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BARTIME DISPATCHES

SIMON WILLIAMS trawls the streets of London looking for 'hot' new 'talent'. That rocks. And goes 'Nib! Nib!

....Fast forward like a crazy pixillated thing and you too will find yourself in King's Cross Water Rats on a moody Monday. We'd like to say, "Relax, you're in good company." Relax, however, is not the most appropriate word in the context of thrusting troopers THE PRIMROSE, Girls by name it's true, they are in fact three Japanese chaps with a propensity for headbands powder-crazed power chords. Possibly Japan's answer to Peal Jam, in the old days they would most certainly have played the Marquee and the audience would most definitely have stuck to the floor. These aren't the old days, however, so we'll simply type The Primrose; hill communication. And laugh out loud.------SIMON WILLIAMS