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Everything is in reasonable quality. £4 each including postage and packaging, unless stated. I might be nice if you buy lots. Thank you very much!

65DaysOfStatic – The Fall of Math
Abdominal & DJ Fase – Flowtation Device
Alanis Morissette – Under Rug Swept
Alkaline Trio – From here to Infirmary
The All American Rejects – S/T
...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead – Worlds Apart
Andy, Glenn & Rich – Escape from the Bastille
Annie – Anniemal
Arab Strap – Monday at the Hug and Pint
Ash – Trailer
Avril Lavigne – Let Go
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of the Bewilderbeast
Bearsuit – Team Ping Pong
Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Beecher – Breaking the Fourth Wall
Belle & Sebastian – If Your Being Sinister
Bellowhead – E.P. Onymous
Billy Tallent – II
Blink 182 – Dude Ranch
Blink 182 – Enema of the State
Blood Brothers – ...Burn Piano Island Burn
Blood Brothers – Crimes
Blur – Parklife
Boards of Canada – The Campfire headphase
Boards of Canada – Geogaddi
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Letting Go
The Boy Least Likely To – The Best Party Ever
The Breeders – Last Splash
Busted – A Present for Everyone
Calexico – Feast of Wire
The Calling – Camino Palmero
Captain Beefheart – Best Of
Caribou – The Milk of Human Kindness
Cat on Form – A Blanket over Your Eyes
Charlottefield – How Long are you Staying
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay – Parachutes
Converge – You Fail Me
Cursive – The Ugly Organ
Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism
Death Cab for Cutie – We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
Deftones – White Pony
Designer Babies – Monstrous Fromage Excavator ep
Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
Dogs Die in Hot Cars – Please Describe Yourself
Elastica – S/T
Embrace – Fireworks
Erase Errata – At Crystal Palace
Everclear – Songs from an American Movie Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
Fastlane – New Start
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
Franz Ferdinand – S/T
Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich – The Drum Battle
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Good Charlotte – S/T
Good Charlotte – The Young and the Hopeless
Gossip – Standing in the way of Control
Grandaddy – Sumday
Green Day – American Idiot
Green Day – Dookie
HORSE The Band – R. Borlax
Idlewild – Hope is Important
Incubus – Make Yourself
InMe – Overgrown Eden
Iron Maiden – Edward the Great
J. Mascis & The Fog – More Light
Ja Rule – Pain is Love
Jamie T – Panic Prevention
Jamiroquai – A Funk Odyssey
Jeff Buckley – Live A L’Olympia
Jenny Lewis With the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
Johnny Domino – Solid Ground
Kaito – Band Red
Kosheen – Kokopelli
Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
Leonard Cohen – Greatest Hits
Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Limp Bizkit – Sognificant Other
Limp Bizkit – Three Dollar Bill, Yall$
Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
The Locust – Saftey Second, Body Last
Lords – This Ain’t a Hate Thing, It’s a Love Thing
M83 – Dead Cities, Read Seas & Lost Ghosts
Madlib – Shades of Blue
Man or Astro Man – EEVIAC
Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
McFly – Room on the Third Floor
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Lets Face It
Minus the Bear – They Make Beer Commercials like this
Misterlee – Chiselgibbon
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse – The Moon & Antarctica
Mogwai – Happy Songs for Happy People
Mogwai – Rock Action
Muse – Absolution
My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Morning Jacket – Z
Nirvana – Bleach
Nirvana – In Utero
Nirvana – Nevermind
Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
The Offspring – Conspiracy of One
Outkast – Big Boi & Dre Presents…
Papa Roach – Infest
Part Chimp – I Am Come
Pedro The Lion – Achilles Heel
Placebo – S/T
Placebo – Black Market Music
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Up in them Guts
Polysics – Polysics or Die!
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Radiohead – Kid A
Rage Against the Machine – S/T
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Las Angeles
Rammstein – Mutter
The Research – Breaking Up
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Roll Deep – In at the Deep End
Roni Size – In The Mode
Roni Size – New Forms
Shellac – 1000 Hurts
Spin Doctors – Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
Sleater-Kinney – Call The Doctor
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
Sonic Youth – Evol
Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
Spiritualized – Let it Come Down
Squarepusher – Ultravisitor
Staind – Break the Cycle
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Pig Lib
The Swarm – Red Paint on the Odessa Steps
System of a Down – S/T
System of a Down – Toxicity
Ten Benson – Satan Kidney Pie
Thrills – So Much for the City
Tom Waits – Big Time
Tool – 10,000 Days
Tool – Opiate
Tool – Undertow
UNPOC – Fifth Column
The Used – S/T
The Used – In Love and Death
Usher – My Way
Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want
Willy Mason – Where the Humans Eat
Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue

