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Her voice is not suited to this kind of material.

"Pop music is a desert devoid of danceable grooves and sexed-up hedonism. Enter Beyonce"

Am I really supposed to care that Beyonce has come up with a synopsis of 45-years of dance music?

"CHERRY RED doc wearing stupid Bronx hat and shorts combo sidewinding Carter shirt over PWEI long-sleeve stripey-tights.... monkeyspunk gorging faced arseheaded sweaty ring-pierced f***ing SCUM. Yeah, I’m talking to YOU, MOTHERF***ER!!! Oh, you’ll love it" Neil Kulkarni?

Inspiration with them ended with the name which is a good one that captured the zeitgeist and has that nice echo of Sex Pistols "flowers in the dustbin" . The records though are piss poor. I did like "Weekender" - for the theme and the echoes ("Friday on My Mind", Quadrophrenia, etc) and...

Here's a group evacuated totally from my memory until I saw the name this week courtesy this guy who is scanning old issues of Melody Maker and NME from the '90s (https://twitter.com/nothingelseon/) Bristol's answer to Happy Mondays / Flowered Up - the Moonflowers

Grebo is a rich seam. I have had the misfortune of seeing Gaye Bykers live. And they were probably the stand out entertainment in that whole bunch. There’s loads of mediocre music and then there’s the vast plain of the middlebrow. To qualify as Shitbrit, I think there has to be this extra...

Ah now you've managed to get me interested in this music against all odds! The sentiment of "We'll Live and Die In These Towns" is pretty fucking bleak. It reminds me of the kitchen sink realist movies of the '60s. And of course Arctic Monkeys take that line from Arthur Seaton in Saturday...

JB has a memoir coming out soon.

Kula Shaker can play though, right? (Only the vaguest of memories). Similar with Ocean Colour Scene. There is an extra degree of shititude when it's not just aesthetically misconceived but the whole (mis)conception rests on a base of utter fraudulence.

Jump to 1.05 mins to get directly to the Britshit Managed by James Brown (then at NME, soon to start Loaded). I remember a feature on Fabulous in which they played a gig somewhere regional and Brown explained to the journo that he never booked a hotel for the band in such circumstances - "if...

London Records signed Flowered Up for a quarter million pounds, a six-album deal!

The "singer" is the weak link - he can't sing and his lyrics aren't much cop either

Actually they have one redeeming moment - "Weekender". It's almost-great. But I suspect that the group aren't playing on the record. And a lot of the almost-greatness is down to the video, which is like this short film about the ups and downs of the raving lifestyle.

There is something about the British tolerance for deficiency that is unique - Joe Carducci, who I mentioned on the Heavy thread, talks about a kind of listening where you sense the group's intention and supply it aurally even when it's not achieved or barely even gestured at. He was talking...

Same goes for this one - a car crash of signifiers I can't stop gawping at Amazingly this is a group formed by Gareth Sager formerly of The Pop Group In between he'd been in this group who almost qualify for ShitBrit but have better intentions and sources

A kind of corruption of sensibility can occur in which you get more of a buzz out of the awful than the actually good. Which explains perhaps why over the last decade I have watched this clip many more times than those of certain groups I love and admire.

London's answer to Happy Mondays (but what was the question)

Extra shitness courtesy the Keith Allen intro