Embed and breakfast man: Bis

Oh, yes, Bis played Glasgow at the weekend. Look, there's evidence and everything:



[More, and via, Manda Rin's blog
Buy: Bis catalogue downloads]

Embed and breakfast man: Datapanik

Quick, quick, before we've ruined Christmas again... here's something a lot more festive. Datapanik, covering the Waitresses:

Twittergem: Manda Rin

From @mandarin:

Is that some Bis news to announce on 24th Nov? Hmm I think so!

What? What? What is it? Tell us! Tell us!

Collateral damage: Manda Rin jinxed by Sachs suspensions

As the perplexing over-reaction to the Brand/Ross phonecall show continues to gather pace, it's the innocents what suffer. Manda Rin had gone through the Never Mind The Buzzcocks line-up round torture to help push My DNA but - because Brand is a guest on the programme, it cannot now be shown and the episode is being sealed in lead and buried in a deep storage unit under the Lake District.

Manda Record

Next Monday - you might want to put this into some sort of computer based diary - the Daily Record is streaming the My DNA, Manda Rin's debut solo album.

Manda Rin is back

Today on iTunes (next week on a record), Manda Rin has kicked off her solo career with DNA, first track off My DNA.

This is what it sounds like:

Grin for Rin

Here's good news: Manda Rin has got a date on her kitchen calendar for her debut solo album. My DNA is out on This Is Fake DIY records on September 8th. And she'll be playing The Fly in London on that night to mark the occasion.

Who wants to buy a ticket in our 'how many articles marking this release will use the phrase "unsigned band to play Top of the Pops"' sweepstake?

The risks of reviewing

A new piece by Steven Wells is always a delight, and today he's appeared on the Guardian's music blog writing about artists who respond less-than-pacifically to bad reviews.

Mind you, as horrifying situations go:

I [...] was savagely pushed in the back at a gig by a furious Sci-Fi Steve out of Bis. Or it might have been Disco John - he ran too fast for me to tell.

... is hardly on a par with being chain-whipped by Sid Vicious.

I once had a bloke send his wife over to remonstrate with me over a review I'd written of his live act.

Bis bye byes

As if to prove the sad truth that if you ignore something for long enough, it'll go away, it's our sad duty to report that Bis are no more. It's not quite all over, as there are three farewell dates and one last single but after that... all gone...