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Sounds like a good deal to me - I think that's what Karma Tsunami mean though, no?

Yeah she brings dumbing down to previously untapped depths. According to her Dave Grohl is "unique" as having played on two bands - she failed to clearly qualify this statement, so it sounded as if she meant he's the only person ever to have played in two bands. Even if she meant unique as having played in two bands that have headlined Reading surely this can't be true? I also remember her describing Oasis as "brave" for having played a set of mainly hits rather than new material at their last Glastonbury appearance. I think she has compulsive adjective disorder.

Aye, nice one, good on yas. I'll try and make it to that Oran Mor date with Unkle Bob.

Yeah they played at The Lemon Tree when I worked there. There was a fair bit of hype about them coming and their gig sold reasonably well, but all I remember about the show itself was thinking that the bass player was pretty plain looking close up (not that that really matters but for the fact she is often reffered to as being some sort of sex bomb). Couldn't even remember one thing about the music till I saw the Reading coverage. There should be European Union legislation to prevent people from having to endure the Subways at work.

Cool, I heard about this but wondered when it was out and where it was available. Are there hard copies to buy?

I saw the Subways and despaired. Tameness and cliche masquerading as dangerous rock n roll. They must have been given a set of 30 mins tops and the front man wastes a 4 or 5 mins with a pointless crowd shouting contest and then climbing not one but two speaker stacks each about 1 and a half times the height of a garden shed - woooo! scary. Crowd seemed to like it though.

Make your mind up min - earlier on you suggested someone would have to be deaf not to find something worthwhile on Joy Division's music. Surely you can't have had that bad a hang-over that it's suddenly become "just not that good" over the space of couple of days?

Why don't reprise your outfit from a performance with Damo Suzuki a couple of Christmases ago Alan? - I thought it was a Bee Keeper, but you said it was a white man adrift in the desert. Or go as a parakeet with a bee-keeper's outfit on over the top - that would really screw with the kids' minds man. Wish I could make this - great line-up. Tupelo Town Assembly were fantastic at Elvisness last year.

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What's a "BB" ? "Nu" metal is sit, wak, pis and utter fuing bollcks - put that in your spelling rule book you drone. You're just judging graffiti for the man - we don't need your grammatical systems and oppressive lexicons - viv le puk

Cheers Chilli, but well pointed out also Lepeep. Tried to ammend those ticketing details but the edit facility isn't showing for me - not sure if the post is too old or something. Shame about the Fopps, but hopefully they're not gone forever. Tickets certainly not avialable from them at the moment right enough though - www.troacabrahma.com / 0870 2201116 or they're also available from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Box Office for the two Old Fruitmarket shows.

DJs Chris "Beans" Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) & Aidan Moffat (ex Arab Strap) added to the bill for Four Tet & Open Field Church on Fri 27th July DJs Nick McCarthy & Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand) added to the bill for Gruff Rhys, King Creosote, Romulo Froes & Tony Da Gatorra on Sat 28th July

Aye, the Sunday night show will be a corker. If you've got the stamina Optimo will be on that night too. The Fruitmarket is fantastic venue too.

