Played the Pipettes single 10 times in a row tonight, both sides had me and Neave jumping around the room , maybe she is their youngest fan 17 months old today? I feel guilty because it's been sat on the kitchen bench since Monday and I delayed listening to it until tonight because I didn't want to be dissapointed, Alistair had really built them up into something big , so I was really pleased that they lived up to his 'hype'. I should have known everything would be alright.



The sleeve was almost enough to convince me , I'm a sucker for band names written in sand. I love that feeling of taking out a 7" single from it's sleeve for the very first time, it kind of clings to the sides as if it doesn't want to come out then when it does and you play it and this sound explodes around the room for what seems like little more than a minute , you have to dash back to the stereo and play it again and again.

My favourite is 'it hurts to see you dance so well' it's one of those songs that would have appeared at the end of those compilation tapes that I used to do for people when nothing else would fit on, just as an alternative to the Dentists "The Turquoise Castle" .

The best record so far on unpopular, buy it now before they are all gone .....unpopular records only 500 copies.