NOT PLAYING ANY BOGSHED TONIGHT, JOHN?

It can't have failed to be noticed even by Bobby Gillespie that you can subtract a round number from 2006 and get 86, which means - in any sort of decent world - the NME would be about to produce its 20th anniversary of C-86 edition. It won't, of course, although it's the only music scene that the paper can be proven, scientifically, to have created all on its own. Oh, no, we'll get the seventy-ninth anniversary of punk celebrated with another special issue ("and then... they said 'nadgers', on tea-time television. Dressed as Nazis! Oh, you must think us quite giddy...") but you try pitching a 'Where are The Shrubs now' special, you see how short the shrift you get is.

Luckily, the superior shapeshifters at TV Cream are keeping the light aloft: the latest cream up can be printed out and, if neccesary, used as celebratory tea-towel of the occasion.

There are many words on the internet, but you've got to read anything which includes the phrase "we'd mention how Therese now reminds us of Kitchens Of Distinction, but this bit's already lost enough readers."

Of course, it would be wrong, both morally and phonetically, to not mention Indie Mp3 at this point. "Keeping C-86 alive" is its proud boast, and one it lives up to.

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