Sunday 4 December 2011

FAM



Solid HH 16ths and also amazing chorus ye?

Sunday 27 November 2011

Totally



hard

When I was 14, my parents went on holiday to Greece. I didn't want to go to Greece, so instead opted to stay with my friends Tim & Nick at their house in Datchet, near Windsor. I slept on Nick's floor on a blow-up bed and every morning their house rabbit 'Rover' woke me up by hopping on the mattress and letting forth a thick stream of rabbit urine. We spent a lot of time skateboarding in Windsor town centre, pretending to be cholo-gangsters doing bb gun drive-by shootings on neighbours windows with t shirts over our faces. We also made a band that lasted for the duration of my stay called 'Abusive'. Keyboard drums, guitar, vocals.

Sample lyrics -

"stupid cat went wandering the streets, he did something brainless, went up to a gang of geeks who put fireworks up his anus"

I feel like Total Abuse is going for something like that.

Monday 24 October 2011

BLENDERS



1953 x-rated doo-wop jams

Tuesday 4 October 2011

THIS IS RILLLY WICKED



check this, so chill. I like how everyone is just engaged in vibing out in the most relaxing way possible. and that amazing tongue-based yelp! oh my.

Thursday 29 September 2011

Monday 19 September 2011

DAILY OP



aren't we all though?

Wednesday 14 September 2011

Tuesday 30 August 2011

Saturday 20 August 2011

Thursday 18 August 2011

LOW FIGH



"These boys concerts feel more like your witnessing a military takeover of a developing nation rather than a rock n roll show!!"
Become a fan on Facebook here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yugoslavian-Boys/132929966723007" FUCK THAT. this song is okay though

Sunday 14 August 2011

Saturday 13 August 2011

Otis



I'd expect more from Spike Jonze but this is a fun vid and I'm pleasantly surprised at the treatment Otis gets, I like this.

Thursday 11 August 2011

XYNTH PUNX



Hard to believe this song was released in '79. When it's in halftime mode, this song also has a 'wonderful groove', just like the POH from my last post. Oh GOD!

Wednesday 10 August 2011

Sunday 7 August 2011

The Ship Song

I have to admit I don't generally like Nick cave's music but this song is incredible, one of my favourites since I got a live version off a free cd from a magazine at least a decade ago.

Gronderful Woove



this song has a wonderful groove. a tasty beat and a wonderful groove. It's a bit like liberation frequency by refused without all the hollow rhetoric and crappy heavy sXe vibes. it's about moustaches and that's always a reliable lyric-base. I wrote 'wonderful groove' just then. I'm so sorry, do you need to talk about it?

Saturday 6 August 2011

Thursday 4 August 2011

The Beatles

It's weird when you hear Beatles song you've never heard before. I'd never heard this before.

Sunday 31 July 2011

MANWOLFS

if anyone saw the film MACHO TAILDROP then you might be digging this Manwolf shiz...

Be A Manwolf Today from éS Skateboarding on Vimeo.

Monday 18 July 2011

AVERAGE SONG SHIT VIDEO



whatrudoingdwyer? dont let me down like this!!"!!!!!1 :(

Saturday 16 July 2011

MARSUPIAL PUNK



So I got this compilation the other day from Katrina Records mate called 'Where Birdmen Flew'. It's a collection of late 70s Australian Punk mate and basically every song is totally killer, mate. This song by X deserves special mention mate because when I was growing up, my mum, mate, from Brisbane mate (big up), would talk about a band called the Coloured Balls who were the big group at that time, mate. They were sort of proto-punk I guess, a bit glam maybe as well mate, and their somewhat demented fans were known as 'sharpies' (like the pens, doyyyy). Anyway mate, I'm only writing all this because Lobby Loyde was the singer of Coloured Balls, mate and he produced X's album 'X-Aspirations'. It's all connected mate. Cheerio!


see the sharpies go at it

Monday 11 July 2011

Old post.

I saw I had this as a draft from ages ago and never published it.
I don't know why.
Why I didn't publish it and why I chose this song in particular.
It's pretty earnest. Like when I was at one of their gigs on the Holloway Rd and a girl burst into the toilets while I was trying to have a wee, ranting about how she didn't believe in binary gender differences. I couldn't go for the wee.

Moving the theme on, here are some of my favourite 'hardcore bands covering 80's indie/pop songs':





Number three was going to be Abjure's cover of Suzanne Vega's Cracking. But I couldn't find it.

