Yes, having got stuck in the snow last week, your humble DJ faced a new challenge in trying to get across town while dodging massed battalions of upper middle class women in pashminas, who evidently have decided that instead of getting the presents delivered this year , it’d be be a wizzard wheeze to go out Christmas shopping with the proles and mill about in narrow streets like with a mixture of indignation and amusement saying things like “Margaret, Margaret, I simply must find a cashpoint!” at the pitch of their lungs.
There’s millions of ’em. Personally I blame Joanna Lumley.
DJ Marc Smith – “Pump Up The Noise” (12″) (Notorious Vinyl)
Mogwai – “Rano Pano” (download single) (Rock Action)
Terry Edwards – “Pickin The Blues” (LP – “Cliches”) (Sartorial)
Tommy McCook and the Aggrovators – “Duke Of Dubs” (LP – “Brass Rockers”) (Jamaican)
The Fall – “M5” (LP – “50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong”) (Sanctuary)
Untold – “Stereo Freeze” (12″) (R&S)
LA Vampires and Matrix Metals – “Berlin Baby” (LP – “So Unreal”) (Not Not Fun)
Phobia – “Total Kollapse” (EP – “Unrelenting”) (Relapse)
M1dlet – “Mundian To Bach Speedcore” (EP – “No Title”) (Headache Rekords)
Kate Rusby – “Not Me” (LP -“Make The Light”) (Pure)
The Good Ones – “Umanahano” (LP – “Kigali Y’Izahabu”) (Dead Oceans)
Deerhoof – “Super Duper Rescue Heads” (download single) (Polyvinyl)
Spragga Benz – “Real News” (LP – “Shotta Culture”) (Boomtunes)
Fist City – “Debbie Get Yr Boa” (LP – “Hunting You”) (Deadbeat)
Joy Orbison – “BB” (12″) (Doldrums)