Tag Archive: fruitbat

Revisiting: Carter USM’s 30 Something

Carter USM’s seminal album, 30 Something, turns 30 years old today. Our editor, Bobby Townsend, revisits it.

Thank you and Goodnight, Carter USM

This weekend, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine will, over a quarter of a Century since forming, cease to be unstoppable. Bobby Townsend pays his respects: Eastbourne, in East Sussex, isn’t exactly at the… Read More

Jim Bob talks Carter USM and Frank Derrick

Jim Bob tells Bobby Townsend about his new novel, The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine’s farewell gigs: Hi Jim. So, earlier this year, you announced Carter USM’s final ever… Read More

Music video: Jim Bob, Dream Come True

I find it absolutely bewildering that people still bother watching The X Factor. In the early days, riding in the slipstream of Pop Idol, it was a moderately entertaining talent contest. People would… Read More

Carter USM classic album giveaway

Quick history lesson for the uninitiated… Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were a South London duo that bashed out awesome indie pop punk anthems with a social/political conscience in the early-90s. In our… Read More

1992: The Love Album goes deluxe

If you turn to Chapter 1992 of the big indie music history book, you’ll read about grunge, you’ll read about Rage Against The Machine, about R.E.M. and an angry breakthrough band called Manic… Read More

Free download of Carter’s 1991 Paris gig

You may recall how, a couple of weeks ago, I was raving about the influence that indie/punk/pop duo Carter USM had on me. Well, while the guys were sorting through old tapes looking… Read More

Jim Bob and his missing musical mojo

“I don’t know how to deal with new music anymore. I will no doubt change my mind but at the moment I have no desire to make, or rather sell, any new music.”In… Read More

Interview with Fruitbat

London-based musician and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine legend Les Carter (aka, Fruitbat) is currently in Australia with his band, Abdoujaparov. I grabbed a few words with him about the tour and his… Read More