Saturday 9 July 2011

BEDROOM MOSHERS

Inspired by the Entombed song from Rob's post... which I remember being a regular in my "songs to put on repeat and mosh to in the bedroom" sessions... Here are a couple of other songs from that period in my life, all of which are metal bands covering punk bands, it took me longer than you'd think to realise that I actually really liked punk rather than metal...

Machine Head covering Poison Idea (bonus track on the 1994 special edition digipak of their debut album. my favourite song on the album)


Pantera covering Poison Idea (the b-side to the 7" of 5 minutes alone released in conjunction with their appearance at Donnington Monsters of Rock the same year - which Robert, Andreas & I went to)


Metallica covering the Misfits (notable for Lars' insanely camp drumming)


This is also in tribute to my friend Tim (also Wes' housemate) who is playing on the mainstage at sonisphere this weekend with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Teen Dreamz.

P.S. wikipedia was not used in conjunction with this post.

Church of noise

I recently started listening again to one of the first cd's I ever had, a formative musical experience containing these fucking incredible songs.

Thursday 7 July 2011

TOP FUNF - WG EDITION



1. Deathprod - Dead People's Things
Still for me one of the most densely atmospheric things I've ever heard. Hearing Deathprod for the first time completely blew my mind, for a while people I lived with would know when I was in a pretty bad way because this track or Cloudchamber would be coming from behind my closed door. It wasn't the sort of thing that I wallowed in though, it was really because it gives you another space to inhabit than the one you are currently in.

2. Fugazi - Rend It
"My love song went wrong". Even when I was 16 and me and everyone else I was friends with (2 people total) were listening exclusively to youth crew, Fugazi was sill this weird thing I was obsessed with and couldn't explain why. When End Hits came out I got given it to review for the zine I was writing because the other guy didn't like 'muso shit' (LOLZ) and I was like 'what the fuck is this music, I need to know what this is right now'. I don't believe they have ever made a bad song. Also, Instrument is probably my favourite music documentary of all time.

3. Godspeed - Monheim
I was living in the US for a few months and generally listening to a lot of speed metal and thrash, wearing sleeveless denim jackets, repelling girls etc. and a friend of mine was talking on the phone and said "hang on I'll ask - Wes, do you want to go to see Godspeed You Black Emperor tonight?" and I shrugged and said why not. It was at a church in the freezing winter in Connecticut. They played on a dias in front of a huge pipe organ, with one small light so they could see and a 16mm projector showing their film footage onto the domed ceiling. We were all sat in pews, leaning back, craning our necks to watch the projections, and it was the most intense experience I have ever had. Completely rewired my brain in terms of musical performance, which to me before was all about on-stage energy and loudness and guitars. I absolutely would not be living the life I have now had I not gone to that gig. They played Monheim (it was on the Skinny Fists tour) and the sound was so immersive that I think I actually got a kind of hypnotized and was in some weird hypnagogic state. That was the first time I became interested in acoustics, resonance, sound dynamics too.

4. Will Oldham - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
Oldham has written so many amazing 'songs for a sad man' that I sometimes forget until, in the middle of a record, I come across this or Another Day Full of Dread or Black or I See A Darkness. This is one of those 'fuck you, world' tracks for me, being a gentleman of a certain disposition. There's so many amazing versions that he's done of this as Palace, Bonnie Prince/Will Oldham, all of them have some other thing going on. That's the thing about Oldham, everything is interpreted from different angles each time it's played live. He was fucking great in Old Joy too. Plus, Jonny Cash covered him, you can't fuck with a motherfucker like that

5. Supersilent - 6.2
Man, those fucking Norwegians. This is the first record that opened me up to improvisation and loose structures, as well as totally opening my mind to how amazing brass instruments can sound when played outside of the traditionally accepted style. Helge Sten (Deathprod) is also in this. Supersilent do not rehearse, they just get together, record a big load of improvisation, and then Rune Grammofon puts it out. Mental. I once decided to test my tolerance for drink when I was living alone in a mansion in a forest, and watched the Supersilent 7 DVD on my laptop, drank 2/3 of a bottle of Jack, and then was sick everywhere. Watching that DVD makes me feel dizzy now, for real, it is amazing. Everyone come over and drink whiskey with me and watch it sometime.

REVENGE



I watched this film, Ms. 45, at work at the box office last week, on headphones. I stole the write-up from the actually excellent Permanent Plastic Helmet.

