Wesley Willis RIP.

Buy em now from their website. [And that’ll be their new, fancy website so that link immediately stopped working and now they seem to have sold out of the tshirts as well. Gah]

See also Wee Stuart having it out with John Battsek, the producer of that Britpop documentary Live Forever in The Scotsman.

Stuart: “If by influential you mean Hirst has opened the door for a plethora of like-minded chancers to exploit the swamp of postmodern Britain by churning out similarly banal, contemptuous artefacts and that Albarn is a multi-talented multi-faceted composer/musician in the sense that he has spread his soulless drivel over a variety of musical genres then you are correct.”

The other guy gets the best put-down though: “Maybe you were too busy printing T-shirts and missed it.”. HO ho. Oh dear.

Will, you missed Mogwai, Empire-Builder, March of Dimes, The Boy Cartographer and probably some others I’ve forgotten. This is going to send our Google referring stats through the roof….heheheh….

I keep seeing John from bis and Aidan from Arab Strap in town. I want some different lo-fi glasgow rock stars to spot.

Oh aye, Mogwai are in Kerrang! this week with wee stuart right on form: “If you’re into Westlife, you’re fucked. You may as well get into crack”.

there’s an A and a C in wack, too

on my way home tonight I saw Aidan from Arab Strap talking on a cellphone outside the 24 hour shop on Byres Road. However, that’s also right next door to Blockbuster so I think he’s probably succumbed to the charms of Steve, the hilariously patronising video store guy who works there. and who can blame him?

I did go to the record store after work but ended up only buying the Papa M mini album and the new one by Tara Jane O’Neil. I have no idea why I didn’t buy the Papa M thing when it came out – I’ve seen him play these songs live three times and been singing them for days after yet never thought to actually buy them. I was going to buy the new Les Savy Fav as well but I didn’t have enough cash on me and the counter at Missing is too high for me to sign Switch card receipts on. I’d have to stand on a box and frankly I don’t want to make that much of an idiot of myself.