Compilations
The Alternative Album
American Pie
American Pie 2
Fabriclive 03 – DJ Hype
West Side Story Broadway Cast Recording
Westwood Vol. 3

£2 each, or help youself if you buy 3 or more of whats above.

Air Traffic – Never Even Told Me Her Name
American HiFi – Flavor of the weak
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – Another Morning Stoner
Basement Jaxx – Do Your Thing
The Bloodhound Gang – Bad Touch
Britney Spears – Toxic
Busted – Air Hostess
The Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
Clor – Outlines
Dark Star – Graceadekica
Dark Star – I Am The Sun
Default – Wasting My Time
DJ Marky & XRS - LK
DMX - Slippin
Emiliana Torrini – To Be Free
Filter – Take a Picture
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Hawthorne Heights – Ohio is For Lovers
Idlewild – Actually It’s Darkness
Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict a Riot
Kasabian – L.S.F.
Kosheen – Hide U
Marilyn Manson – Rock is Dead
Marilyn Manson – Disposable Teens
McFly – 5 Colours in Her Hair
Natalie Imbruglia – That Day
Natalie Imbruglia – Smoke
The Offspring – The Kids Aren’t Alright
Placebo – Pure Morning
Robbie Williams – She’s the One
Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue – Kids
Shola Ama – You’re The One I Love
Supergrass – Low C

Jazz Piano Greats
John Bird & John Fortune Vol. 4
Melody Maker – Born to do it Better
Q – Covered – Best of 86/06
NME Awards Winners 2006
Kerrang – Hot Stuff – The Noise of Summer
Kerrang – Awards 2005
Kerrang – Incoming 2001
Kerrang – The best of 2000
NME Soundtrack of your Summer 2005
Uncut – Unconditionally Guaranteed 2000
Melody Maker – Nu-Clear Bombz
Kerrang – 1999
NME - Generation Punk
NME Awards winners 2005

Thank you!

Yorkshire Tea is what tea really should be. The colour is perfect, the smell is fantastic, the taste is strong and rich, without being bitter or too busy. Its rich, yet crisp and clean, and refreshing, not heavy like many premium teas can seem.

Yorkshire Tea is truely the pinacle of tea blending. The taste fills your mouth as if the flavour and the warmth were the same thing.

Yorkshire Tea gets ten out of ten.

PG Tips One Cup is the same old PG Tips taste we all know and loathe, but presented in a handy tampon designed to allow as little diffusion as possible.

The lack of room to move means the tea is incredibly weak, and is very easy to let stew. The undertone of cardboard from the inevitability of pulling the tag in with the water lends this tea the authentic greasy spoon taste.

I recommend this tea to be drunk along with a Full English and a hangover.

PG Tips One Cup gets 1 out of 10.

I have the programme running on two machines.
On my Mac Mini I have Clicker set to control iTunes (it controls music, shared music, playlists, audiobooks, podcasts, videos etc.) EyeTV (play recordings, control live TV etc.) DVD Player, VLC and Quicktime. Clicker also comes with a whole load of system commands allowing you to control volume/ballance of audio, sleep/shutdown computer, zoom in/out, and even use your mobile as a mouse.
On my Powerbook I use my mobile to read my email from another room, or catch up on the news from NetNewsWire. Saving those WAP pennies, or even more important those couple of steps to my computer.

