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Honoured as hell to be in this
@theQuietus
books of the year list alongside proper writers, proper musician folk, proper journalists - - Really genuinely chuffed - 🥰. (
@Sleevenotes1
)
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Music distribution is fucked because someone bought it out. Bandcamp is fucked because someone bought it out. Royal Mail. British Rail. The water. The electric. BT. And, with stealth, the NHS. We need to regroup, strategize, build our own world, and keep these motherfuckers out
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Fucking. Nightmare. We are never moving. Need to sort proper shelves out. Need to rethink some life choices
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German band Trigger Cut being refused entry into the UK is a worrying sign of things to come. Baffling reason as well. No point moaning about Brexit. It has to be dealt with by relevant music and arts related bodies. Who are these bodies? Where are they? What are they doing?
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When Corbyn says "the poor are suffering", Johnson's fanboys say "ohhh....'ere we go...." - Classy stuff there from the Tory crew. Standard.
#LeadersDebate
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Simple Minds, Promised You A Miracle. The basis of every funky punky band out of NY 20 years ago. Bet they all lied and said Pil or Gang of Four or The Slits were influences. The godamn main riff in the SM tune is pure gold. Re-evaluate the Minds
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Close down all venues above 500 cap. They sound shit. The atmosphere is shit. They're a rip off. Once a band gets too big for a 500 venue they've won and need to start the game again. Put all the money into small venues, not because they're a career rung but cos they fucking rule
'To focus on music venues as steps to be conquered on the way to a typical career is everything that is wrong with the commodification of art, especially in a time when that route is a slippery illusion'
Grassroots Venues are not Mere Rungs On A Ladder
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City, pen. Chelsea, pen. Liverpool, pen. Utd, pen. Brentford, pen. The big five getting all the luck
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Now playing, Clouddead, Ten. Will follow it up with the 3xLP comp which is arguably more radical sounding. Both are insanely good. A forgotten group (not by me) who were more psych than any psych band and more lyrically out there than 90% of other rap groups. Love these records
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Going to see Mogwai tonight. Not sure I'll get as close as I am here. it's going to be comfy seats instead of standing outside the toilet upstairs at the garage. Used to love watching bands from this spot. Black Eyes, Unwound, Ligament, Chimp, Lords. The best spot to watch bands
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I've written a primer on Fugazi in this months WIRE magazine. It has some Savage Pencil art. The piece LOOKS good. I had to cut out 3000 words. Hope it reads OK.
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Bring back physical tickets. Yes, bottom right is Cud. I love having all my old tickets. I even kept cinema tickets. Such a shame you don't get them now
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For those who have asked - Without doubt and without hesitation this band is in the top five worst bands of all time. Masterful levels of spoilt rotten douchery from these irksome attention seeking spoonbenders
Matt Bellamy of Muse smashed 140 guitars on Muse's 2004 tour, setting a Guinness World Record for the most guitars smashed on tour.
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Top five UK bands ever:
The Fall
and who the hell else?
Longevity, stubborn, bags of tunes, trolley fulls of curmudgeon. Everyone in the music industry desperately wanted 'their' MES story, and most got one. You ask em, they'll tell you.
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it's happening. the liver is good. i know i'm shaking with nerves, christ knows how elisa's feeling. wish her luck.
As of today Elisa is on the liver transplant list. We wait by the phone.
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For all football fans who have lost heir way, getting wrapped up in Prem League aspirations. Getting lost in all seater bore-o-domes. For all who loved football pre-92. This photo proves it still exists. Move away from ruined football, discover yr local team.
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Quick reminder: Brexit is the worst thing to ever happen to the British music industry. Every new hoop we have to jump through (band+label) is weakening. It'll never not make me furious. Every day some fresh hell. Dear politicians and civil servants, sort it out you overpaid divs
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So chuffed to be releasing the 5th Part Chimp album on Wrong Speed. Total monster band. Total monster release. Check the video done by Mike Bourne, it's a masterpiece. Pre-sell goes up tomorrow morning, 8am, Wrong Speed Bandcamp. Learning Curve are doing it for the US.
#PartChimp
The UK's greatest heavy rock band Part Chimp are back with a new album and new video.
We have an interview with Tim Cedar and full details here.
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Two of the top five three piece bands here, who are the other three. Right answers only.
