Everything you like now, I liked last year....

LCD are sooooooooo last year........ (what with it only being January).

Our fiendish friend from fascistland pointed us in the direction of these guys when we all met up for Queens Day last year, so I'll have to suggest that perhaps the copious amounts of imbibements erased your memory Lukey Baby. Leo the Lumpy One had grabbed 7 or 8 of their tunes and I found the double album shortly afterwards via the usual sources. The singer and general "Da Man" is James Murphy who was also in Speedking (their material is in very short supply and I've only found 2 tunes from their only album "The Fist And The Laurels").

Knowing now as I do that you like Tom Vek, you're going to love this. It's their first and only album and it's where you'll find Tribulations in it's original form (you may even remember hearing much of the rest of it thru a druggenken haze).

And then there's this. When I was in Am'dam for New Years we caught "!!!" on MTV. Bas tells me that the tune we saw was quite big on Dutch radio a year ago or so and it digged me enough to track them down. The album "Louden Up Now" is the exactly what you have to hear if you've been liking LCD and Vek. (If anyone has their eponomously titled first album then I'd love to hear it - I can't find it anywhere).

All of this talk only strengthens my desire to set up an ftp resource so we can appreciate what everyone else is banging on about before we go out and spend our hard earned cash on buying cds........

It was so hard to keep a straight face whilst writing that. I nearly wet myself. Seriously.