Being a Primal Scream fan is equal parts satisfying as it is damn frustrating. They have the ability to electrify with scorchers such as Swastika Eyes but have a habit of boring immensely; (all of 2006s ‘Riot City Blues’ album).

Throughout their career they have never managed to make two great albums in a row and their output from this decade has suggested a petering out of the reasons why we loved these guys so long.
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Does anyone remember the mid-90’s hard techno track ‘Hackney Council are a bunch of c*nts’? Well, ten years on and Hackney Council continue to live up to their reputation.

When Lex Records announced a one off live gig featuring a number of artists from their roster and headlined by Neon Neon playing their first UK date (apart from festivals), they excitedly announced that it would be in a car park off Shoreditch High Street. With their ‘Stainless Style’ album being influenced by the life of John DeLorean, the car park idea was a great one, as was if you turned up in one, you’d get in free. Hackney Council in their infinite wisdom agreed to this…until the very last minute.
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As you are fully aware, the original snivelling bedwetters, Coldplay, have returned to cast a dark shadow over musical integrity and taste, and oh boy are we lapping it up.

There are literally millions of people who don’t actually like music getting all excited about that one gig a year they go to, and seeing as Robbie has gone all weird and that with his electro, there’s only one band for you, yes, that’s right…Cold-fuckin-PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAY, wooo, alright.
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1. Radiohead - Live at Victoria Park, 24th June, London

The first opportunity to hear ‘In Rainbows live on the big stage, they should of course be doing this but Shakin’ Stevens got the call instead, which is funny, right?

2. MGMT - ‘Electric Feel’ single

From one of the finest and definitely most out there albums of the Year, Brooklyn’s baby Flaming Lips pull one of the most accesable tracks from it as a single. There are many journalist cliches out there, the biggest being ‘difficult second album syndrome’ but right next to it is what you’ll hear every journalist with a lack of imagination will put when describing this track. ooooooh, it’s some white guys singing in falsetto - PRINCE. Of course, it never sounds like Prince, Prince only sounds like Prince, it’s just a white dude singing in a falsetto…move on.
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Joy Division’s stock has never been so high. The award winning film, the iconic artwork on skateboards, trainers and tops, the many books, the re-re-mastered ‘deluxe’ cds, ringtones and the omnipresent use of their music from televised football matches to even more bizarrely, documentaries about Michael Jackson. Although great for spreading their music to a new generation, it also strips yet more layers off one of the finest and most mysterious legacies of British music.

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Everyone remembers the first time they come across the weird and wonderful world of Steven Patrick Morrissey, it is a date way more important than some Princess dying in a car crash or some politician named after an airport in New York being assassinated, his words have literally saved the lives of millions of people all over the world.

My first experience was early on in his musical career, accidentally on Top of The Pops in between the hair sprayed nothingness of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, The Smiths were on, they were playing ‘Heaven knows it’s miserable now’ and I was transfixed.

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