Note: it's another 7" sleeve stamping day, what kitchen tables are for
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33 years ago
In 1990, aged 16, I would have thought 1957 was forever ago. Gotta guess 16 year olds now think 1990 was forever ago but I see them wearing Nirvana t shirts and being as miserable as we were. Less white dog shits is all the progress we've made, seemingly
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Before + after photos of Elisa. It's a year today since the liver transplant - (photo on left was day of the surgery. with dog was a month ago). We think a lot about the donor. Elisa really struggles with that side of all this. It's been a long year that's gone really quickly.
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I could talk for hours about how this makes me feel. We saw every excellent band at the Garage as young uns. This is our 20th anniversary show and I cannot wait. Got loads to announce about this and the rest of the year, but for now: grab ticket
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Yearly 'Discogs check to see if Vision Creation Newsun has been released on vinyl yet' completed.
Result : 👎
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More people need to talk about Half Japanese
More people need to talk about the guitar advice they give
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Crikey
RIP Albini
Not many like him. Influenced pretty much everyone in our world.
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23 year anniversary today, on an island in the ocean. We never had a honeymoon...it took a while. I think I've worn a shirt once in my life, maybe twice. The wedding day was not one of them. Lots of love,
@elisamerch
, you bagged a scruff 😂😭👍💕
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I'm stunned this article has been allowed to get out there, it's accuracy is alarming. Privatisation has, in my 15 years, totally destroyed the company. Everything this article says is true and the folk at the top cream millions. It's shameful.
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Today we worship: A band who had their own label. A band who were entirely on their own. It'd be easy to list the magpies and bandwagon jumpers*, let's celebrate this wild and eccentric majesty. I love the godamn (no the) Cardiacs
* I have no intention of wasting my time
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Does everyone still ridiculously dream of opening the most hallelujah inducing perfectly curated record shop despite every scrap of wisdom pointing to it being an elephant trap of a move? Or is it just me
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ELISA IS HOME.
22 days in hosp.
Got weekly trips to Plymouth (2 hrs away for those watching from America (
@JimOsmer
)), we have to watch for temp rises, temp falls, any pain, etc.
Got 111 on speed dial + 7 different drugs to take each day.
Cheers for all positive comments.
Don't bother telling me Fxxxxi weren't the most important band of our time, don't have time to discuss it. I gotta make the house tidy. Elisa may be coming home tomorrow. Time to make this place infection free -
#BigJob
.
New from 50% of Fxxxxi - - 100%
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This is very marvellous, thank you very much
@spinal_bap
for thinking it was of worth to the
@Bandcamp
site...
@sumlin
and I chat label stuff -
@ReignsOfWessex
@bassclefbass
@HeyColossus
@allstructsalign
@irmavepmate
#partchimp
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Band recorded over the weekend. Got invoice. Paid immediately. Band played gig in April. Not been paid yet. There isn't much money in this ecosystem, it only works if it gets passed around. If you hog the ball you're fucking it for everyone (btw, this is NOT a UK based promoter)
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This quote looks like its me celebrating losing but it's not the case at all. The last few weeks have firmly established to me that there's both the 'music INDUSTRY' and the 'MUSIC industry'. It's subtle, but there's a difference.
"I'm really just proud of being in a band that's gone on for 20 years and never made a penny. The fact that we're here now, and we have this record that we're really happy with, I think it's just a personal pat on the back"
An interview with
@HeyColossus
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Tickets go on sale 11am, Friday. Nothing screams 'plot lost' more than organising this sort of thing. Warning: it's a small room. So, Warning: if you're thinking about coming, think now, decide tonight, plot and scheme to make it happen. Will post ticket link tomorrow.
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Spent today mulling over records that were vital to me at the age I bought them. Maybe I've not listened to them for years but at the time they were everything.
@FaithNoMore
- The Real Thing. Will never forget seeing them in 1990 at The Astoria, London
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International album day is as depressing as it sounds. On the wall in the local record shop, replacing all the new releases: blur, 808 state, Jeff Buckley, James. So bleak. The music industry is drowning not waving. The ideas it has to keep afloat are anchors dragging it down
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So rare to get into a magazine. This is the first time we've ever had a page. Terrorizer gave us a quarter of a page about a decade ago and then gave our album a 3/10. Cheers. Can't think of any other appearances. Consequently, Record Collector is the best magazine ever 🍻🍻
In the forthcoming issue of Record Collector Magazine (Bowie is on the cover) JR Moores is celebrating our total failure - in 20 years of trying - to get over the radar. We're good with that. They'll probably run exactly the same article in 2043.
