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Editorial OCT/NOV Welcome to Issue 4 of BadFormat! Magazine

It’s been a rollercoaster ride since the last issue - Bar Closures, Bar Launches, Bar Re-openings, and Editor’s missing in action. Liverpool’s sub-culture has never been so colourful. 2 // Thumbnails WINNER BadFormat! Social Club was closed, under a section 19 3 // Editorial closure order, in a bizarre encounter between the Police and legendary DJ John Kelly’s new night at BFSC: ENDUP! (Last 5 // The Birth & Death Of Copyright / Status Saturday of the month). It was welcome to the Terrordrome for us: a rude awaking to the heavy hands of the Police, in 6 // BadFormat’s Penguin Plug-In what was essentially a Shakedown. But we prevailed, re- opening within a few days 7 // Nature Vs Nurture While on the other side of town, sub-culture was on the move… 8 // Elevated The Heebies gang launched their latest adventure and re- 9 // Super Islam Banana opened The Masque. The Masque retains it’s roots in live music, but decided a course of steroids was required for the 10 // Recycling Pop / Nanowrimo PA system: Funkton 1 – sonic pioneers - was rolled out and installed not to only to provide hi-fi sonic clarity for live bands 11-14 // Liverpool Music Week Pullout but also to feed power the increasingly influential Chibuku & Circus. Downstairs, INK was launched – A Sailor Jerry’s 15 // Paul Du Noyer - Futuresound tattoo biker bar decked out with tattooed Suicide Girls! 16 // Fanwalkers Intrigue was afoot on Hardman St… It seems that all the cool Indie bars are retreating up Hardman 18 // Nevermind the Erics / Bedroom Jam Hill - An escape from the migrating Scallie hordes that have reached as far north as Heebies. 20-21 // Regulars and Reviews First of all we were treated to the opening of the new Baabar: Launched on the site of the old Geisha, BaaBar lies at the frontier of town, in a key but challenging location, but BaaBar EXECUTIVE EDITORS Scott Jones ([email protected]) look to have gotten it right. This new venture comes after the Laurence Easemen ([email protected]) huge success of The Bumper (BaaBar LTD) also on Hardman GUEST EDITOR Rosie Harris St. WORDS Jensen WIlder, Sarah Monteith, Framed Ink, Rosie Harris, Anna Machel, Liam Flanders, Isobel Jones Mindy Torr, Laurence Easeman, Scott Jones Korova is Dead. Long live Korova! After a brief closure, Burgerboy PICTURES Scott Jones, Will Johnston Contribute Korova decided to flee the lion’s den that is Concert Square, ART DIRECTION AND LAYOUT Scott BadFormat! ([email protected]) THANKS The Hawk, Gary Murphy, Andrew Edmundson, Denise Pendleton, And and uprooted their entire operation to the old Roadkill on Chris Hoole, Will Evans@Diageo, Louise Lynn@RedBull, Hope St. In less than a month they re-fitted and re-opened! Hey Tourists, Ryan Fleming, Melissa Bohlsen, Collaborate Phil Hebblethwaite, Claire Rawlinson, Laura McGann, Heather Purcell, Kevin McManus@ACME, Revo, Jen Carey, Mark, Tim & Paul@Elevator, THIS MAGAZINE IS WRITTEN An Interesting few weeks! Lorraine & Steve@Mortons, David Pichilingi@SoundCity, Leisa Maloney@Fire BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU! Management, Kirsty@Btween, Debbie Morgan, Graham Hughes, Back over at BadFormat….amongst other things we launched Stuart Lanceley, Natalie@Leaf, Rob Swerdlow, Danny Murphy, Kerry 1. Register your interest by becoming a member our new Friday night project called ROBOT LOVE – a dirty HoldenThe Hot Melts, Reid Anderson, Ray Kilpatrick, Gill@Cream, Alicia at www.badformat.co.uk Stubbersfield, Louise Shannon, All@Another Media, Nadia Jaynes, CALM, electric robot disco. In association with www.partycmyk. 2. 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03.11.09 - DANIEL JOHNSTON @ptak - Telling the Future with Bones and Pee--or--the Lyricism of Urine Color Wheels 04.11.09 - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB http://tinyurl.com/yhpg6e9 @SchapiroArchive - Processing boxes labeled “miscellaneous notes scattered on 04.11.09 - THE APPLES The Birth desk”...woe is me this Monday... @jchou ...met a brilliant man studying Japanese who says he fell from another By Laurence Easeman 04.11.09 - BROKEN RECORDS &DeathOfCopyright galaxy 100 years ago... we’re going to a musical sometime

@themichaeladams - I love the words 06.11.09 - TWISTED WHEEL What is a “right”? control them. As surely as the rise of the printing press “Christian burial” ... Cadillac limousines, made the birth of copyright inevitable, so black umbrellas & no tears because wasps Superstitions to the contrary, rights are not Presto: Copyright! the rise of the Internet made the death of can’t cry 08.11.09 - DINOSAUR PILE UP magic spells emanating from some hairy Not because of any divine dispensation, not copyright inevitable. fairy in the sky. Rather, rights are codified for the greatest good of the greatest number expressions of underlying social power -- but simply because it could be done. Social adaptation to changing realities takes @cubemate - drifting through another part relationships. time, of course. It took years for copyright 09.11.09 - BRAND NEW HEAVIES of muzak land: watching the Monday night The printing press gave the state cost- law to reach its equilibrium form after the knitting circle work to smooth corporate For example, Americans have the right to effective control over the first mass medium, introduction of the printing press, and it will jazz... 10.11.09 - CHROME HOOF hum or whistle any tune they like as they and “copyright” arose as the codified take years for copyright law to evaporate drive to work. expression of that power. now that technology has obsoleted it. Why? To put it perfectly plainly: The printing press @tokyohanna - Just saw a girl dressed at the intersection of high fashion and 1930s Because of divine dispensation? created copyright. Nerve impulses travel slowly down the insane asylum. Marry me? 10.11.09 - BLUE ROSES Because the RIAA out of the goodness of But what technological progress creates, it nervous system of the dinosaur of state, its heart decided to allow free exercise of can also destroy. and nowhere more slowly than through the @erikjansen - from now on i’m post- this right? hindbrain that is the morass of case law. everything. post-modern, post-strategic, 11.11.09 - THE HOLLOWAYS No, because there is no cost-effective way The introduction of dirt-cheap desktop But the fact remains that copyright law is post-industrial, post-rock. pre and current of preventing Americans from doing so. computers and Internet communication the codification of a state power which no is for losers restored the pre-Gutenberg status quo longer exists, a lingering shadow which 11.11.09 - DANANANANAKROYD The moment a technology appears which ante. Armed with a desktop computer, cannot long outlive the light which cast it. makes it cost-effective to monitor what document reproduction has become fully Kathryn Jones - Thiller Halloween Party tonight at BadFormat! Come show us your Americans are humming and whistling as decentralized and uncontrollable as it Copyright -- the notion that the state has moonwalk! (9 til late) £3!x 13.11.09 - THE BAYS in their spare time, be assured that the was before the introduction of the printing the power to tell people what they can and RIAA will be pitching legislation to the US press. cannot do on their personal computers Brian O’Connor - can’t help but feel the congress to outlaw unlicensed whistling -- will seem as antiquely humorous to our ‘Nick Griffin is a Twat’ Facebook group is and humming of tunes, the better to fatten It was perfectly practical for the government grandchildren as do to us laws mandating 15.11.09 - JAY REATARD a bit redundant. There might as well be one quarterly profits. (And, of course, to Protect to control every printing press, but it is that cars be preceded by a crier with a called ‘The Sun is Hot’ Artist’s Rights, Defend The American Way, no more practical for the government to lantern sounding a bell. and Prevent The Collapse Of Civilization As control every desktop computer than it was Abelardo Kraggioni - Do I really even need 15.11.09 - FOY VANCE We Know It.) for the government to control every quill Like the latter law, copyright laws may still facebook? pen. Indeed, the desktop computer is the be formally on the books a century from now Up until the invention of the printing press, new quill pen. -- but the only notice taken of them will be Tara Maguire - Lenny fucking Henry 20.11.09 - ALICE RUSSELL everyone had the right to copy any document in humorous collections of legal curiosities. he wished for the same reason: There was Where does that leave copyright? Richard P Feynman once observed that Graham Hughes - Almost got arrested no cost-effective way of preventing it. Dead. Nature cannot be fooled. AGAIN last night... usual bunch of plain- The printing press changed that because Contemporary copyright law is a dinosaur In the long run, neither can legal fantasies 23.11.09 - MISSION DISTRICT clothed policemen trying to bundle me into printing presses were expensive and rare, too dumb to know that it is already dead. prevail over technological realities. making it cost-effective for the state to a random car. What is WITH these guys??

