Twitter's great innit? I found this guy via a tweet from George O'Dowd, aka Boy George (@theboygeorge). I'd added him ages ago, mistakenly thinking him to be Chris O'Dowd, aka actor who plays Roy from The IT Crowd. Turns out Chris O'Dowd is on Twit under a different name (@BigBoyler).
I didn't want to appear to be rude and unfollow theboygeorge. Not that I care at all for his music and not, I'm guessing, that he'd much mind - at the last count homeboy has over 20,000 followers. With almost certainly multiples of said amount in Pounds Sterling.
Just as well then that I like Ste McCabe. Especially the track 'Four Puffs and a Shotgun'. It steals the riff from an early Manics' track 'Strip It Down' and its title is informed by Jonathan Ross' annoying house band Four Poofs and a Piano. Ste McCabe has a dislike for 'modern gay culture' and mixes punk riffs with 'working class lefty queerness' which perhaps explains the song title and where the riff was pilfered from.
This is the cover for his upcoming album 'Murder Music':
How good is that?
He will probably hate me for saying this, but Ste McCabe sounds like a gay Brett Anderson (oxymoron?) fronting Helen Love. OK so it's a lazy comparison, but an at least fairly accurate one I think. If you want a better idea of what he sounds like, check out the myspace and decide for yourself.
I'm also in a rush. This post (and the next one) are going to be pretty short, as my actual day job (which consists of writing and blogging on many many websites) has taken a sharp right turn into territory marked Busy. The last thing I'm going to want to do tonight is turn on a computer and start writing.
Also, I'm going to watch 'Up' later on at the pictures.
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