Granny Bettie
By Alex Botten • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: long playersFrankly bonkers release of someone’s gran reading her holiday diaries over backing tracks played by various members of the Topplers roster.
Frankly bonkers release of someone’s gran reading her holiday diaries over backing tracks played by various members of the Topplers roster.
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).
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.
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.
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.