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I’ve always had pets. As a kid my parents weren’t into buying me piles of plastic like It was hard to ignore the Go! Superlambanana BadFormat! have received their own my friends had, so instead of the latest My project that arrived on Liverpool’s streets penguin and are currently preparing for it’s Little Ponies I had rabbits, guinea pigs, last year. Love them or loathe them it’s installation in the third week of November. chickens, ducks, even sheep and goats. hard to deny the impact it had on both the In keeping with our philosophy of Rural life didn’t suit me, I spent my teens public and on the reputation of the city as a contribution and collaboration, we are hopping trains to London, hanging out champion of public art installations during encouraging all BadFormat! members to with older kids that had their own places the capital of culture year. add to our penguin’s design during the already and getting pissed when I should project. Ths will take the form of hundreds have been revising. But I knew university This winter a similar project arrives when of icons, slogans and drawings which, was the easiest way out of rural Dorset, so I over a hundred penguin sculptures will take once submitted to badformat.co.uk, will be came to study in Liverpool. Living in the city over the streets in an attempt to promote applied to our penguin for all to see. was everything I wanted it to be, the music, global warming issues. the nightlife, the people, the absence of my We’ve named the penguin ‘Penguin Plug- mothers nagging voice. But there was one Brought to you by Wild in Art, the people who in’ and the end result will promote the thing about my country upbringing that I delivered the Superlambananas, the city collaborative approach of BadFormat! and couldn’t quite leave behind, and that was will be animated with over 100 individually continue the ethos behind the Go! Penguins the animals. designed 152cm tall penguins; each one project as a whole. created by professional and amateur Until recently I lived with two guinea pigs, artists, schools and community groups Anyone wishing to contribute to the Wilbr and Pilton, and spent years buying a and celebrating Liverpool’s unique sense BadFormat! Penguin during the next few kilo of carrots a week until one day I came of fun and self expression for residents and months should sign up to the site and down to find Wilbr had died. Pilton went visitors to enjoy. submit their idea. two days later. Petless, I couldn’t sleep. I left it just two days before going down to a huge petshop in Tuebrook just to look, not to buy.

I immediately spotted the rabbit I would come to name Keith Floyd. He was like me, desperate to get out, scratching at the walls of a tiny hutch stuffed with four others. Ten minutes later I walked out carrying Keith in a Corona box. For days he flourished with his new freedom, causing havoc around the house. But it wasn’t long before Keith went NatureBy Jensen Wilder VsNurture down hill, and days later I found him in a pool of diarrhea, barely alive. I rushed him to the nearest vet, where I was informed that this was the fate of many pets bought from It would be the easiest thing in the world We’ve had great bands squirm up from We’re not a city like London that tries to this Pet Guiag. They buy in cheap animals to sit here and write an article about how the underground clubs in nearly every bleed our new heroes of all their value and bred from poor stock, and the conditions Liverpool is ground zero for great music. major city on earth. As a country the UK then spit them out like an empty Frube tube. they are housed in means that any infection I’d be able to use these 500 or so words has had more than its share of truly world- We’re not a city that has old-fashioned spreads quick. Rabbits are natures prey, to conjure up the names of the harmonic altering achingly-awsome bands. The thing hang-ups about what ‘music is’. We’re and symptoms of illness are hidden until royalty that have walked these streets. No about Liverpool is that there seems to be certainly not stuck in the past. Sure, we the last minute, meaning that this Pet Guiag doubt I’d be able to warm your heart with something in the water. Liverpool is irrigated like to battle down with some Billy Fury, but can turn a nice profit selling sick animals sweet words about The Merseybeat era; with the sort of spirit it needs to grow, and that’s because it still kicks ass today. We’re that don’t appear to be unwell. unique and universally adored. Except it go on growing, new talent. a city that is well aware of its heritage, but isn’t true. It isn’t that it produces more great bands that also isn’t afraid to let the newer voices Like his namesake Keith had a death When you really think about it, this city is than anywhere else, its that it has a culture sing through. sentence hanging over him. The vet said guilty of producing its fair share of shit music that allows the bands that begin enough This is where I’m in danger of saying we could try treating him, but there were too, we’ve exported some inexcusable trash. room to be themselves. Its that so many something cliché such as ‘It’s people that no guarantees. A former inmate of Pet The fact that I think some of Liverpools bands bands are allowed a shot at doing whatever make great music, not buildings.’ I guess BadFormat! is the first and only published magazine built by an online Guiag doesn’t tend to last long in the are rubbish certainly isn’t an opinion shared the hell they like. Just nip down to any open I have to bite the bullet, because its the outside world. For days I syringe fed him community in the U.K. by everyone, as some of these artists have mic night and listen to it all! Sure you’ll truth. high calorie mush and antibiotics, I was sold millions of singles to an eager market. get a fair share of covers, but that’s just to Liverpool’s people have bred a culture of cleaning his arse and doing midnight feeds. The point I’m really making is that no city’s lubricate their larynxes. creativity, its in our blood. We give everyone I’d wanted a rabbit, not a baby! But it paid output is tipped to everyone’s taste. The You’ll have indie, folk, sea-shanties, 60’s a chance and garner treasures from a heady Members submit and edit the content to produce a publication that is built off, Keith Floyd has pulled through and is fact remains that to class Liverpool as the rock and 30’s jazz. Not to mention the mix of raucous rebels. doing well. It came at a high cost, the vets by the readship for the readership. greatest city for music based solely on a list chorus of crooners that spill into the streets So, before I leave you to turn to the listings bills left me with £20 to last me 9 days. of über-famous bands is far from balanced. at closing time. And, whereas it may not page of Liverpool Music week, I want to Yet the city offers so many other genres, be to everyone’s taste, I smile where I hear leave you with one name that highlights They price their rabbits at £17, but if you’re that have come from every distant vantage 3am louts toting their own soulful renditions what I’m saying. Simply because it would We want you to join us, You can use this magazine to publish your words going to buy from there you also need to of this wide world we inhabit, that it doesn’t of slurred and half-forgotten lyrics. It’s not be sacrilegious not to mention them in an account for the vets consultation charges, and pictures in the same way as you change your status on Facebook and matter, I’ll still find something else that’ll fit my scene, but who hasn’t heard of Cream? article about Liverpool music; ‘Jemini’. If we injections, antibiotics, supreme science my taste. On a saturday night in Liverpool every genre can still rate Liverpool as capital of music recovery, hibiscrub, and taxi fares making Twitter. The fact is that truly great music can start of music is represented across the packed after that, well… it must be pretty special. the total cost closer to £100. in any city that has a willing atmosphere. bars and night clubs of the city. www.badformat.co.uk

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By Sarah Monteith Superlambanana....love it or hate it? It weary travellers fell in love with the city and short of bullying and arrogance. Elevated has become an iconic part of the modern settled in Liverpool forever. From Romany Mistakes are made along the way and not Liverpool landscape and culture. Gypsies and Eastern Europeans to Africans But I think the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, The everything is perfect, in much the same Anyone who has visited Crosby Beach My own spot as a reserve, offered a forfeited and Caribbean settlers. Liverpool has also War On Terror and the medias onslaught of way that Taro Chiezo shows with his idea. since the installation of Antony Gormley’s place, meant I had only a day to plan what What has been forgotten is that Taro Chiezo been home to Indian people for much propaganda is really starting to take its toll It is life’s imperfections that make life ‘Another Place’ will understand why, when I was going to do.I wanted communication created Superlambanana to warn of the longer than many other parts of Britain, on the British psyche. The press portray a interesting, Liverpool has also evolved in he announced his new project ‘One and to play a part, but I was also conscious of a dangers of genetic engineering, it is both coming from the Punjab and Pakistan from yearn for “the good old days” and values. the same way, yet all too often the people Other’, the North West was the region with comment Andrew Motion had made about humorous and iconic by simply putting a 1910 onwards. We also have the Oldest How do they expect modern warfare to who bang on about this great