Oh Mr Hart! What a Wess!

Since when did the Australian pop charts start to be so flooded with RnB/HipHop? I can't remember when it got this bad. Or was it all gradual?

Anyway, Ive been hearing a lot of J-Wess (formerly J-Wess Project) on the radio and TV and stuff. He (or is it a 'they'? I'll assume it's a 'he' for now) was in the frighteningly B-Grade Australia Day concert lineup next to Nikki Webster and Tripod. I suppose his stuff sounds OK but I just can't take him seriously. J-Wess just sounds too much like Jeans West and Jay Jays and Westco to have any credibility in my mind. Well just when I thought that was bad enough, I found out that J-Wess (or even J-Wess Project) wasn't the first name he came up with. Here are some others that were rejected earlier by the record companies.

- Pay-Wess
- Bess & Wess
(with his best friend Bess, who died in a freak hairdryer incident and not, as reported, in a gangland shooting)
- The Reject Project
- Tar-J

I'll stop there. Sorry folks, just filling my quota.

Snow falls on Perdition

The morning creeps up on you
And the sliding door lets you out
Rain clouds won’t go away
But this daylight still blinds you

The engine is a soft hum
One busted speaker is a soft buzz
In one ear the Strokes are singing about Last Nite
You turn your car to the right

It’s the new side of old
It’s the happy side of fear
It’s like sunlight seeping through from Heaven
And snow falling on Perdition

The hum is the engine driving the car
The buzz is a speaker needing repair
In your head you are singing about last night
You turn your car to the right

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