Melt-Banana

[Tom Roche]

  Melt-Banana played here 2 weeks ago and fine they were too. They played here the same night that The Residents played across town, and a few friends took in both in one evening. I saw The Residents once years ago and was glad I did but once was certainly enough for me. MB is a different story... Fourth time I'd seen 'em, good as ever if not better. 

So two things: A local magazine commissioned me to write a feature on Melt Banana, and I'm about done with it. It's pretty interesting, I got to interview Yasuko Onuki, their erm, unique, vocalist and driving force. If there are no objections I'll post it here in a few days, tho' it's somewhat long. 2000 words or so. I'll subject it "Melt Banana Feature" so those who don't want to see it can take a pass right there.

Alos, I was testing some old audio links and have discovered that the whole 30 min MB peel session is still available in the BBC server, even though the weblink to it is no longer displayed. Hear it by typing or pasting this address into RealPlayer:
rtsp://rmv7.bbc.net.uk/radio1/g2/djs/peel/melt_banana_mv_oct2001.rm


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