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- Polly Coufos in STM
- GET THE BEST OUT OF SUMMER’S LINGERING DWINDLING DAYS
- Joy Division.
- For teens about to rock | Features | PE.com | Southern California…
- Boys from The Jam head to Ipswich
- Hope amid hatred
Polly Coufos in STM
NEWS.com.au – Aug 25, 2007
article-tools –> Polly Coufos in STM August 25 2007 10:00pm You’d get no points at detective school for claiming to discover that Melbourne trio Midnight Juggernauts like synth pop from the past. It leaks out of every moment on their new album Dystopia. It’s not just cool retro synth like Air and Daft Punk that you can hear in their music; these guys go back much further to when the 1980s were just beginning and the likes of Soft Cell Human League and Psychedelic Furs were racing up the charts. It is part glam and racy and part pure pop. It’s spacey and spooky and quite fun. The band has been going three years now. The two principles Andy and Vincent appear to want to leave their history quite vague and mysterious and as long as the results are as promising as Dystopia they can be forgiven for leaving things just as they are.
GET THE BEST OUT OF SUMMER’S LINGERING DWINDLING DAYS
New York Post – Aug 25, 2007
The afternoon (free) and evening ($12) concerts at Studio B in Greenpoint Brooklyn bring together 13 bands and two DJs that were selected by 22 bloggers. The music runs the spectrum from punk-klezmer (Golem) to world hip-hop (Soulico) psych-rock (Spectrum) to cheerleader punk (Bling Kong). All for a good cause: to benefit Music Education in N. In the Pocket (lmcc.
Joy Division.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 25, 2007
While Curtis’ lyrics expressed an emotional desolation and dark literary fascination they were in sharp contrast to the act’s fiery onstage energy. “I was thinking of getting t-shirts printed with the slogan `I’ve been bottled at a Warsaw gig’” chuckles Morris. Having learnt of the existence of London punk outfit Warsaw Pakt the name Joy Division was swiftly adopted. Curtis found inspiration for the new moniker in the pages of the novel The.
For teens about to rock | Features | PE.com | Southern California…
Press-Enterprise – Aug 25, 2007
The squealing guitar riffs and staccato punk beats of their band's only song arch and twist through the abandoned collegiate hallways. The band's lead singer 16-year-old Isaiah Brown wails into the microphone — a guttural inscrutable chorus — then shakes a mop of brown hair out of his eyes. He kneels as rock stars do into the tide of his own sound. When practice ends the rock stars are gone their affected cool having faded with the last riff. In their place five lanky teenage boys… " The premise of the camp is simple: On Sunday kids show up with their instruments and are placed in one of 12 bands each of which gravitates toward a musical genre depending on the band members' predilections. It's not unusual for a kid who's used to breezy alternative rock to end up in a hardcore metal band. “We all have different styles of music and at first we couldn't agree on anything” says Garrett Hackler 15 one of the three guitarists in PLAID. “We just fought for a whole day. And I wanted everything to be my way. I'm a total princess. “If he's the princess then I'm the queen” says Leo Shiv 13 Hackler's bandmate.
Boys from The Jam head to Ipswich
Ipswich Evening Star – Aug 25, 2007
The group featuring Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler of the original line-up of The Jam are starting their 22 date UK tour at the venue. The winter tour starts on Wednesday November 21st and includes London Glasgow and Birmingham and ends at Brighton Centre on Friday December 21st. Foxton and Buckler will perform all of the Jam’s greatest hits and classic tracks from their studio albums including That’s Entertainment A Bomb In Wardour Street This Is The Modern World Going Underground A Town Called Malice The Gift plus other Jam originals written by Mr Foxton including Smithers Jones and News of the World. The duo is in the process of recording new material for release in 2008 including fresh versions of Mr Foxton’s own early songs… Call The Regent on 01473 433100 for more information. Are you a Jam fan? What do you think of their music? Write to Your Letters Evening Star 30 Lower Brook Street Ipswich IP4 1AN or send an e-mail to eveningstarletters@eveningstar. They had 18 straight top 40 singles from their debut in 1977 to their breakup in 1982 including four number one hits. Two of these 18 singles were only available in the UK as imports and as of 2007 they remained the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK.
Hope amid hatred
The Australian – Aug 25, 2007
Then there was the excellent Stephen Frears who built a career on studies of troubled English immigrant communities and the sordid lives of young rebels including a film about the wretched Joe Orton the gay playwright murdered in 1967 by his jealous lover. At their best Frears’s films were redeemed by an underlying grace and humanity and of all British directors perhaps none has shown a clearer understanding (evident most recently in The Queen) of the complexities of the British class system and its strange regional variants. Footage of Thatcher appears early in This is England part of a grim montage suggesting general social malaise and desperation all set to blaring rock music. Certainly the times were tough. Unemployment and union thuggery together with Thatcher’s bitter fiscal medicine welfare cuts and the privatisation of state-run enterprises took a heavy toll on Britain’s working poor. But why I wondered do we need another angry expose of the horrors of Thatcherite Britain? The good news is that This is England is something richer and more satisfying: the story of a 12-year-old boy growing up under the seductive spell of a gang of skinheads who discovers that the lives of his companions are evil and dangerous and in some cases nasty brutish and short… Woody the oldest of them (Joseph Gilgun) treats him with playful affection and protects him from the rougher boys. Soon Shaun is having his head shaved and dressing up in outlandish outfits to spray graffiti or trash an unguarded building. He becomes a sort of mascot for the gang and befriends a sad punk girl called Smell (Rosamund Hanson). Skinhead culture according to Meadows wasn’t always synonymous with vicious social protest. It arose innocently enough in English shipyards and factory towns in the ’60s when working-class kids (immigrants included) sought refuge from life’s hard knocks in outlandish dress and a love of reggae music. But when Shaun discovers a new hero in Combo (Stephen Graham) a charismatic fellow who rejoins his old gang after a spell in prison life takes a sinister turn. Combo is a true racist all the more dangerous for his warmth and joviality; and if Woody treated Shaun as a mascot Combo treats him as a younger brother.