Thursday, April 28, 2005  9:38 am 

who put the ramalama with the devong ding dong

People, people, ok, let’s start with the bad news, Coachwhips split up.

Boo-hoo. Their gig at the Freebutt will be a legend.

But you know how it is with bands, meet ‘em, fall in love with ‘em, fall out of love with ‘em, hate ‘em, send ‘em threatening letters… Anyway, the world keeps turning, as Elvis said in his proto-gansta track ‘In the Ghetto’, new bands sprout like little mushrooms or, in the case that concerns us today, fluffy pink slightly threatening beasts who know how to name a song.

(Ain’t they cute?)

Check out the Spazzvocodercore of Grabba Grabba Tape and shake like a hot potato, you know it’s the thing to do. This song is included in their lovely ‘Tweeter Dude’ Ep which is sold out as fuck cos it contains the most hysteric 6 minutes of devotastic mentalist whatever wave I’ve listened to since I saw Polysics playing and they hit me in the side of the head with a dayglo boomerang (I might have made the boomerang bit up).

Grabba Grabba Tape- Ramalama D.E.V.O.N.G.

Dolby Surrender introduced them to us and us Brightonauts will meet them soon enough as they are playing on Monday the 2nd at the Freebutt. Moulsecoomb Sword Gang who are quite awesome and getting better each day, and Ack Ack, support.

Before that, on the 1st, it’s improv freakout at the Engine Rooms with none other than Mr. ‘I’m Losing My Vitamin C’ Damo Suzuki, our friend and comrade in arms Matt Colegate is involved so it will rule even more than it should. Yeah, Burning Idiot Noise, brilliant. Bring da Orange Juice! And what about Poseidon? We Love you Matt!!!

And before that on friday, the Juan McLean and Glimmers at Concorde, although the 20jazzfunkkids will be swinging it retro style in dapper outfits at the Sussex Arts Club in ‘Messing Around’, James Sticks new nite. Live exotic performances, Houdini projections and Memphis Gee and other chaps deejaying, can’t go wrong there eh?

And I’ve given the list of things to do in the wrong order! Crikey

(btw go and buy the Vitalic album, Ok Cowboy, cos I its like the best ‘dance’ album of the decade…yeah, up there with Kittenz and Thee Glitz, XTRMNTR and Discovery…simply awesome. Ah, and while you’re in the record shop get Arular by M.I.A, another blinder, it even includes that bastard of a track U.R.A.Q.T.!! Yay!)

Lindstrom - Drums of life

We all know that space is the place.

Hitchhikers to Timelords there is no better place than our little centre of the multiverse than this tiny island place known as Brighton.

I think that’s a backward drum that sounds not unlike Siouxsie and the Banshees Peepshow to start with and then goes straight for the alien communication noise that every good Timelord uses to converse in a John Williams Close Encounters style.

This one is especially re-written by Talking Heads for all u funky mo fo aliens by Mr. Linstrom on his excellent new EP Plague The Kid II on Bear Entertainment.

Body poppin’ with six arms is so much more fun, especially when you are a 12th dimensional being with 23 heads from the planet zegongponk.

Talk to the deroveovnion cos da face ain’t listening.

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