PLUGS When he’s not been looning about front of stage fulfilling guitar and vocals duties for Does It Offend You Yeah, or playing

with ex Test Icicles bod Rory in Rattatag, Morgan Quaintance has spent the last 12 months with fellow St Albanites Dave Chin and Boomer Opperman dreaming up Plugs, a three headed,post-rave , afro influenced groove monster, capable of mutating from the infectious , skewed funk of ‘That Number’ to the taut, angular post punk of ‘She’s Unique ‘ in the blink of an eye, before casually veering off into the thumb piano-driven left field pop of ‘Transatlantic Air Miles ‘ . With a mammoth Does If Offend You tour about to end, a 12” package imminent on People In the Sky that includes a mix from hot young Parisienne YukseK, and a splendidly psychedelic video from Japanese whizz kid Shimpei Okumura in the offing, the rest of 2007 is Plugs time for Morgan Q and the boys ; long may it last . www.myspace.com/plugsmusic

WAXSTAG

Having lost his internship at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's regional training centre during Christmas 1983, after an unspecified incident involving a Minimoog, a bottle of egg nog and a visiting Evel Knievel impersonator, Rob Lee aka Wax Stag found himself scoring the music for the Wolverhampton Rep. Mime Theatre’s 1985 production of 'Van Der Valk', an experimental interpretation of the Dutch cop series to be staged in Birmingham's Bull Ring, on ice. Alas, problems with the local council due to excessive nudity and allegedly inappropriate use of large cheeses meant the mainly improvised production never actually made it to the stage, and the 2” tapes containing Mr Lee’s score spent the next 20 years buried beneath a mound of polystyrene mini windmills in a lock-up in Didsbury. People In The Sky came across the tapes after a bailiff acquaintance of ours cleared the lock-up, and we managed to track down Mr Lee to a male tanning and grooming salon in St Albans, Hertfordshire. His leathery face wore a mixture of confusion and apprehension when we first approached him, but we broke the ice with a special offer 'Three-way full body St Tropez', and he soon seemed happy at the prospect of his lost works finally surfacing. www.myspace.com/waxstag

GHOSTAPE

It’s been kind of complicated dealing with Swiss producer Gabs AKA Ghostape over the last year or so. We’d send him a mail asking where the masters were or something, and he’d be like “ thanks, yes, it’s great, let’s do it , whooooop – Gabs ; - ) “ . And so another few months would drift by, and not much would happen. But eventually things started to fall into place. ‘After After’ got finished, with it’s motorik rhythm and electronic bass pulse throbbing away under Gab’s picking guitars and mad yelps and shamanic whispers . “In the Sky “ started to shine, it’s simple , haunting song and longing chords given some electronic fizz by Gabs and his friend Plastic Du Reve. ‘Allez Allez’ turned up, an alt. disco slow burner that emerged from a collaboration with French producer Screentest . ‘The Marco Tulio Thrash mix of ‘In the Sky’ came last, opening up with a trippy organ riff and a sparse machine rhythm before slowly morphing into something that sounds like Adonis trapped in a lift with Metro Area whilst Martin Hannett pushed the buttons . We’ve seen pictures of Ghostapes’ one man’ live show, with Gabs clutching a mike, surrounded by boxes and wires, and the photo’s look how Ghostape sounds; otherworldly and electronic, but also organic and very real. We’d like to make an album with him, but with our inter-communicational skills as they are, it may not be in this decade. www.myspace.com/iamghostape