Gene : Libertine
Resilient, robust, reliable - all great words for describing new garden furniture or a pair of winter shoes, traditionally less appropriate for rock'n'roll. While the title of Gene's post-major-label album hints at a self-consciouly arch adoption...
Gene : Is It Over
Really, Gene[/url] are asking for it by calling their first single in over two years this. Still, and I know this is going to shock some people, 'Is It Over?' is actually close to being a masterpiece of brooding beauty. See, I told you. To the...
GENE : As Good As It Gets: The Best Of
A 'Best Of' after only three studio albums means one of two things: a) here's a band who churn out classic hits like Stuart Braithwaite sheds hair follicles, or b) we are a major record label and this bunch of underachieving indie plumbers we've...
Rising for Sunset
There has been a terrible misunderstanding, resulting in dashed disappointment. It seemed so very audacious for perpetual indie sideliners Gene (ignominiously dropped by Polydor last year) to release an album live from LA - y'know Los...
London Kentish Town Forum
Mathew Priest , the drummer from Dodgy , has just joined Gene onstage. Martin Rossiter proceeds to dedicate their next song, 'Little Child' , to him on the grounds that "he's just had a little baby". "Why's he still so fucking fat,...
Gene : Fill her up
They drink a Babycham drink, they drink a Bacardi Breezer drink. They're dead hard essentially, the Gene mob, with their skinheads, their big muscles, tattoos, moustaches and Rottweilers - hell, Martin Rossiter is rapidly becoming the Lennox...
Colchester Arts Centre
Damn faint praise. Damn 'sturdy' and 'reliable' and 'decent' and all those pale and malevolent adjectives that possess more destructive power than a whole viking fleet of expletives. Damn them, for Gene have always deserved better than that....
Revelations
It was perhaps misfortune, rather than carelessness, that Gene should name the first single from their new album 'As Good As It Gets' . See, you can't help thinking it's appropriate, in an altogether more negative way than they intended....
Radio 1 Sound City / Newcastle Riverside
So tell me more about haircuts. A cigarette absent from his lips, the bon mots locked away in a secret velvet box, Martin Rossiter boldly steps out onto the rickety 'low-key' Riverside boards, to reveal a new man. And oh, Mother, it's...
