Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Tommi Pun
A couple of weeks ago, the world famous (not actually world famous) TiaPL Spleen answered a question about dogs by referring to girl band Tommi. This is all well and good, but the person who asked the question is antipodean in nature (and we'd like to thank Kylie Minogue for introducing the word Antipodean into general usage in this country) and so did not actually know who Tommi were. There is, quite frankly, no shame in this as there aren't many people in the UK who know who Tommi are either so, as a result, we are proud to present TiaPL's Rough Guide to Tommi, and believe us, rough is very much the appropriate word here.
Despite only having a career that has so far lasted one single - the actually rather good Like What - Tommi have already had their share of mishaps, well two; and one of those is actually being in Tommi. The other is the loss of a member, Lil Chill after their first release. Clearly she's the brains of the band and could sense the sickly metal stench of the dumper calling the girls in much the same way that steam from pies calls tramps in cartoons. This is a shame as we'd like Tommi to continue their pop career for as long as possible, mainly so that they don't return to their previous jobs of hanging around outside our local shop and intimidating us when we go in to buy milk.
As you may have guessed, we are slightly scared of Tommi, we're pretty sure that they could have us in a fight, but this is hardly worth mentioning as we believe that pretty much every popstar could have us in a fight; from P!nk all the way down to S Club 8 and The Cheeky Girls, but not Abs though, we could have him. Easily. Unlless we were disabled by rolling on the floor laughing at his accent.
Anyway, the girls are continuing on after the tragic loss of Lil Chill, presumably in the hope that they will eventually earn enough money to keep them in tracksuits and cheap jewelery for life. Their website informs us that we should "Keep it rugged", so it is nice to see them support their local carpet making industry, despite their own pop misfortunes. But we're going to be nice to them, we're not going to keep it rugged as we don't want them to suffer carpet burns on their arses as they slide with some speed and force them back to the obscurity from which they came.
Despite only having a career that has so far lasted one single - the actually rather good Like What - Tommi have already had their share of mishaps, well two; and one of those is actually being in Tommi. The other is the loss of a member, Lil Chill after their first release. Clearly she's the brains of the band and could sense the sickly metal stench of the dumper calling the girls in much the same way that steam from pies calls tramps in cartoons. This is a shame as we'd like Tommi to continue their pop career for as long as possible, mainly so that they don't return to their previous jobs of hanging around outside our local shop and intimidating us when we go in to buy milk.
As you may have guessed, we are slightly scared of Tommi, we're pretty sure that they could have us in a fight, but this is hardly worth mentioning as we believe that pretty much every popstar could have us in a fight; from P!nk all the way down to S Club 8 and The Cheeky Girls, but not Abs though, we could have him. Easily. Unlless we were disabled by rolling on the floor laughing at his accent.
Anyway, the girls are continuing on after the tragic loss of Lil Chill, presumably in the hope that they will eventually earn enough money to keep them in tracksuits and cheap jewelery for life. Their website informs us that we should "Keep it rugged", so it is nice to see them support their local carpet making industry, despite their own pop misfortunes. But we're going to be nice to them, we're not going to keep it rugged as we don't want them to suffer carpet burns on their arses as they slide with some speed and force them back to the obscurity from which they came.
