It's always better first time around

Oh dear. Did it really have to come to this? "My separation came about because this legendary band was taken over by new owners. Music that was once relevant and graceful had become clumsy as a circus seal tooting his horns." Acrimony and bitter words tarnishing what is a phenomenal legacy. And to think, only last year Jane's Addiction dropped a mostly excellent record in the shape of Strays, and blew me and a couple of thousand others away at Rock City. I've got that feeling you get at the end of a party when the lights come up. Maybe this really is the end. But you can never say never.

On a related note, Ian Mathers is left cold by most of Mission Of Burma's new LP ONoffON.