HATE MUSCLE

Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant

LOVE MUSCLE

Remember boys and girls, it's never too late in the summer to start taking creatine. Say goodbye to rainy June and July....say Hello to Hot August with a Hot Body.



Vanessa - Upside Down

Underwater Moonlight

My favourite bit of Glastonbury this year was seeing Robyn Hitchcock and his Invisible Band playing on the Spirit of 71 stage to a near invisible audience of 40-odd hippies and me through a fog of marijuana. He did a costume change halfway through, and came back wearing an almost identical shirt but with a slightly larger polka dot. I think he was trying to mess with our heads. He played lots of songs off Underwater Moonlight, love songs - like these.


The Soft Boys - Insanely Jealous

The Soft Boys - Tonight

TENTTENTTENT

Inner London Earwig

(via Somerset)

Bonzo Dog Band - Tent

I'm slowly readjusting to the strange luxury of a sprung mattress, real plumbing and disposable tampons after a week amongst the mud and mooncups of Glastonbury. I miss my tent and the prehistoric earwigs I shared it with.

Ecstasy

 "I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying."

BKS - Living in Ecstasy

Ecstasy - Don't Play Me Raw

The Poke

"Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.' Thomas said to him, 'My Lord and my God!' Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed' (John 20:26-29). 

I went to Rome at the weekend and saw lots of Jesus relics and statues of saints in ecstasy. My favourite relic was Doubting Thomas' finger, as immortalized in the sexy passage from the Gospel of John quoted above.  

Adonis - The Poke

POLY FILLER

X Ray Spex had a brief reunion in the mid 90's and released an album, Conscious Consumer, which was pretty rubbish in comparison to Germ Free Adolescents. Even so, some of the tracks are amazing, if only for Poly's lyrics comparing eating beef to cannibalism, and abattoirs to Nazi gas chambers. The band's comeback ground to a halt when Poly got run over by a fire engine in central London.

X Ray Spex - Peace Meals

X Ray Spex - Dog in Sweden