teenbeat. However, the
Teenbeat was formed in Birkenhead
about 10 years ago, and they have
neither changed nor gotten any
more press since the day they
were created. A shame, really,
but maybe it's best that these
guys stay timeless. They are most
definitely lo-fi, but I find
their vocalist to be the most
intriguing aspect of the group.
He sounds like Nick Diamonds of
the Unicorns and Islands combined
with Stephin Merritt of Magnetic
Fields. Pretty interesting, I
think ... listen to Round Yours
For Tea. |
|
| al They're The League
Of Gentlemen doing The Violent
Femmes. |
|
| knaresborough
festival The bastard sons of
George Formby, Beck, the mad
bloke down the pub, Pink Floyd,
Walt Disney, the Bee Gees and Val
Doonican. |
|
| the
psychotic reaction Robot Mervin is a
work of genius. Very twisted
genius, but genuis nevertheless. |
|
| dj silky Bob Dylan meets the
Pet Shop Boys. |
|
| robots and
electronic brains zine Adrian R. Shaw -
the man at the helm, in a loose
kind of sense - while the rest of
the band make shadowy and awkward
Beat Happening noises. You won't
want to leave. |
|
| jimmy
possesion The difference here
is that everything, except for
the odd John Shuttleworth skit,
is played by a band favouring the
spasticity of early Wire filtered
through Half Man Half Biscuit via
Jim Reeves and the leapfrog logic
is the inside of Shaw's head. |
|
| chinchilla
music English
eccentricism set to lofi music...
English country best describes
it. |
|
| creme
anglais zine They know their
singles will probably never be
available in the shops, but who
cares? With their battered
4-track, a guitar and a computer,
they're perfectly capable to
create great tunes like the cool
and nonchalent Stairways or Tonka
Toy. |
|
| quirk zine Just how great are
The Teenbeat? Very. Sounding like
The Fall with more than one song
...more "real" than any
other band. |
|
| original sin
zine If I would have a
record company I'll immediately
release Shit Weather as a single,
heartbreaking stuff! But same can
be said about Scarborough ...you
already have two singles then! |
|
| frank
magazine Sounds half like
Lou Reed and half like Ian Dury. |
|
| silver juice
zine Adrian pens songs
of life in a northern town
...songs of dead seaside towns
and sex in cheap nightclubs.
There's more than a touch of the
poet to Adrian's muse and his
style is often literary. |
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