Current mood: MOULDABLE
Category: MOULDABLE Music
One of the many claims to fame of Fish Island is it's industrial history...
I'm not joking. Fish Island isn't only the centre of the entertainment business, it's also here or hereabouts that saw the invention of both plastic and petrol! Yes boss, it was only a matter of a few hundred metres from where I now sit, that two of the most villified products humans have ever created were first produced...
It's got moody class around here, proper moody class...
Talking of which, the police were out in force between 4 and 5pm today. It was exactly a week ago then that the guy from the church got shot and seeing as though the assasination attempt failed (the gun jammed on the first shot and the second only hit his leg - he was out of hospital the very next day) the police decided it best to make their prescence felt in case the would be assasins fancied another go
Well, they didn't (at least not then and there) and I've got off my point which was plastic.
Yes, basically I have 2 cds with the word plastic in the title and I'm gona review them now...
Artist: Plastic Operator
Single: Pepermint
Label: Fine Day
This one is Ok, but it hasn't grabbed me real hard and proper.
It's kind of like a cheaper and less classy version of Broadcast. Electro light singy pop with a tune. I've listened to the album an' all and that was much the same, but it wasn't quite heaving enough to pull me in for a second listen and subsequent adulation....
Plastic Operator remind me of a lot of the kind of acts Mute signed in the 1990s. Acts like Komputer (a poor mans Kraftwerk) It's a wierd label is Mute - very up and down...
Anyway, by that reckoning, Plastic Operator are (at present) the poor mans Broadcast, but i think this is their first LP and they could definately evolve into something a little more spicey...
Artist: Plastic Toys
Single: Let me feel the love
Label: Hill Valley Records
One of the many great things about The KLF was their invention of the term 'Stadium House' It was a grand and good idea. Tunes like America: What Time Is Love? booming out over Wembley Stadium, huge stadium shows, fireworks, heavenly raids, power blasting chords and beats classic style...
Well, I think these guys have something approaching the same idea and they're backed by big boy pop dance house producer and remixer Andy Gray
Yes boss, here we have some wham bam thank you mam metal dance shit, and it comes form my hometown Southampton (the only other successful musical export being my old school mate Craig David...)
We're talking heavy guitars and hints of dance hugeness - it has promise..
It's not quite right yet though. For one the lyrics are appalling and for two, the tunes don't have enough convincing grandiose ball breaking power, but time might iron out these cracks and then it would definately be something...
 | Currently listening : So By Peter Gabriel Release date: By 07 May, 2002  |
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