The All Thrills No Frills Music Bill paper music fanzine - issue two now ready to buy!

Issue #2 of The All Thrills No Frills independent music fanzine is now published! It is to be found for sale over at Etsy, else you can get in touch and Paypal me the £2.50 including postage to the UK, or get in touch if overseas. There is a slight increase in cost due to extortionate photocopying costs now, and due to the cover being coloured paper.

Featured in this issue:

* Interview with Amelia Fletcher and her band Tender Trap with in depth article on Marine Research/Tender Trap. Also, new Tender Trap album Ten Songs about Girls.
**The return of Tilly and The Wall.
***The seven inch singles of Pullover
****Brian Jonestown Massacre live
*****Records recently bought: Altered Images, This Mortal Coil, John Foxx, and Teenagers in Tokyo.
******The Chameleons live at Camden Palace VHS tape review
*******Edwyn Collins's TV show, West Heath Yard
********Female exclusion/abuse within music (including getting attacked at gigs)
*********1990s compilation tapes and 1990s music culture
**********Anti anti-pop consortium!
***********Loads of silly anecdotes/satire about bands/singers
************Recent favourite record shops
*************Mix CD listings
***************Vinyl

Plus:

****************Luke Haines's cat !

All written with heart and passion, not like freely available mainstream music magazines - and much more easy to access/portable than blogs and books if you're travelling!

Soon to be available in various independent music shops and other likely places, when I get round to it.

Tilly and the Wall return !!

I've never felt the absence of a band quite as I have felt Tilly and the Wall's the last three years or so.

I've been craving new music or gigs from them ever since; have sadly missed the lively brightness they instantly instigate whenever they're around. No bands have taken their place in my heart. I emailed their label earlier this year, in fact, fearing that the band had split. I remembered that one of the band had become a mother in the last few years, and I wondered if it meant the band were no longer active.

In the summer, I had a surprisingly hard task trying to find a record shop that stocked or could order in a copy of their debut album, Wild Like Children. It was the perfect birthday present for a friend, music to bolster the mood, with inspired female vocals, and incredible energy. A couple of record shops told me the album had been deleted. I since tracked it down (though after the friend's birthday, which is a shame), in a second hand record shop. The thought of this album being unavailable for ever more fills me with a certain amount of despair - my own copy is scratched to heck due to it being such a life-saver/life-enriching for many years. It will always make me smile and feel glad again. I don't exaggerate when I declare it one of my all-time favourite albums. From start to finish, I am in head over heels in love with this album.

If I hadn't have picked up a copy of Stool Pigeon magazine today from Flashback Records, I would probably remain oblivious for quite some time to the fact that, actually, the band have just last week released a new album, and two limited edition singles!

I'm so excited to hear this news, and I can't wait to get hold of a copy of the album!

I found this recent interview here.

They're currently touring the US, and I wonder if early next year they may make it over to Europe/the UK?! I will be all of a fever at such news. They're the only band that can get me dancing and feeling truly free, with abandon.

There are several tracks up and about the internet to sample, including the single Defenders, which is really growing on me, and has many typical Tilly trademarks, but with a new sound and mood to it as well. I love the children's backing vocals.

http://soundcloud.com/teamlove

It's the first single from the new album, Heavy Moods. It carries on where they left off with experimenting with a more dance-based and electric guitar sound, with elements of hip hop.

Now I am sitting on the edge of my proverbial seat, awaiting Tilly and the Wall fever anew - a visit to the UK, tour dates, interviews, and plenty of smiling, clapping, tapping, and dancing.... I hope it's soon!

http://officialtillyandthewall.tumblr.com/