city are usually the most applicants this side of Watford. connecting to a greater number by making Banana up the backside of a Lamb...Ouch! Chinese community in Europe. play out? Many brave Liverpudlians have the ones giving the city a bad name. things small and personal. I chose simply As a public art piece it has the people of lost there lives in combat in many wars and Liverpool in particular is very tuned in to the to read a couple of stories to my young Liverpool and visitors alike talking about Much like the Superlambanana Liverpool none more important to modern day British But through all of this one thing still remains concept of Big Art. Tate Modern chose the nephew, Oliver, as I watched an unexpected what art is and how they view it in their day has been one massive genetic engineering history as WWI and WWII which threatened great - Liverpool! city as it’s second home twenty years ago. late September sun creep across the to day lives, ather than debating on the experiment. the stability of the whole of Europe and From the original Superlambanana right National Gallery. pro’s and con’s of genetic engineering and effected the entire World. After WWII the Liverpool has been created by some of through to the innovative La Princesse art is more about what a freak it is! So may be It’s these genetics of Liverpool and my own 1950’s saw a massive change in society the city’s and worlds best master pieces, not something this city shies away from. For Jensen, the very question of what he it’s job done! personal genetics which make me rightly with a shift in values and the emergence whether its the Stone Masons that created should do prompted a reflection on the proud of who I am and were I’m from. My of youth cultures and again in Liverpool the architecture, the pens, the guitars and Something about the simplicity of the nature of questions themselves. For him, How you view art is up to you, in the same family originate from the Scotty road area mass displacement to new housing. It the voices of Liverpool that create some of concept of an empty plinth in Trafalgar the plinth became more of a challenge to way I personally support Liverpool F.C, and were moved to Croxteth after the war, was the dawn of a new era in Liverpool’s the worlds best music, literature and art. Square stirred the nation as a whole- get up there and ‘be’, rather than trying other people may support Everton.F.C but where the majority of my family still live and history, culminated with contemporary The hands that have won more bouts than one hundred days and two thousand to fill the time with activity. ‘The answer that’s the beauty of personal choice. work. From my Nan’s Irish Background to culture like the Beatles, Space Travel and any other city in the world or a foot scoring four hundred randomly chosen plinthers never matters as much as that you asked Liverpool played a massive part in shaping my Irish mother (Hi Mam!) and my Scottish the Automotive Industry. It was boom time, some of the worlds best goals, they have spawned a myriad of blogs, local newspaper the question,’ was his response, and the the history and building of Great Britain. It surname, Its this type of Liverpool history it must have felt like this was the dawn of all contributed to the City’s culture - even articles and intense discussions attempting questions reflected back to us ideas of who had once been the richest city in England that makes us who we are, so different and a future! Alas this high didn’t last and once auld Superlambanana! to answer the universal cry... ‘What should and what we are. His is an hour devoted to and ranked among the richest in the world so special. If you don’t know were you are again in the 1980’s Liverpool wrote its own I do?!’ This was especially the case in those who seek. due to its association with the slave trade, from how can you know were you are at or page in British history during the Thatcher All these great examples of culture start Liverpool. with the countries busiest and wealthiest were you are going? years, so this latest Credit Crunch comes with an idea and to evolve into areality One and Other had critics, of course, but the port making it a hub for immigration as no surprise to the city! you have to create it. This comes through Anna, selected for the very first week of the question ‘is it art’ is perhaps less interesting shaping Liverpool culture and history. So, I feel sad when I see and hear racism energy....whether you use a pen to write, event, chose to answer that question with a than the people who profess to be qualified of any form raise its ugly head. It makes So, just because the pig headed war paint to decorate, nails to fix, bricks to writer’s perspective. An abandoned book of to answer it. Equal numbers loved and The Transatlantic slave trade was not the me doubly embarrassed when I hear it on mongers who run the country lead us into build - they all follow the same train of stamps, subsequently unclaimed, suggested hated this installation, but it appeals on only means by which Black people came the streets of Liverpool of all places, with a propaganda fuelled War on Terror, it thought, you have to put your ideas into a way she could take other people on to many levels. From the idea of isolation and to settle in the city either, records show our rich diverse history of immigration. doesn’t mean we have to hate all Muslims practice and create them, or it will forever the plinth with her- by using them to send smallness, to a comment about what and that Black settlers in the city as far back Some would say Liverpool was born out because the gutter press say so. In fact be an idea. postcards to people chosen at random. who we choose as a society to put onto as the eighteenth century. Black loyalist of adversity, or we are the glorious under turn your hate on your government who For her, the art was in the communication. pedestals. Least of all for me was the ability soldiers fought in the American War of dog- even the independent state. With our send your sons & daughters, brothers & Hopefully when you look at the lamb A terminally ill friend, though a stranger to of any one individual plinthian to ‘entertain’ Independence and settled in Liverpool rich and varied history and strong identity, sisters to certain death whilst piling the banana from now on it will draw your Anna, received a card two weeks before for an entire hour. Instead, what we have after the War. we of all cities should continue to embrace fire high with tax payers money on a war attention to the process, evolution and she died. Random chance means even is part of a snapshot of humanity at this people of all races, places and faces. that will never be won. The MP’s have stole creation of Liverpool. David Blaine has one, somewhere. moment in time. The Great Famine of Ireland in the 1840s Do we really want to turn into a city of from underneath our noses, the bankers saw hundreds of thousands arrive in xenophobes? have got richer, whilst poverty and crime Like the Superlambanana is neither one Robbe’s reflections took him down similar The final plinther, Emma, chose a more Liverpool and by the 1850s 25% of are on the rise. Where exactly have the thing or the other...it doesn’t hurt to keep roads. A poet, he used his blog to accept traditionally memorial approach to her hour, Liverpool’s population were Irish-born, Even the word Scouse is thought to come government or the national press ever got an open mind and more importantly a open requests from friends and strangers, but one which again took Liverpool right to cementing Liverpool’s Celtic roots and from the Norwegian word Skaus. us, or what have they done for us besides hand! culminating in a selection of both his own the heart of the project. She used her time changing the DNA of the city forever. an undeserved bad reputation? This is why and more famous works being read to raise to read aloud the names, and some details, Liverpool has finally started to admit we shouldn’t care, but more importantly (P.S. Please note that word ‘Creative’ awareness of various charities, including of the ninety six Liverpool fans who died at Liverpool had a larger than life reputation its part in Great Britain’s shameful and this is why we shouldn’t start to make again, its one of the most important natural the organ donor register. His hour focused Hillsborough. Hers, and all the other hours, and attracted people from all over the embarrassing imperialistic past and its life harder on our own doorstep. I’d much resources in Liverpool) on the significance of chance in life, and the remain as ongoing art at oneandother. world to make passage through the port part in Slavery. Driven by imperialistic ways rather live a life of fun than a life of fear choices we might make in response to this. co.uk to America and beyond, but many of these Britain’s attitude was at times nothing and hatred.

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RecylingPop By Rosie Harris NaNoWriMo By Anna Machell

