RE: Back from London

Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.compulink.co.uk)
Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:33:14 +0000

At 11:44 16/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I will have to disagree with you Tyler. Gathering up promos and writing
>thirty words about them in SNC does not constitute a huge contribution.
>
>Don't know man, maybe I was too harsh. But I went to That's How It Is
>to dance, not to listen to the newest promos in Wilcox's bag. The tunes
>were ok, but the way he presented them to us was awful. No flow, no
>mixing, amateurish scratching, weak overall. I couldn't dance or even nod
>my head. Two thumbs down. It's a shame too cause the Bar Rumba is
>a beautiful space to play in and Monday nights are still just three pounds.
>

I'm going to get myself into trouble now, but what the hell...

We have one man to thank for the rise & rise of Ben Wilcox, and that man is
James Lavelle. The man *pioneered* the "30 incomprehensible words on the
latest promos in my bag" review style for SNC - in fact he was _worse_
than Wilcox for telling you anything useful about a record, even once you'd
tranlated the review into English. Given such a low standard of reviewing,
any idiot could have filled the gap once he quit, and, well... maybe any
idiot did.

In Lavelle's favour, it has to be said that he had pretty good reason to
feel smug about his achievements before starting to "write" for SNC. I
don't know what Wilcox's excuse is.

PS: by most accounts, Lavelle's DJ'ing isn't all that either...

..Mark..