One of Kill The DJ resident record players Sir Alice has recorded vocals on with Avril on the new album Members Only and works with Marc Collin of Volga Select and Nouvelle Vague. This is no reason to be impressed, but this certainly is.

Sir Alice – Bouda is a Material Girl

In England at the moment we don’t have much luck with our club kids/performance/art school artists turning out great music, as everyone who got the sadly disappointing Kashpoint album will know. Some of em look great though (see Markus Interactive).

With the possible exception of Simon Bookish and Patrick Wolf, who must be a bit sick of being mentioned in the same sentence, as they are so poles apart, this scene and our current English art school kids leave me uninspired (sorry Matthew). This is not to say they should give up, hey at least they are trying to do something, rather than just slagging of others (moi? jamais), but kids – just stop hanging round has been gay house djs with more coke than taste. If anyone can tell me different, please let me know, we are very open to suggestions.

Sir Alice is poles apart from all that as you can hear, and as such releases records on the Tigersushi label – press the pictures to hear more samples and buy. This is a performance art rock club chic dj with content to back it up.

The guitars come screaming straight from a Thurston Moore improve solo work, with a harsh feedback that just rams though the nearest bits this song has to a chorus. Everyone says it, and as with some cliches, it’s true her voice is reminiscent of the wonderfull Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and this is so not a bad thing.

Sir Alice has a vicious tounge on her and American listeners who don’t speak french should avoid running the lyrics though babelfish.

Unfortunately this song makes me want to consume more Sir Alice records rather than give up my diet of consumerist life, without which I am nothing. I am after all a material boy.

While you are here, please visit Silence is a rhythm two to aquire some great stuff about Howard Devoto and Magazine.

If anyone is feeling a little Satanically challenged by this blatant consumerist culture of downloading mp3s from blogs, reasure your faith in the lord and Jesus throught the power of Christian Metal over at Sebastian’s great place on the web – PCL Linkdump.

In Brighton tonight (12/11/2004) we will see you in the front row for Lightning Bolt at the Enigma in Ship Street, and 20JuanFunkGreats may be playing some records at the official aftershow Nascent Disco. If you cannot get a ticket, or hate Lighting Bolt then go see Help she can’t swim at Artschool Dropouts at the Engine Rooms, which will be great too.

Whatever you do, keep warm in winter.