Fringey top five tunes for October

S*d bobbing for apples (you just end up with water up your nose and no d*mn apple) and getting bobbing your bonce to this little lot instead

Side to Side - Vatican DC

Back to the 101 - Albert Hammond Junior

Generator - The Holloways

The Sideboard Song - Chaz & Dave

Standing in the Way of Control - Gossip

Fringey's Top Five Facts for September

Come bathe in the the Font of Fringey's useless knowledge. Lap up our not so fascinating facts and you too can impress your friends and family with just how full of cr*p you are.

Napoleon was afraid of cats

Winston Churchill's mother had a snake tattoo on her wrist.

In Brixton, there is a place called "Steve's Café" run by a man called Dave.

Kasabian are like fairies - if you say you don't belive in them then they will cease to exist (Say it with me I don't believe, I don't belive, I don...)

The dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

One of these facts is not true. Can you guess which one? A hearty handshake and much kudos to the first correct answer out of the mail bag.

fringey top 5 tunes for September

Having taken a month off from recommending records in order to recover from our adventures in Beni, Fringey suspects that, left to your own devices, you've lost your way and been buying all sorts wrong un's. But don't worry we're back to guide you once more and we're sure your local choon chainstore will let you swap Kasabian's Empire for one of the following...

Get Myself Into It - Rapture

Jump In My Car - David Hasslehoff


Hell Yes - Beck

Blue Honey - Pop Levi

I Don't Feel Like Dancing -Scissor Sisters

And to show that we still love you despite the fact that, in our absence, you were, no doubt, seriously considering purchasing Keane's latest offering we've added linkies to the visual delights of each of our favs tunes so now you can see as well as hear your way back to the path of the righteous record buyer - amen.

fringey top 5 cowbell choons

The Rapture are bringing out a new album and coming over to do a tour this Autumn, so what better time is there for fringey to do a top five dedicated to a percussionist's wet dream:

The Cowbell.

While there are currently lots 'n lots of cracking choons featuring said instrument, the fringey favourites are as follow:


Death from Above 1979 - Black History Month

Larrikin Love - Downing Street Kindling

LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator

The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers

Shitdisco - Disco Blood

There's no such thing as too much cowbell! - do you agree??

fringey top 5 tunes for July

This month Fringey will be going for slightly longer than just a weekend without make up, as we realise that you only live once, and are jetting off to BENI! (where we shall perhaps meet a nice lady called Sheila who might insist that we ummm... join her for breakfast and some Special K. But hopefully we will not end up in a hole!)

In the meantime fringey recommends the following tunes for the summer...

Jamie T - Sheila

Long Blondes - Weekend Without Make Up

The Strokes - You only live once

Ali Love - K-Hole

Tapes 'n Tapes - Insistor

Fringey's Top Five Facts For July

Come bathe in the the Font of Fringey's useless knowledge. Lap up our not so fascinating facts and you too can impress your friends and family with just how full of cr*p you are.

There's only one fact we want to (sun) bathe in this month and that's Fringey's chosen holiday destination...

1. Fringey are off to Benicassim

2. Fringey are off to Benicassim

3. Fringey are off to Benicassim

4. Fringey are off to sunny Benicassim

5. Fringey are off to sunny Benicassim

No prizes for guessing where we're jetting off to I'm afraid but we promise to send a postacd and bring you back some rock and a couple o' straw donkeys - you lucky things you.

Fringey top 5 pubs

This top five is an update from last October.

Bradley's Spanish Bar - Still the unofficial Fringey Headquarters. Cute barmen and a spot on jukebox. But please don't come along to check it out. It's only wee and there isn't room for you!

The Lock Tavern - excellent music played by real live DJs, reasonably priced gin and the prettiest boys in town drink there including Mr Alex Zane. Although the last time we were here JoFringey fell through one of the battered, badly sprung, chairs!

The Phoenix Artist Club - Ok, so the Rac*ntours had their aftershow here, but don't let that put you off. The Artists Club is a, slightly camp, Olde Worlde theatre pub, music playing is more likely to be showtunes than grindie, and the food isn't great. We keep coming back though. Its friendly and relaxed, you usually get a seat and even an occasional sleb spot. (ie - It's open till 3am and LuceFringey is a member!!!)

The New Rose - does a nice stonebaked pizza, the DJ's can't half choose some champion choons and it is frequented by lovely North London asparagus!

The Old Blue Last - It's in Shoreditch. It gets a name check in Ali Love's song about a lost night on K. Its owned by Vice magazine. It is beyond pretentious. Why do we like it??

well its either that or ...

The Good Mixer - It is constantly rammed with locals from Camden, market traders and boys in bands. The gin is cheap and is right close to the station. Ok so still coasting on a decade old brit pop reputation, but continues to pull in the punters. And that includes us.

fringey top 5 tunes for June

So the first month of summer has arrived bringing with it a distinct lack of sunshine - booo.

But all is not lost, for the following choonage is guaranteed to bring a little light into all our lives - ahhhh.

Vatican DC - Wow

The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health

Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

Larrikin Love - Downing Street Kindling

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

Fringey's top five facts for June

Come bathe in the the Font of Fringey's useless knowledge. Lap up our not so fascinating facts and you too can impress your friends and family with just how full of cr*p you are.

This months facts will mainly invlove biggin' ourselves up as our plans for world domination begin to fall into place...

LuceFringey is the official gig reporter for Levis Ones To Watch at The Barfly

LuceFringey has been let loose as the gig/events reveiwer on Mind The Gap Radio - oh the power mwoahahahahahahahaha... ahem

Walnuts can get a suntan.

The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.

Fringey are to become the new face of H&M.

One of these facts is not true. Can you guess which one? A hearty handshake and much kudos to the first correct answer out of the mail bag.

fringey top 5 reasons to hate the KLAXONS

Yeah, so we're getting in on the backlash a little bit early, but its on its way!

• Will you just look at that picture! - Totally slappable.

• Klaxons is a stupid name. Sounds like a childrens programme for A.D.D. toddlers.

• They need gimmicky props like whistles and glow sticks to make themselves look big and clever and original. They are not. Ultimately this kind of tat will date them.

• They are just tapping into twentysomethings nostalgia for the 1990's. Fringey is old enough to remember that rave KILLED good music for nearly a decade the first time round.

• Finally, the Klaxons are this years novelty "shit genre of music accidently manages to become briefly popular again" act. See also 'The Darkness'.

(still, that 'Atlantis to Interzone' is a cracking tune. The bastards.)