Things we don’t like this week – Scotland being thrashed 3-0 going on 6-0 by Sweden. The £85 – a pint it will inevitably cost in most pubs in Edinburgh on this weekend’s Festival jaunt. Mongrels finishing. Things we DO like this week - your #InMyPants entries. The manky earwax cream ad on the TV. Manchester-via-Cleethorpes band Orphan Boy, and their new single ‘Pop Song’ (which is one of the 1% of song titles that doesn’t work for #InMyPants).
Sounding a bit like the Arctics, and a bit like the Inspiral Carpets, had they realised that the Hammond Organ works better as a constituent part of your sound rather the whole bloody thing. They’re not big on choruses, or spending any more than 50p making videos. They play, as the title of this blog suggests ‘Two-Chord Council Pop’ (their words, not ours..) Which with a perverse logic, we admire them for. Here it’s here.