TrocaBrahma: Four Tet meets Open Field Church Friday 27th July Glasgow, The Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica St Tickets 10 Doors 10.00pm TrocaBrahma: King Creosote meets Romulo Froes; Gruff Rhys meets Tony da Gatorra Saturday 28th July Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs Tickets 14 Doors 7.00pm TrocaBrahma: Ben Westbeech meets Tita Lima, Gilles Peterson. Saturday 28th July Glasgow, The Classic Grand, 18 Jamaica St Tickets 10 Doors 10.00pm TrocaBrahma: Os Mutantes meet JD Twitch (Optimo); Bonde Do Role meets Radioclit / Amanda Blank, Diplo Sunday 29th July Glasgow, Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs Tickets 14 Full listings & tickets at TROCA BRAHMA Tickets also available from Phone: 0870 2201116 In person: Glasgow Tickets Scotland 239 Argyle St, Fopp stores - 358 Byres Rd & 19 Union St. TrocaBrahma 07 will synthesise the finest in established and emerging UK and Brasilian music talent for an incandescent series of must-see live shows, urban art and truly exclusive collaborations. It runs through London, Liverpool and Glasgow from July 26-29. Converging a fiery cast of UK stars including champion rhapsodist King Creosote, electronic alchemist Four Tet, wily Welsh pop warlock Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), global groove maharishi Gilles Peterson, JD Twitch clamouring party-starters Optimo and urban jungle wunderkind Ben Westbeech; and a blazing range of Brasilian luminaries such as psych-rock behemoths Os Mutantes, incendiary genre-benders Bonde do Role, counter-cultural superstar Tony da Gatorra, exquisite pop collective Open Field Church, celestial samba bard Romulo Froes, (and Favela sonic archivist Diplo), TrocaBrahma 07 is set to deliver an exhilarating culture jam of UK and Brasilian talent. Much of the carnival's fruit will be borne from the TrocaBrahma Exchange: a project during which the aforementioned UK acts will visit Brasil in May to engage and create with like minded and unlikely indigenous counterparts. Thus, expect an impassioned alliance of oddball arias and post-punk clatter from Gruff Rhys meets Tony da Gatorra; kaleidoscopic ghetto-pop chaos from Bonde do Role meet Radioclit / Amanda Blank; sublime Scottish folk and balmy bossa nova from King Creosote meets Romulo Froes; electronic wizardry and choral serenades from Four Tet meets Open Field Church; downtown samba-jazz and inner-city soul from Tita Lima meets Ben Westbeech; and ground-breaking mayhem from Tropicalia lodestars Os Mutantes with club-land tearaway JD Twich (Optimo). All of the participating artists will re-converge in the UK to perform their unique collaborations live for the first time at TrocaBrahma. All artists will also perform full live sets during Julys chromatic festivities after which a related series of exclusive podcasts will be unveiled.

Once their music is in the public domain it's subject to criticism for what it is. How old the people who make it are, how much they earn and what they would be doing if they weren't musicians is no excuse for churning our derivative crap.

Hear Hear! I was at that game and between the Shitellis and Runrig at half-time I felt completely alienated. I'm a Celtic fan too, but unlike the guy mentioned previously, for me the playing of the duh duh duh duh song is completely off-putting - get your act together Celtic and let the people sing. That View song is stinking right enough - it and Same Jeans have been the two biggest radio turn-off songs for me of the last year.

