Lone Pigeon - Next wave of Brit Freak Out to Occur in March?

i was under the impression this stuff was already on the way out?

Whats happening with the World of Twist stuff by the way?

'Out'? I just go 'In' ferrchrissakes!

World of Twist? Me don't know?

this ain't the doomster

i just mean that Fence and Twisted Nerve seem to have gone very very quiet in recent times. it's a shame, as a lot of this stuff is really rather nice, if patchy.

From what I can gather - Toolshed's album is being dropped in June. SVC in the springtime. Lone Pigeon's new one in March (I've got that one) and Homelife - I don't know - does anybody know?

I love most of the stuff that Fence are putting out (UNPOC I'm not that keen on), the King Creosote and the Pip Dylan albums were both in my top 50 of last year.
I've not heard anything by Toolshed, but keep meaning to, and I wasn't a huge fan of Homelife at all.

But I wouldn't class the Fence stuff as 'British Freak' stuff (whatever that means), I thought they were more a part of a folk revival along with people like Alistair Roberts and James Yorkston....

Whats the World of Twist reference, one of the great lost bands of our time?

And who are/is the Supreme Vagaband Craftsman???

I've not heard anything by Toolshed, but keep meaning to, and I wasn't a huge fan of Homelife at all.
But I wouldn't class the Fence stuff as 'British Freak' stuff (whatever that means), I thought they were more a part of a folk revival along with people like Alistair Roberts and James Yorkston....

But King Cresote and L.P. put enough bizarre referentials into their music to warrant something beyond folk revivalism - folk revivalism would be Alistair Roberts, James Yorkston, Innocence Mission, Sufjan Stevens - I would think - more straight up folk-rock than LP and KC.

Whats the World of Twist reference, one of the great lost bands of our time?

I don't know? Someone explain?

And who are/is the Supreme Vagaband Craftsman???

Jagged combo - crack-eyes Beatles types hanging around the DSS office smoking cigarettes and talking strange beat lingo to telephone polls? www.invisiblespies.com SVC is a big influence on the new Badly Drawn Boy album - which features ex-Bolthrower drummer - Earl Hilton???

It took a few listens to get into Homelife but now I dig them. You should definitely get the Toolshed e.p. Massey changed my life!

The ILM regular with the most to say about this scene is Doomie, who was also hinting at a WoT reissue a while back.

I think King Creosote is head and shoulders above most of the other Fence stuff I've heard. I was very disappointed with the Pip Dylan EP, though I've high hopes for the Pictish Trail.

WHen I heard there was a movement called anti-folk, the sound I imagined was the one King Creosote achieves. Imagine my disappointment when I heard the Moldy Peaches!

Is any of this Fence records stuff easily available in London, Mr H? An (admittedly not particularly strenuous) look round the obvious shops didn't turn anything up.

This scene meant more to me in 2001 than it does today.

(In fact, I went in for the Twisted Nerve singles club on the promise of bringing in non-Nerve acts to record exclusives for it. TN were good up until a certain point which, and I don't know if it was convergence, was the same time I stopped enjoying living in Manchester. Also got tired of the otherwise decent Piccadilly Recs and attendant clinetele fawning over how limited their limited editions were, as if thaqt made up for the lack of quality)

Jimmy, check out The Shortwave Set's 7" 'Slingshot'/Better Than Bad', which came out last year and is still about. It's based in the 'nu-freak out' scene, but with a cut-up laptop finish. And a single of '03, standard.

Gordon the Pigeon - respect is due for sure.