Did you hear the one about Noel Gallagher blaming Jay-Z for Glasto’s slower-than usual ticket sales? “

I’m not having Hip Hop at Glastobury,” he said. “It’s wrong”

Me, I laughed quite a bit. Swells? He too. Dude also wrote a very funny and very correct article about the whole fiasco for the Quietus.

Sample text:

There is no racism – casual, institutional or overt – in indie music. If indie musicians state that English identity is threatened by immigration, that is not racist. And if indie fans talk about hip-hop in language reminiscent of that used by Adolf Hitler to describe Jews in Mein Kampf (”contamination”, “filth”, “disease”) that too isn’t racist. In fact to even suggest that it might be racist, is racist – racist against white males who just happen to despise black music and only like music made my white males for white males.

Lolocaust!

Read the whole thing here. It is mad good to have ole Swells back. My favourite thing about editing PlayLouder back in the day was commissioning, then getting to read Swellls’ stuff. It was always brilliant.

In other journalistic happenings, I did a small email interview with Moby recently. Sample text:

Me: Do you regret rubbing your dick on Winona Ryder, or do you look back on those days fondly?

Moby: I never rubbed my dick on Winona Ryder. But hey, I’m still relatively young. Operative word: ‘relatively’.

Moby is a funny guy! Read the rest here…

Speaking of funny white people, you ever hear of Barry Seal? I’m going to be writing a bit over the coming months about dude, and his connections with the cocaine epedemic of the 80s, Bill Clinton, Pappa Bush, and the CIA. So this might be a good place to start.

— Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

lnspired by this great picture I got last night from MalariaMan, I’ve reinstalled the FanArt section. Now we’re on WordPress, its a lot easier for me to update as pictures come in. So, if you sent me a picture over the past year, it should be in there. You can see a mini slide show of it on the bottom right of this page (tell me if you can’t), and cop the full gallery here. There’s some really dope stuff in there. Youse lot is some talented swine!

Submissions for the gallery should be sent to submissions.atd@googlemail.com, along with any info about yourself you might want the world to know.

— Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Hello. I have reviewed Gonzales‘ new album, Soft Power, for The Quietus.

Read the rest! Then look around. They got Swells! Brett Anderson was just in their office too. Luke saus he was looking “fucking cool actually.” He’s alright that Anderson. One time I gave him a bad review at a festival and he said it was funny and didn’t cry like certain big girls’ blouses.

— Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I just got this email off my ole buddy Danny Saber:

adam

i showed alice the clones video and gave him a copy of your record today

he really liked it

thought you would like to know

You get that? ALICE COOPER! How dope is that?!?!?! I have been listening to Alice Cooper since I was a little boy. Booya!

So. Saw The Indelicates last night. They were really really grayte! They played Heroin right at the end, it was brilliant. Heroin‘s the one that goes:

“My heroine’s on heroin
not bad heroin
the good heroin
that rock stars take
and heals the ache
of the pain she’s in”

Then it goes fucking Meatloaf megamassive:

“This must be Zion
They promised us Zion!”

Bastards.

There is a very funny interview with Simon Indelicate here.

Sample bit:

What is your opinion of swans?

They’re cunts. Coming over here, taking our jobs.

LOL! Afterwards my little brother’s boss bought us all fucking tons of drinks (cheers!) so today I feel like the inside of that woman from The Gossip’s ass. However! I might have scored me a new rhythm section. “The new Sly and Robbie” they call themselves. They are in a very good band. Guess who they are?

— Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Lethal Bizzle – Police On My Back
V2 Records
Released September 2007

When it was first suggested I work with Bizzle by the legendary Ben Wardle, following a gig we did together supporting Supergrass in Camden, I made this. Zef suggested the sample (The Clash‘s version of Police On My Back), and I spent a good three days getting the beat just right, and getting really anal with filters. Jeres did some soloing on it too. Then Bizzle came round and I played it him. And he said, “blud, that is great,” and that was that. Tyrrel did a brilliant job on the mix, I thought.

When Bizzle does this live he gets people to run on the spot. It is gully.

I think there was a remix by The Enemy on the seven inch. It was kind of sucky.

— Monday, April 14th, 2008

Produced by me in the spring of 2007, after the song we did that was going to be the first single – the Cannonball sampling Don’t Crash – got nixed by a grumpy Kim Deal. The label were very upset, as they were convinced Don’t Crash was a breakthrough for British music and a potential worldwide smash, so they demanded we make another riff-based, spiky new wave rap song.

Where Don’t Crash, however, told the tale of an inebriated Bizzle bombing up North on a motorcycle to try and get laid, the Ruts sample brought out another side of the rapper. Good for me – I’d been wanting to hear Bizzle’s political side for time.

The B side of the seven inch featured a really good remix by Gallows. I think Spank Rock did one too.

Little know facts: I sang the hook, but it wasn’t called “Featuring Akira The Don” because I’m not very famous.

Jack Nimble from Why Lout? did the scratching at the beginning. And so did Bizzle. What happened was, Bizzle took a CD of Jack’s scratch, and scratched THAT in my since-retired Technics DZ1200. I have video footage of this somewhere.

Don’t Crash turned up on ATD15.

This is Babylon‘s video.

— Monday, April 14th, 2008