Pete Rock New York hip-hop lodestar Pete Rock has evolved and enlivened East Coast rap since the 1980s. Emerging as the prodigal sidekick on legendary radio show In Control With Marley Marl, (the two will reunite at Triptych 07), Rock aka Peter Phillips rose to prominence as one half of vintage hip-hop trailblazers Pete Rock & CL Smooth, whose classic Mecca (1992) and The Main Ingredient (1994) albums are among the genres most celebrated and enduring releases. Lauded with DJ Premier and RZA as one of raps most formidable talents, Rock also played a major role in assimilating jazz into hip-hop alongside Gang Starr and A Tribe Called Quest. Marley Marl One of hip-hops consummate producers and architects, New Yorks Marlon Williams Marley Marl pioneered the art of sampling and, in turn, stridently mapped the aural landscape for rap musics late-80s Golden Age. As founder of Cold Chillin Records, Marl amassed an artistic stable which boasted New Yorks greatest hip-hop talents: Juice Crews Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie and Roxanne Shante among them. His colossal production work galvanised by a lustrous, muscular, thunderous idiom was vital in shifting the paradigms of hip-hop from street-level craze to mainstream concern. Alongside further, cardinal work with the likes of Erik B & Rakim and LL Cool J, he is also revered as a critical beat-maker: among the first to sample James Brown grooves and an early champion of drum loops, Marley Marl is an indubitable, and enduring, hip-hop legend. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Gilles Peterson Gilles Peterson's bearing on popular culture is vast: his inexorable ardour for untapped music be it global fusion, pioneering hip-hop, radical Braziliana, cinematic arias, arcane jazz or urban soul has seen him rightly and universally lauded as one of the most critical DJs, tastemakers and broadcasters in the world. Petersons CV speaks volumes former barrow boy; pirate radio maverick; Talkin' Loud chief; pivotal vanguard of the UK house and acid-jazz scenes while his Radio One Worldwide show remains a critical touchstone for music lovers the globe over. The DJs annual and much-loved Triptych pilgrimage showcases the finest in excellent, hand-picked universal music (previous Scottish live debuts have included Amp Fiddler, Soil & Pimp Sessions and Plantlife); and this year is no exception: armed with an arsenal of record crates and replete with sonic wunderkinds the Cinematic Orchestra in tow were thrilled to welcome Gilles to Triptych once more. Various Productions A vital, cabalistic duo who dont so much bend musical genres as bestialise them beyond repair, Various (or sometimes, Various Productions) released their debut album, The World Is Gone (XL), to general rapture last year and with it discharged a rampant barrage of hitherto untapped aural pleasures: honeyed dubstep, rugged trip-hop and buzzsaw neo-pop among them. The debut was hailed an instant classic not least thanks to its smouldering vocal cameos, leftfield serenades and intransigent, deviant beats. It also unhesitatingly exposed them as one of the finest electronic pop concerns to emerge in recent years. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Prins Thomas Oslos incandescent Thomas M. Hermansen alias DJ, producer and remixer Prins Thomas is widely lionised for his rabid, inexorable party sets, (often alongside fellow Triptych 07 disruptor Lindstrom); and his Viking Disco uber-imprint, Full Pupp Recordings (co-helmed with Stevie Kotey): merchants of ecstatic beats and deep carnival grooves since 2004. A one-time dabbler in some rather bad Norwegian bands including ill-fated stints in gospel, punk, heavy metal and psychedelic outfits the giddy dance-floor monarch guarantees to fiercely inspirit ears and feet. Lindstrom Lindstroms Nordic, cosmic maelstrom of freeform grooves and glacial whirls and astral funk and molten rock has gained him props across the world as a stellar producer, remixer and DJ with a livid passion for lazy disco and laser beats and ray-gun chorales. With remix credits including LCD Soundsystem and Franz Ferdinand, and a well-loved DJ racket (often in tandem with sonorous Triptych 07 confederate Prins Thomas), its testament to Lindstroms agile talents that hes also a gilded recording artist: his album, Its a Feedelity Affair, enlivens dance-floors and gladdens hearts. Funky Transport Flygaric Tracks Iain McPherson and James Sissons aka Aberdeen deep house groove dudes Funky Transport are marvellous, must-see dance-floor bleep-freaks whose recent sojourns have included appearances with Louie Vega, Derrick Carter and Crazy P. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Terry Riley Minimalist pioneer Terry Riley is one of modern musics most visionary and significant figures. An extraordinary composer and musician whose work revolutionised and redefined 20th Century music, Rileys legacy has overthrown aural traditions from classical to electronic to rock: the former as a contemporary of Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams; the latter as a direct inspiration for The Who, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Soft Machine and countless other pop colossi. Rileys staggering collaborations, meanwhile, include a startling accord with the Velvet Undergrounds John Cale; an enduring collusion with The Kronos Quartet; and a groundbreaking union with Indian raga master Prandit Pan Nath. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Prinzhorn Dance School Enigmatic Brighton triumvirate Prinzhorn Dance School are a cacophonic, catalytic axe-slinging gaggle whose excellent brand of brambly rock and boy-girl electro is avidly matched by their similarly superlative designate: inspired, it is said, by an early twentieth century psychiatrist who assembled Europes largest collection of art by patients suffering from psychosis. Recently signed to decalescent US imprint DFA, (home to Triptych alumni LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, and helmed by sonic overlord James Murphy), PDS party cantatas and DIY ardour and hi-hat arias and unrefined rock n roll are set to slay clubbers and music lovers all over 2007. Fujiya & Miyagi The imagined, illicit love betwixt a Japanese hi-tech turntable company and the Karate Kids bearded maharishi begets the misleadingly tropical moniker of Brightons marvellous Fujiya and Miyagi: a lavish, labyrinthine trio whose shimmering touchstones of desiccant funk, filmic vistas, modernist wordplay and club-land shenanigans channel trailblazers such as Roxy Music, Can, LCD Soundsystem, Serge Gainsbourg and MF Doom. Propagating a wry, inspired, revitalising dance music genus; as presently attested on the triumvirates multifarious frolic Transparent Things (Tirk); Fujiya and Miyagi or Steve Lewis, David Best and Matt Hainsby as theyre rather more prosaically designated are a vigorous, bountiful kraut-pop treasure. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Gruff Rhys Having coined his first song, Im Getting Old, at the ripe old age of five, (it was the tale of a train driver contemplating his demise), wily Welsh pop warlock Gruff Rhys has since become synonymous with technicolour army tanks, fifty-foot bears, and myriad hits with bonkers techno-rockers Super Furry Animals. Now moonlighting with an ace solo dodge (and backing band), Rhys current album, Candylion is the follow up to 2005s Welsh-language, wide-eyed wig-out, Yr Atal Genhedlaeth. Its a haunting, nostalgic, bucolic wonder, whose theses straddle Patagonian Spanish, desktop publishing, and Micronesian mammals. Offering a swooning, shorn and loveable correlative to the Super Furries' bounding, bountiful psych-pop, Rhys autonomous acid-folk grooves are adorned with raggedy rock and puckish verse and cranky guitars and toy-box electro: all of which warmly conspire to ensure that Rhys' verdant endeavours both live and on record continue to be met with ardour. Espers Transmitting directly from a parallel planet wherein Linda Perhacs fronts the Velvets, the Cocteau Twins are woven from hemp, and Faun Fables bludgeon warlocks to death, Philadelphias Espers are a magic(k) fantasy folk contingent of festive bells and witches tales: of unearthly gifts of black and gold and Frankincense and mirth. A giddy sextet from Floyd-via-Fairport, their lavish current album, Espers II, is a languid, droning, glorious tract whose benevolent charms span the 1970s, the middle ages, mummified wig-outs and lurid, futuristic psalms: stand-out tracks include Dead Queen like Venus in Furs as imagined by virgins; like Stairway to Heaven as plucked by a morgue and the brilliant, funereal lilt of Dead King a claustrophobic madrigal ballad that demands a long night of your life alone. Espers are lush, otherworldly and wonderful. Boom Bip Its a handshake between a beggar and a duke. Its electronic music for cowboys. Its sandbox for baby robots to play in. So raves erstwhile Triptych funambulist Buck 65, viz the soaring aural canvas of jazz-fuelled, groove-lubed DJ, producer and performance artist Boom Bip: aka Cincinnati hip-hop experimentalist and acid funketeer Bryan Hollon. He's recorded for arch imprints Lex and Mush; he's remixed Mogwai, Four Tet and Jamie Lidell (amongst others); he's unearthed myriad genre-melding treasures since the late 1990s: not least exquisite, diaphanous ballad, The Matter (with spellbinding chanteuse Nina Nastasia); and the disarming, string-drawn, dawn-chorus of Dos and Donts, which features the vocals and lyrics of Super Furry Animals sorcerer Gruff Rhys with whom the exuberant Boom Bip is set to further collaborate in 2007. Euros Childs A barking, bucolic, electro-pop harlequin whose erstwhile gaggle, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, flogged gorgeous, oddball, toy-box anthems, Euros Childs is a skewed, elegiac, charming bard: his Welsh and English language psalms of donkeys, sheriffs, girls and pygmies are divine. His live appearances, meanwhile, are bedecked with unexpected treats. Childs latest solo enterprise, Bore Da (Wichita) the follow-up to last years offbeat treasure, Chops is due for release in the Spring: expect a congenial compendium of pastoral ecstasy and addled arias, from the king of kitsch disco and lunatic, lo-fi pop. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Spektrum Like the brawling spawn of The Slits and ESG as nurtured in pop-vaults by sleaze-pimping wolverines Spektrum are a neon paroxysm of chromatic funk, frazzled punk, argent electro and effulgent R&B. A London-based, horseplay-obsessed four-piece thats Lola Olafisoye, Gabriel Olegavich, Isaac Tucker and Teia Williams Spektrum are among the UKs most arresting, effervescent live cartels. Their current (second) album, Fun At The Gymkhana Club (Nonstop), is a lambent aural alloy of Prince homages, misfit disco, livid vistas and saucy equine imagery all the colours of the rainbow, all the haze of subterranea: and all the more gregarious for it. Little Kicks Fresh from support slots with Jamie T, Editors and The Mystery Jets, Aberdeen four-piece The Little Kicks come to Triptych equipped with a jumped-up booty-bag of tight, melodic, buoyant rock that coalesces a veritable bevy of influences from Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground and Johnny Cash, to Hot Chip, Air and The Rapture. http://www.triptychfestival.com

