this lot.
myspace.com/tapesntapes
Yes; I avoided the flight to Texas, the expensive hotel rooms, the rush from gig to gig and the hysterical late night reporting...
I read The Observer, saw the tip from Caspar Llewellyn Smith, clicked on MySpace and within 2 minutes knew the truth about Tapes'N'Tapes...

NO SONGS.

nm

Heard 'em on Radio 1. Got bored very quickly. Ditto most of the other bands I heard Radio 1 play from SXSW. Not overly surprising, I guess.

Now this lass - www.myspace.com/gemmahayes2006 - is utterly splendid IMHO and seems not to be getting the mainstream coverage she deserves.

Funny old world...

nm

Tapes n Tapes
Gemma Hayes

Both not very interesting really

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Interesting, of couse, being in the opinion of the listener...

Funnily enough I did go to SxSW and was at the Tapes n Tapes gig. Wish I'd stayed to the end, now to see if there was something later on worth making a fuss about. I got bored halfway through and left.

The biggest buzz in the brits camp seemed to be about Get Cape, Wear Cape Fly. He's certainly a great performer but not sure how it'd work on record. Just signed to Atlantic, apparently.

My personal buzz bands were Oppenheimer; www.myspace.com/oppenheimer

Lonely, Dear and You Say Party we Say Die.

Which is probably why I'm not in A&R.

Matt.