The Daily Splash

“Call yourself Plank! and some idiot’s bound to find it amusing. Cleverly ensure said idiot finds a video on your MySpace of your debut single being used to emphasise the intensity of David Cronenberg’s 1969 film Stereo about a group of virile young things developing their telepathy skills by humping each other and, my God, your already taut instrumental math-rock will take on new levels of thrilling. Think Fugazi crossed with Slint crossed with Stereolab crossed with awesome.”

Tom Howard in the Guardian Saturday 24th April.

The fabulous Baghdaddies finally return with their new album and a Newcastle launch gig ahead of the official London launch later in May.

They will be playing at The Cluny on Saturday 8th May and launching their new album “Dancylvania”

The Daily Splash is lucky to have heard an advance copy and can say it is their best recording yet (full review to follow). Although currently promoting the new cd they are best known for their exceptional live shows from Glastonbury to Shetland and Italy to Switzerland. Should be a great night!

Main pic ©Dan Brady

Not a new band but one of my favourites in Newcastle in the late 1980s. These clips were from TX45 a Newcastle-based TV show from 1987. I remember several fantastic gigs of theirs at the Broken Doll, Riverside and Newcastle Playhouse….I wonder what happended to them?

This is the first single by the utterly fabulous (and scarily young) We Were Promised Jetpacks, I love it.

Sadly not much of a revelation, just another new post about music, the Twilight Sad’s new single and it’s pretty good actually:

The fabulous Baghdaddies take time out from recording their new album to play a Friday night gig on 12th June at the Vagabond Boogaloo club at Barden’s Boudoir.

It is one of Time Out‘s recommmendations for the week and well worth seeing.

Catherine has a new favourite band and they’re actually quite good!

XLR8R in early 90’s glamourous pomp

Fans of nearly-famous 90s heavy metal band XLR8R were in a frenzy today when it was announced that their long-lost classic album, “Hair Today…” had been rediscovered in an attic.

Former bass-god Simon Douglas, now sadly lacking his once-famous tresses, was ecstatic. “This could be what the music world has been waiting for” he said, “we have been putting up with rubbish like Oasis, Keane, Coldplay and Razorlight for long enough – this could represent a long overdue return for heavy metal!”

When contacted for her verdict however, fiancée Catherine declared the masterwork “crap” and claimed she would never have agreed to marry a “greasy long-hair hippy dropout bass-player” if he hadn’t cleaned up his act and got a proper job, and in addition”, she added, needlessly, “all this wailing about nothing and widdly-widdly, Judas Priest-style guitar solos just make me want to tear my own hair out.”