Aged Yummy.

Played with these 3 lovely chaps from Huddersfield back in 1783. Loved them then. They finished their album last month. My finger is so far from the pulse I've only found out now. They stream it free from their million websites. For fucks sakes download it.

I've been bored of music for a while now. It's just so fucking boring it hurts. This is not. This is like nothing I've ever heard and I have heard a lot. It sounds like they're making it up as they go a long, but they're so clearly not. It's just amazing. I love it.

The vocals are just short rhythmic bursts of intellectual lyrics. The guitar/bass are also short bursts of tuneful and often discordant bits of twangy noise. The drums are tight and add as much to the sound as any other instrument, which is very rare nowadays.

Their album is called Pacific Reactions and it is fucking cuntingly good.

www.myspace.com/agedyummy

www.twitter.com/agedyummy

agedyummy.bandcamp.com

Litterbug

Litterbug are a band from Blackpool. That's an hour and a half away from me in a shitty 3 door Ford Fiesta that can't go on motorways. We've gigged in Blackpool many a good time and have met these guys almost every time. They are sweet guys.

Why do I tell you this? Well, while we knew these guys were in a band we've never actually seen them play. So last time we were there their bass player gave us a copy of their album. I say us, they gave it to our singer, but I got an erection off the cover so I stole it from him when he was in a drunken sleep. The cover displays the 2 greatest men in history, William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy, fully dressed in their sexy-ass star fleet uniforms. With the words:

Litterbug

It's Punk Rock Jim

But Not As We Know It

Sadly I couldn't get a jpeg off it, but you can see why I needed to have it. although I've had this CD for a while, I hadn't had much of a chance to listen to it until yesterday. I put it on and MY GOD I really fucking liked it. I really fucking did.

They sound basically like the Ramones's paranoid cousins on meth. A sound which I truly enjoy. The drums are powerful and extremely in your face, just like the flat growling vocals, driving basslines and positive adjective guitar. Each song is about 2 minutes long (with some exceptions) which are perfect punk rock lengths. Being the nutter alien conspiracy freako that I am, lyrics about conspiracy theories and TV were perfect for me.

Please check them out. I don't know how bands like this are giving away free CD's and [insert shitty pop act] are still allowed to make shitty "music"!

FUCK YOU SIMON COWELL!

www.myspace.com/litterbugblackpool