it's hard to make a stew when the meat keeps looking up at you

I first heard Elastica on Trigger Happy TV back when in sec 3 or 4, one of those nuts british kind of humour show that I really liked and never failed to watch every Tuesday. The song was Elastica's ' Connection', and a certain acerbic yet smooth detachness in the lead singer's Justine Frischmann cool voice caught my happy and anti establishment hungry teenage ear back then. Anyway forward a few years and I finally started digging around for more of their stuff, and Fluxblog's recent post sorta reminded me of them with an amazing version of another of their song.

Here's ' Hold Me Now', a slightly off center crowd pleasing tune that is sure to grab you by the ears and make you pay attention. Lyrically, it's typically British off kilter but with a killer sass helped in no small part by Frischmann's brash and frank charm. You can imagine her slitted eyes stabbing right into you as she sings and cooly plays her guitar, imploring, begging and warning you all at once.

It's best to watch a video of her live performance below to see what I mean.

Elastica - Hold Me Now ( Live BBC session)

since they had disbanded, there is no official site or something like that. Unofficial net writeups are all rather dead and outdated too. The best site online for more information on Elastica is still over @Allmusic.com

Things really started to heat up about 30 seconds in..