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Granny Bettie

By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long players

Frankly bonkers release of someone’s gran reading her holiday diaries over backing tracks played by various members of the Topplers roster.



Magik Markers

By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long players

Magik Markers are one of those bands that UK hipsters and scenesters name drop when they want to look cool, or pretend that they write for Plan B Magazine (the spiritual home of UK hipsterdom).



The Winston Giles Orchestra

By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long players

In a pile of review CD’s made up mostly of reissues and ‘Second Comings’ of previously ‘famous’ musicians, it’s nice to find something that is a debut release.



Various – Jonny Trunk Presents

By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long players

Too often is the phrase ‘national treasure’ chucked around these days, it only seems to take someone doing something a little eccentric and they are feted as something worthy of being put in a museum.



Paperlung

By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long players

There’s a man on the inner sleeve of this record wearing a scarf in that ‘tied around the neck and worn with a sweater’ style so beloved of Paul ‘I’ve never made a good record in my life’ Weller and his dullard acolytes.