"Greatest Album Ever" available on ebay!
Just last week we told you 'bout the greatest album we've ever reviewed on Electric Roulette, Victor C Lewis' 1969 seminal ornithological freak-out "Bird Sounds In Close-Up". Copies of this landmark work are rarer than "hens teeth"- though hens themselves do not feature on the LP - so it was with no little delight that I discovered a mint copy available on ebay this morning. It's on there for 99p at the moment, but expect that figure to skyrocket to like, maybe, £1.20 or something. Put yourself in the running for a chance to own the wildlife recording world's equivalent of Sgt Peppers, here. PF


First acts announced for The Mighty Boosh Festival. 
Kevin Shields has personally remastered two of My Bloody Valentine's acclaimed LPs... 'Isn't Anything' and 'Loveless'.
Reggae can be a dodgy place to visit. For every great Dr Alimantado record, you can land square in a rotten Trojan cover of John Denver. Yes, it does exist ("taaake me hooome..."). So, if you don't have someone to call on for tips or a record shop that doesn't wanna play ball, you really need to pay
According to the NME, Tim Burgess has revealed some details of a collab. that The Charlatans frontman has done with Joaquin Phoenix. Joining them is Anthony Langdon of Spacehog... but to be honest, that means fu... all to me.
Why Bother?
The Live Music Review has gotta rank as the lamest, most unaccomplished form of writing in the history of Western literature. I'm more likely to win a Pulitzer writing the blurbs on the back of cereal packets than I am churning out this sorta thing. Seriously. When's the last time you read a live music review that was really worth anything to anybody? D'you even remember ever having standards for this typa thing? D'you ever think, "Gee, I'd really enjoy reading a record of gig attendance which actually stands up as a valuable, entertaining, envelope pushing piece of writing, rather than something that essentially boils down to an advert for some band's myspace, only with the inconvenience of havin' to read 'bout how the chump guy writing the damn thing got drunk or fell over or did something "gonzo" etc before I get to the bit that says "go to yaddayaddayadda/myspace.com" or whatever?
A dark film about a dark era - but Chris Petit's Radio On is an incredibly striking movie, a fine period piece and arguably one of the finest road movies ever to come out of the UK.

Beck will release a new album this summer... which is a bit of surprise seeing as there's been next to zero talk about it. The LP will comprise of material that's only just been written, as opposed to well crafted and pondered over. 
Okay. There were more bands on last night... but being the half baked idiot that I am, I completely missed 'em. Thanks to a combination of drinking and fawning. Instead of promoting the 'you really should see every band on a line-up because that's the right thing to do', I simply watched the two acts that demanded that I leave the house for once, and those people were 





Hey man. Y'see this guy here? It's my old pal, Rick Allen. Rick's the drummer with Def Leppard. Now, The Deflep guys like to rock y'know? Not me. I've got other interests. Man. I dig jazz, rock, folk... but not really metal. I jus' can't buy into y'know? So, a while back, me and Rick split. It was painful at first, but y'know, after a while, we started writing letters and swapping emails and things are pretty good between us.
Like most, Electric Roulette has to wait a bit to get a record. Sometimes, we're a bit lazy and don't get 'round to doing something, buying an LP long after reviews are out... but that shouldn't stop us reviewing an album when we do get out arses in gear. Seeing as we didn't get a review copy of Portishead's 'Third', and I went and bought it yesterday, I thought it was time for a peer into the murky sky flickery.

