May 29 2004 Pete Doherty Quits The Libertines

The interview Pete Doherty of The Libertines claimed he had given to The Sun newspaper about his quitting the band (as reported on Indigo Flow on Thursday – here) has now surfaced. In it Doherty not only claims that he is leaving the band, saying, “Surely no one wants to see me trapped in this […]

May 27 2004 Pete Doherty Out Of The Libertines?

The continuing saga or Pete Doherty, er, continues. Now he’s casting doubt onto the future of the Libertines with claims that he has given an interview to The Sun in which he says he wants to get away “from the cycle of destruction.”
The singer and guitarist admitted himself to the Priory last week, only to […]

May 26 2004 Aurélie - Angel In Ballet Shoes

Everyone I know who took a gap year either spent it working to raise the cash required to get through university or went off travelling. While both of these are admirable in their own way, when you finally get to university you’re going to find that if you worked, people will ask you why you […]

May 24 2004 Slipknot - Vol.3 The Subliminal Verses

Slipknot aren’t shit anymore. Honest.

May 20 2004 Doherty On Suicide Watch

Pete Doherty of The Libertines has been put on “suicide watch” by staff at the Priory after they found old marks on his body. Writing on his weblog, he claims that this is unnecessary and that he is feeling “brighter tailed and bushier eyed than I have done for many a year”.
In his online diary […]

May 19 2004 Libertines Man Heads For Rehab

Libertines co-frontman Pete Doherty has booked himself into the London branch of The Priory in a bid to kick his high profile drug addiction, which last year earned him a spell in prison.
Writing about the experience on his website (www.babyshambles.com) Doherty said, “I’m fine… they’ve whacked me on loads of medication. 16 different colours [of] […]

May 17 2004 Bitch Alert - Rriot

It’s very easy to dismiss Finnish trio Bitch Alert as a group of Hole wannabes (I know because I did initially). The vocals screamed on top of the band’s music by Heinie bare a passing resemblance to Courtney Love and the music is very heavy and serrated punk, which could be likened to Hole, though […]

May 10 2004 Amplifier - Amplifier

Describing Amplifier is no easy task. Their songs are long (only four of the ten on this album are under six minutes) with big riffs and sections of what might be called noodling, though no guitars solos to speak of exactly. The easiest thing now would […]

May 10 2004 Nekromantix - Dead Girls Don’t Cry

7th album from the Danish psychobilly merchants

May 7 2004 Breed 77 - Cultura

Breed 77 have been around for a long time and I was a great admirer of their first two singles and their excellent gigs in the late nineties, so it was with excitement that I put on this, their second album (I managed to miss the first somehow). What the Gibraltans are supposed to have […]