Micah P Hinson Micah P Hinson is 105. Sure, he claims to be a 23-year-old Texan troubadour who just happens to sing like a bourbon-scorched grandpa, but this is the direct result of pact he made with a black witch back in the days of The Alamo. But fear not his brilliant Dorian Gray disguise, for Hinson is a formidable master of forceful song-craft and forlorn delivery: he is truly hair-raising live. His raggle-taggle festive and elegiac ranch canticles were first evinced on 2004s straggly missive And The Gospel Of Progress; and further identified on 2005s early-work compendium, The Baby And The Satellite. His current album, And The Opera Circuit, is a rasping, harmonious communiqu. Its a welcome reminder that Micah P Hinson is a unique and vital virtuoso: hes the youngest, rustiest pop immortal on the block. Califone Charting an argent aural trajectory that spans post-rock, American folk, out-jazz, lazy blues, grizzly electronica and the variegated gains of Throbbing Gristle, Captain Beefheart and Psychic TV, Chicagos Califone arose from the ashes of helmsman Tim Rutilis Red Red Meat in 1998: their quiet ascendance has yet to abate. The dulcet quartets latest (fourth) album, Roots and Crowns (Thrill Jockey), has been widely acclaimed as their finest to date, and little wonder: its a charming, balmy, enlivening ode to kittens, insects, valentines, orchids; its a lyrical, literate, amber hybrid of folk and electronic; jarring and melodic; modern and nostalgic; rural and mechanical. It is wonderful. Grant Campbell Urban cowboy and brambly folk Romeo Grant Campbell is possessed of a gravelly, staggering voice that belies his local roots and meagre years. Recalling Micah P Hinson and Bruce Springsteen, Campbells burnished alt-folk arias and gruff, unadorned lullabies are gentle, heart-rending: remarkable. http://www.triptychfestival.com

