Best Music Video...Just Because.....

...at this point in time it is....Watch.


How much fun is it to be a kid?
The band is Fang Island ( i believe they share a member with Daughters), this is pretty much what they sound like. This is from a Corleone Records DVD I got sent a while back.

Buy Corleone DVD NOW!


It a worthwhile investment.

Dracula's Soul Brother..............

...I wish. Blackula, good work. Anyhow after the ATP visit at the weekend something dawned on me that I thought I might rant about. My lack of stamina/drive/interest at watching live music. Over the years I have gradually become quite cold to a lot of live music. It seems that only bands I really, really like or know get watched by me. Even then I find it hard work at times and my attention wanders. Is it because the bands are shit? No, some of them are blindingly amazing. i havn't really been able to put my finger on what it is. The common sense tells me the numerous tours and lengths of time spending every single night for 2 months in a row watching local (and not always very good) bands may have something to do with it.
Its really when watching Mastodon and Melvins at ATP. 2 bands that I really love but I found it so hard for it to hold my attention any length of time, even tho they both played well despite Mastodon being minus a guitar player.
So will it get worse over time? Or be a passing phase? I really don't know. I still enjoy playing in my bands and being onstage, its the watching of other bands that I struggle with. maybe I need to see something that will inspire me again, a band that will kick my teeth out and make me realise how awesome live music is.
Any suggestions?

Well as far as Oliver's musical pick is on this posting...do you like Conan The Barbarian? Do you like power violence? Do you like stolen rock riffs and shouting?
Well you will love Crom. This album is most defo my favourite. Full of stolen riffs, sludge, tons of Conan and metal samples and enough wierdness to get your head scratching. It features some of the best artwork ever ( where else can you witness a FF style airbrushed painting of a barbarian snorting lines of coke of the ice?)
and did at one point feature a certain Greg Anderson if rumours permits.
Anyhow dickheads..enjoy...

Crom - The Cocaine Wars 1974 - 1989

YES!

ATP residue...........

Well, my first ever experience of All Tommorows Parties more than lived upto my expectations. The party was brought and abused by everyone, and even strangers.
Despite a long drive down on Friday morning after work ( and a 4:30AM start) I did get to enjoy Big Business and catch up with some folk before Torche played. This band destroys live, perfect sound, awesome performance, good spot to watch from and they played every song I would want them to.
Fantomas played, and palyed an entire set of "The Directors Cut" material, minus Dave Lombardo and replaced by a spot on, note for note Dale Crower. My friend saw Terry Bozzio (session player extrodanaire) playing for Fantomas in london this year and said Dale wiped the floor with him. Melvins played 3 whole sets that spanned there entire career, Joe Lally did his folk/solo stuff, Isis bored me. You know that scene in "Repo Man" where Emilio Estevez is watching The Circle Jerks as that lounge band in the bar and remarks how he can't believe he used to like them? Well that was me watching (very, very, very briefly) Isis, not bad but I don't know where the band I liked went to. Farmers Market, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers and Rahzeal all played. Good good stuff indeed. Its seriously one of the best run, well organised festivals ever, arcades, golf, booze, food, music and tons of dickheads to annoy. Can't be beaten. I do have some pictures that will make it up at somepoint. For now just use your feeble imaginations.
So in celebration of this event I have some music for you...thanks to the fine Lo Res Viscera blog...current personel favourites...
Trash Talk - S/T - awesome modern powerviolence/fastcore played with honesty.
Coalesce - Live Set, Philly 05 - One of my most favourite bands ever and this set just destroys. You need Coalesce in your life. There's bands before them, there's bands after them but no one else is Coalesce.

DBM aggro smash up

Those days where everything annoys you, and doesn't really help when added to the problems you always carry around. Its one of those days.
So in honour of this triumph in despair and bleakness I have posted up some music that is equal parts aggro and bleak.
People bang on about tuff guy hardcore these days, the amount of kids who think its cool to pretend to be tough when a strong wind would blow them over is ridiculous at times. Fuck em all. Haymaker will always triumph.

Haymaker where another band in the long line of quality Canadian hardcore. They where tough, so tough in fact that they only played a few shows a year as venues where constantly smashed, fights happenned all the time and fireworks and actual fire happenned on more than one occasion. So Tough that they couldn't play outside of Canada because of certain members criminal convictions ( hence the Fuck America 7" ) and so tough that no promoter would touch them and so tough that they featured members of Cursed.
Well here is the first 12" they released in 2002. They released a load of other 7" and splits but this is where its at....

Haymaker - S/T 12"

Secondly is a recent discovery by myself. Forgotten Tombs are a depressive BM project from Italy. Sorta closer to very old Katatonia ( not the shit band fronted by that Welsh bint) with more melancholy and self hatred coursing through there veins. The cover art wins everytime...Naked girl + blood + bath tub + cable ties.

Nothing really else to add. Very dark and moody, slightly better production than most DBM but that only helps the dark melody of it all.

Forgotten Tombs - Songs To Leave

Thats it......

