Fringey top 5 support bands

*Komakino (supporting Brakes and then Dogs)

*We Are Scientists (supporting Editors @ the Astoria) Has anyone noticed that this is fast becoming a We Love Scientist site? Well we do love them and so should you if not for their music then for their website We Love Scientists - go on treat yourselves.

*Bloc Party (supporting Razorlight @ the Astoria) - oh yes. They kept introducing themselves - like we DIDN'T KNOW or something.

*The Cribs (supporting Bloc Party @ Somerset House) - the filthy little scamps!

*The Sounds - (supporting Stellastarr*) all the way from the 1980's via Sweden.

fringey top 5 beverages

Gin - obviously

Vodka - Jo Fringey switches to vodka in the winter months

Pimms - a gin-based beverage and a summer alternative

Brandy - a little bit of Remy Martin warms LuceFringey's soul

Mojitos - a lovely summery cocktail, best to drink just before you head off into the pouring rain to the Wireless Festival!

the fringey cool list

Don't agree with who the NME thinks is cool?
Here's the fringey top 14 (just to be different) cool list:

• Noel Fielding (commedian/style icon)
• Chris Geek (We Are Scientists - bass)
• James Murphy (producer - DFA/LCD Soundsystem)
• Paul Epworth (producer)
• Lauren Laverne (xfm dj)
• John Kennedy (xfm dj)
• Carl Barat (for existing)
• Marsha Shandur (xfm dj)
• Simon Amstell (Popworld)
• Alex Zane (dj/presenter/lovely black eyes)
• Cameron Diaz (actress)
• Miquita Oliver (Popworld)
• June Pingpong (presenter)
• Sebastian Granger (DFA 1979)

Fringey's Top Five Guilty Pleasures

This is your chance to delve into the depraved depths of Fringey's mind and throw your hands up in horror as we reveal some of our shocking secret loves...

LUCE FRINGEY's Confessions:

Mariah's Carey's new single 'Get Your Number' - I can't even begin to tell you how much I dislike this women (did you see her at Live8-bleuuuurggh) yet this tune gets my booty shaking. And you should never ignore the booty- never.

Dude Where's My Car - It makes me laugh till I cry; it's the bit at the drive through that really gets me..."And then" ha ha ha ha. Oh oh and also they wear bubble wrap suits! I actualy bought this on DVD (in my defense it was only 4 quid).

Britney Spears - look me in the eyes and tell me there isn't a little bit of you doesn't love Hit Me Baby One More Time, or Crazy, or Boys, or Slave 4 U or Lucky or Toxic...I should stop now shouldn't I...

Robbie Williams - he's a twat, I quite like some of his new single...and some of his older ones. He's a twat, I quite fancy him. I mentioned this to my mum once and she actually said she'd disown me if I ever go out with him... ummm yes mum because that situation's actually an possibilty!

Sniffing Marker Pens - well what else's a girl to do for a quick pick me up at work?



JO FRINGEY'S Confessions:

A-Ha – Take on Me. - I think it must have been imprinted on me at a very early age and I’ve never been able to shake it. It’s still my favourite track of all time.

Dirty Dancing. - It made me go weak at the knees the first time I watched it. (so I guess by default I have to admit that at one point in my life I thought Swayze was an acceptable shag.) Total wish fulfilment.

Hot chocolate and the Antiques Roadshow on a Sunday evening. If I can manage not to even have got dressed by then, even better.

Travis - they sing lovely sweet songs and Fran has twinkly eyes and little dimples and when I saw them at the Meanfiddler in 2004 they were LOVIN it! None of the usual, we're too big for this tiny stage!

Heat magazine - its trashy and low. And I've got a subscription.

Fringey top 5 front men*

Yeah, yeah,Fringey knows "there's no 'I' in team" but let's face it we all fall for the leader of the pack at some point so here are our current favourite front men

*Damon Albarn - Blur - All cherry Doc Martins and piercing blue eyes, leaping off 10ft amps and swinging from the lighting rig, the man was a punkmodgod. We are talking the mid 90's Damo by the way not the one last seen in Heat magazine licking the pavement and chewing a twig.

*Eddie Argos - Art Brut - a self aware, self depreciating charmer!

*Ricky Wilson - Kaiser Chiefs - he takes all the stage antics of Albarn and overlays it with a comedy persona, yes he's on a stage, but he acts like your mate down the pub. And he really wants us to have a great time as well.

*Jarvis Cocker - Pulp - the ultimate in geek chic, he made it cool to dress like your grandparents and be a bit weedy. NB - boys who aren't in bands are NOT able to get away with doing this.

*Johnny Cooke - Dogs - (obsess much?) a snarling, spitting, sweating little punk pup this man's all broken hearts and the bitter taste of Stella.

(*those that we've actually seen in action - so this list excludes yer Jaggers and yer Strummers etc)

Fringey top 5 tunes for November

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights

White Rose Movement - Alsatian

Dogs - Tarred and Feathered

Soulwax - Slowdance - Nite Version

The Strokes - Juicebox

Top 5 fringey Remixes

It's the reeeeeeee-mix

Fringey are currently waving their glo sticks and gurning like good 'uns to these lil' beauties.

• Alsation - White Rose Movement- Phones Remix


• Luno (Bloc Party Vs Death From Above 1979)


• Banquet - Bloc Party - The Streets Mix


• Blood on Our Hands - DFA 1979 - Justice Remix


• Hounds of Love - Futureheads - Phones' Wolves at the Door mix

Fringey top 5 Facts for November

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.

*The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

*Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

*Johnny Borrell consumes up to 3x his own bodyweight in play dough every 12 hours.

*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

*All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

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.