The Comet Returns

I woke up to a comic sized package waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs, but when I opened it to read about the latest escapades of Booster Gold and his Justice League International I was in for a shock. For lurking inside the package wasn’t a comic, it was something far stranger and magical; the sound of a ghost train slithering through a spaghetti western with eerie ad-libs and shouts spewing over the sides like Bonejangles and his Bone Boys doing “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. 

Of course, it’s the new epic Flipron single “The Comet Returns”, the ad-libs and shouts coming from the legendary Specials front man Neville Staple. It will be released 10th September via Tiny Dog Records with the new album Firework Shoes following in October, so save your pennies to get a seat on the ride!

Good Weekend

Went to London for the weekend and came back with 17 new favourite pubs, 10 new favourite ales, a new favourite Indie Disco in 'If You Tolerate Bis, Kenickie Will Be Next', and a comedown worse than the one encountered after a week of eating rhino tranquiliser sandwiches.

Cover the Walls – Internet Forever

Good Weekend – Art Brut

Full Moon Reggae Party - Tigercats

Memorize the City – The Organ

Something for the Weekend – Super Furry Animals

Disco Song – Au Revoir Simone

All Night Disco Party - Brakes

Party Out Of Bounds – The B-52’s

Disco Girl – BMX Bandits

Weekend – Ladytron

Dance Stance – Dexys Midnight Runners

The Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Disco – Pete and the Pirates

Come to the City – The War on Drugs

We Love the City – Hefner

Those Days, Those Nights – The Notes

Man in my Mind/In a Party near You – Race Horses

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Valentine Without You Will Be Miserable At Best

Valentine without You will be Miserable at Best

She doesn’t laugh at My Jokes – Jonathan Richman

Cult of the Hopeless – The Notes

Lost Weekend – Art Brut

Hideous Accident – Just Joans

Benny and the Jets – TV Girl

Hymn for the Alcohol - Hefner

Goshen - Beirut

There All the Time without You – Kestrels

Another Bed – The Twilight Sad

Georgia - Yuck

Superglue – Everybody Was In The French Resistant… Now!

Sinking Hearts – The Organ

Heart in Your Heartbreak – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Misery – Veronica Falls

What Have You Done To My Heart? – The Bell Divers

Let’s Fall In Love and Run Away From Here - Ballboy

Maybe a bit late for this year... but if your looking for some baller hand-made valentines head over here

I Guess Things Happen That Way

“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”

The subtle sadness of a childhood ebbing endlessly away lingers evoking melancholic nostalgia. Suddenly it seems the people you used to see everyday on the streets and in the parks are not there anymore, people change, friends drift apart and go separate ways where the road splits, some will never meet again and not feel a thing, others will remain eternally connected even if they no longer know where to find one another. Kermit the frog had it on lockdown: “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it”. I don't like it, but i guess things happen that way.

Your Own Religion – TV Girl

In the Hearts of Men – First Aid Kit

The Peacock – Beirut

Holes – Mercury Rev

Guess Things Happen That Way – Johnny Cash

What Do We Do Now? – Just Joans

All My Friends (Are Dead) - Island Twins

Brothers – The War on Drugs

Dance Floor – The Apples in Stereo

Don’t See the Sorrow – Au Revoir Simone

Getting Over You – The Bats

Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me? – Ballboy

Don’t Be a Stranger – Esiotrot

When We Were Still Friends – Herman Dune

December 1986 – Lucky Delucci

The Way It Is – Laura Cantrell

Hurricane to Heat Wave

One minute the wind and the rain are blowing a hurricane down the street, and you’ve resigned to the fact that summer, with its energy and warmth, is lost for yet another year, but suddenly… BOOM! From nowhere, the sun blasts out through the lifeless dull grey clouds clearing the skies and putting your sadness on hold for a while!

Hurricane to Heatwave:

Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain
Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Higginz vs Reardon
Veronica Falls - Misery
Half Man Half Biscuit - Little in the way of Sunshine
Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
Carter USM - Sunshine
Howling Bells - Setting Sun
The Primitives - (We've) Found a way to the Sun
Ladytron - Ninety Degrees
Plains - Heat

Deep Blue, in '97 I voted for you...

"Deep Blue, In ’97 I voted for you, As Sports Personality of the Year I thought at least, You’d get the Overseas ‘cos when all’s said and done you’re not like some of these Bad losers on Yahoo Chess"

Half Man Half Biscuit have just announced a long overdue return to Cardiff in the coming summer, scheduled for the 25th of August at the Cardiff Millennium Music Hall. The news sent me scampering back to the last release: 'CSI: Ambleside' with joy in my heart. I found out about the gig somewhat fortuitously, having stumbled upon this the other day (nice list but Bob Wilson Anchor Man has to be top of the league?) I decided to check the website and what do you know it’s been updated! With 6 fixtures announced a new album must surely be imminent?