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Camille - Money Note

Camille close up photo You'll know this I'm sure, being an enquiring and definition defying bunch of sonic crusaders, but wine gets much more interesting once you step away from the unifying production lines of supermarket fodder and into the complexities of regions and growers. You'll have thought this, no doubt, staggering through a rainy festival field to watch The Magic Numbers clutching a slowly warming but still perfect Grüner Veltliner.

Music, it strikes me, is much the same. Hop off the major label global hit tourer, packed full of flawless role models with all hint of regional character polished and styled away, and things just get better, deeper, fresher. We Are The Physics are very Glasgow, Foals are totally Oxford, The Enemy are Coventry on plastic and Camille is very, very Paris.

James Winter Tour

James band shot Nineties anthemists (that's our new word, we invented it specially!) and surprisingly good revivalers (that's ours to, but we don´t like it as much) James have announced a winter tour scheduled, unsurprisingly, at the end of the year. According to their press release the band plan to make a bit of a party of it, with a carousel of old, new and future tracks (how they do that weŕe not sure), plenty of sitting down and standing up and quite possibly a once round the Macarena for old times sake.

Naaah, it's my turn to wash the cat we here you mutter. Well hold on there Mighty Whites, the once crap and now pretty good Athlete are supporting all gigs, making it well worth the trip in our book (dusty, dog eared, old A-Level copy of Tess of the D´Urbervilles though it is).