Clicker comes ready loaded with remotes for several widely used aplications that allow you to control many of their basic functions, but they really distinguish themselves from any other remote with the display.

Salling Clicker displaysall the basic song data it can from iTunes, not just the track name, artist and album, but the progress, rating, iTunes status, and even the album art in a friendly iPod style display. Great for saving display power if you are using it for nothing more than listening to music.
All the commands are apple scrpit bassed, so if there is something you want to do that isn’t included, just make a macro, or download one someone else has made from the Salling website or forums. There is even a remote control for Logic.

Combining the power of apple script with bluetooth makes the posibilities for expansion on Salling Clicker virtually endless, I’d love to see more intigration with the internet, such as the plugin allowing which automatically looks up unknown callers in the Yellow Pages.

A little more integration with the phone features would also be nice, such as a transfer of data without having to exit the applet. However this is due to technical restrictions on the more ‘budget’ handsets and greater phone integration is available on some models.

The only problem I have with Salling Clicker would be the ammount of battery power it eats up from your mobile through running Java and Bluetooth constantly, but unless you use it constantly for a long period of time this shouldn’t really be a problem. If you are planning to use it in this way, just plug in your phone.

If you don’t already know, there is also no Ponce in the Park this year, so I’m told.

In the mean time The Picnic would recomend Eve Fest, 22nd July at the Blue Dog.
Eve Fest is some old school friends of mine who stole my idea, anyway, good luck to them.

Lets hope music in Derby picks up soon.

Could be a fake. but why would you go to the effort of blanking out the ingredients on a fake?

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1. There is a lot of it on the reduced shelf.
2. Its name is reminiscent of tramps favorite, Carlsberg Special Brew.
3. Its PG Tips.

But in the interests of fairness I gave it a try.

The wierdest thing about it is the strange colour. Its almost a yellowy gold colour, the same colour as the box, a colour that tea normally only turns if your milk is off.  Not that far off from Carlberg Special Brew infact. The colour of this tea really put me off trying it at first and I had to take a few sips to make sure that it tasted ok. Several cups later I concluded that the tea was meant to be that colour.

Despite what the box would have you believe, the taste is nothing special, but, it is good. This is altogether a ‘nice’ tea. After a box of the stuff I couldn’t really come up with much more of a conclusion than that. Its ‘nice’. The main benefit of Special Brew is that its better than standard PG Tips, which quite frankly is a piece of shit, so that doesn’t say too much.

Next week I will be reviewing PG Tips White Lightning.

PG Tips Special Blend gets 4 out of 10.

Everyday Tea is a nice and refreshing tea, and certainly one of the best, but its a little more expensive than your standard ‘everyday teas’ and I’m not compleetly convinced that jump in price is justified for the change in taste you get. The long and the short of it is that Everyday Tea is the same variety of tea that you would normally get in something like PG Tips or Tetley, the only difference would be a slightly different blend, and possibly the quality of the leaves.

Don’t get me wrong, its a million miles from a Tesco Value tea, but the overall taste is simalar to that of Lancashire tea, or Tetley, and therefore doesn’t really justify the price hike, except for the Twinings name.

Twinings make the best speciality teas, and there is a reason for that. They have been working for hundereds of years as Britain’s, and probably the world’s, best tea blenders, They know how to make a great tasting specility tea, and make a lot of it. But they were left behind when making a ‘standard’ tea by more ‘populist’ brands. Therefore Everyday Tea lacks the definition of any other Twinings tea, but still has the name and the price tag.

Everyday Tea has a, slightly unremarkable, taste comparable to any of the major brands, but with a higher price, and a rather ugly coloured box that is the hardest to get in to tea box I have ever opened.

I would recomend sticking to a standard brand for a standard tea, Twinings is for special occasions only.

Twinings Everyday Tea gets 7 out of 10.