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ITR:VLRE PHILLIPS VALERIE PICTURE: L KAGE, ’s guitar groovers, are out and about follow recent support slots with promoting their ‘My Head’s On Fire’ single at Belly and with a short UK tour, Borderline tonight (Wednesday), London Harlesden Mean before they head back to the studio. The delicate Irish Fiddler (May 1), London Hoxton Square Bass Clef (5), indie rockers play Sheffield Leadmill (May 1), Birmingham Jug Of Ale (8), London Tufnell Park Dome University (2), Arts Centre (4), (10), London King’s Cross Water Rats (20) and Fleece & Firkin (5). Newport TJs (6) and Joiners (24). London Camden Underworld (7). THE LUNACHICKS, Brooklyn’s all-female five-piece rockers TOUR NEWS break-in new drummer Chip at Newport TJ’s (May 19), Southend-on-Sea Esplanade (20) and London New Cross Venue (21). ANTISEEN, North Carolina’s three-chord riff rock-groovers, play Brighton Richmond tonight (Wednesday) and Leeds BAABA MAAL, Africa’s world music superstar, plays a one- Duchess Of York (April 29). off date at London Kentish Town Forum on May 9.

ARTHUR, Brighton’s eccentric Isaac Hayes-meets-The MAMBO TAXI, colourful madcap all-female indie outfit who Stooges outfit, promote their ‘Punisher’ single on Target at scored an indie chart hit with their ‘Prom Queen’ single, London Hampstead White Horse (May 1) and London warm up for the release of their next Clawfist single, Camden Falcon (4). ‘Poems On The Underground’, with shows supporting Cornershop at London ULU (May 13), Jericho BIG RAY take their guitar-led sound to Bristol Mauretania Tavern (14), Brighton Maderia Hotel (15), Tamworth Arts for a one-off show on April 29. Centre (16), Cambridge Junction (18), Exeter Cavern Club (19), Swindon Link Centre (20), Tunbridge Wells Forum BLUR have added another date to their May tour, playing (21) and Taunton Priory (23). Reading Washington Heights on May 25. MARIA MCKEE, million-selling rock chanteuse, plays BREED, ’s menacing swamp-rockers, take time ESKIMOS AND EGYPT, One Little Indian’s popsters, jazz rappers are joined by Ronny Jordan, Dana Bryant, Max Edinburgh Queens Hall (June 5), Manchester University out from recording their debut for Clawfist to play play Hereford The Entertainer (May 1), London New Cross Beesley and Martine, as well as Kiss FM’s Patrick Forge at (6), London Kentish Town Forum (8) and Cambridge London dates at Camden Falcon (April 29), Finsbury Park Venue (2), Derby Wherehouse (3), Manchester Ritz (4), Leeds Polytechnic (May 13), Trent University Junction (9). The Robey (May 12), King’s Cross Water Rats (14) and Aylesbury Civic Centre (5), Sheffield University (6), Dyfed (14) , Manchester Academy (15), Bristol Lakota (16), Hampstead White Horse (29). St David’s University (7), Portsmouth University (8), Tunnel (18), Newcastle Riverside (19), Windsor IAN MCNABB, accomplished singer- and former Colchester Hippodrome (10), Glamorgan Treforest DIG (20) and London Kentish Town Forum (21). Icicle Works frontman, supports at COLLAPSED LUNG celebrate their new deal with Deceptive University (11), Wigan Pier (12), Birmingham University Edinburgh Usher Hall (May 27), London Dominion (28), with four London dates at Islington Powerhaus (April 29), (14) , Leeds Back To Basics (15), Nottingham University DAVID GRAY, charismatic Welsh singer-songwriter heads Birmingham Symphony Hall (29), Manchester Palace New Cross Venue (May 7), Camden Falcon (8) and (17), Bristol Thekla (18), Birmingham Aston University out on tour with The Auteurs for gigs at Brighton Zap (May Theatre (30) and Liverpool Royal Court (June 1). Islington Powerhaus (14). (21), Windsor Old Trout (22), Guildford Surrey University 4), Cambridge