Japan’s strong youth culture has hit britain, As yuppies hit Britain in the 80’s Japan had Liverpool’s literary-minded come stumbling your novel. Given Liverpool’s rich cultural with the fashion pictured on the pages of been seeing a rise in affluence. Technology out of their garrets and into the city’s cafes vibe it’s no surprise that there’s an active Fruits growing in strength and Lolita clothes and communication were kicking off, and again this November when National Novel community of writers taking up the challenge being imported into independent shops. The the country, soon to be known for it’s Writing Month kicks off on the first. The in the city. influence of Kawaii (Japanese cute) is all Anglophiles, weren’t going to be left behind. target is fifty thousand words of original Kaite Walsh and Rosie Harris are at the helm over the high street; in clothes, stationary, As less families relied on agriculture and fiction and, with thirty sleep deprived days this year for Liverpool, providing support, even electronics, and Manga is no longer moved to the cities their teens found easy in which to do it, repeat offenders find encouragement, and much needed venues only read by the geek that sits in the back access to Britain and it’s revered culture. comfort in banding together. If this month for the group. The event has a reputation of the class. Their culture is everywhere- we Rebellion ruled, and the young turned to you see groups of people huddled around as being the ultra-marathon of writing. The remake their horror films, Hello Kitty is sold the Western world their parents hated for laptops typing feverishly then you might writers are known to be fueled by caffeine in the ever so British John Lewis, next to the inspiration. Posters went up in bedrooms, have found them. But the fast pace of the during the month, keeping themselves tweed, and sushi is in the sandwich section straight dark hair was bleached, died and writing is matched by a frequent move in going on quick high energy foods. There’s of every british supermarket. curled to emulate their heroes. They took venue, to keep going they move around no time to think about your health. “I think what they wanted from us and turned it as their fledgling novels develop over the we might start as badass supercool edgy But all of this is almost as new to Japan as around, creating their own brand of cool. month. underground writers but by the end of the AGenreBustingMusicFeast it is to us. Many of the parents of Japan’s Favourite haunts include Fact, Egg Cafe, month we’ll all be nervous wrecks”, says coolest teenagers are still adhering to One of Japan’s biggest cultural exports 3345, Mello Mello, Waterstones, Brew, Kaite, who is all too aware of the strain the The festival which kicks off on 29th October array of free shows which will be happening free show at The Masque on 4th November, Bumper & Alma de Cuba return as host traditional Japanese life, with the women is Haruki Murakami. The former Jazz club BadFormat! Social Club, Everyman event puts you under. and runs through to 16th November is now across 20 city centre venues during the 2 2009 has been their biggest year to date, venues and for the first time will be joined cooking complicated meals for their owner grew up listening to The Beatles and Bistro, and the nearest park bench. They So why do it? “If you’re not published writing in its 7th year, and has grown from a single week festival. with a summer of high profile events they by the newly refurbished Masque. All 3 husbands in their naga-gi. While Japans it’s influence is all over his work. Norwegian communicate through twitter, posting a novel is hard, there’s no one on your back venue event to a burgeoning nationally managed to beat off La Roux & White Lies venues will be hosting free events each youth are getting heavier from eating Wood isn’t only named after a Beatles song, updates on their location to find each stopping you from giving up, and even if recognised event and has become the Highlights include Wild Beasts @ Alma on as NME Readers ‘Best 2009 new festival day for the 2 week festival. New venue burgers their parents still stick to a diet rich the main characters are also named after the other. you do finish it’s not likely to get published UK’s biggest indoor winter music festival Tuesday 3rd November who are set for band’. Adding some ‘blues’ flavour to additions includes include INK which will in rice, tofu and fish. fab four’s work, albeit in Japanese. Japan’s “Last year I wrote wherever I could” says anyway” says Rosie, “but NaNoWriMo gives and attracted some of the worlds biggest international success next year, and this year the diversity of this years festival is Son feature more free shows new radar artistes youth is lapping his work up, and we are Rosie, one of this years municipal liaisons. you a deadline, and the community aspect acts. This year’s line up is by far the biggest received a 5* review in the Sunday Times Of Dave, who we’ve secured to perform such as Ou Est le Swimming Pool, Marina & We’re buying up the counter culture of too. How could we not? His use of imagery “I work full time, so at lunchtime I’d sit down gives you peer pressure. It plays on your and most diverse to date, covering every for their highly acclaimed album. For the before he heads off to America to record the Diamonds, Detroit Social Club, Broken Japans youth, shops stocking up on is astonishing and his characters draw us wherever and cram in as much as I could, competitive side, no one wants to be the genre imaginable from rock, indie, dance, dance heads, BBC Radio 1 favourite Jaguar his new album with legendary producer Records, Blue Roses. Other new venue anything with a bit of hiragana on it are in. Subconciously it’s the familiarity of own sometimes outside the courts, random one that didn’t finish it” folk, leftfield and beyond. Acts already Skills performs live for his LMW debut at Steve Albini. The Klaxons favourite new additions include Mojo and Newz bar, all join on the quick road to profit. But what has culture that makes his work accessible. His benches through the city centre, anywhere Out of one fevered month of writing has confirmed to perform include The Specials Bumper on 14th November. At The Masque band Chrome Hoof make their Liverpool the traditional LMW venues such as Korova, brought about the sudden rise of Japans characters eat a healthy mix of Japanese with a chair and cover when it was raining. come bigger things, the group have now (Sold Out!), Kasabian, Seasick Steve, Calvin we welcome Kurt Cobain’s hero & favourite debut with full 12 piece band, expect a Zanzibar, Magnet & The Metropolitan. youth culture? Western music has a lot and Western food, nothing is too foreign. Yeah, it’s November, but your fingers only developed a writing group, Scribblepool, Harris, Super Furry Animals, The Enemy, songwriter Daniel Johnston, an artiste with futuristic disco performance. After a 3 to answer for: the gothic lolita trends are But to us it’s oh so Japanese and oh so get cold if you stop writing.” that not only works on fiction but has Reverend & The Makers, The Enemy, The 30 albums already under his belt, this will be year hiatus The Rumble Strips return to Our fine city is internationally renowned for attributed to British New Wave music from cool. NaNoWriMo is the world’s biggest writing members putting on plays and making films Gallows and Brand New Heavies. his debut at the festival and is set to be one perform material from their new album its rich musical heritage and passionate the 80’s, bands such as Joy Division and We have been selling Japan our culture for contest, now in its eleventh year and signs that have recently been screened in the city. of the biggest events on the LMW calendar, following their sell out 02 Academy event and music loving community, and Liverpool The Cure have inspired the fashions that we years through our music, our writers, and point to even bigger gate than that of 2008 If you find them this month buy them a drink However, the ethos behind the festival he will be performing his set with members back in 2007. Other free show highlights music week is the annual celebration of what now see as quintessentially Japanese. our fashion. Now they are selling it right which saw close to 120,000 people from and you might just end up a character in still remains, which is to support new of Wave Machines & Hot Club De Paris as on the bill include Crazy P, Killa Kela, Field has always made this city tick. A festival back to us. across the globe write 1.6 billion words. their Novel. music and offer a performance platform his backing band. Music, Grammatics, The Holloways, Jay that sets the precedent and continues to There are no prizes, except a first draft of for fresh emerging talent, in fact LMW has Reatard, Dananananakroyd, and Israel funk attract and inspire new music, and year on catapulted the careers of many artistes that Maps will be making their LMW debut band - The Apples and ALL FOR FREE!. year helps to affirm Liverpool’s position as have gone onto dominate the airwaves and at Bumper on 7th November and will be Local highlights include Sound Of Guns, the music capital of the world. music press. This year is no different, as performing material from their Mercury Screaming Lights, Hot Club De Paris, Wave well as the big name acts there is a world nominated new album. Bombay Bicycle Machines and The Vanities. “Burgers instead of tofu & rice“ “Thirty sleep-deprived days“ of entertainment to be discovered at the Club make their LMW debut performing a Neil Campbell’s electrifying new Free Entry – Doors 8pm Metropolitan Yves Kline THOUGHTFUL BEES Three Seeds in Paris FRI 13th NOV THURS 29th OCT classical rock composition Little Miss Strange Backhanded Compliments Kids on Bridges Cosmo Jarvis Korova £16.50 / £12.50 –Performance Zanzibar USELESS presents Major Major £12.50 + BF - Doors 7pm Hapytap The Rogues THOMAS J SPEIGHT Olympia Theatre Bumper 8.30pm ZOMBINA & THE SKELETONES Police Squad Free Entry - Doors 8pm The Metropolitans + Sean Francis Butler THE SPECIALS + Special Guests LMW + Meshuggy present a.P.A.t.T Adult by Accident Liverpool Olympia Tempti ng Rosie £5 – Doors 8pm Doors 7pm FIELD MUSIC Korova The Mighty Saguaro Free Entry – Show starts 9pm SEASICK STEVE + Special MON 9th NOV Free Entry – Doors 7pm Zanzibar **** SOLD OUT **** HOT CLUB DE PARIS DAS POP The Terrors Guests RAIN: Young Persons’ Matinée Married to the Sea Burn The Negative Bad Taste Barbies The Magnet £17.50 + BF - Doors 7pm Mojo Ink The Lady Killers BBC Big Screen House That Jack Built The Rialto Burns £3 – Doors 7.30pm UGLY DUCKLING