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This from NME.COM about The Verve's performance at V Festival (PS I don't remember them playing Velvet Morning).

Chapterhouse performed a one off song as special guests at the Truck festival last weekend. If I knew I may have gone there especially ...

I have been reading Bit of a Blur by Alex James - the bass player in Blur.

Here's what I think . . .

Mercury Rev have had no US chart placings, despite success in the UK, and being from the US.

I read that here.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci have the highest number of Top 75 chart placings, without actually having any placings in the Top 40.

I read that here.

I have been meaning to post about the Album vs Track culture that has arisen as a result of the download generation. Albums very much have a place, but I have fallen into temptation and filled by iPod Nano with one-off tracks. Well, I do have some albums on there too.

Today saw an interesting statement issued by Ash (which has given them the most publicity in a long time):

BBC Article or Ash Statement

I first started reading New Musical Express (NME) back around 1991. That was the year that Nevermind was released by Nirvana, and the NME were enthusing about Madchester. Yet I think it was Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub rather than Nevermind or Pills N Thrills & Bellyaches by the Happy Mondays that got Album of the Year.