Issue 4 / September 2010

Editorial
Its back, thank the lord for that! I can’t handle three months without it...my loins were throbbing, mouth salivating,
knees trembling, I just needed that fix...and it was as wondrously disappointing as ever, I built it up in my head
so much, it was going to rock my world and...we got beat 2 - 1...and it was shit. Why do I do it to myself? Every preseason
its the same, ‘this could be the one’. My mum takes the Mick out of me for it. But hey, what can you do?...
NB - I’ve realised I tend to ramble about Tranmere in this column. Please do let me know if you think I should
leave it out and maybe shed some light on issues of poignance. Maybe....
I’ve been listening to a lot of Lee Hazlewood recently, My Baby Cried All Night Long, just can’t get that tune and that
baritone voice out of my head, nor the new Best Coast LP. Completely gutted I missed their Liverpool show a couple of
months back. It got me thinking about a collaboration between the two, how class would that be?! Lee Hazlewood
and Best Coast. Man. For that matter, try this out...the last 2 records you listened to...imagine the collaboration. Bobby
Womack and The National was a lad from the football’s...genius. Torpey’s
is probably The Lancashire Hot Pots and Arcade Fire, which I for one would
give my left arm for to be the fly on the wall on that day. Jesus.
Last week we ran a post on our facebook page about a new local band
Owls*. I tell you what, they are stunning. One of the best new groups I’ve
come across for years. Deep, dark brooding songs that, again, just stick
with you. They’ve a track called Sound Of The Call, I urge you, urge you, to
go and download it from owls.bandcamp.com. Watch out for next month’s
magazine when we’ll be running a feature interview with them.
Later in this magazine, in the middle eight, we’ve a short preview of Inside
Pages, the launch event for Bido Lito! I’m not going to regurgitate the same
information here as is there, but just wanted to make the point that its going
to be a hoot. The feedback that we’ve had thus far on the magazine has been
Lee Hazlewood extremely positive and it’ll be a pleasure to celebrate Bido Lito!’s arrival in
the presence of such a brilliant collection of bands. It’ll be a weekend to
remember, an ‘I was there’ event. Make sure you are...because we’ll have photographic evidence if you’re not!
In other Bido Lito! news, the 16th September sees the inaugural Bido Lito! Social Club. Held at The Shipping
Forecast, its an opportunity for anybody interested in getting involved in the magazine to pop along, meet us all
and have a cider or two. We’ll also have Bido Lito! DJs on rotation playing the best new Liverpool sounds from these
very pages for your listening pleasure. Want to write for the mag, take photos, draw pictures, tell us we’re great, tell
us we don’t know what we’re on about? Well, come socialise!
A quick nod is needed for The Northern Boys Club, who published the latest edition of their fanzine last week. As
usual, its a splendid read and this month features contributions from various Bido Lito! scribes. If football, Adidas
Samba and Northern Soul are your bag, I suggest you pick up a copy from Probe Records. If they’re not, probably
best swerve it!
Oh yeah, me and Cerys went out for tea the other night to that new tapas place down by Queens Sq, the Salty
House, Salt n Pepper Gaff, Condiment Corner or something it was called and it was lovely. Without this sounding
like a food review, it was mighty fine indeed. Some guy called Jamie has opened a place next door but one. Don’t
go there. The guy can’t cook. Go to Salty’s. There the guy can cook, isn’t infuriating, doesn’t spit when he speaks and
doesn’t wind me up incessantly. Rant over. Peace out peeps.
Craig G Pennington
Editor
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Editor
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Reviews Editor
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Photo Editor
Jennifer Pellegrini - photos@bidolito.co.uk
Designer
Luke Avery - info@earthstudios.net
Words
Craig G Pennington, Christopher Torpey,
Nic Lowrey, David Lynch, Pete Robinson,
Katy Long, Sean Fell, John Still, David
Hendrie, Frankie Muslin, Can Brannan,
Richard Lewis, Bob @ Probe, The Glass
Pasty, Nik Glover, Paul Meehan, Sam
Andruski, Bethany Garrett
Photographs
Jennifer Pellegrini, John Johnson, Chloe
Pattie, Keith Ainsworth, Sian Lloyd, Dire
Wolfe, Bob @ Probe
Illustrations
Sean Wars, John Biddle, Michael Cottage
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