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Instead of going to bed I'm listening to Cardiacs. Do people still listen to Cardiacs? I feel they are one of this country's great and wild bands and they've been forgotten and never get spoke of. Unless I just hang out with people who don't like them (this is most likely).
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Can't lie, my mind is blown by this. Chuffed to bits though.
"Dances / Curses by Hey Colossus is our number one album of 2020... tell us your top three below."
Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020
@normanrecords
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So proud of being involved in the release of these four records. 100% excellence from start to finish. Got a lot more in the pipeline, these four are the gold standard.
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Gutted. Total diamond. RIP
Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time. We ask Please respect the family privacy
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I don't think any of the 'classic' avant garde rock bands (you know the ones) have come anywhere near to matching the pure 'what-the-hell-is-going-on' energy that this album gives
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This is a massively under rated record, a classic. It just sounds so damn good. Never see people talking about this band or album. The mood is perfect. The instruments get wild when needed. It feels loose. Some days nothing comes close.
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Got all mailorder out now, last big load went today. My dad lugged 'em to the P.O as I was working then picking Stan up from uni. It's been a full on week. Had massive help from Elisa + dad. Big love to all. Read these nice words from
@theQuietus
- cheers!
"You can count the number of bands that kept getting better the longer they go on, on one hand. (And that hand's got a Fugazi tattoo on the wrist, lest we forget.) Add Hey Colossus to the list."
Why Dances/Curses is the essential rock album of Autumn.
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To all professionals in the film, television, theatre, entertainment & arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text & post a pic.
#SaveTheArtsUK
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In the actual town of Glastonbury, not in a village near Shepton Mallet. Next weekend
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If you clapped just now and voted Tory a few months back maybe you're confused. Maybe I'm confused. There's some confusion somewhere.
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You know you've not made it when you're sitting next to Collins in West Bridgford's Oxfam. Cheers to everyone who sends these photos, much appreciated 😭😂 - credit for this one to David Ryley of the Fudge Tunnel parish
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Stan's been putting a ridiculous shift in with student stuff. He's landed a (paid) PhD spot for September, 3 and a half years, in Bath. Mutations in genes, DNA, bio-chemistry. He's so far beyond me with everything he does it's not even funny. He still helps with mailorder though.
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22 years of marriage as of yesterday.
@elisamerch
has put with up with some right old nonsense. Look at us somewhere in Italy back in 2019, look at the hills. We'd played in a peach farmers barn the night before. Big love to Elisa, heres to more years, and more Italian hills 🎉♥️
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10am ------------> 6pm
WE care
"At the minute it’s kind of depressing but at times I do love it. I’ve always liked working outside. There’s something very reassuring about just the mundanity and the regularity of things"
A Postman Chat:
@XeaglepissX
&
@_KevinBoniface_
Art & Royal Mail
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Spoke to
@steamroomlive
and
@blackfaurest
about the new Gastr del Sol comp, 'We Have Dozens Of Titles', that's out TODAY on
@dragcityrecords
- I had a lot of fun, they both kindly gave their time and humoured me. The chat is up on
@theQuietus
today
Ahead of the release of the sublime We Have Dozens Of Titles compilation, Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs speak to
@XeaglepissX
about ten points of entry into their astounding back catalogue
The Strange World Of… Gastr del Sol
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To say, the Wrong Speed weekend was one of thee moments of my time doing music. It was something beautiful. A meeting of splendid folk. A lot travelled a long way from all over to get to Somerset. The bands we hang with are genuinely the best.
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Don't want to be the bearer of bad news to bands but playing live is still the best way to sell records. You can do all the other stuff: make videos, prance around like twats on social media, take hilarious photos. You can do all that but playing live is still the way. Sorry 😔
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holy fucking shit
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I've written a book - - Its part of a new series called Sleevenotes. I cover time spent in the
@HeyColossus
band, songs we've played, places we've been. There's some
@HenryBlacker
in there as well. It's about DIY music. Its a love story. (Photo by
@drmcnt
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Wrong Speed Records - starting a record label. No announcements yet. News soon. Follow blog. Go to FB if that's your bag. Onwards, despite everything.
