“We’re not really in a rush to do anything, we just take things as it comes, it just is what it is. We have a CD-R coming out on Yew Nork Records that the guy from Faux Fur set up. We just think you should do what you want, do it for fun.

The perfect summer-sounding band Glass Bricks are about to self-release their debut mini-album Craquelure, while a Midwest/East Coast tour is on the offing. Chance meetings, internet grooming and mid-state relocations have seen this band produce some upbeat saccharine-sweet music.

With summer looming and the sun finally starting to smile down on us, we should be looking forward to and planning our summer escape. With the eruption of an Icelandic volcano and British Airways staff striking, however – why not try the classic British beach holiday?

Last Friday I witnessed something novel almost unseen these days. It was February’s Dirty Bingo and the shackles of trend were off. On the bill were Colours, Sex Beet and Fair Ohs. Colours took to the stage. Fresh from their support slot with hotly tipped US band Real Estate.

With only three years until we hit those troublesome teens it seems the naughties flew by in the blink of any eye yet a hell of a lot happened. Our jeans got tighter than the economy, we saw the slow death of “Indie” music and the emergency of something far more exciting and fresh.