THE TROUBADORS OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL The Decks In association with BBC Big Meow Meow £5 advance – Doors 8pm + Chef Bumper The 66 Gorton vs Berger Shift Screen, Free Entry – Doors 7.30pm WED 4th NOV £5 – 10pm - 4am LMW & Clash Magazine present: Meiosis Capac Stand Accused BBC Merseyside and PMS Magnet MAPS Lost City Radio Free Entry – Doors 8pm Free Entry – Doors 1pm “UNSILENT NIGHT” FEATURING Newz Bar Downstairs Disco presents Masque Theatre 3345 Parr Street It Hugs Back Free Entry - Doors 8pm a.P.A.t.T / Fonik /Ragnhield THE MAYBES? PBR STREETGANG LMW & Clash Magazine present: Film Screening Run Toto Run Studio 2, Parr Street Ink Zeigler IAN PROWSE (Amsterdam) Doors 10pm BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB Square One Pictures launches: Balloons Masque Theatre JAKE FLOWERS DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB Free Entry – Performance 7- The Monkey Steps The Sand Band “PROUD DADDY” Zukanican THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES Homestead The Aeroplanes 8.30pm Free Entry – Doors 7pm SAT 31st OCT Beaker Folk of the Bronze Age Free Entry - Doors 7.30pm Tomq + Tigerstyle SJ Downes The Trestles Dirtblonde DNA Orchestra £16.50 +BF - Doors 7.30pm Rosie Jones Free Entry – Doors 8pm BadFormat! Ink Bicycle Thieves Novice Mathematic FRI 6th NOV Doors 7pm + Mellotone DJs FREE PEACE + Special Guests MARINA & THE DIAMONDS The Grants Mines & Counter Mines Leaf Free Entry – Doors 8pm Zanzibar Doors 8pm Wolf Gang The Suzukis Gravity Always Wins Bumper ABLETON LIVE ATLANTIC MASSEY The Kazimier PlayDub present: Molly Jones The Real Kicks Free Entry – Doors 7pm Bumper Opening Show with The GENTLEMANS DUB CLUB (Live) SHOWCASE Mojo The Last Gambados 3345 Parr Street Kaya The Mono LP Vanities + Friends Sukh Knight b2b Scandalous Free Entry - Doors 8pm STRAWHOUSES Major Major Dudley Edwards Exhibition Juliett e Russell 15 Storeys Masque Loft THE VANITIES Unltd (True Tiger) Catfish and the Bottlemen Xander & The Peace Pirates A JOURNEY THROUGH VISION & Free Entry – Doors 7pm Free Entry – Doors 7pm LMW & The Masque present The Red Suns Trolley Snatcha (Dub Police) TUES 10th NOV The Temps £4 – Doors 7.30pm SOUND FEATURING THE APPLES (ISR) Jacobi Stenchman (True Tiger) Free Entry – Doors 8pm Will Seargent (DJ Set) Masque Theatre TUES 3rd NOV The Hat Band RedTrack Blue Bear (True Tiger) Liverpool University Le Bateau Howard be thy Name THE BAYS Free Entry – Doors 7pm The Sterlings MC/Host – G Double CALVIN HARRIS + Special Guests THURS 12th NOV Liquidation 16th Birthday Party! (live visuals) + Special Guests Alma de Cuba Plus late night live funk from Free Entry - Doors 9pm £14 +BF – Doors 7pm FUTUREHEADS (DJ SET) Wicked Whispers Free Entry – Doors 7.30pm LMW & Clash Magazine present: Ink Josephene Bumper The Monkey Steps Free Entry – Doors 7pm WILD BEASTS BROKEN RECORDS Free Entry – Doors 8pm Zanzibar THE RUMBLE STRIPS £3 with a flyer before midnight – Leaf Seal Cub Clubbing Club The Bottletop Millionaires RAIN: Young Persons’ Matinée My Auntie Sam Doors 11pm Lazy Genius presents FRI 30th OCT The Moguls Carrienne Hayden Masque Theatre Sick Circus The Cordels Nerdy Bagheera Free Entry – Doors 7pm TWISTED WHEEL Bludvera The Moguls SUN 15th NOV Masque Loft Capac Ragz The Idles To the Strongest Ink Sex Education Late night show Jacques Malchance Legends of Flight Alma de Cuba The Verdict Gods of War BLUE ROSES Ada and the Deadlocks **** Bumper Closing Show **** CRAZY P Tom Q Free Entry – Doors 7pm DAN BLACK Bo Weevils + more DAWN LANDES Free Entry – Doors 8pm THE INVISIBLE KillaFlaw Free Entry – Doors 8pm KILLA KELA Jajuka Free Entry - Doors 1pm Jennifer John Wizards of Twiddly Free Entry – Doors 10pm FACT KOF Free Entry – Doors 7pm The Random Family Bombed Out Church Killerfernandez Studio 2, Parr St. Film Screening @ 6:15pm Picture Book Zanzibar Sparkwood & 21 MALA (DMZ) Minion TV Ink Shane Beales THE DEVIL & Bells for Rene Zanzibar Company Store 1st Birthday Free Entry – Doors 7pm Fredo (No Fakin’) Kovacs Ink Opening Party in association Jessica Stavely-Taylor DANIEL JOHNSTON Sex Education Songbook Sessions COLIN Bash Oddfellow (Pace Yourself) Free Entry – Doors 7pm with Love Music, Hate Racism Carrie Hayden (2006) £5 / £6 ti ckets Mac of All Trades & DJ Rasp MCINTYRE Hosted By The Sixteen Tonnes Mojo Jonas (Eat Your Greens) “FREE ROCK & ROLL” Monika May Ticket holders for this screening Mash Up Potatoes (AKA Mull Historical Society) ALSO FEATURING: THE SEE SEE KILLAFLAW Aft ershow party @ Magnet from **** Masque Closing Show **** FEATURING Dave O’Gradey are guaranteed FREE entry into Free Entry – Doors 7pm Lee Broderick Blue Demon Triphazard 10pm LMW, The Masque & Barfly Pete Bentham & the Dinner Free Entry – Doors 7.30pm the Daniel Johnston live show at Charlotte O’Conner Barbieshop Post Modern Geisha (First 100 free before 10.30pm £5 present Ladies + Special Guests Masque Theatre. Make a night Leaf The Supermalts £6 - Doors 7.45pm Dirtblonde after) In association with Samizdat Free Entry – Doors 7pm Zanzibar of it! Eclective Collective Steve Pilgrim Coma Coma Drama JAY REATARD LIVERPOOL Noises & Voices Hosted by Kaya Herstad Night £6 – Doors 7.30pm Korova Free Entry – Doors 8pm Arena House Stig Noise Newz Bar The Stan Smith Band MUSIC WEEK Masque Theatre Parade EUGENE MCGUINNESS & THE INVASION Apple Cannon TIM BURGESS (The Charlatans) The Skindys liverpoolmusicweek.com In association with Samizdat & The Random Family Korova LIZARDS Masque Theatre Cold Ones Mother Earth DJ set Volcanoes Meshuggy Stealing Sheep TUBELORD + Special Guests + Special Guests In association with Meshuggy Bow and Arrow Beast Seal Cub Clubbing Club Paul McTigue This years festival is bigger than Special Liverpool debut Dan Croll £5 advance – Doors 8pm £5 - Doors 8pm CHROME HOOF + VERY SPECIAL GUESTS Free Entry – Doors 7pm Fake City Lights £4 – Doors 7.30pm ever and brings an amazing performance from:- Free Entry – Doors 7pm Mugstar LOVERMAN The Aeroplanes programme of live music. DANIEL JOHNSTON Studio 2, Parr St. SUN 8th NOV Indica Ritual Free Entry – Doors 7pm ***** Ink Closing Show ***** Post your review on badformat. £7 advance / £9 – Doors 9pm Korova PERFORMING WITH MEMBERS Korova Tones Of Home The Laze FOY VANCE co.uk PLUGS OF... THANK YOU Ronan Boyle Liverpool University + SPECIAL RARE APPEARANCE 3345 Parr Street Dead Cities Leaf + Special Guests Wave Machines We Came Out Like Tigers Arthur Shelton Jones THE ENEMY FROM DOGSHOW THE GRANDE Dave Owen TICKET INFO: TODD TERJE £5 – Doors 8pm Hot Club de Paris Bagherra Sihka General Fiasco Free Entry – Doors 7pm Naomi Mather Ragz (acoustic) Other ticket outlets for Kasabian Andy Mac and Scott McGill & FEATURING PERFORMANCES Free Entry – Doors 8pm Zoë Nicol Akeal Duncan Stewart Free Entry – Doors 8pm include Echo Arena, £7 – 10pm - 4am Metropolitan FROM... 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Stuart Anthony The Albany The Red Deltas Jacobi Closing Show **** www.ticketmaster.co.uk Richard O’Flynn SAT 14th NOV Tel: 0844 847 1788 Rebecca Joy Sharp Fieldhouse The Real Kicks Dire Wolfe WED 11th NOV The Loud KASABIAN MIBI Winners 2009 www.ticketline.co.uk, André Reflex Free Entry – Doors 7pm + DJs ‘til late Alexis Blue The Rennos + Special Guests Free Entry – Doors 7pm Bumper Free Entry – Doors 7pm / Daniel Free Entry – Doors 9pm Free Entry - Doors 8pm Masque Theatre Free Entry – Doors 9pm £25+BF / www.livenation.co.uk / Tel: 0844 888 4401 LMW & SJM Concerts present: www.skiddle.com, on stage at midnight THURS 5tH NOV DANANANANAKROYD 0844 800 0400 / Doors 7.30pm Masque Loft JAGUAR SKILLS (live) Tel: 0844 884 2920 Metropolitan Masque Loft Down & Outs Zanzibar SON OF DAVE Totally Enormous Extinct www.seetickets.com, Korova Nation Courtyard Buffalo Riot LMW & SJM Concerts present: Voo Zanzibar present: SAT 28th NOV The Cubical Dinosaurs Tel: 0871 2200 260 YOUVES SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Bagheera DINOSAUR PILE-UP The Bendal Interlude The Army of 12 Monkeys Ernie’s Rhythm Section Two Door Cinema Club SHAPES Free Peace The Shabangs The Telegraphs Puzzle presents Academy 2 Johnny Sands Django Django For more info visit: £5 advance – Doors 8pm £17.50 + BF – Doors 7pm The Red Threads Futures We Came Out Like Tigers The Verdict ‘Liverpool Music Week Extra!’ Jack Roberts Dogshow www.liverpoolmusicweek.com Free Entry – Show starts 9pm Fraktures Free Entry – Doors 7pm Venice Ahoy GALLOWS Willie and the Surroundings I Haunt Wizards www.myspace.com/ Leaf Alma de Cuba Free Entry - Doors 7pm Tantrums + Guests Free Entry – Doors 7pm Egyptian Hip-hop liverpoolmusicweek Leaf presents OPEN MIC 6IX TOYS Masque Loft Manequins £12+BF / www.ticketweb.co.uk / SAT 7th NOV Alice Klar Hosted by Johnny Sands. Music + Special Guests Ink LMW, The Masque & Barfly £3– Doors 7.30pm Tel: 0844 477 2000 / Doors 7pm St. George’s Hall - Prison Area starts at 8pm. Don’t forget to Free Entry – Doors 9pm Nation Courtyard LMW & Barfly present present: “FRANKENSTEIN” Free Entry – Doors 7pm bring your instrument. REVEREND & THE MAKERS RUBY JEAN & THE THE HOLLOWAYS Paul

DuNoyer:FutureSoundBy Liam Flanders

Paul Du Noyer is an author and journalist with over 30 years’ involvement in the music scene. Along the way his interviewees have ranged from Madonna to Pavarotti, David Bowie to Mick Jagger and nearly everyone with a strong connection to The Beatles, not least Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Born in Liverpool, Paul was educated at the London School of Economics. He was the founder of Mojo magazine and has written the definitive musical histories of both Liverpool and London and now divides his time between them. Liam Flanders picks his brain about music, culture and the current state of the music industry. Check out the FUTURESOUND event at BadFormat! Social Club in Novermber of which Paul is the Keynote speaker.

