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added 27 July 2004 at 16.10

See Ash remake Romeo & Juliet for 'Starcrossed' and Goldie Lookin' Chain stick it to the man, chav-wigga style in 'Guns Don't Kill People (Rappers Do)'. Meanwhile The Charlatans join forces with Roger Hargreaves for 'Try Again Today' and !!! provide the sound of the underground in 'Hello? Is This Thing On?'.

Ash 'Starcrossed'
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Imagine Romeo and Juliet, crossed with 'The Sixth Sense', and constantly cutting to one of our best young rock bands playing in a cathedral designed by Liberace. That's 'Starcrossed', a young man wanders the streets despondantly, catching glimpses of his old lover but, tragically, unable to touch her. Eventually he pursues her to the aforementioned Camp Cathedral (all chandeliers, candleabras and neon crosses) where he's shocked to see her take poison and die. Just in case we're left in any doubt, they have tattoos saying 'Capulet' and 'Montague' respectively). Happily though, whilst fleeing from the place in anguish he stumbles across his own grave, twigs that he's also kicked the bucket, and the couple share a tearful reunuion before evolving into pure light.

www.ash-official.com

Goldie Lookin' Chain 'Guns Don't Kill People '(Rappers Do)'
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GLC may be an unlikely choice of band to hold forth on the evil of media hypocrisy and reactionary goverment stereotyping but here they are, protesting the issue of cultural persecution while working the 'Welsh D-12' schtick to the max. Of course, they might not be being entirely serious - burning up multi-storey car parks in pensioner scooters whilst being pursued by two fat policemen in a golf kart is more Keystone Cops than Keynote Speech, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt, eh? Otherwise they'd just be a bunch of pikey chancers having a laugh and that would never do, would it?

www.youknowsit.co.uk

The Charlatans 'Try Again Today'
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With Tim Burgess's move out west seemingly taking The Charlatans further still into the sun-dappled world of the deleriously happy ex-pat rock star, this calmly organic piece of animation should come as no surprise. The band's head's bounce sernely through some pleasingly straightforward, Ikea-simple animation before the whole thing disolves in a Roger Hargreaves-style mess.

www.thecharlatans.net

!!! 'Hello? Is This Thing On?'
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This multi-legged groove machine are coming up from the underground and they're not going to let you forget it. All, blistering jump cuts between blurry shots of the guys doing their thing and the kind of narrow-staired, grimy undeground venue that spawns real rock monsters.

www.chkchkchk.com

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