“What Pete’s been up to is anyone’s guess, but I’m sure it involved photographing his cat, programming drum beats, or both,” sayeth the Tom! And it’s mostly true. In fact, I was photographed programming drum beats with one of my cats. She was actually not much help, but made up for it by being unspeakably cute.
With the end fast approaching, we have to prepare for the firey inevitable. That means building a bunker, storing supplies and stockpiling weapons. It also means drawing up a list of those who’ll be allowed into the bunker. After all, we’ll have limited resources, we’ll only have room for those who can genuinely contribute to the post-apocalyptic landscape. When it comes to the bunker, the question we will need to ask about every single human being is ‘Inside or Outside?’ There are some individuals we won’t have to consider for long. Ash, from the Evil Dead films is a no-brainer. Any man willing to chain-saw off his own hand in the battle against evil will be a valuable asset when the mutants attack. Sarah Palin won’t be coming in. But what about the less famous, the every day people we meet? How do we make the decision? The only fair way is to assess everybody individually, on a case-by-case basis. So that’s what Pete and I will do. We will look at the merits of everybody we meet and make a decision.First up is David Novan, a singer-songwriter we met at our last gig. Pros:
Cons
Conclusion: See? See how easy this is. Who would you put in the bunker?
Hello you! I know, I know, we’ve been bad at writing blog posts. In our defence, this is because I have started Nanowrimo. Up to 13,000 words already, so I think I’ll make it. What Pete’s been up to is anyone’s guess, but I’m sure it involved photographing his cat, programming drum beats, or both. I’ve also been interviewing people for my songwriting blog. If you write songs, you might find that interesting. More importantly We’ve a new gig booked: Saturday November 22nd And also Our next single will be the first ’studio’ version of ‘Stand and Clap,’ a song about idiocy, religion and dogma. It includes reference to the Madonnary version of Kabbalah, which used to sell anti-cancer water. No really, they did. Of course, choosing one crazy religion isn’t fair, and so the song also references other absurd cults that we should have left behind at least two centuries ago. The end of the world, when it comes, will be welcomed by some of these subhuman creatures. Here’s a live version: Download Stand and Clap - Live
When society is broken and technology cannot be trusted, will witchcraft, voodoo and faith protect your children? Probably not, but in the post-apocalyptic landscape some of us will be living in after the end-time-event, magic and other kinds of wishful thinking are likely to be common place. So we’ve written a song about it! Download Sugar and Dust We’ve got three b-sides this time round as we. The West Wind is a brand new ’studio’ track, and Measure of a Man and One More Time Around are live tracks from our recent London gig. You can hear the b-sides if you join the mailinglist and get the password for the Fan’s Area Talking of London Gigs, we’re at Phibbers in North London on Saturday November 22nd for all of you who live in that part of the world. Hope to see you then! ps. If you like the song please leave comments! Another musical doodle. This is me trying to sound like King Crimson circa The ConstruKction of Light. Download Points of Light. I haven’t done much instrumental composition in the last couple of years. This week I decided to change that, so here’s a work in progress called Splinters. It isn’t perfect - I don’t think the percussion in the middle section is necessary and the final section is too similar to the opening and could do with something to increase pace and tension, but I think it has promise. What is it for? Nothing, I just like it. Download Splinters Forgot to list this in the first post about our new live videos -
Joe has finished the robot sculpture for the Measure of a Man video. Isn’t it fantastic? |
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