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@CWUnews
The company is done. We've already got duties that take 6+ hours - if you have the time to complete / willing to work overtime. Constantly feeling like we have to rush. Service is weak, no time to spend with customers to build relationships. Blind leading blind. Nice one 🍻
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This tweet went big. Someone in a position of power needs to do something for bands going UK->EU and EU->UK. And for those asking my standpoint on Brexit is it's the worst thing to ever happen to UK music and the long term effects will rumble for decades
German band Trigger Cut being refused entry into the UK is a worrying sign of things to come. Baffling reason as well. No point moaning about Brexit. It has to be dealt with by relevant music and arts related bodies. Who are these bodies? Where are they? What are they doing?
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21 years. Still waiting to go on honeymoon. Splendid day in Enfield + Palmers Green. Friends. Pizza. Registry Office. Elisa has put up with a lot. Go on tour of Spain+France day after moving house? SURE! Start a record label during a pandemic? SURE! Here's to the next 21🍾♥️
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As much as his music influenced, his takes on the music industry also hit home. Every time a fresh act is being hyped you don't need to scratch too far to find the payola. If you hear a song hourly on the radio, if a band is reviewed everywhere, follow the money cos it ain't real
Here is the final paragraph of a letter to the editor that Steve Albini wrote to the Chicago Reader in 1994. It was directed towards a critic who wrote a year-end recap. King.
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You know it's not about Adele, right? Ed Sheeran, a not dissimilar sized artist, sold 11,644 (on vinyl) during week one (how many were pressed of this?). It's about major labels jumping aboard a ship they leapt off years ago
#boringvinylnerdshit
#backinghorsefitforglue
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T minus nine months till I watch someone put their pint on the merch table. Hopefully.
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We have a 20 year old son as of today. His name is Stan. He likes listening to black and death metal. He's a funny fella. We used to watch Bear In The Big Blue House together, 18 years ago. Here's his birthday cake that Elisa made.
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0.03% of people buying tickets for the Mogwai tour buying them purely cos of 3RA1N1AC. 99.97% of people buying tickets for the Mogwai tour won't know whats about to hit em. Very excellent tour support. Sweet work
@mogwaiband
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The replies are a bin fire, blue ticks with 300 followers, fact ignorers called Phil97485889, etc. All screeching and finger pointing at the temerity of someone wanting to travel freely and play music, all totally missing the point. It's hard to believe it's all real tbh
“Brexit was a travesty and people are waking up to that now.”
Blur frontman Damon Albarn tells
@MinnieStephC4
Brexit has been “a disaster for younger musicians”, saying it's now more expensive for them to tour in Europe.
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This year's been a trial for the whole band. Jobs, Families, housing, hospitals, muggings, the fucking book. We released this record and played loads. We have five dates next week, Weds->Sunday. Hastings,Lille,Paris,Brussels,London. Come along. Be a good time. Then let's all vote
"It’s not to say that the music sounds panicky, but Four Bibles has energy. It has frazzled electric undercurrents…" Amanda Farah on Hey Colossus's latest
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Stan Uni update:
He got a First in his degree, confirmed today. A First in Bio-Chemistry. We're so damn proud of him. He has, luckily for him, got every single bit of his brains from Elisa.
Stan Uni update (I'm a big fan of the "I haven't done anything important" pay off line):
"Today was alright I did my macromolecule lecture on protein ligand binding in the immune system, then I did work in the library. Other than that I haven’t done anything important"
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Got around 10,000 bees in the van today. Honey smell, buzzing noise. Saving the planet one delivery at a time. Yr welcome, terrible humans
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A night and a day. Nine bands. Location clue in image. Book the time off now. Pure radical shit. Info soon
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This is one of the most exciting releases I've ever been involved with. Read thread. Pretend you don't know anything. We announce soon.
Tim Farthing - Dead Centre
First book of the year is an absolute cracker. Tim Farthing of Hey Colossus/Reigns/Henry Blacker has his debut novel - a modern metaphysical horror - coming out on Wrong Speed this Spring.
It concerns Kemp, an unemployed, rough-sleeping… 1/?
