Various things

E-music reviews 'Songs for Swinging Lovers' / Radio Stars

Oodles of videos added:

• Radio Stars / 100 Club London 2010
• John's Children / Casbah, San Diego 1999

MG in ' Best Ambassador of the Rickenbacker 4000 series' chart.

And maybe some word soon about the imminent release of a Jet package and attendant activity... we will see. Meanwhile Jet's live show from the Hunter-Ronson tour of '75 is here.

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Interviews/reviews archived

Trawling through the years of MG-chat

Jet reviews unearthed during archiving process

Herring reviews discovered while trawling through the reservoir

Jet live release

'More Flotsam' - live on the Hunter-Ronson tour. Details here - out now!

100 pictures

from the recent Radio Stars gig at the 100 Club

More 100 vids:

But so far only for the Facebooked: (Johnny Mekon)(From A Rabbit)

(Dirty Pictures)(Nervous Wreck)

100 Club video:

No Russians served from behind the bar on Jan 22 2010. Ouch, yaroo, leggo you rotter etc. etc. More to follow.

More ranting:

And now Martin Gordon rambles on in the marvellous labour of love and info-intensive Vapeur Mauve. Download the complete new issue just back there, as a pdf. To the irritation of monoglot Mole-lovers the world over, it's in French . (OK, for real monoglots, here's the English version). He goes on about Jet, Radio Stars, Moles and Mammals, in approximately that order. Names are named.

On the airwaves:

And in anticipation of the forthcoming Radio Stars / Eddie 6 the Hot Rods gig on Jan 22nd at the 100 Club in London, MG talks to Sue Marchant of BBC Radio Cambridge on Jan 21st, at 21.10 UK time. Here's the BBC Cambridge live iPlayer.

And in the blogosphere:

Follow the sordid details of the rehearsals on the MG MySpace blog, once they begin next week.

The critic, he love it:

More Time Gentlemen Please reviews continue to cascade into the editorial offices.

Dirty Posters:

Finally the world comes to it's senses about beavers. The infamous Dirty Pictures Poster is now available for you to hang on the walls of your cell, if the warden allows it.

MG speaks:

Blogcritics allow MG seven pages for his disembodied ranting about the Bob Position, millenarianism, the Mole that ate his aunt (or ant) and more... It is spelt in the local dialect, y'all.

Still here:

No news is good news. The End is not yet upon us.

And, with nary a pause for breath or humbug, along comes Part II at Start The Revolution Without Me.

Blogcritics reviews 'Time Gentlemen Please', plus an interview with Start the Revolution Without Me - Part I .

Radio Stars renew their long acquaintance with Eddie and the Hotrods! In a re-run of the 1977 Summa Madness tour, the two bands appear at the 100 Club in London's Oxford Street on January 22nd 2010. Line-up is Martin Gordon, Andy Ellison and Ian Macleod, plus Mr X the drummer! Details, PR and press pix here.

Martin Gordon talks to the legendary club Friars in Aylesbury, who recently re-opened and who will shortly close. Which seems only fitting, given that the music world appears to be very closely related to EM Forster's 'pyramid of appetites built upon a foundation of stupidity'. And while quoting Eddy-baby, as he preferred to be known by his intimates, we are compelled to agree with his remark that the only way to combat silliness is with cleverer silliness. He was speaking in a slightly different context, but so what.

Anticipating upcoming Hotroddery, MG will shortly be talking to the esteemed Friars Aylesbury about Radio Stars, the past, the present and the future.

Our old pal Dave Thompson, when not writing Sparks biographies under various identities, was single-handedly responsible for the outing (and I use the term advisedly) of the Blue Meanies into the public consciousness, via his piece in rock-mag Goldmine in 2004. This seminal example of rock obscurantism is now published, along with other examples of his art, in 'Footnotes from the Archives of Oblivion' (ta, Dave, nice one).

Equally obscure artists (if such a category exists) include the A-Jaes (hello Tee!), former Spooky Tooth guitarist Luther Grosvenor, the Heavy Metal Kids (Gary Holton sang on the Blue Meanies tune 'Pop Sensibility', in a curiously serendipitous coincidence), Jo Jo Gunne (great!), Paul King (not great!!!) and people who we have never even heard of. No, not even us, who, by definition, reside in the Land of Obscurity. So buy it, or else this cuddly but obscure kitten gets shot.

What else... Expect a re-run of Summa Madness - watch this space for some live activity in the near future.

Andy Ellison, T Rextasy and 'No Russians in Russia' - cavorting takes place in September 2009

More Time reviews, and Mondo & Piley's podcast featuring mammalian contributions. Why oh why must we fling this filth at our pop kids etc. etc. Radiant Future website is announced, as is a massive, swingeing price reduction in honour of this event (hurry - offer valid only from now until the end of time).