Tanya Morgan – Posted

ILB has already come out against rappers on Twitter. Rappers on Ustream, though… we’re undecided. Maybe it’s just because we’re comparing it to the Ustream events of Scottish BBC 2 comedians that are quite clearly dry alcoholics mentally unravelling very very slowly, but we’ve quite enjoyed Donwill from Tanya Morgan’s Ustream events.

I moved back into the world of capsule reviewing

Just for today I will act courteously, criticize not one bit and not to try to improve or regulate anybody except myself.

This is the part of the 12-step recovery program that I struggle with the most, to be honest. As part of my rehabilitation into greater society, I’ve started doing capsule reviews for some places again. It’s a hard art, the economy of it all, having to get some basic INFO and a couple of Passantino-standard zings in to less than 110 words, but it’s all part of the recovery process, right? Maybe I can use this as a springboard to write for that one dance music mag that’s on coffee counters in East London with the really poor quality paper. Eight Hours Until Death or whatever it’s called. Anyway, here’s the review I did of some Waylon Jennings album from two years ago that has only just come out here for some reason. Enjoy.

Post-midnight Youtube filler: Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – The Night

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first heard this song as a 7 year old in 1976 and its still in my mind today since the first time i heard it,what a brilliant piece of perfectly written music along with thousands of other 60s/70s songs,definately no talent around since the 1970s,very sad remembering such good music is no longer made,music in those days was written to strike at your heart n soul and connected you to your loved ones who had passed away,you listen to the last 30 years of rubbish with no meaning and it saddens you.

We did it!!!

From today’s Gorkana update:

Stuart Jeffries and Hannah Pool from The Guardian’s features department have now left. Stuart has been at The Guardian for nineteen years, and Hannah joined in 1996 as a Junior Reporter. Laura Barton will be leaving at the end of April, having joined in 2000.

On Half Man Half Biscuit, “Joy Division Oven Gloves”, and the “Save 6Music” campaign

Little brings as much joy to my empty heart as the despair some people feel when they realise the musicians and songs they hold dearest to their hearts have now been appropriated by the advertising industry. It doesn’t matter what Vashti Bunyan means to you personally, because to everyone else she now means 300 texts and 250 minutes for £25 a month on any Vodafone contract. Have the words of John Prine talked you out of ending it all on many an occasion? Well maybe now they’ll talk you into buying the new peri peri chicken Subway. And regardless of the exhilaration of that last minute bid war with a Norwegian cratedigger for a Freestyle Fellowship promo vinyl on eBay, everyone else has now heard that unreleased joint because it’s now soundtracking NASCAR 2010 on the Wii. I found this stuff hilarious. And then the “Save 6 Music” campaign happened.

Readers’ letters

Last month’s article on the inanities of Mof Gimmers attracted some comment, but none as powerful as the comment left below. I couldn’t let it languish there, so it gets a post all of its own:

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If your browser has been hijacked and you don’t already from vamp programs established you could be up against the wall. diverse hijackers actively thwart you from visiting sites where you can download the pickle, which implies you pass on oblige to get on another structure, download the programs and establish them to the infected system from a removable drive. And there’s also one named Hijack This. Each of these are wonderful programs and can corral some, but very likely not all browser hijacks. ( a full of energy vow of warning: diverse malevolent programs represent as being anti-virus/anti-spyware programs. )

While leader this I couldn’t relief but expect of Robert Deniro and how a mark he energy tease would traffic with a browser hijack. It’s a abashment we can’t virtuous gun the people who do it down while saying, ‘Hijack this!!’ But at least there are some earnest-biography, workable options, such as those listed above.

More info nigh Internet sanctuary you can twig on malware bytes

Thanks, Newbie

You’re a Richman, and you’ve gone too far, ‘cuz you know it don’t matter anyway

On the real, the picture for this post was originally going to be your man with the moustache who used to host Channel 4′s “Right to Reply”, but the only pictures of him online from the time are far too small, and the only pictures of him from nowadays show a man who looks entirely different, to the extent I think there might actually be two different Roger Boltons and IMDB is just being a dick. So enjoy looking at this awful Sims 2 Twilight pack instead.

Music might not be entirely dreadful in 2010 part 2: The Indelicates – Songs for Swinging Lovers

With the possible exception of Los Campesinos! (mainly because they are the only band who yet have gone to bat for the ILB brand identity of playing Football Manager whilst downloading from PWTorrents), The Indelicates are our favourite band of the past half-decade. And they’re dropping a new album! We’re so excited, for the first time in ILB history we’re just going to C+P an entire press release rather than insert shitty zings into the text. Enjoy after the jump:

Music might not be entirely dreadful in 2010 part 1: DJ Quik and Suga Free – Noboby

I appreciate that there are rappers out there right now who aren’t Suga Free, I’m just not sure why there needs to be.

No country for vapid men

I can’t lie to you: I would love it if ILB returned to full-scale positing with positivity in its heels. My Gamblers Anonymous pamphlet even tells me to put aside 30 minutes a day to reflect on “being more positive”. I should really be hitting you off with some enlightened music debate, unearthing the stars of tomorrow, passing comment on the classics of yesteryear, putting them all in some sort of critical context. But, no, this is still a place where I just go “Jesus Christ look at this shitty hack”. And reaching his 2000 wordcount before going “fuck it, that’ll do, invoice enc” today is Simmy Richman.