Comet Gain
Réalistes (Milou Studios)
Words: Miss AMP

You may think your reviewer too libidinally charged and you’d be correct, but make me give a fuck: the boy-child* on the CD case of "Réalistes" is all-fucken-right; a dark-haired sensitive indie Mr Thing with black dork glasses and bitten lips, just like your papa never warned you about. more...

Diary Of A Nobody
Words: Alistair Fitchett

I’ve been making lots of tapes recently. Old stuff mainly, like The Chills, Sneaky Feelings and Biff Bang Pow! My friend Hye Min, for whom the tapes are made, tells me she has been playing "She Paints" on endless repeat for NINE hours. She says non-stop. Which is scary for anyone, but especially for a 16-year-old in 2002. Naturally I think this makes her an angel. A weird scary angel, sure, but the wings are there nonetheless. You just need to know how to squint in the sunlight. more...

Giglog
Words: Fiona Fletcher

January 22, 2002
It’s Tuesday, so this must be Camden, and we’re drinking in the Dublin Castle, the seamiest, nastiest armpit dive in the seamy nasty armpit borough of Camden, but those lovely folks at Fierce Panda records have a mind to put an end to this awful reputation by staging their weekly indie apocalypse, Club Fandango in this seamiest and stinkiest of dives. more...

Mike Patton interview
Words: David McNamee

He’s been known to shit in hotel hair dryers, munch on the used tampons of female rock stars, and on one memorable onstage occasion, he removed his shoe, urinated into it, raised it to his lips and happily drank away. All from a man who claims never to have consumed alcohol or done drugs, one who, despite a high profile in Sassy magazine, widely extolled the virtues of pornography as an alternative to sleeping with a woman he didn’t love. Mike Patton, former frontman of genre bending alt rock icons Faith No More, current frontman of the malevolent and erratic rock extremists Tomahawk, even once stated he had more in common with a bum, or homeless person, then he did a rock singer. Mentalist. more...

Singles Reviews
Words: Jimmy Possession

Keith John Adams
Memory (Flitwick seven-inch)
There can’t be many lyrics, except for the odd sea shanty, that feature the line, "Keep my tiller even." There are undoubtedly fewer still, and probably no shanties at all, that couple it with the plea, "Memory be good to me". more...

Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth (Rough Trade)
Words: Everett True

The sleeve to "Colossal Youth" – Young Marble Giants first and only album – shows three faces, shadowed against the light, faces seemingly hewn out of granite. Two angular boys flank an equally mysterious girl. more...