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Friday 6th April 2012
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Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Demo Review

The Ruskins
Slow Down Jessica demo 6 for 5

Article written by James G - Jun 5, 2009

The Ruskins sent us a 3-track CD, but it refused to play. So, off I went to their myspace page, where I spied the same 3 tracks. Amongst their influences, The Ruskins list Kings of Leon, The Streets, The Cribs, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Jamie T, Nirvana, The Dubliners, The White Stripes and Chas’n’Dave.
Unfortunately The Ruskins’ myspace page seems also cursed with technical problems, and I only ended up hearing track 1 – ‘Slow Down Jessica’. I managed to get this to play twice. The other tracks were unavailable. So I tried various media, including video on Youtube and chat on Facebook, in order to get a better view of the band.

I would have been happier had ‘Slow Down Jessica’ also been unavailable, being, as I am, too long in the tooth for ‘ladrock’. Cheeky, uber-confident, skiffly, slap’n’tickly ladrock at that. It seems that the (ahem) great and the good – XFM, NME, Radio 1 - have taken The Ruskins to their hearts, so this utterly charmless example of young Great Britain 2009 have a sporting chance to ‘make it’. I’m sure they and all their mates will have a laugh in the process, and the legend ‘less is more’ will be proven true again. Sigh.

Links:
www.myspace.com/theruskins