Playlouder - Content: Once You Pop, You *Can* Stop

Content: Once You Pop, You *Can* Stop

In the middle of her starving artist's holiday in Tuscany, ADD-suffering self-diagnosed diseuse, George 'Sour Cream and Onion' Pringle, has reached an epiphany: she's not going to make a living out of music.

If, like me, you actually like George Pringle, this may come as devestating news to you, so make sure you've a box of tissues at the ready.

Having had a poetic encounter with a field of sunflowers, The GP decided:

"Anyway, anyway, I think I'm leaving England and I've decided that I'm going to make films like I always planned to and I've decided that it's all candelabras and taxidermy and such for me, sorry.

"I'm not being all and ending all in an industry where Paul Weller and Morrisey[sic] are still shining out of magazine covers... I discover amazing music every day online and people doing all kinds of things that aren't recognised. So fuck the industries. We are starting a revolution and I think the sunflowers told me that. They were very sad and they didn't need to be. I just hope we don't end up misunderstood and like The Rosenbergs or whoever. I didn't do history, sorry."

She goes on to incongruously bemoan Carol Vorderman's 'sex-symbol' status and have a pop at vegetarians. Is this the end? I hope not - I'd rather have at least an album out first. And I'd rather be assaulted with the sometimes-embarassing unedited diariffic musings of The GP than the equivalent from, for example, Kanye West, any day of the week.

I recall the last time a struggling artist threw the bucket in and kicked the towel: One More Grain's DPQ. Inside sources indicate he was last seen trying to flog OMG songs to ad agencies. And why the hell not? I live for the day I hear The Grain soundtracking Countryfile.

Anyway, I digress; you can still download Pringle's excellent 3-track Debut EP here.