Q: What Inspired you to write Liverpool; eventually given to Tony Parsons and Julie moment? without buying it, they’re in less need Wondrous Place? Burchill, I was invited to freelance. Which After spending so many years looking of written guidance beforehand. On the I was a child in Liverpool in the Beatles’ era, I did for a few years until offered a staff job. out for the new bands I am enjoying the other hand, people also like to read about the 1960s, and was a teenage club-goer luxury of leaving that to other people! I am music they already know, and to hear from in the city in the 1970s; then I covered the Q: What has been the proudest moment discovering music that’s new to me, every its creators. Apart from all the changes in city’s music as a journalist in 1980s and in your career so far? day, but it might be something from the music technology, which are still not settled, 1990s. By 2000 I felt I was in a position It’s probably the Liverpool and London sixteenth century or a distant part of the the nature of publishing is uncertain. Music to write something nobody seemed to books (In The City is my new book) getting world. The last new rock band I really got magazines are traditionally funded, in part, have done before – a history of Liverpool’s published and being favourably received excited by was Kings of Leon, who are of by the advertising money of the music popular music down the decades. In other in their respective cities. I’m also pleased course quite traditional. There is never a industry. That’s been declining, and if it dries words, something that didn’t end with The to see Mojo magazine surviving: I have no shortage of music to discover. up then the future of paid-for journalism Beatles. Then I thought, well, it shouldn’t connection with it any more but I still feel it’s is also in doubt. There will be abundant start with The Beatles either. They didn’t basically the magazine I helped to create. Q: What magazines/websites/blogs are commentary on the internet but without invent Liverpool. Liverpool invented them. you reading? some quality control it will be hard to find Q: You began your career at the NME, In terms of music mags, only The Word. something reliable. You may think hacks Q: In the book you talk of a direct what is your opinion of the publication More generally it’s The Economist, Private who write for money are cynical and corrupt, correlation between culture and music today? Eye, any newspaper that’s lying around; I but the gushing of unpaid enthusiasts, or in Liverpool, do you still believe the I haven’t seen it for a few years, but my don’t buy into any one view point nowadays. the illiterate spite of anonymous bloggers, relationship exists today? general impression is that the writers had a Online it’s BBC News and all the random carries its own kind of dangers. My instinct has been that Liverpool audiences lot more freedom in my day. We could write links one tends to come across. There is a The ideal outcome will be a media that finds are crucial to the story. Even Liverpudlians long, in-depth pieces instead of sound-bites. great music industry blog called The Lefsetz room for all those things, for passion but also who are not entertainers themselves have a We were more independent of the publishing Letter which deals in the kind of business- expertise, for subversion but also for highly critical eye for it, and the whole city has this company and its marketing strategies. We meets-technology questions you raised, skilled investigation. Skill and expertise are enormous appetite for entertainment. The had other music papers to compete with, written with a fan’s passion. There are blogs By Scott Jones very expensive, not because journalists are effect was to raise every performer’s game. but that drove everyone’s standards higher. by colleagues David Hepworth (of The KnowYourEnemy highly paid (they’re not, unfortunately) but You couldn’t get away with being slack Today you have to compete with a mass Word) and Paddy Hoey (of Hope University). because it takes training and investment. Playing Music Week this year are punk active about joining with others to make dear to us as it was so hard to win over, it or half-hearted. Historically, it was also a of raw data from the internet and trivia in Also the blogs of Brian Appleyard and Nick newspapers, etc, there seems to be a That explosion of amateur access is ruffians The Enemy. The band’s second opinions heard? has such an honest crowd. place that was absorbing influences from the media generally. Plus we had inherited Cohen. Most of all, though, I’m led by real backlash against things like Xfactor basically to be welcomed, but I think we’ll album ‘Music For The People’ went straight around the world, far more than most British the hippie and punk idea that music was whatever subject I’m currently researching. which seems to represent the society need to develop new ways of organising our to Number 2 in the UK Albums chart on LW: BF!: towns, so there was something unique in its fundamentally important. Maybe it wasn’t, I actually read books far more than anything we live in at the moment... daily diet of information and commentary. release this April. BF! had a quick chat with I think it does make a difference in the way Do you think where you come from/ approach. Even today I think a Liverpool but that belief made everything seem more else. We’ll want to sort out the sources that drummer Liam Watts about The Enemy’s that one idea can quickly get about and live affects your creative output? Did act will have a closer relationship with its exciting. I expect today’s NME people are LW: really work for us. The internet is at an early, fondness for Liverpool’s music scene, music spread across the world. I also think that your home town of Coventry affect your audience than elsewhere. just as dedicated but they operate in very Q: Are you looking forward to Liverpool The music industry is definitely more of a anarchic stage. And the surprising thing industry marketing and British society in people need to watch how they filter the music in any way? tough conditions. music week? marketing game these days, which in turn about anarchy is just how boring it can be. 2009. information as it can be untruth as much as makes it more difficult for bands to compete Q: Are you a fan of any modern Liverpool Yes, I’m always encouraged by signs of truth. But it does provide a way that people with those with huge marketing budgets LW: bands/artists? activity in the city’s music life. BF!: of like minds can get together so they don’t The music scene there is very small and I’m not a club-goer any more. I’m happy to Q: Are there any new projects you’re behind them. There’s obviously a market Q: What is your opinion of the current BadFormat! Magazine promotes a feel like they’re on their own. getting smaller, for example the venue leave that to a new generation! I tend to see currently working on? Q: What advice do you have for young for that sort of thing because it’s selling, state of the music industry? community ethic behind a lot of it’s where we played our first gigs and where singer-songwriters when I’m out, whether I’m really busy with The Word magazine. people looking to get into the field of but i think it important the more ‘band’ way The old business was based on the sale output. It’s built by the people for the BF!: we signed our publishing deal is getting the established ones like Ian McNabb and I’ve just interviewed Smokey Robinson, music journalism? of doing things isn’t pushed to the back in of physical products, often containing a people, so to speak. Was calling the A track from the new album, 51st State, demolished, but bands will always find a Ian Prowse, or newer people like Ragz and which was a thrill for me, and I have to write You need to write as often as you can, favour of it. proportion of music you didn’t actually want. album ‘music for the people’ a call to seems to attempt to wake people from place to play. Paul Wilkes. I don’t know who the important that up today. I may start a new book next and across the categories: reviewing, They were slow to embrace changes in arms? political apathy and bring attention to the I think the size of the scene there could new bands are, only that I would love to see year but I’ll wait until I’m happy that the idea interviewing, reporting, subbing and BF!: technology because they couldn’t see a way government that brought the recession. have affected our sound in as much that we more Liverpool acts have success. I was is right. Books take so long to write, it’s vital captioning. Ideally you should have some BF! has been thinking a lot recently to protect revenues at the existing levels. It LW: Did you want to actively encourage your weren’t swamped with other local bands recently asked if I would up-date Liverpool: not to lumber yourself with an idea that will more experienced people around you to about Liverpool’s prolific music scene was left to a technology company, Apple, to it wasn’t as much of a call to arms, more of fans to take notice of what’s happening that we wanted to sound like. we went into Wondrous Place. I still follow the city’s bore you within a few weeks. That aside, learn from (and fan sites are not always and the possible reasons for this? What transform the landscape. I sympathise with a realisation that just as important as all the around them in the U.K.? rehearsal and found our sound there, rather progress, or otherwise, but I would rather my son has started a language school in great at that). It’s quite an intricate craft do you think makes Liverpool stand out their problems, but they were never exactly bands and the managers and the labels, we than mimicking bands we were playing with see new writers emerging to cover its music Liverpool, Best English, and I’ll be helping when you get more deeply into it. You need as a place to play? a lovable industry. Their supposed concern wanted to point out that it’s the people who LW: week in and week out. scene. him with that. old-fashioned literacy, which is important for the creators of music is hypocritical, as have put us where we are. In the same way as The song wasn’t trying to rile people, but it for elegance and clarity. You need to respect LW: almost any musician will tell you. BF! magazine is a product of its community, is easier for a lot of people to turn a blind We did a lot of gigs in Liverpool at the start On that note the interview drew to an end Q: Your resume in the field of music Q: A lot of people would argue that deadlines or else it all collapses. You have we wanted to acknowledge that we are a eye to it and then complain about it further with an invite for Liam to BadFormat! Social journalism is awe-inspiring, how and traditional music journalism is a dying to understand the market you’re in, and ask of our career and they were very tough. The Q: It’s a ‘toughie’ for a lot of people but result of our fans’ support, the people who on down the line. The song is more Tom’s Club to pick up this issue of BF! The new when did you first realise that you art form. What are your thoughts yourself what will make people part with music scene here seems