Music Writings by CL

Katastrophy Wife - Birmingham Jug Of Ale, 2003. Full Review, Click Here.

Puppetmastaz - Creature Funk, Album Review 2003. Full Review, Click Here. You may have heard of them, you may not have. You may think you know them, you probably won’t. Mr Maloke  is a mole, and he left his home of Crooklyn to move to Berlin to form the congress of puppetry. Why did  Mr Maloke  leave Crooklyn though? Did he mean to start a new musical career in Berlin? Maybe he did, maybe he retired and re-invented himself. Whilst in Berlin,  Mr Maloke  bumped into a couple of puppet frogs, a puppet rhino, and plenty of ideas. This meeting helped form the world's first puppet hip-hop collective,  Puppetmastaz . After two limited EPs, we have the puppet’s first album proper.  'Creature Funk' , is an electro-hip hop masterpiece. We live in a time where hip-hop is allegedly at its highest point, yet all you hear is watered down cliché ridden pop (step up  50 cent ). The  Puppetmastaz  are just the stars we need. For the 60-odd minutes of 'Creature Funk

V/Vm - It's Fandabidozi, Album Review 2003. Full Review, Click Here. Cast your mind back to early last year. It seemed that Stockport’s  V/Vm Test Records  were knocking out unmistakable platters of genius week after week after week. Then, silence. What was wrong? Had the evil MCPS  [Mechanical Copyright Protection Society, label fans. Best you don't ask - an editor]  caught up with these copyright terrorists? Had they been lynched performing one of their infamous greatest hits sets? Evidently not. V/Vm  have been travelling the world, and have put together a double album of some of their greatest worldwide aural finds.  'It’s Fan-Dabi-Dozi'  is the first release since  V/Vm’s   'Good Things Can Happen'  album, and how times have changed. The blatant mauling of pop’s best/worst contenders isn’t the main focus on this album. In its place we have some fine electronic music, courtesy of such luminaries as  Kevin Blechdom ,  The Krankies ,  Toecutt

Therapy? - An Abundance Of Therapy? Interview, 2003. Full Interview, Click Here. Therapy?  are back. Again. Time has been kind to the band; it doesn't seem that long ago when they were the darlings of the music press, with their dark hybrid of punk, metal and pop. But times have changed, and Therapy? have changed with the times. Literally. The sound has veered off into rockier territories and members have come and gone. But that hasn’t deterred Therapy?, who are still going strong, and with rock music outselling every other form of music at the moment, they're as relevant as ever. I caught the band at Birmingham Academy, and had a brief chat with vocalist  Andy Cairns  about how their new album is going down live. How's Therapy? doing these days? It’s going really well. We’re all really into it again at the moment. Is this because you have a new drummer? Yeah, Neil Cooper. After Graham left we found out that Neil, who used to be in some bands we li

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