Enjoy (if you must)

If it's upwardly mobile artists you're after, look no further than The Reluctant Release, which features five of the hottest prospects around.

Originally intended as a promo sampler, the CD has been put on general sale because the Reverb Records people are fed up of answering "Where can we get it?" emails.

Available from all good record shops – and a few shite ones too – the 10-tracker features chequerboard, The High Violets, Nina Hynes, Basic and Clive*Star who, fact fans, fought off stiff competition from David Kitt to win the 1999 Trinity College Band Challenge.