*NEWS*

Thanks to the lovely folks at Sydney's wonderful Recess club, STARSANDHEROES DJ Charlie No.4 will be "spinning" his "discs" on the "wheels" of "steel" (tr: playing lots of really good electro, pop, lo-fi, breaks and hip-hop records in a row) this Friday 2nd August 2002! Hot-foot it down to The Teachers Club, Mary Street, Surry Hills between 8pm and midnight (free entry) for guaranteed fabbo tunes, cheap beer and free pool...also playing will be DJs Jinx and Sloane, who we're assured are great too...(in fact, SAH are only on for the first hour, but still...come!)
Recess website

Word on the street is, everyone's favourite Spanish-named, Canadian-born, Germany-residing cabaret-hop superstar Gonzales managed to get himself into a spot of bother at Pulp's recent Eden Project gigs. While Jarvis and chums were onstage, "somebody" scrawled the incomprehensible phrases "New Bred Cruze" and "Caro Illage" on the side of their tour bus: Fingers were immediately pointed Chilly-wards, but our man responded with the classic riposte: "Does it say Gonzales? No? There you go then - there's your proof!". Chap...
Gonzales website

Did you miss 2002's Sonar festival? Chances are, you did, since it happened a while back, in Barcelona, which is in Spain, which is quite some way away from the majority of SAH subscribers...anyway, fear not, because the people behind the festival are releasing a generous double CD compilation of this year's highlights. Highlights of the highlights include exclusive tracks from DJ Hell, Arthur Baker, Lali Puna & Bomb The Bass, Cex, Crossover, Yo La Tengo and S.I. Futures. Go seek!
Sonar website

Warp Records' smokin' hip-hop favourites Nightmares On Wax return to the fray in September with their first new single and accompanying album in, oooh, ages we reckon. The longplayer's called Mind Elevation, and the single lifted from it is "Know My Name". On remix duties are loads of people we've never heard of: Paul Nice, Harmonic 33, will.i.am and Mark Pritchard. Oh hold on, that last fella's in Global Communication isn't he? ("Yes!" - the world)
Nightmares On Wax website

ExileInside, the new strictly online anti-music-industry project from mighty-lunged former My Life Story singer Jake Shillingford, finally have some finished songs for you to hear. Pop to their website to hear an MP3 or two and/or order the strictly limited edition (1000 only) EP including "Anaesthesia", "Katrin", "ExileInside" and "Antiques". The band's eponymous debut album, financed in advance by Shakey Jakey's ever-devoted fanbase, is released on the 12th of August 2002 and can be bought on the site. Trust us, you'll wonder how you've lived without his rich, wine-soaked tones for this long.

(originally published 1st August 2002)