Looking down this week's new single releases, there's a certain stagnant quality to it all. The Coral, yes. The Game surely doesn't need another single featuring 50 Cent. Ludacris has sampled Soul Bossa Nova, which had to happen eventually. And look, kids, it's KT Tunstall.
And then there's The Gaff. Whether that name means anything to you depends on whether you watch music TV or not. See, their first single Hey Weirdo has been all over The Box and B4 - think of Rooster playing the Libertines, complete with Dominic Masters-esque singer, complete with busty woman in the video and carefully styled shambolicness that immediately turns off national radio (although Jonathan Ross has allegedly played it) and the NME-sponsored bandwagoning. So, a major label post-Busted cash-in, like a Noise Next Door with even less chance of finding the point?
Actually, no. They're on a label called Endeavour, whose only other notable act is the hardly CD:UK troubling Cousteau. What's going on here I'm not sure, but it doesn't half make you wonder whatever became of Trucks.
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