Paperjam

Jim received a CD from Julius. As he "just likes punk and occasionally Tindersticks" he thought it might be more my sort of music. He was mistaken:

"Are you taking the piss Jim? With a musical piece like that; lyrics that begin 'Have you come lady to dance for me' sung in the style of a jester from the court of Henry VIII, and a cover note written by a bloke who's never escaped his aloof-no-one understands me-I am so alone-stage, the only fair comment I can make is that he perhaps should have been shot at birth. My ears are offended that you thought they might like it. Jim, it's not even bad...it's BAD!!!!"

Julius was born from the ashes of many a thing long forgotten. I know this because he said so himself.

You can check Julius out for yourself on his MySpace page. Despite my comments I recommend you do......

It's not often that a track makes me want to vomit with joy, but the usual Belgians have put a disco-rocket up the arse of Gossip's new single Standing in the way of control, and made me very excited indeed. All over the kitchen floor.

Le Tigre make a pig's ear of their remix, draining the soul and passion from it, but Soulwax have absolutely nailed their version. I love the fact that it's not actually all that different from the original - it's as if they've taken it and slung it through their patented UltraStompyDiscoSex FX box and turned out an absolute throbbing monster. Beth Ditto sounds incredibly impassioned, even more than on the original.

Don't know if the 12" comes with a bottle of poppers, but then it doesn't really need to, it's a rush enough by itself. There's an MP3 floating around Hypemachine, but you'll need to own the twelve - it was out last week, and dammit they've sold out.

Well, we were all a bit gutted when it transpired that The Beta Band had knocked it on the head weren't we? Never mind, three of the minds that gave the world She's The One, Needles In My Eyes and the always magnificent Dry The Rain have re-appeared under the guise of The Aliens.

They put out an EP earlier this year, Alienoid Starmonica, which I must admit that I totally missed. Now downloaded from the evil iTunes I can report that The Aliens have a bit of a Beta Band thing going on, plus there is defintely a trace element of Super Furry Animals DNA in there too. Their evil, evil MySpace page has some tracks on plus you can check out videos for Robot Man and The Happy Song. Both of which contain the sort of dance moves that only the foolhardy or drunk would attempt to reproduce when they appear at the Birmingham Barfly on Friday 3rd November.