The Sugababes to split?

Some jeers (expected, will they ever learn?) about my fondness for the Sugababes last night. Someone said that they had broken up - news story in a Sunday newspaper said that Heidi was feeling the pressure and the other two were excluding her (as they had done with Siobhan Donaghy). It would be a pity if they didn't get to record another album (supposedly working on it at the moment).

Anyway a quick seach revealed this unrelated and surprising piece of news that ringtones are going to beat cd singles in terms of making money for record companies. Mad!

DVD players. They're great

You can watch a film like John Carpenter's - They Live (90 mins long) in about 25 minutes - helps that there isn't a lot of dialogue in this 80s 'aliens taking us over story', and when there is dialogue, there are DVD subtitles!.

What else - finished The Meaning Of Hitler - Sebastian Haffner, very readable analysis of Hitler written in 1979, his successes/failures/crimes/betrayal of Germany. I don't know much about history and even less about WW II (perhaps all those earnest world at war type series made it seem like a gigantic game of generals) so it was a surprise to learn that after the German army was counter attacked by the Russian army in late 1941 (the event that Haffner says was the turning point of the war, that made Hitler realise he would lose the war to Russia), Hitler went and compounded his problems by declaring war on the US. It's the trying to work out the motivations behind these (incredible) actions that makes the book a great read.

Saw Max Tundra dj in the Sugar Club, mostly good music (the bad bits being noodly, organ led, jazz wank), the only song I recognised was a female version of Ludacris' Fantasy. He's got this hand shaking movement which is just like something Andrew Beard! does. Local fan club constantly beckoning him over while he was djing to blah blah with him.

Then off to another club, just like this was London or NY, 'cept it was to Bodkin's which is defintely not NY, to see Andrea Parker. It was then I realised that all electro has the same beat, and that's why it is terrrible to hear it as background music from another room, you have to go out on to the dancefloor (whereupon it is great). Ok not a very startling realisation.

Got a cd by ulrich schnauss - far away trains passing by. It's pretty good, early 90s, melodic electonica. Decals first album Ultramack 004 would be a good signpost.

Just heard a couple of mp3s by Colleen, Parsian electonic fugism, it's good, she's playing at the Mór Festival in Tullamore. Off to bloody weddign instead.

It's that wacky Bonny Prince Billy again

this time supporting Bjork on her North American tour and writing a tour diary about it at Drag City.



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The new Andrew WK single - Tear It Up - mental lo-fi beginning, then familiar mixture of big chuggy guitar, piano and Andrew rocking out on top. Not a radical departure but it's good to hear from him again. Purposeful feel to it. If you drove a huge intergalactic truck this would be breakfast music.

Picture of the Woofster.....