Junction (5), Bristol Fleece & Firkin (7), (23) and Edinburgh Venue (25). Oxford Venue (8), Reading TUC Club (9), Manchester POISON IDEA, heavyweight noise merchants, support fellow THE CROPDUSTERS, original -crusties, support University (11), Leeds University (12), Liverpool Krazy Vinyl Solution labelmates Headbutt at Manchester New Model Army at Bristol University (April 29), EXPERIMENT, FEAR OF FEAR, ANGEL INTERCEPTOR and House (13), Glasgow King Tut’s (14), Edinburgh Venue Boardwalk (May 11), Newcastle Riverside (12), Glasgow Bournemouth Centre (30) and (May 5) HOMAGE FREAKS play The Vic Free Festival at London SE8 (15) , Newcastle Riverside (17), Sheffield Leadmill (18), Cathouse (13), Milton Keynes Woughton Centre (14), before headlining London New Cross Venue (14). Victoria pub on May 1. Birmingham Edwards No8 (19) and London ULU (21) Leicester Princess Charlotte (15) and London Astoria (16). before headlining Wolverhampton Clarendon Hotel (22). DONE LYING DOWN, intense British-based exiles from THE FAT LADY SINGS, established Irish acoustic outfit, play POWER OF DREAMS, KINKY MACHINE and LOVECRAFT join Boston, Massachusetts, play a lunchtime show at London an intensive UK tour with dates at Cork De Lacy’s tonight THE HEART THROBS, indie-jangle outfit turned Pixies- forces for a Lemon Records night at London Islington Goswell Road City University (April 29) and London Kentish (Wednesday), Limerick Savoy (April 29), Galway influenced rockers, support The Fall at Newcastle University Powerhaus on April 30. Town Bull & Gate (May 2). Vagabonds (30), Tivoli (May 1), Hull Adelphi (4), (May 6), Manchester University (7), Liverpool Central Hall Leeds University (5), Liverpool Adelphi (6), Sheffield (8), Norwich University Of East Anglia (9), Cambridge frontman Mark Kozelek plays a DOWN BY LAW, West Coast punk popsters tour the UK to Leadmill (8), Glasgow Arches (9), Edinburgh Venue (10), Junction (10), Northampton Roadmenders (12), Leeds special solo show to showcase material from the band’s plug their ‘Blue’ LP at Brighton Richmond (May 4), Aberdeen Lemon Tree (11), Loughborough University (13), University (13), London Grand (15-16), forthcoming self-titled double album, at London Borderline Southampton Joiners (5), London Islington Powerhaus (6),Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (14), Swindon Link CentreWolverhampton Wulfrun Hall (17), Portsmouth Pyramid on May 5. Cambridge Boat Race (7), Leeds Duchess Of York (8), (15) , Manchester Boardwalk (18), Bradford Queens Hall (18) and Bristol Rainbow (19). Dublin Barnstormers (10), Belfast Limelight (11), Newport (19), Leicester De Montfort University (20), Peterborough SE ROGIE, Sierra Leone’s Peel-favoured folk singer, plays TJs (12) and Wigan Cickers (13). Gaslight (21), Reading After Dark (22), Oxford The Ministry SALIF KEITA, legendary Malian singer, plays Glasgow Hull Adelphi (May 14) and Salisbury Cathedral(30). Farm (23), Loop (25), Bristol Mauretania (26) and Pavilion Theatre on May 4 as part of the city’s Mayfest arts EDSEL AUCTIONEER, Leeds-based guitar-led indie rockers London Camden Jongleurs (27). festival. SUPERCHUNK, grungy American four-piece, pay a brief visit celebrate the broadcast of their latest Peel Session on May to the UK to plug their limited edition Peel Session seven- 14 with a hometown date at Leeds Duchess Of York (May FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP head a bill of artists featured on KICK ASTEROID, polished London-based guitar rockers, inch at Leeds Duchess Of York (May 26) and Leicester 15). the latest ‘Rebirth Of Cool’ compilation LP; the innovative play London Camden Falcon tonight (Wednesday). Princess Charlotte (27).

