Quench
Love Is All
By Michael Bateson-Hill
Watching Love is All tonight is rather like eating an ice cream too fast.
Sweet, makes your head hurt, but by the end leaves you begging for more.
From the off, its undeniable that these scandi-boppers are experts in the art of puke-pop.Armed to the teeth with screamy Saxes, punchy guitars and singles such as, ‘Ageing Had Never Been His Friend’ and ‘Make Out, Make Up, Break’ they make you thank the lord for European work permits.
All this punctuated by shouty ramblings from Elvin front woman Josephine Olausson I couldn’t help feeling like I was watching Bjork at a ten year olds birthday party.
Asking myself whether this was a good or bad thing these crazy kids ploughed into their latest release, a cover of The Pastels ‘Nothing To be Done’. With that I decide on the latter thinking it was the best ten year olds party I’d ever been to.
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In Review: Urban dictionary
In between spay-painting small horses with swastikas and sniffing glue the youth of today still like to chew the fat from time to time. Unfortunately the cretins have adopted a bizarre type of new-speak which can leave “me-mans” (myself and some of my close friends) “well vexed” (Perplexed, Peeved). That’s where the Urban dictionary comes in. With this peer monitored compendium of British and American slang you can find out what the little twazocks actually said to you before you walked off full of impotent rage and self loathing. Yay. To elaborate. After hearing a rap-tune recently I heard the word “skeet” a term with which I was unfamiliar. Consulting the Urban dictionary I discovered that skeet is a verb that describes, “Bustin’ a nut in a skizzles grill” or, the act of ejaculating onto a woman’s face. Other notable explanations submitted included the rather quaint: “To drop a banana item in Mario Kart 64, thereby causing a trailing opponent to slip on it and skid out” and the colorful “Something I would love to do on the Olsen twins. “The real fun lies in contrasting the Neanderthal with the surely mock-serious entries. Of course some helpful souls point out the real meaning of the word (something to do with clay pigeon shooting) but it is all done very tongue in cheek. A running dialogue on the site led one poster to claim it was a word which White people only heard about from the comedian Dave Chapelle. This in turn led one of his fellows to inform us that it is a completely fictional word invented by black people because they needed something to do in between collecting welfare cheques. As if via osmosis the stupidity seeps into you brain and you can impress the Gs in your hood with your newfound knowledge and/or prejudices lest ye be merced by your in the know peers.
The Gig-goer
Nick leans on the bar, pint in hand; his head nodding slightly to the music. His face is masked by long, greasy strands of hair, (he tells people that he hasn’t had it cut in over a year with a sense of pride). At last the headlining band come on stage, and Nick downs his pint and lurches forward into the crowd.
How does Scotland sound?
Scotland is a country that has a surprisingly diverse array of musical talent for a country of its size. It generally lacks the powerhouses of Wales, such as your common-garden Manics and Stereophonics, instead birthing bands with smaller but equally passionate fanbases.