Well, not the whole world. The whole world hasn’t heard of me. This is a long way of saying I got two bad reviews last week but as I always link to the biggups I get, I feel-duty bound to link to the slaggings too.
First up, I played at Robin Ince’s School for Gifted Children at the British Library last Tuesday, which was reviewed by Fazzington Wangpipe of Chortle.co.uk, the comedy website. While I appreciate that name-calling a comedy critic who’s given you a bad review is not the most grown up thing to do, neither is using the phrase “dirge-like” in a review of a musical act. Dr Wangpipe’s love of the very talented Gavin Osborn (new album out soon) convinced me that he is not a complete moron. Just. I’m not linking the review, you can find it yourself 
Better written but still not really a fan of The Sound of The Ladies is the 405, who posted this review last week. I had a chat with the guy who runs the site, he’s a very nice man, Mr Jazzflaps. Kidding! His name’s Oliver Primus, and although not loving Scrape the Paint, he does run a cool site, so check it out. Don’t listen to his review though, check out the EP yourself! Who’s right, you or those fuckers who want to tell you what to think? Uh, sorry, channeling a bit of Hicks there…
Hopefully next week the world will love me again…
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September 23, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Oliver Primus
Hey Martin, thanks for the link!
I would also like to say that it’s taken me this long to piece together the fact that i’ve been to Latitude every year so far and i feel like an arse that I didn’t realize you were the guitarist at the literary tent. I knew you looked familiar but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I’m not sure if you performed at the first year as I spent most of my time at the poetry tent but for the last two years I pretty much spent the vast majority of my time stalking Robin Ince! You were great!
October 6, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Mark
That second review was pretty good! Comparisons are odious, but comparisons to Jeff Buckley… I’d take the ‘beautiful instrumental’ comment and smile. Oh you musos and your fragile egos!
You might be too polite to say, but the Chortle review was terribly written. This happened, then this happened and then this happened… durrrrrrr. I nodded off. He seemed to like the not-humorous Ben Goldacre while simultaneously demanding more laughs….