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- Wed Jan 07, 2004 1:40 pm
#240901
From The Guardian,
Young Offenders - Steve Lamacq
There are a lot of rules at the BBC connected with swearing. I'm told there's even a league table of the Top 10 words that cause the most offence. In my dreams on Sunday, I imagined stealthy moral operatives from a secret BBC department sneaking into Studio Y3 to leave a copy of said list on Chris Moyles' chair just before he started his first ever Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Moyles is the archetypal wind-up merchant, but I think he's taking this new job very seriously. He'll probably hate me for saying this, but underneath his trademark brusque banter, he's really a pro at heart.
It's not much in the way of support, but I tuned in to hear Moyles' first programme - swear-free but littered with references to another hapless Leeds United performance - but had to duck out after 30 minutes because I was wrestling with my own foul-mouthed dilemma.
The best record I bought just before Christmas was by a duo called Selfish *. Okay, so the Guardian can print this, but there's no way we can say it on radio. When I first read about this band I thought it was an art-school-style prank or that they would sound like pop's answer to the Turner Prize. But this classically-packaged seven-inch (it comes in a paper bag) is a terrific piece of dissident punk rock-electro noise. It also happens to be called Britain Is Shit. In terms of determinedly causing offence, SC are a latterday Sex Pistols.
On the upside they are just one part of a British renaissance in pop music which we covered on this week's Lamacq Live. Over the past year we've found or championed a number of new UK acts - from Dizzee Rascal to Franz Ferdinand. But this week's show pointed to what I believe, a decade on from Britpop, will be a watershed year for British music.
Apart from SC, eventually brought to the nation with the words Selfish, erm four-letter word, we had a live set from the Cornish band 13 Senses, who mix the widescreen ambition of Radiohead with the melodies of Coldplay.
I've been involved in the music industry long enough to know that making predictions about specific bands at this time of year is a hopeless task. For every winner you pick, there are nine bands that you have instantly given the kiss of death to.
Mind you that didn't stop me ending up on Radio 2 last Friday telling Mark Goodier how Keane were going to be one of this year's ones to watch. Sorry, Keane. They fit the bill perfectly though. Two things to look out for in 2004: British bands and really good singers. Keane, from somewhere sleepy in Sussex, are fronted by a guy with vocals the size of skyscrapers. Trust me, it's the year of Big Voices. And they don't come any bigger than Chris Moyles'.
· Steve Lamacq presents on 6 Music on Saturdays and on Radio 1 on Mondays
Young Offenders - Steve Lamacq
There are a lot of rules at the BBC connected with swearing. I'm told there's even a league table of the Top 10 words that cause the most offence. In my dreams on Sunday, I imagined stealthy moral operatives from a secret BBC department sneaking into Studio Y3 to leave a copy of said list on Chris Moyles' chair just before he started his first ever Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Moyles is the archetypal wind-up merchant, but I think he's taking this new job very seriously. He'll probably hate me for saying this, but underneath his trademark brusque banter, he's really a pro at heart.
It's not much in the way of support, but I tuned in to hear Moyles' first programme - swear-free but littered with references to another hapless Leeds United performance - but had to duck out after 30 minutes because I was wrestling with my own foul-mouthed dilemma.
The best record I bought just before Christmas was by a duo called Selfish *. Okay, so the Guardian can print this, but there's no way we can say it on radio. When I first read about this band I thought it was an art-school-style prank or that they would sound like pop's answer to the Turner Prize. But this classically-packaged seven-inch (it comes in a paper bag) is a terrific piece of dissident punk rock-electro noise. It also happens to be called Britain Is Shit. In terms of determinedly causing offence, SC are a latterday Sex Pistols.
On the upside they are just one part of a British renaissance in pop music which we covered on this week's Lamacq Live. Over the past year we've found or championed a number of new UK acts - from Dizzee Rascal to Franz Ferdinand. But this week's show pointed to what I believe, a decade on from Britpop, will be a watershed year for British music.
Apart from SC, eventually brought to the nation with the words Selfish, erm four-letter word, we had a live set from the Cornish band 13 Senses, who mix the widescreen ambition of Radiohead with the melodies of Coldplay.
I've been involved in the music industry long enough to know that making predictions about specific bands at this time of year is a hopeless task. For every winner you pick, there are nine bands that you have instantly given the kiss of death to.
Mind you that didn't stop me ending up on Radio 2 last Friday telling Mark Goodier how Keane were going to be one of this year's ones to watch. Sorry, Keane. They fit the bill perfectly though. Two things to look out for in 2004: British bands and really good singers. Keane, from somewhere sleepy in Sussex, are fronted by a guy with vocals the size of skyscrapers. Trust me, it's the year of Big Voices. And they don't come any bigger than Chris Moyles'.
· Steve Lamacq presents on 6 Music on Saturdays and on Radio 1 on Mondays
