Supporters of the Indistinguishable Appellations,

I’m always writing down names of bands. My notebooks usually feature some silly words. I have scraps of paper littered around with names on them, then they end up in other people’s possession and they must wonder why I’ve written “Shit Disco” on a bit of paper. Usually, I like the bands and I would hope to follow up on them, sometimes I just write down the name.

On this A4 sheet in front of me, there’s The Poems, that new single, Sometime Somewhere Someone Should Say Something, is soothing, it breaks no boundaries but no one said it had to.

Below that is The Wave Pictures, they're so literal. It's quite unusual in pop. Gideon Coe and Marc Riley have played them a fair bit.

Then there's Robyn Hitchcock, who is a seasoned campaigner, who I will finally give a chance to after hearing a song called High on Yourself, which is on a new album called Shadow Cat (or something superhero-like).

There's some things that I'm trying to pick up on the cheap, possibly via evilBay: New Pornographers and Figurines. I've drawn a line through Voxtrot because I've already bought that one.

Ross Clark is on this piece of paper. Glasgow Ross seems talented and as a solo indie-folkster is probably better than those is London village who get more attention. William Douglas is similar, but from Embra, and perhaps more wistful.

The Phantom Band are due to release an album on Chemikal Underground. They're like some sort of Scottish version of the Secret Machines without the vocals, that doesn't make them Mogwai, they're somehow chunkier than them.

Sometimes twits and guitars kick out an irresistible single, Jake Summers by Fight Like Apes is just that. Olympic Lifts have an interesting, if not amenable, sound.

I have wrote "Cancel the Astronauts", it appears almost as an order. They seem to be a good indie rock outfit. Also from Embra, are Broken Records; they are probably on the verge of greatness, they work guitars and strings together brilliantly.

Sometimes I can't remember why I wrote something down and I can't even recall the song that made me do it, I have no idea who played an Anathallo record. I think I must have thought there was some echoes of Sufjan Stevens in this sound.

The Travelling Band are from Manchester, their county stylings are just right for duffers.

I will probably buy Samamidon's latest record, he's another solo folkster who I think drags in other musicians for larger compositions.

I keep meaning to follow up my initial delight at the fact that anyone would continue to peddle the music of Lynette Morgan and the Blackwater Valley Boys, there needs to be a place for rockabilly on the radio. Mark Lamarr had them in session ages ago.

Of course, I'm always appreciative to the great DJs who make me use up pens and paper.