The Vultures Are Circling

Well, I finally got around to updating this thing. Like that song LL Cool J wrote for the shark travesty of film that is Deep Blue Sea, about a fucking SHARK! That plays over the end credits and spoils what was already a shite film, and makes it even worse.
Anyhow, I have returned from tour...bossanova. Satori and Nadja where gentlemen ( and gentleladies) to us and we got treated like the kings we think we are. Despite the usual tour happennings of fucked vans, horrible weather and London parking/traffic it was a success. Satori are mesmerising in the live setting with the visuals they incorporate and Nadja transcend a lot of regular guitar/noise stuff with the sheer crushing melody and fragile atmosphere they create, Aiden and Leah are superb.
Edingburgh was a success. Top gig, Russel Black Sun and Polish neo-nazis made an appearance. I also met William Bennet of Whitehouse fame, really nice guy, nothing like you would expect. He ( according to the promoter Nick ) loves Guitar Hero and is a master at it. Speaking of Nick, he introduced me to the awesome dirge of Drunks With Guns, search the info out..immense, ahead of there time and aggro as fuck. I uploaded the lbum for you dicks here.....

DRUNKS WITH GUNS - Second Verses

Anyhow...the tour carried on and despite the biggest travesty I have ever heard of ( Mogwai Djing at a venue we played at to be paid 1500 rips and only playing 2 records!) was superb. We sold tons of merch and sounded louder than most people could ever understand. Matt got immensly hammered, so did I, abused people, played loud, fell over, got into arguments, abused the AA ( karma ) and stole stuff.
But there should be a video up on Youtube from the Coventry gig shortly, it involved us using Satori's projector and DVD player to show Kieth Lemmon on the wall next to us while we played in our underwear. At the time it was funny. Also this footage from the London Underworld gig.....bossanova.


The Ergon Carousel have begun booking gigs for the New Year and we did a photoshoot with my good friend Macky on Sunday, as magazines are banging on about some kind of pictures. Look out for them shortly.
Road trip to ATP on Friday. Plus 3 whole sets from the Melvins over the weekend spanning there entire career. Fuck your god dickheads.
Great Success.

Princes Of The Universe

First of...the bad news. And I was pretty gutted to hear about this recently. My good friends, label mates and partners in trouble D-Rail have split. I know most people won't have heard of them or think its very important but this was a band that seemed bulletproof. The epitome of a hard-working, DIY band. 8 years of countless gigging and tours. They played with American Nightmare back when they where called American nightmare for fucks sake! How many of your shit hardcore bands can say that? They have seen and done more than any other band in this country. Its a crying shame.
So thats pretty shit....there new album was a blinder.
Well onto good things...Telephone box sex cards...look....

Classic.
I bought Highlander on DVD for 4 sterlings the other week, and even tho its a good film. It hasn't aged well at all. It did spawn some shite sequels ( and what ever people say about Highlander 3 being the proper sequel to the original it is still shite) and a abysmal TV series. But the Queen soundtrack is still outstanding. Outstanding indeed. I did download said soundtrack recently....and it is making an appearance on the ATP road trip ina few weeks and also tour ina few days.....
I love touring. Cannot be beaten. Even tho sitting in a dark van for upto 7 or 8 hours can be a bit mind numbing its still always fun to hang out with your friends and see new places, new people and abuse locals.
So this is the tour.....

Don't be a dick.

Death & Taxes

The only 2 certainties in life. Depressing but a true fact. Bit of a gap since the last post. Well, for the very, very, very small amount of people that actually read this. ( which is me and Macky on occasion when he is bored )The Doomriders show was top notch. Doomriders where good, really good in fact. But SSS stole it with some hilarious stage banter and some awesome crossover tuneage. Freezing Fog and Tortuga where pretty sweet also.
I did beat the illness after all ( fuck you!) and survived a messy Halloween weekend of debauchery. My skeleton costume did not quite work out really. But i did see a very convincing Mask costume, the Dark Horse / Jim Carrey character, not Eric Stolz in a prosphetic head one. Much wine, brandy, rum and beer was consumed and much hilarity was had. It sort of, alongside this other blog I came across, inspired me to put a little lsit of stuff together. To coincide with me and Macky's trip to ATP in December. Anyone that knows us, knows we love 80's music and most importantly tracks of films and soundtracks...so we are compiling a few mixes for the journey...so far...my favourite highlights have been....

Awesome tune, awesome band and a cool film from when i as a kid. Queen had it all. Tunes, image and skill. But this film was awesome as well. Let down by inferior sequels. And Clancy Brown who plays the Kurgen is Mr Crabs from Spongebobs voice...true fact.

Rocky did really put the montage sequence in the film technique manual. And Rocky 4 was no exception. Forget "Eye of The Tiger", the fourth film had so many good montage sequences with good tuneage. I chose this one because I like the bassline that starts it, very, very 80's processed sound. Probally played ona Hamer bass I reckon, that was dusky pink or maybe purple.

Known by most people for supplying the main track for the Back To The Future films, Huey Lewis has been ploughing his trade for a long time, and achieved some good pretty good accolades and written some tunes. This is my personel Huey favourite..taken from the album "Fore". Forget BTTF and get into Huey. Infact, in the original novel version of American psycho, there is a whole chapter about Patrick Batemans love for Huey Lewis & The News, and it makes it into a few lines in the movie. Also if you ever listen to " I Want A New Drug" by Huey and then Ray parker Jr's theme to The Ghostbusters, there is a slight similarity. More coincidence really. but it didn't stop Huey taking Ray to court for copyright infringment back in 1985. Go on huey.