Warners, on ten-inch or CD - out EP containing a mixture of unreleased producer-duo - out Tuesday.L • tribute to the influential trumpeter’s Colour Scene to The Troggs, Tuesday. • : In These Arms and released tracks on 12* vinyl only KAGE: My Head’s On Fire (One Little music - out now. •RUN DMC: Down and Jimmy Cliff - out now. • (Vertigo) track culled from the - out now. •HOUSE OF PAIN: Top O’ Indian) four track EP from the With The King (Profile) return of the VARIOUS: Under Wild East Anglian American pop metal band’s multi­ The Morning To Ya (Ruffness) Birmingham guitar pop outfit, includes respected rappers, with contributions Skies (Vigilante) non-profit making million selling ‘’ LP - Underdog remix of the Irish-American three unreleased tracks - out now. • from members of A Tribe Called Quest value-for-money compilation cassette out Tuesday. •C: DREAM: One/N 1 rappers’ track, backed with original NEWSPEAK: Unperson EP (Gift) wall of and EPMD - out Tuesday. •SCRAWL* featuring exclusive tracks by Jacob’s Ear (Transglobal) official release for version of the single ‘Jump Around’ - sound EP from the Sheffield-based Bloodsucker (Simple Machines) Steve Mouse, Bleach, Basti, Big Ray and the double A-sided relaxed cool dub- out now •INTERNATIONAL FOOT power popsters - out now.PM • Albini-produced seven song EP from more, on sale with EP magazine or for groove single, rumoured to be the LANGUAGE: Life On Loop (Union DAWN: More Than Likely (Gee Street) Ohio’s finest all-girl band, reissued £1:50 from Vigilante Publications, 9 inspiration for ’s ‘Justify My Recordings) Steve Spiro’s first joins Be on this - after US label problems forced it out Dukesbridge Court, Duke Street, RECORD NEWS Love’ - out now. •EAST RIVER recordings for the newly formed sampling track from the ‘The Bliss of print - out Tuesday. •VARIOUS: Reading, Berks - out now. • PIPE: Helmet On (Sarah) debut single Virgin offshoot dance label, featuring Album?’ - out Tuesday. •POWER OF The Sixties And Nineties Collections VARIOUS: Tequila Slammers And The AIRHEAD: That’s from the New York-based a rap written and performed by Ricky DREAMS: Cathy’s World (Lemon) new (Fontana) three CD compilations with Jump Jump Generation () Enough EP (Mother) atmospheric pop outfit - out Tuesday. Rick - out Tuesday. •LEGACY OF EP from the heavy guitar indie rockers the cream of the label’s past and collection of the latest Warp singles first effort since the • A GUY CALLED GERALD: This Is SOUND: Happy (RCA) joyful pop debut- out now •PSYCHICK WARRIORS present, from James, The House Of including Nottingham’s dance radio-friendly guitar popsters quit The Right Thing (JuiceBox) four-track UK single from the Swedish OV GAIA: Exit 23 (Agence De Chaos) Love, The Fall, Lilac Time and Ocean collective DIY - out now. Drum Club remixes of the epic trance THERAPY?: Babyteeth/Pleasure Death (Southern) reissues for the hard-edged Irish trio’s previously deleted track from the Dutch dance outfit - out first two mini-; originally released on the influential W iiija label in July 1991 and January 1992 now. •TSUNAMI: Matchbook (Simple respectively, both are now available on all formats for the first time - out now. Machines) imaginatively packaged ITR: TV DOUBLE STEVE PICTURE: eighth single from from the melodic noise outfit-out now.

I CRANES: Forever (Dedicated) fourth | album containing ten new self-produced tracks from the ~ Portsmouth siren-fronted band - out now. •THE FALL: The Infotainment Scan (Permanent) new LP from the newly re-signed Manchester pop mavericks; only the CD version includes the current single ‘Why Are People Grudgeful?’ - out now. • ROBERT FORSTER: Calling From A CRASH TARTAN SHANTIES Country Phone (Beggars Banquet) former Go-Between’s second solo i've seen everything outing - out now. THE• FRANK & WALTERS: Trains, Boats And Planes (Go! Discs) reissue of the Cork trio’s debut album. Originally released last October; the new LP contains re- recordings of the recent singles ‘After All’ and ‘Fashion Crisis Hits New York’ - out now. •: The Glee Club (Setanta) eponymous debut LP from the female-fronted Celtic folk-rock outfit - out now.MEDIUM • COOL: A Tribute To Chet Baker () a collective of musicians including Alex Chilton pay

1 May GREAT BALL PICTURE:ROGERSARGENT OF MIRE LONDON ACADEMY MEDICINE? Check. Lasers? Check. Ambient synth, primeval rhythms and hey-nonny-nonny dancing? Check. Dub? Absolutely. OK, Orb-patron, you have been cleared for lift-off. Orb Airways regret, however, that you may experience some in the connection of bass with your spinal frontier on this flight. This is due to the time zone in which we are orbiting this evening.

