TINNITUS DOWN SOUTH

Went to see Trencher last night. Had the dirtiest night in a long time. Here's how the story goes: Started by taking a girl to a kebab shop in search of quick eats and discovered the joy of Turkish pizza, a jalepeno attack on the senses countered by waves of parsley and chicken on top of a doughy base. It took ages to make but was worth the wait. We hit Catch in east London, a loveley, stinky dive of a boozer, spent too much money on beers and rocked out to some sweet noise. Hands On Heads played and were the good days of Help She Cant Swim reincarnated without the hipocrisy or the irony, just straight up boy/girl/riff/synth fuzz. Trencher knocked us for six, I've wanted to see them for a long time and its been worth the wait since I got the Esquilax split many moons ago. I thought they were genius in huge mangled bass, drums, charity shop casio form. Sexbeat done good, thanks for the posters too. It all ended in the beigel shop with stella watching all the late night characters come and go. Tuna and cheese is best.

Anyway, Dans Le Matin is finally established. My man Matt is shooting his mouth off from the deepest depths of Sheffield, so here's a southern perspective for you. I don't think we're going to get a zine out before christmas, so we're just updating the blog every so often and keeping things moving slowly. We're letting everything simmer in an attempt to get our first publication just right. We've got ideas shooting out all over the place right now; we're thinking a food based zine, a few poems, some photographs, who knows? Once it gets going, it will be good.

I got the new That Fucking Tank single today. From the snippets on the web I thought I was going to be quietly dissapointed. Turns out I shouldnt have doubted James and Andy and now Giles, becuase the two new tunes are awesome! The seven comes in heavy picture disc form and sounds rifftastic. I also found a Disco Drive album for three quid in the Pure Groove sale today. Excellent.

The polaroid is a snap from this years Bestival, one of the few summer festivals to still deliver musical epiphanies. Good, sunshine times.

Tips for right now - keep spending too much money on records, eat more spinach, show the people that don't dance how its done.

Seb x