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Never gonna not love this. 11 years old. 1985. Home v bournemouth, div three. 3500 attendance. 0-0. Poured with rain. Nothing in it for neutral. God damn I was excited. Never gonna not love where we are now either. Never thought we'd actually be good, that was never the point 😂
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Just turned 16, Louder Than Love - Soundgarden's best album (fight me) - is out and soundtracking the nights working in the pizza place. We take train into central London. Supporting: Silverfish and Swervedriver. God damn these were influential times
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Ten years since last drop of alcohol. As
@JahDuran
said to me the other day, you end up filling your time with other things. Supernormal 2013 gave me my moment of clarity. It sticks out as a time in my life that I needed to take stock.
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Spoke to the
@theQuietus
about work.
@_KevinBoniface_
and I tried to emphasise the community aspect of a job that's been providing community support, by proxy, for over half a millennium.
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Gonna say 1989, aged 15. Gonna say this was taken just after the first ever gig
@theewatfordbob
and I played. The Gable Hall, Prince Edward Street, Berkhamsted. We were six months away from seeing Nirvana.
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Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race. "Mind bending & intense cosmic death metal" apparently - who am I to argue. Totally killer. Maybe even those who don't normally dine on this swine could find something to get stuck into
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New HC record - In Blood - announced today
Get the full info, new vid, chat at
@theQuietus
- big thanks to
@DHALLLLC
for the words and Dave Hand of the Haress parish for the splendid video.
Out on Wrong Speed, September 1st
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There are shops that only put records in their end of year lists if they have them in stock in large numbers. Not Monorail. Monorail is the best shop on this shitty island. Wish I could get to it more. The Web of Lies record is the best guitar record of the year, hands down.
Our final lp of the year is (for me) the "avant rock" record we need. Ft. Glasgow's Irma Vep and is a heady mix of virtuoso No Wave Sonic Youth Guitar + Smoggish balladeering. Wild & true
Web Of Lies' Nude With Demon is an album of the year
@XeaglepissX
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So much morphine. So much codeine. So many laxatives. Like William Burroughs but without the relentless boredom of 70s NY punks trying to cash in on my boring drug schtick
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Destroyed Liege. Best gig ever by any music making entity. Planets United. All wars ended. Baddies became goodies. All religion ended. All guns were destroyed. There was dancing throughout the known universe. Came off stage, this fella slept through it all.
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The forthcoming
@HeyColossus
record is the 50th Wrong Speed release, note the catalogue number. Nerds always note catalogue numbers. WARPLP65 is Broadcast's classic debut, for instance. Record Collector Mag gets the coveted 'first review' prize this time. High fives all round.
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Said before will say again.
@FUCKEDUP
are thee band to look at if you're wondering whether your band is ALLOWED to change up. From two minute hardcore ragers to 80 minute four act double LPs. Ambition is key. No pigeonhole. This is a monster of a release.
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It has to be this today, RIP Gary Young. We saw them six or seven times in their first few years. Wild times. They were a different band with GY on tubs. I drifted away from them after he left, still buying the records but with less excitement. Which matched the band post GY.
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Just in from work, 5 hours overtime cos RM is being crushed by online orders. Shat it down all day. Smashed the wing mirror off the van due to a gate blowing open in the wind as i went past. Seeing a tweet like this is pure🔥🔥 in my ointment. Cheers
@alkapranos
, glad you dig.
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Now playing - The Associates, Sulk
For those who don't know White Car In Germany, I imagine this number is small, you gotta give it a go - - it's a wide screen painting of a tune. 40+ years old. Evocative. Swinging
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Wrong Speed Five In Five, where someone talks for 'five' minutes about five records of their choosing. I'm the guinea pig. We hope they're gonna be weekly. Have a watch, laugh at my face. Buy records.
@tankcrimes
@DrunkenSailor71
@specialistsub
#Cardiacs
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Each to their own of course but there are people out there who don't own this and I'm suspicious they have no idea
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2019, on in-between Black Midi (big, famous, travelled the world, successful) + Amyl + The Sniffers (big, famous, travelled the world, successful). I was in Tesco buying lunch by 1.30pm, home by 2pm. Popped back in after work the next day to watch Low, who were masterful
#Glasto
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Mute the commentary. Drink tea. Listen to Cardiacs. Weep at the excellence. This band move me ridiculously
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