The Orb’s show on Saturday night was, by all accounts, a twisted, psychedelic mad house that didn’t end until 6am. Unfortunately, this is Sunday and the playing field has been levelled. The Orb live experience is best sampled in the wee hours before dawn and not immediately after Sunday dinner; but tonight, 67 doors open at 6pm and close at 11, leaving plenty of time for last LONDON KENTISH buses to be caught but precious little for ambient delight. TOWN BULL & GATE At first light it’s hard to tell if The Orb are, in fact, in the area. The lights go down after the DJ set and those dancing stop dead, IT’S ALWAYS clear when a 67 while those who are sitting stand up - so something’s probably song is nearing its climax happening. There are a couple of blokes wandering around the because, during the dying flurry of stage smoking, and at a push they could be and chords, singer Toby Burton’s face Thrash. People seem unsure how to react. Are they being conned breaks into a look of contentment, by these atmospheric synth chords, by these coy vocal samples? like that of a well-loved puppy dog Are these the emperor’s shiny new (age) clothes? who gets its way largely by faithfully hoping for the best. But then KABOOM!! From the back of the hall comes a huge Perhaps it’s this cheery bloke rolling thunderclap that slowly repeats into a vacuum of lasers and charm that’s helped garner 67 dubby house. It’s exhilarating. 'Majestic’, 'The Blue Room’, favourable mutterings from 'Towers Of Dub’ and a marvellous '’ eventually regulars on the London toilet emerge from the techno haze, each huge chunks of tingling house, circuit of late - but their small- not so much songs as segments separated by lengthy bouts of league success is also down to ambient twiddling. Every now and then someone bangs some their extraordinary grasp of pop- percussion or fingers a bass. It’s unclear who’s responsible, but flavoured, crunchy melodies, there are people up there doing something, aren’t there? which no doubt secured their It’s more a son et lumiere experience than a gig or a club. It place as the first new Brits in yonks to sign up for Southern isn’t intended to challenge your opinions or values, and it Records. shouldn’t affect your wardrobe. It’s purely druggy escapism and There’s just one, severely itchy the audience approach it as such, eyeballing the illuminated problem. Stylistically, 67 come ceiling during the ambient interludes and wigging out when the rather too close to the mongrel rhythms are triggered. It is only a question of time before The Orb north London mould that consider performing solely at seated venues so that the weary can thrived when Milk, Sun Carriage re-fuel in comfort during the endless chill-out bits. and Loveblobs were doing the "The Orb In Brief,” announces the on-stage screen at the close rounds. And we all know what of play, almost as an apology. Not that they cheated us with their (never) happened to them. After a good half-a-dozen pints, two-hour performance, but people are left cursing the speed with with cynicism securely buried, the which Saturday sold out, that It’s only 11pm, and that they’re swimmingly agreeable ‘Gadget’ mashed and lost in Brixton. The Orb mothership landed slowly, will be worth a nod and a sway shone strange lights in our eyes and left... really early. and you’ll optimistically reckon 67 Ted Kessler will do bloody brilliantly. But two Right sphere, not now! Alex Paterson on in post-Sunday lunch ambience minutes later, you’ll recall that others on this path have rolling her own down the Nelson insecurities. has tamed that elusive brute it’s pretty dull. When they do walls of his local gym... floundered fatally and 67 are Mandela bar. Far from it: this little Hovering between moon-dog called stage presence - but they break out of their shells with All of which shrivels up and going to have to pull off somethingmiss is more like a pint-sized madness and total genius, Little still look and sound like a great ‘Dreams’, they mistakenly equatedies next to the riotous, fire­ sinisterly spectacular not to be Grace Jones, stalking, prowling Annie is a woman who proudly band waiting for someone to tell POP music with speed and breathing anarcho-punk-folk-rock caught by the curse. Keep smiling,and purring her way through uses her sexuality in tandem withthem