Fight Like Apes, Hermes, Sleigh Bells, The King Blues, Dawn Kinnard, The Like, Teeth, The Concretes, Florrie and Pop Will Eat Itself __________________________________________________________________________________ FIGHT LIKE APES -New Album May Kay and the boys are back
“What If Punk Never Happened“ (Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Remix) By The King Blues (Free Download) [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/danlesac/king-blues-what-if-punk-never-happened-dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-remix”] The King Blues are ; Jonny Fox AKA Itch: vocals and ukulele Jamie Jazz: vocals
2008 has been a strange year, and one I’ll generally be glad to see the back of. I guess in global terms it’ll be defined as the year of Obama and the year those gung-ho laissez-faire capitalists decided that actually state intervention is actually a jolly good idea after all. They think it only fair that whilst profits are privatised, losses really should be socialised. Suddenly the shrill bleating about the mythical “nanny state” or” letting the market decide” from dullards who subscribe to the Daily Mail’s paranoid right wing hysteria has been inexplicably silenced. 2008 has seen the biggest government intervention and nationalisation in recent economic history, purely for the benefit of the rich and the well connected…..
However musically there have been some great moments so without further ado here are The VPME 2008 Awards………