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now i don't really know much about this so hopefully someone can fill in the blanks for me ;) Before they released their debut album, the Scissor Sisters (hereafter known as the Scissters) had a demo album out that has of course "been floating" on the internet for a while. There are some versions of songs that ended up on the seminal debut cd and some that didn't. It does have a rawer, less polished feel than the debut, more of the brilliant talky bits (check out music is the victim - "whats shaking miss matronic? Nothing but my bacon Mr Shears") and the strange but entrancing genius of backwards discotheque (part one)... If you like these, let me know and i'll try and upload some more :)

MP3s:
Music Is The Victim demo (Right click)
Backwards Discotheque Part One (Right click)
Monkey Baby (Right click)
Doctor I'm Only Seeing The Dark (right click)

Before i start this post, can i just say in 7 years of Big Brother I have never seen anything more hilarious than Davina McCall's face when she saw a video of evicted (thank god) housemate Mikey saying "I can't wait to get out of here - i will worship the gash!" Quite rightly she was horrified...

Anyway... I am quite glad this week is over. Having recurring stomach problems (a little gift from when i was ill about 7 years ago now!) is never fun, but this week has been quite horrible, then darren found out he was being made redundant (his office is closing down) so we now have to work out what to do next... it was quite nice then to finish off the week celebrating ruthies birthday, even though i did still feel a little dodgy... (quote of the night at the restaurant by ruth "i'm going to have what i was going to have last time until Paul turned me on the fish!")

(darren with lou and ruths head - i am loving darrens shorter new hairstyle. RRRRR)

(this is me and our friend craig - again with part of ruths head!! Strange that ruths head is only partially in lots of these shots - usually she is so good with head, so i hear...)

(l to r back to front - our friend mark whose birthday it was yesterday also [and who is also currently loved up with craig - hurrah!] dazpants, me, ruthie and lou)

(and back to ours for absinthe shots that totally killed mark off so he went home dreadfully ill, poor lamb. We were joined by Lydia and Stuart at the back who will be Ruth and mines V Fest buddies. Screw you skanky ho Hilton!)

I have known Ruthie since 1997 (so next year is our ten year anniversary - we should go to glastonbury as well as v!) and she is one of the funniest, warmest, most genuine, non-judgemental people I have ever had the privilege to know. Not only is she super lovely, she shares almost exactly the same musical tastes as me (she draws the line at mcfly and the debs), is a brilliant concert buddy and is as passionate about buffy, gilmore girls and veronica mars as i am. In short, she is the best lady loving lady a 'mo could wish to have. Happy Birthday :)

(i got this song yesterday and instantly knew ruth would love it!)

MP3: Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Linus loves Vox mix)

ps - it would be rude not to leave ruth a birthday greeting even if you don't know her!!
pps - check out her equally lovely sisters myspace site

There are people in the world who will tell you Captain are wimpy powder puff schmindie types and not worth a second of your time. These people are clearly idiots... Captain, you see, peddle pop that recalls the gloriously melodic heydays of Prefab Sprout and could easily reduce the hardest of hearts to puddles of mush with the mere flutter of single Glorious' chorus. They are like a consistently ace Aussie indie rock troupe The Go-Betweens if a major label had thrown loads of money at them. Glorious, by right, should be number one forever. If the lead singer would only take of his rubbish Orson hat, i'd henna his name on my heart forever. Or until it washed off...

MP3: Captain - Glorious (rightclick)