what to do. volume. It sounds like an indie with which BMR torch this little lads, but hope is just the start of cleverly-phrased rapspeak. Sex, her intelligence. And that makes Truth is, many of their songs Belinda Carlisle. Yes, that bad. pub. If ‘The Murder Mile’ is pure what you need. seduction, lust and longing... Sheher a truly liberated woman of sound unfinished. Noel Hogan Tonight, opening for AmericanPogues, they go on to lace their Angela Lewis not only growls it like Eartha Kitt whom you should be very scared. comes up with a guitar melody Music Club, they had the chance murky brew with everything from after too many tabs, but walks it, Sam Steele (horribly out of tune on ‘Wrappedto prove the sceptics wrong in Arabic fiddling (‘Intifada’) and slinks it, and parades it across Around Your Finger’, otherwise front of a large and captive bone-shaking percussion (‘Deaf the tiny stage too. THE one of their better songs tonight),audience - but they blew it. Blind And Stupid’) to ‘Give ’Em LITTLE ANNIE Her style is atmospheric, his brother Mike adds a bassline, Another false dawn before the Enough Rope’-era Clash on ‘Bottle evocative and suffused with a wryCRANBERRIES Feargal Lawler adjusts his final one. And Glass’. LONDON THE WAG sense of humour, aided only by cymbals and Dolores sings Ted Kessler Most of it’s probably too folky the smoky break-beats and moodyLONDON ASTORIA something devotional on top. and weird to ever trouble the YOU KNOW the myths that synths of Adrian Sherwood’s auralSHOCK OF the new! Dolores Then they get stuck. If in doubt, BLIND MOLE RAT charts, but tonight they take such surround ‘liberated’ women. backdrop. A portrait of a man O’Riordan, formerly of the bob, they have the excellent Dolores misgivings round the back of the They’re a scary bunch of man- obsessed by power and self-imagehas a new haircut. It’s short! It’sget-out clause where she does NOTTINGHAM pub and put them in intensive hating, fat-bottomed uglies, aren’tis built up in ‘Little Man’ and spiky! It gives her band that one of her Sinead/Liz Fraser bits care for a month. Better still, with they? An ‘empowered’ woman is effortlessly sliced down to size thrust, that edge that they and the song can draw to a close.RUNNING HORSE sweat steaming from their bodies really a bossy old bag who hasn’twith a disdainfully drawled previously lacked. It’s as if they know the kind of "PROFESSIONAL EH?” says the in the smoke-filled air, BMR had a decent shag for ages. So no“ Honey, I’m sooo impressed, like That’s a lie, actually. Eighteenmusic they like, they sort of know singer, as his band fall about unleash a monster of a song that wonder Little Annie flinches at the this much’1, a small thumb and months after their formative how it sounds and they reckon laughing in a puddle of their owngoes straight for your throat with a thought of being described as a forefinger illustrating the exact stomach-wrenching and nerve- they can play it, but aren’t entirelychaos. There are plenty of Rage-ing bassline and feminist, but that’s undoubtedly size of her admiration. Thankfully,racking London dates, The sure how. reasons not to like Blind Mole sloganeering lyric{“ Break the law what she is. there’s nothing divisive or Cranberries still come across like And let’s face it, it isn’t as if Rat: that bloody awful name for a- not the poor” that ) reminds you That’s not to say that this alienating in Little Annie’s a band taking their first tentativethey’re out there conquering newstart; the fact that they don’t of outdoor festivals and MTV. erstwhile Crass consort (formerly observations: just realistic steps into the big, bad rock world. rock’n’roll turf for the kids. Their bother soundchecking until the But nah, they’d probably just Annie Anxiety) is some kind of interpretations of characters thatThey no longer look like they mightgothic folk music would’ve pub is packed; an accordion vomit on the camera. Can’t trust slogan-flogging militant, flauntingare complex reflections of both fall over if everyone in the sounded inspirational a decade player who looks like the ‘before’this lot, you know. colour-coded dungarees and feminine and masculine audience blew at once - Doloresago but now, without the songs,pictures of Henry Rollins on the Sam Taylor

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