Imitation Electric Piano, Simon Johns from Stereolab's other band, played a most triumphant free show at East London's swanky and full-of-pre-curried-city-boys Vibe Bar on Brick Lane last Tuesday, and it was wicked. You should get their second record, it's called something funny like 'Burn it down, kick it till it bleeds' or something like that. Get it though, it's ace.
Two weeks ago (yup... we like to keep it current round here...) PM saw The Butterflies of Love at the infeasibly small Buffalo Bar in London. They were fucking great. Here's what they looked like:
Look at Jeff Greene's weird baby-eyes! Then go here to imagine what they might sound like live. It's wicked-good.
He used to be in The Delgados. He's still a hero. Good job. While you're there, take heed of the fact that The Downloader are now in week two of their Heist season, which gives you LOADS of free tracks by well wicked people. This week, it's Chemikal Underground's turn (obviously).
Welsh purveyor of genius weirdities has posted a video of a press conference detailing his splitting up with himself. He hinted on the release of his first album in 2005 that he might well be the first solo artist to split up with himself due to musical differences, and now it seems to have happened. Ah well...