Who the f*** is Johnny Cigarettes?

The Ashcroft thing happened at the European Cup Final when Man Utd were in it, he apparently saw JC and chased him yelling "Cigarettes you cunt". JC had given an early review of the Verve in which he said people would want to glass RA's face if they saw him in a pub.

I quite enjoyed the early stereolab singles collection. I always want to get somehting by them but then i get to hear their singles on the radio and its fairly bland stuff so i never do buy anything else.

this sort of thing is a little nick hornby-ish. but i do enjoy a lot of other things about the review.

"'Blue Milk' is the 11-minute artistic centrepiece of this 'work'. We know this because it's the longest and nearly impossible to listen to."

i found this quite amusing.

i havent read much lately.

is this board becoming a where are they now for ex nme writters?

teehee

"might encourage the working classes to breed" yes stereolab completely lack any leftist tendancies.

"The capacity for music to hit you viscerally, spiritually or emotionally is just an interesting cultural studies theory to them, and one which they don't instinctively understand. " which is just untrue! 'blue milk' whirls me off to somewhere quite besides.

thougfh i'll concede he has a fairly amusing turn of phrase. but so does ann widdecome. and she probably needn't spend so much time staring through the pages of a thesaurus.

i'm a stereolab fan and after a while i actually agreed with most of what he wrote about that (their worst, IMO) album..

The worst thing about Cigarettes is that, when you cut through the bluster, he's a VERY BORING AND DULL WRITER, just loads of cliches about "rock'n'roll" and "instinctive", not even the childish shock value of a Swells.

(Said brother's mate Neil ended up on The Real World London years ago, and had the tip of his tongue bitten off during a gig by his band when he leapt into the audience to snog a male heckler; Neil also had a pig's heart wrapped in barbed wire delivered to him in a box by his then g/f cos she thought he was cheating on her with an American housemate on TRW. All this was on tele! It was grebt. Neil's dad was also the first person in the country to be ordained on t'internet, IIRC [though he's sadly now passed away, I think]. All of UK culture revolves around me and my brothers in one way or another...)

ah!

johnny is, like wells, a writer whose opinions on music you can't take that seriously.

Was that then g/f not the same Kitty Empire? And was the pig's heart not bought for her by MTV? And is Neil not responsible for Club Sofa? I may be wrong.

Does or did your brother's mate Neil also have the biggest porn collection in Oxford? I realise this sounds quite random.