Originally, this text by Gary Simmons was once published in Sniper Glue' zine (c/o Kaw, 94 Main Street, Forth, Lanarkshire, ML11 8AB, UK) that came out in nine copies only, so having a permission from Gary to reprint it we did so (erp staff) by [gary simmons]
LITTERBUG "File under....Dead" Thursday 24th October 2002 Rapeday!!!! [1]
For Maggie Ponce's mum, Pepa, I bought 50 Williamson (Bennett, tee hee) & Magor (fine teas since 1869 ) Earl Grey tea bags in a 'keepable' silver tin auditor Antonio, Pepa's boyfriend, I bought a Waitrose chocolate shortbread selection kit. Grandmother will receive a box of Bendicks (watch it!) mint chocolates... whether she likes it or not. I'm not playing games here!! Altogether now "Yum fucking yum!!" I know Pepa and Antonio are into good music so I might even do a cassette 'disc-rape' (just shut your fucking whingeing Ulrika, you're famous now so just fucking shut up!!!) of this here Litterbug CD-R that was so trustingly sent to me for review by your editor Myerk Roachly... hey, Marko, how about putting some page numbers in issue #2 of Sniper Glue? And a 'letters to thee editor' page whether or not you receive any, there should still be a page. Fill it with pics of contributors "hot" neighbour pin-ups, photo's taken from frozen-framed TV footage by obsessed maniacs or direct print-outs from daddy's favourite web sites; 'Pure Lolita', 'Cyber Lolita', 'The best pre-teens photos from Russia'... saw it on the ITV news last night, not my fault...''they' did it to me. Ideas? They ooze from my inflamed Cock-Soup dispenser Later...2:54pm The old ones are usually the best, don't you find? I'll be forty fucking three next month. And never judge a CD-R by its dismal cover. LITTERBUG's 'File under....Dead' (they couldn't decide how many Slipping lewdly into well lubricated track 1, with not a dab of KY in sight, 'A New Bolero' is a slow paced guitar sustain-pedal driven piece not dissimilar to something I may or may not have heard on Gary Mundy's Ruby Kennel Club CD [5], lot's of effects but used, er, effectively. Not gratuitously, that is to say. Goodness, could this band actually have... what was that word we used to use? Ah! TALENT!! Could be. Could well be. 'The Garbage Man' goes surfing with your brain (says so) and spaces you out, man, with one of the 5 actually 'sung' songs on this 15 track album, the others being mostly instrumental pieces, like one of my favourites here, track 3's 'Hoe Down Boogie', a glittering cluster of chandelier glass tinkles and, jesus fuckin' Christ I never thought I'd admit to this, but is that a Peter Gabrielle riff I slooshy? That awfull "Jump" song? Was it "jump"? Fuckbust my simmering bowl disorder, it sounds superb here, with all that bass'n'shit, it is Peter Gabrielle isn't it? Next up we've got a cover of... well, whoever it was's song 'Lost In Music', you know "caught in a trap, no going back"... and all that. Nice treatment, just don't do it again please. (typing this particular paragraph up on 25th October it has - all of a sudden come to me... Elvis? ) Track 5's 'Ultramental' (no sarky comments please) could, again, well be 'Ruby Kennel Club' inspired and egypto-guitar fired. (eh?!) It's the last resort of a sinking reviewer at 10:29pm when he's busting to go for a crap. 'The Here And Now' passes over my head somewhat, having little for me to latch onto, I'm glad it's over whereas 'Black African Woman' slowly and seductively draws you in, the warm bass massages your rump and kneads your loins, relaxing and soothing... Radox is hopeless. Funny, I always fancied a shot in the dark. Groan.
Now we're onto something good... 'Ode For Da Brudda', this is what it's all about, LITTERBUG's defining moment, for this album anyway, a-confident bass-at-the-helm rally drive with unidentifiable vocal samples held in place by a chugging beat and just the right amount of wow-wow-wah-wah effects... but, like my sexual performance, it's all over before it's begun. Maggie Ponce said I "couldn't fuck a fly" and at 2 mins 48 sees this track is hardly anything to aspire to, so, I tell her that "it's quality, not quantity". My excuses are brutally and cruelly dismissed. Track 11 'Coming Round Again' is all about problems... they've even sampled Johnny Rotten's vocal "problems" from 'Never Mind The Bollocks' [6] and it works well in this song, subtlety being the key. Original lyrics "I've got problems in my head, I've got problems getting out of bed" and "I've got trouble being alone, troubled by the death of Joey Ramone"... hear that Mark? Juntaro? Terrific stuff! Why not get it made into a lathe cut 7" by Peter King Records... [uh-uhh] if you can put up with a 14 month wait and a whole pack, literally a full fuckin' deck, of lies and excuses. We won't be using him again, eh, Majorky Wriggley baby, ain't that so?! Make it so, number one. 12... 'Won't Fall Down', a gentle atmospheric piece... that word 'talent' keeps bouncing off the inside of my skull, rubber ball fashion, boing boing boing it fucking goes (boing as in Zebedee, not the Seattle based aircraft manufacturer). Another gem 'Gouge Away' rears its head for fans of chug'a'chug'a'chug chug early Public Image Limited Jah Wobble Bass and guitar (let's face up to it, we are all fans of this, are we not? Oh.) and an orgiastic spaced-out organist drapped with a little night-driving-stretched-high-noted-axe. Yeah. 'No Logo'... that's that book by some horny university educated trollop I saw one Channel 4 News Mayday riot discussion slot. Her pretty face crops up with these Anti-Globalisation events and is calming to behold (of course, she's far to old looking for me...). It makes me wonder; who appears on Socratisation day then? [7] Fucking no-one! I wanna be that man. A pleasant enough ditty. The CD-R closes with 'The Greatest Rock'n'Roll Suicide' a, by now, stereotypical Litterbugesque instrumental occasionally pierced by the recited words, not the actual voice of, J.Rotten and Malcolm Maclaren from 'The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle' film. Funny, the Ceramic Hobs did something like this on, I don't know, one of their umpteen releases... "Straight Outta Rampton" [8] possibly. I could be wrong, I could be right... more, if you close your eyes you could almost imagine this entire album has something to do with Simon Morris himself... nah, must be due to that 'Blackpool underground feel' and the fact that I haven't taken my medication yet. If you read, and agreed with as I did, Timo's 'The Death Of Music, Part Two' piece in issue #1 of 'Sniper Glue' then this CD-R could possibly be worth your while investigating. It isn't 'in your face' so much as 'anaesthetise your urethra and slide in the flexible cystascope so as to see a different perspective on bladder and prostate gland that have been there, unseen, since cunt-sliding day'. Contact: Notes Gary Simmons |