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Codeine
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Broken Glass Sabotage Controversial UK Band Fluffy
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Addicted To Noise contributing editor
Gil Kaufman reports : In these days of lean beef, vitamin E supplements
and two-dollar bottled water, it's nice to see that some bands still believe
in the old rock maxim: sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. At least the gals
in London's next-big-thing Fluffy do. On Friday (May 3), in the midst of
a promotional tour of the U.S. to hype their late-August debut album, Bridget
Jones, the 23-year-old guitar player of the female pop quartet, had a little
rock-related incident that prevented the band from performing that night
at L.A.'s Troubadour on May 7 with Boss Hog. According to a source, unbeknownst
to the rest of the band and management, young Miss Jones had obtained some
strong Codeine pills for a nasty cold she caught while in Vancouver, and
during a photo shoot for Raygun magazine she loaded up a healthy tumbler
of Jack Daniels, tossed it back and promptly fell out, cutting her leg
on some glass in the vicinity. Needless to say the shoot was called off,
and although the cut required five stitches and wasn't sewed up in time
for the band to take the stage (and despite the fact that the doc told
Jones to lay off the leg), the spunky ax grinder still insisted (perhaps
emboldened by some more of those little pills) on catching headliners Hog
anyway. The all-female combo play a raw version of punk that draws on the
sound of Nirvana, the Sex Pistols, the Stooges and the Ramones. Fluffy's
debut UK single, "Hypersonic," has been described as "an ode to masturbation."
In the U. S., the slightly less controversial "Husband" was released yesterday.
The group certainly has a knack for delivering on their jailbait looks;
Singer/songwriter Amanda Rootes told one English journalist, "Men seem
to find it hard to understand that masturbation is a different thing for
women. For us, it's not just about coming. It's a far more sensual thing.
Having said that, I'm kind of envious that men have the abililty to squirt
like they do... Oh to be able to squirt like that. Men don't know how lucky
they are." Fluffy has managed to coax British producer Bill Pride (Sex
Pistols, Clash) out of retirement to work on their debut, which they are
now completing back in England. On a related note, Fluffy is slotted to
play the Finsbury Park show in London on June 23, the first date for the
re-united Sex Pistols, joined, as previously reported, by Iggy Pop and
the Buzzcocks.