The Funkmasters feat. Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell, Clyde Stubblefield & John 'Jabo' Starks All hail the interstellar jazz-funk powerhouse thats The Funkmasters! Fred Wesleys sweltering trombone has inherently buttressed the jazz and funk canons since the 1960s, thanks to his seminal work as bandleader and musical director with James Brown; his jazz magnitude with The Count Basie Orchestra; his early-80s solo hit House Party; and his pivotal stints with Ray Charles, George Clinton, De La Soul. New Jerseys Bernie Worrell, meanwhile, is a Herculean composer and keyboard player whose critical alliances include Parliament, Funkadelic, Bill Laswell and not least Talking Heads: hes widely cited as the driving force behind their global, polyrhythmic, clipped-funk aesthetic. He recently teamed up with Mos Def; his impact on pop, rap, soul and R&B is massive. The crowning two-pronged assault in this blustering outfit comes courtesy of rhythm grandmasters Clyde Stubblefield andJohn Jabo Starks: indisputably the definitive funk drummers. Stubblefields much-sampled and exhaustive work with James Brown includes rhythmic blueprints on all-time classics like Funky Drummer, I Got The Feelin, Cold Sweat and Sex Machine. Starks, meanwhile, unleashed his copious jazz sensibilities and rabid grooves on more James Brown hits than any other drummer: he was Browns most enduring sticksman, before departing to play with BB King. The ultimate jazz-funk supergroup make their Scottish debut at Triptych: do not miss! http://www.triptychfestival.com