Track / Video
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CC3CEC36-C56E-4644-A68B-88CFB76B7440.jpeg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: Beacon – Bring You Back, plus album news
I hate that word you hear people use sometimes ‘chill-ax’. What need is there, ever, to put two words together that essentially mean the same thing. I’m quite prepared to chill-out at any given chance, or indeed relax. Or do one of them and describe it as the other. That’s the kind of live for …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/5C809EC7-155C-4D62-B7F8-8AE6DAA6D439.png?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: Paper Crows and the electronic pop of Changing Colours
People thing doing nothing is easy. Let me tell you it isn’t. It takes practice, sometimes years to perfect maximizing the nothing, and minimizing the thing. I spent three years at university doing such a thing, until save from the cafe across the road (literally) and the pub round the corner, all I needed was …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/london-grammar.jpg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: London Grammar – Metal and Dust
Everything was always about the start, as far as my P.E. teacher was concerned at secondary school. I forget his real name, but like all P.E. teachers, and probably most teachers in general he had a nickname; Fade. This was because (and remember this was the 80’s by the way) if we dared to forget …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cats-for-peru.jpg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track – Cats:For:Peru – Bien / Run out of Dog (free downloads) plus split news
How many times do you see people get the most terrible leaving presents. At a place I once worked, one of my (male) colleagues left to work nearer his home, and they bought him some tableware. This was a bloke who was well into six feet tall, lived in Barnsley and played bass in a …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/5402B60C-491F-4F4E-8280-0B52CE4A72B9.jpeg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: The Away Days – Dressing Room
It must have been the Sea, Sun, Sangria and what have you, but I once went to Mallorca on holiday and bought a watch. I say it must have been the aforementioned because I knew it wasn’t a real Tag Hauer one, on account of it being sold to me by a tall, dark, but …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/799A6592-90DB-4F4C-9F99-16010F7857B7.png?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
EP: Beatrice Eli – It’s Over EP
Quite what the circumstances were I can’t remember, but when I was a student I read an interview with Barry Cryer, the comedian, raconteur (love that word) and general all around wit. The thing I picked up most from it was that he earned a decent living writing gags for comedians and radio programmes. Being …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/vuvuvultures.jpg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
See: Vuvuvultures new video – Stay Still
When I was a student, I had a brief (roundabout a month I think it was) romantic liaison with one of the most beautiful girls I had met, up to that point. She was a half Italian, part-time model, and just for those few brief weeks I became her Lyle Lovett, and she my Julia Roberts (youngsters, …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/305A9D22-2D53-4235-BA2D-A4B1386661C6.jpeg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: The Ratells -Cold Waters (free downloads)
I love getting something for free. Especially when its good. At various points in everyone’s life you get those occasions when luck smiles on you and something comes your way. It’s even better when it’s not expected. Like the time a friend of mine gave me a box of (with one or two exceptions) great …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jarell-perry.jpg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: Jarell Perry – Getaway
At school, I always wanted to be part of a gang. For some reason, the school I went to was big on re-enactments. Not the English Civil War kind you see on banners as you drive through the countryside, but a sort of Quadraphenia Mods v Rockers sort of world. And when I say re-enactments, I …
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.backseatmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_2042.jpg?resize=335%2C186&ssl=1)
Track: Dick Diver – Water Damage
I think I was about 13 or 14 when I discovered the ‘carry on’ films. I remember, I think maybe my mother was working late, and I happened upon it. I think in those simple days of four channels you could still find a good ‘carry on’ most nights, if you looked hard enough (altogether …