Bis have split up. This makes us very sad, not necessarily because we've loved everything they've ever done - we haven't - but because they don't deserve to disintegrate in such an inglorious fashion.

We Loved "Kandy Pop", as much for the fact that it was the first song by an unsigned band ever to appear on Top Of The Pops, as for the daft bouncy shoutiness of it all. We enjoyed the New Transistor Heroes album immensely, and we still think "Eurodisco" is gonna live forever.

In fact, we picked up their final album, Return To Central for next to nothing in a tiny Sydney record shop, and were pleasantly surprised to find they'd developed way, way beyond the daftness of yore and become - gasp - a proper pop band!

And now they're calling in a day. They got theirs, it seems. All together now: "oooooooh... ska!"