Onward march of technology/Homage to catatonia

[hirez]

Have I bothered the populace about uk_jon's internet-wireless-thingy, Brierly Hill 90201 recently? Probably not. Choice cuts from Sevs, TRS-80 and someone/thing called 'Asobi Seksu' which is just bloody marvellous. 'Shimmering' and 'Epic' are two good words, and 'pliers' a bad one. They're probably all over the popular press and doing children's AM telly

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[hirez]

Ah, yes. That makes sense.

I have no idea what it was in Parallel Cheltenham. Rarely open, I should think. Or a church hall.

[uk_jon]

Asobi Seksu are from Brooklyn NY and you can find out more about them at www.myspace.com/asobiseksu or www.asobiseksu.com. I to am not sure how successful they are but they deserve to be bloody massive. The track on this weeks show is from their first (self-titled) album and their second (Citrus) was released earlier this year and is mighty fine as well. I picked up both albums on iTunes-US and I know they're available in Japan as well (Seksu is Japanese for sex, Asobi = "for fun") so iTunes-UK probably has 'em. They're about to embark on a nationwide US tour so that has to be an indicator of reasonable financing somewhere (this country's too bloody big to just bung all the kit in the back of this century's/hemisphere's equivalent of a Ford Transit).

Y'know... it's weird... I don't think I've ever seen that ex-Church in daylight before but, having seen the pic, I can now picture the inside, dark and drunk. It probably says something very clever (or not) about the human mind.

[malcygoff]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, that particular property in Stone has cought my eye for the last four or five years as I drove past it. Always thought it could do with a bit of TLC...

[reddragdiva]

THAT's who the Pipettes sound like!

(I bought their single off eMusic. OK for the 50p I paid. But yes. Nail on head, that man.)_

[hirez]

uk_jon got there first, as I discovered about a minute after writing that bit when E=MC2 turned up on the playlist.