to demand to be what’s your favourite album of all time? buy the tickets and the records. viewpoint on these subjects and you can album sounds a lot bigger than the last wanted to do this for a living? on this argument and do you believe their scarce money and precious time. You impressed. It is probably Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. either listen to it or ignore it completely. He record so go and check them out during the I had always wanted to be a writer but wasn’t that advancements in new media will be part of the generation that makes a We played the Academy to 10 people and It’s not really a concept album but it feels BF: just talks straightforwardly about what’s festival. sure how to get started. Just after I left technologies are helping or hindering lot of my experience irrelevant. You have to we were very disheartened but it showed us like one, not because there is a story line but Do you think social networking on the going on in the world through the lyrics. college (the London School of Economics), music journalists and publications? accept poverty and un-social hours. And if that you need to play like you’re playing to because it leaves you feeling you’ve been internet has put the lack of community The Enemy play Liverpool Music Week the NME advertised for new staff members. On one level, music journalism is just a you’re blessed with a little luck you will have 1000 people even if you’re only playing to through a complete cycle of emotions. in the real world back into people’s BF!: 10 people, that’s the kind of thing Liverpool 2009 at Mountford Hall (Formerly Liverpool I applied with a sample of writing, got on conversation about music, and that will a glorious time mind, as a result making people more With the additional abundance of Academy 1) on Sunday 8th November 2009 their shortlist and though the jobs were never die out. But it will have to change. taught us. Liverpool will always be very Q: Who’s your favourite band at the packaged pop all over the media, TV, If listeners can sample anything they like,

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Last year’s music week hosted the MTV Park here in Liverpool will be joining the all as passionate about music as they are. EMA’s at the Echo arena. A huge coup for lucky 100 FanWalkers from across the globe the city and an event that elevated LMW on this musical journey. FanWalkers will be posting daily updates into one of the best urban festivals in the on their progress on www.fanwalk.tv, U.K. En route from Hamburg to Berlin, uploading interviews, photos, videos and FanWalkers will be set challenges to show travel reports from every step of their What you may not have realised is that in their skills and prove that they are the journey. They will also be given a Sony the lead up to the event 100 people walked ultimate music fan. One FanWalker will even Ericsson W995 Walkman™ mobile phone, from London to Liverpool in an event called win an exciting dream prize - presenting which will enable them send daily blogs and FanWalk, where some of Europe’s most an MTV EMA award live on stage in front updates to Facebook, Twitter, hi5 and Bebo dedicated music fans beat over 7,000 of millions of fans around the world on 5 as they walk. applicants, from 15 different European November. countries to participate in the event. The phone they are being given, the W995 The FanWalk received an overwhelming Walkman™, is pretty handy too, letting A year on and it’s appearing again, this time response from music fans all across Europe. FanWalkers download films, listen to music from Hamburg and ending at the MTV EMAs Hopeful music-lovers entered their creative and take photos with the 8.1 MP camera. The korova 2009 in Berlin on 5th November. talents, via blogs and email at www.fanwalk. phone enables each of the 100 participants tv, trying to win as many votes as possible to produce and distribute content at all In October Sony Ericsson announced its from friends, family, other FanWalk hopefuls points of the walk, a truly interactive event. 100 FanWalk finalists who will participate and the Sony Ericsson jury. The walkers will also feature in an exciting in the challenge and attend the MTV EMAs daily webisode of the FanWalk which will be 2009 and exclusive after-show party. The winners range from 18 to 30 and each uploaded to www.fanwalk.tv of them is preparing for the long but exciting 18 year old Kim Bridson from Litherland journey ahead with 99 new friends who are

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Nevermind Bedroom TheEric’s By Isobel Jones Jam By Mindy Torr A buzz in the crowd, feedback in the anyone involved at that time – members, Red Bull Bedroom Jam’s aim is to provide Bull Bedroom Jam X-Crawl. Then come speakers, blasting guitar riffs and heckling musicians, DJs, and everyone who worked a live musical outlet for young bands and December the best of the best will be given from the audience - remember the first gig there. The spirit still lives with us.” musicians, aged 19 years or younger. It is a bunk on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam tour you went to? If it happened to be punk or the first online platform ever to perform a bus for a trip around the nation. new wave music this display, called ‘A The small, intimate club floundered when the gig, live to the world via the internet. Bands Spotlight On Eric’s’ will strike a chord. bands who had brought it success saw their and artists upload their videos to www. Red Bull Bedroom Jam artists will also be own stars start to shine on the national and redbullbedroomjam.com and then users appearing alongside some of the world’s Memorabilia from the nightclub that became international scene. Eric’s could not afford vote for their favourite video. The most top profile artists such as Fightstar, Stone a legend in just four years during the 1970s famous names’ fees, but concentrated popular video gets selected for a live- Gods and Madina Lake as they decend is on show at the Museum of Liverpool Life on fledgling acts. Police also targeted the streamed performance directly from their on the RBBJ studio for a pre-gig chat with until 21 November. club as it was a draw for punks, and it bedrooms. On broadcast day, the Red Bull presenters Goldierocks and Richie T as Red was eventually refused a drinks licence. Bedroom Jam crew collect the musicians Bull Bedroom Jam becomes a fully fledged The unassumingly named Eric’s was The club closed in March 1980 following a and selected mates and fans, and the TV style show. at the throbbing centre of a scene that drugs-raid. winners rock out in front of the camera. sealed Liverpool’s reputation for musical The gigs put on play a vital part in the trendsetting. Echo and the Bunnymen, The Liverpool musicians were the poorer for The project launched in September 2007 process of Bedroom Jam. Their mission Teardrop Explodes, Orchestral Manoeuvres the venue’s closure - especially given the with a live gig online by Kerrang award is to recruit the next wave of young acts. in the Dark and Holly Johnson – to name way it fostered new acts and held those nominees, Youmeatsix. This has been By uploading their video onto the site they but a few – all began their careers in the all-important afternoon shows for those too followed by a whole bunch of performances begin their journey which may one day lead club, which opened in 1976. young to enter the club at night. However, around the UK from other young bands to them being taken out on tour by Red Bull in the short time it was open, Eric’s made including Furthest Drive Home, Linchpin, alongside some of the countries hottest Owned by Ken Testi, Pete Fulwell and a huge impact on Liverpool’s internationally My Passion, Area 15, Saving Aimee, Lyrikal bands. the late Roger Eagle, Eric’s PA system recognised music scene and is still a Squad, Lil Rascals, 13 Riots and First reverberated to the sounds of some of the significant name to a new generation of Strike. For more info check out most iconic groups of the decade, including Liverpool musicians. www.redbullbedroomjam.com the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Police. They are giving the most popular artists the It took no time at all for the city’s youth to Co-owner Ken said: “In a few short chance to break out of the bedroom and latch on to the venue, with matinees for an years, Eric’s went a long way towards get onto the live stage at a number of the underage crowd key to its success. re-establishing Liverpool’s flagging UK’s top festivals! The top rated winners international reputation as a world resource of a Bedroom Live Show will be taken out Co-owner Pete said: “Roger, Ken and I for popular culture. This is a good time to onto the road and could bag themselves found a fantastic music community building re-examine the Eric’s model with a view to the chance to perform at stages at T in itself around us. Though it burned bright and re-establishing a viable platform for popular the Park, Download, Underage Festival, short, there was nothing more important for culture within Liverpool, in time for 2008.” Liverpool Sound City and of course the Red

“Still a significant name to many” “Recruiting the next wave of acts” Gone... AShortStory Heavy He felt something had changed from the moment he woke Peering down at his legs he saw that his left one, from the By Liam Flanders up. He walked through to the bathroom and turned on the knee down, was now missing. He clutched the empty leg Rotation shower, but he just couldn’t shake the feeling that something of his pyjamas, feeling the material, looking for something. was different. As he waited for the shower to warm up he Quickly he pulled them down and off, shook them out, looked wandered out the bathroom and looked through all the kitchen down the leg. Nothing, not a trace. Finally, he looked down at cupboards, checked behind the sofa, sat down and stared at the stump, and screamed. The Flaming Lips the coffee table for several minutes. Nothing, not one thing, It took him some time to gather himself together again, but Embryonic had changed or moved whilst he’d been asleep. finally he realised. He’d always imagined he’d go slowly and The steam made its way through the flat and he went painfully, of cancer or some other terrible disease, but this, Paranoid acid-soaked psychedelic head-fuckery laid out back through to the bathroom to shower. He was a man of he reasoned, this was OK. It was painless, it wouldn’t take over a 70 minute double album – what more could you want? routine, and this niggling feeling had disrupted that. Now he long. He quickly hopped over to his desk to write a letter The Flaming Lips have made their most audacious, creative would have to do everything just a little bit quicker, perhaps to his mother informing her of the situation, before his right The Builders And The Butchers and darkly-insane collection of music since 1997’s Zaireeka. leave something out, to make up the time. The feeling that hand disappeared. This, he thought, this will be my legacy. Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well Saying that this album is an introverted listening experience something was different was no longer the problem- it was And for the first time since it began he felt good about the would be an understatement but for all it’s dark tripped-out Portland, Oregon’s The Builders and The Butchers make a the disruption to his morning. It was a Tuesday, and it was situation. He’d never done anything remarkable, had only cavernous beauty it also offsets moments of enlightenment noise like no other, combining bluegrass, folk, gospel, blues ruined. work acquaintances as friends, never married or had any to add an extra dimension. There seems to be a refreshed and indie rock to create intensely energetic records. The It wasn’t until he was putting on his socks that he noticed. children. He had made no mark on the world until now, this sense of tightness in the band evident in songs like ‘See The story-telling nature of the lyrics is captivating; the album He sat on the side of the bed and had pulled up his bony strange new disease may be named after him, he was the Leaves’ and ‘Worm Mountain’ in which they actually sound opens with the line “When your heart’s deep and dark as a pale foot to meet his hands, sock poised, and noticed it was first to be afflicted. Finally, he had made a name for himself like band and not just an experiment with effects. well, everything that is golden and green goes to hell” and missing. The little toe on his left foot was no longer there. He without even meaning to. checked several times, he counted, he even pulled back the from there on the messages are as deep and stirring. Strings, Get Onto: Mercury Rev, Sparklehorse and Animal Collective The There was no point in posting the letter, it wouldn’t be horns and other accompaniments are used to beef up the bed clothes and looked for the missing digit, but it had quietly long before his mother noticed his disappearance. He left sound in places but it’s on the albums closer ‘The World Is A disappeared in the night. it propped up on the desk and considered it for a minute, Top’ when they really reveal their magic. He inspected the area of his foot that used to house it with before returning to the bedroom with a glass of water. TuneTomb By Joe Fearon great care, there was no sign that the toe had ever been It was a tricky and long journey, his right hand quickly Get onto: The Cave Singers, Motel Motel and The Arcade there, no bloody stump, no scar, no blemish, just a smooth disappeared, as he had feared, and although his remaining Fire edge of foot. Eventually he put his sock on and squeezed leg was still there when he pulled the covers over himself he Phantasm Soundtrack together the empty sack of material where his toe should be. couldn’t have guaranteed it, so had undertaken the journey By Captain Zorro Definitive proof. on his bottom. What were the repercussions of only having nine toes? He’d Once he was in bed, glass of water on the bedside table, The Phantasm soundtrack was composed by Fred Myrow managed fine without it so far that day, he could barely tell he reached into the bedside table and pulled out a box of Atlas Sound CinematicBy Joe Fearon (Soylent Green) & Malcom Seagrave. It is a supernatural that anything was different. He was in no pain and without unopened pills. Many months ago the doctor had prescribed Logos masterpiece that perfectly matches the surrealism of the any wound infection wasn’t a concern. If he did go to the him sleeping tablets, but he’d never taken them till now. Now Phantasm - The movie movie. Doctor they would just assume he was mad, and there was he happily swallowed one, and then another, for the hell of it, Atlas Sounds is the side project of Deerhunters charismatic Directed by Don Coscarelli nothing they could possibly do about the change. He decided front man Bradford Cox. Never one to shy away from debate, surprising himself with his uncharacteristic lack of caution. The main theme is a dark and chilling eight note piece on to simply accept that his little toe was gone, and not to allow Cox has made a name for himself as an opinionated and quite He settled down and waited to go to sleep, knowing that if he Phantasm the movie is a supernatural horror from the late electric piano and bass synthesiser, backed by a slow pulse this to disrupt him any more. Os Mutantes controversial figure. Logos embodies his talent and passion awoke there may be very little left of him. 70’s, a time when horror movies were scary, twisted, cool prog funk beat. Think Pink Floyd doing horror! It was harder to ignore losing the index finger on his left hand. Haih Or Amortecedor for music, from opening track ‘The Light That Failed’ - with Two weeks later, after her son had uncharacteristically failed and innovative. Classics like Dawn of the Dead, Halloween It had been there that evening as he was making dinner. and its sugary sweet plucked guitar and shuddering bass drum to answer the phone for several nights in a row, his mother let and Texas Chainsaw Massacre had such an impact on the This theme returns throughout the soundtrack in different after eating when he washed up. At some point after that, Back after almost a three decade hiatus, the legendary pounding like the steps of a Jurassic Park T-Rex – you know herself into his flat. There was no funny smell, a good sign. late 70’s generation, not only influencing Michael Jackson’s variations and instrumentation, there’s even a funky version whilst he was watching television perhaps, it had ceased to Brazilian pioneers of Tropicalia have totally revamped their that you’re in for an interesting musical experience. The She walked through to the bedroom and found the bed not Thriller track and video, but bringing forth the new birth of titled ‘Silver Sphere Disco’. On this note there was also a 12 be. Quietly, uneventfully, gone. line-up and also their sound. Repressed from free expression highlight has to be ‘Walkabout’ with Noah Lennox, one fourth quite made, as if someone had been lying there and slipped hundreds of low budget horrors cashing in on the cult success inch horror disco version of the main title released seperately He picked up the telephone. Who would he call? An by a military run state in their early days, the band had to of Animal Collective. out. She instinctively straightened it out, and wandered back of the classics. from the soundtrack by a freak called Captain Zorro in order ambulance? There was no medical emergency. He poked work hard to get heard. They do retain their inherent sense through to the living room, looking around her as she went. to promote the movie. at the area that had previously kept his finger, it felt normal. of rebellion and experimentalism with an eclectic array of Get Onto: Panda Bear, Neon Indian and Deerhunter Finding the letter on his desk she sat down to read it. She Director Don Coscarelli went into production with Phantasm Natural. He put down the phone, changed into his pyjamas musical ingredients combined to form a slow cooked Brazilian tutted, shook her head, and walked over to the phone. in late ‘77 and the movie was eventually released in ‘79. The The incidental music that joins the themes consists of chilling and got into bed. He laid stretched out on his back, staring musical stew. She hesitated for a moment, before dialling directory services story is about a supernatural mortician known as the ‘Tall high pitched analogue synth drones with spooky percussive at the ceiling. to find out the number for the local police station. “Hello?” Man’, who goes about collecting the deceased and brings sounds creating sinister dark textures. As a horror movie He got very little sleep that night, flinging the covers off Get onto: Secos & Molhados, Novos Baianos and Tom Ze she said, as someone answered. “I’d like to report a missing them back to life as dwarf zombies, sending them out on a soundtrack it lands directly between The Italian Goblin himself several times to check his legs were still there. They person, I think my son may have had a breakdown”. mission of madness, the zombies get up to all kinds of crazy (Suspiria - Dawn of the Dead) and John Carpenter (Assault stayed, and by the morning he had two arms, two legs, nine shit ultimately bringing together the ‘Tall Man’s’ evil master On Precinct 13 - Escape From New York). fingers and nine toes. plan to rule the planet. Relieved, he reached over to the bedside table for his glasses From start to finish this soundtrack runs perfeclty in its own and put them on, but they sat crooked on his face. Confused, I hate it when My favourite scenes are the silver sphere sequences: a phantasmagloria full of great sounds, icy dark melody and he took them off and looked them over, checking the arms Mew they panic and hide, chrome flying ball with knives and weird voodoo inside it cool beats. At the moment i really cant stop listening to it, so carefully for damage that was not there. leaving everyone else to No More Stories… deal with the resulting tracks you down and kills you (it really is funny!). Michael bring on the dark nights, oh yes! He leapt to his feet and ran to the mirror to confirm his fears, pile of shit! Baldwin stars as one of the brothers who are onto the evil he was now missing his right ear. How could he not have Actually the full album title is “No more stories/Are told today/ mortician. The acting is pretty dire, but with some phoney noticed? Yo La Tengo I’m sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is cool 70’s slang here and there, it kind of makes it all the He paced the flat, unsure what to do. He couldn’t just carry on Poplular Songs grey/I’m tired/Let’s wash away”. Such a ridiculous album title better. So as we approach the winter solstice, make sure you with his day and go into work. The toe no one would notice, may suggest pretentious, un-authentic music yet that’s not go and get Phantasm for a true halloween treat. the finger wasn’t that likely, but his glasses sitting crooked on It’s possible to argue that Yo La Tengo are the most predictable the case with Mew. The Danish trio play elements of prog’ish his face because his ear was gone, there was no way anyone band in the world - in terms of releases that is, not content rock with electronica, funk, folk and lots of other good stuff. would miss that. - they have a knack of banging out an LP every three years. Definitely an album requiring ample care and attention and He picked up the phone and called in sick, adding theatrical However, when the content is as sporadic and inspired as also several listens to appreciate the depth and unseen coughs to illustrate his point. He couldn’t tell the truth, no one Popular Songs it feels like sacrilege even mentioning the layers. would believe him and besides, he wasn’t sure if he believed word predictable. Highlights include the Beach Boys inspired it himself. ‘Avalon or Something Similar’ and ‘If It’s True’ which is a Get Onto: Silversun Pickups, Mute Math, The Flaming Lips Putting the phone down he got up and paced around the flat, classy Motown sounding affair. trying to work out what to do, “I’m not going to stand for it!” he said outloud to the wall, and then he fell. Get Onto: Wilco, Broken Social Scene and Built To Spill

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