The Joy of Text

Well here goes.

Hello. I'm Harry and about 54 hours ago I finished university.

No university = spare time + rapid loss of brain cells
= No Robots

No Robots is for new music, music you will love completely for a short amount of time and music you will love for longer, as well as the things that make me tick. Like this: Post Numero Uno.



I genuinely still use Teletext, presumably making me one in a select crowd of about twenty. I check Teletext before the internet for music news, seriously. It comes in tiny bite-size chunks and you can have it on in the background while you eat your cornflakes in the morning. Through uni I didn't have the time to sit and read the essays posted on Pitchfork, I just wanted to know what was happening so I could get on with my day. Maybe that'll change now I'm done, but somehow I doubt it.

The best thing about Teletext is that it doesn't drown news in indie posing. The problem with online music news is the pages of comments underneath - I want the news, not the lmfao lol brigade. With Teletext you get six colours and massive squares. Beautiful. PLUS you got to watch TV in the background. Amazing.

It's a simple fact that Teletext is what will remain when the internet breaks. No it hasn't got Facebook, but it does have cinema listings, holidays and the weather; back in the day it even had Bamboozle, the crazy press-the-coloured-buttons general knowledge quiz. But it also had 30 pages of film times, and if you missed the one you were after you were waiting half an hour for it to come back round. The new swish purple Teletext doesn't have these bizarre quirks, and - to be fair - it's surprising it's survived this long; why hasn't the internet taken it's place?

No Robots was going to look like Teletext but I realised I might be in the minority for a reason, so I outvoted myself. But the music that will be featured here is intended to be easily accessible and perfectly formed. Like Teletext.