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Friday 6th April 2012
All Day BBQ Festival

Sparrow and the Workshop
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The Nuns
Singing Adams
Y Niwl
Colours
Dignan Porch
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The Windmill
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On Our iPod

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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Single/Download Review

Dan Melchior und Das Menace/ The Fresh & Onlys
split single Volar Records 7”

Article written by Ged M - Jan 10, 2010

These days, only the dinosaurs of major-labeldom seem to release records to schedules. Elsewhere, things just seem to appear, without notice. I found this in Rough Trade one evening and I made the inspired decision to buy this fantastic four track EP. Dan Melchior is a Surrey-born and North Carolina based singer-songwriter. Some of his prolific releases are garage-rock (he’s collaborated with Childish, Golightly and the Medway set) but here he’s much more English-indie-influenced. ‘Daylight Robbery’ could be Swell Maps or the Television Personalities as Dan M(elchior) sounds more like Dan T(reacy) when he complains, deadpan style, about poor service: “your lack of regard for your customers is absolutely stunning”. For ‘A Delicate Genius Backstage’ he intones a prose-poem about a dull band in the style of John Cooper Clarke with art-rock backing by the Fall. Both are excellent. As are the tracks by San Francisco’s Fresh & Onlys. A version of ‘Black Coffin’ appears on the Grey-Eyed Girls album, but here it’s a more doomy psych-pop number with shades of Crystal Stilts, while ‘A Taste of Hunger’ is fast and catchy Mekons-esque punk-pop. Cracking bands, splendid songs, and now you know it’s out there, there’s no excuse for not tracking it down.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/dasmenace
http://www.myspace.com/volarrecords
http://www.myspace.com/thefreshonlys