"Clearly modelled on the likes of I Spit on Your Grave and Death Wish, Ferrara imbues his rather tawdry source material with a distinctly sleazy New York sensibility (the clothes! the streets! the music in the first scene!) – a vein that he would go on to mine in later films – and an almost incongruously stylish sheen which belies its low budget, and adds to the oppressive mood. The closing party sequence, filmed in slow-motion, is exquisitely unsettling and almost unbearably tense.

Ms. 45 is played by the stunning Zoe Lund, who went on to co-write and star in Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, before dying of cocaine-assisted heart failure in Paris in 1999.

‘Enjoy’ is perhaps not the right word, but this is absolutely worth a watch."

Wednesday 6 July 2011

NUDITY



that Neu track is fucking great, I remember I played this Nudity track to Stevie a couple of years ago and he could not believe this track is only 5 years old. Tim Green does a remix of it on the B-side o the 12", which rules.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

TOP FUNF



I think this is probably in my top 10, no 5, songs ever along with these ones off the top of my head really quickly -

1. The intro to Dire Straits 'Money For Nothing'.

When I was about 9 or 10, me and my friend Mark Lewis (now bald working in a canning factory, sorry Mark) used to put this on my dad's hi-fi cassette player, take our shoes off and 'ski-dance' frantically on the top of our expensive gregorian-style Ercol dining room table. The action of rubbing our socked feet on the highly polished mahogony tabletop made for a tingling experience. As soon as it got to Knophler's excellent guitar break signalling the beginning of the song proper, we would jump off the table, stop the tape, rewind it to the start and eagerly begin the whole ritual again from the top. This would go on for hours. Endlessly ski-dancing, endlessly rewinding, endlessly tingling.

2.Neu - Hallogallo.

I think I like this song all the more for finding out the title is a German slang term for 'wild partying'. This song doesnt sound like Wild Partying to me, it's more like a chill sway but all the better for it. Do you understand?

3.The Shamen - Scientas

I guess this was the first music that touched on 'psychedelic' that I ever encountered. As previously written here, I would put this on my walkman whenever it rained and just stare at the rain, breathe in the rain smell, and kind of just zone out. The Shamen used to sound like Spacemen 3 and that is FUCKING COOL ok?

4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - I Can Be A Jerk

A theme tune of sorts. The term 'Sausageman' was coined after a first date with a certain person culminating in me not only losing the first of 5 iphones, but also purchasing a 2 foot long saucisson from an off-licence, taking a bite (through the plastic) and then hurling the remaining 1.78 ft at the windscreen of an oncoming 149. This song is about me doing romantic stuff like that. What a gent

5. tbc

slap bass, slap face



the golden rule

Rob Fordham & Tara Cleary



Apologies to the Grip Jobbers who don't know these two, but I know a few of you do and it's music related so I thought I'd share it.

Long story short: Rob Fordham got in touch with the Flaming Lips to see if he could get on stage with his girlfriend Tara to be in the backing dancers where he planned to propose quietly at the back. When Rob told Wayne Coyne, he thought that Rob should do it in front of the crowd during the encore. So Rob told Tara that for her birthday he'd arranged for them to be on the stage with the Flaming Lips. Then the rest is in the video. You might also recognise some of the faces of their friends in the crowd at the end. They had no idea and the reactions are priceless.

Saturday 2 July 2011

RICHARD HEAD

http://youtu.be/_15ZQL82P4M

computer music.

Friday 1 July 2011

BANGER

I just invited the wonderful Crispi Murphy, Loliver Fisher and Rezmond Tutu to start contributing to this online mego fun time... welcome boyz.

This is good right? -

Monday 27 June 2011

Gee, ain't that SWELL

Saturday 25 June 2011

CIAO LIFE

Euthanasia Coaster from Julijonas Urbonas on Vimeo.


A euthanasia rollercoaster designed with the explicit intention of killing a human being using extreme g-forces.

"the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness and eventually death. "

Friday 24 June 2011

Thursday 23 June 2011

Wednesday 22 June 2011

TRILOGY

masques à la grosse voix / masque petit oiseau / masque mange de l'eau by The Trilogy Tapes
   Sachiko Nishida - Chin Chin Chidori by The Trilogy Tapes




BOBBY KRILIC (the bearer of the HAXAN CLOAK ps great review in this month's The Wire magazine) goes out with my housemate Stina. Yesterday we went for adult's lunch at Red Art on Kingsland Road. We shared a mezze plate and drank espressos like actual real, adult men but before that he showed me this great blog called The Trilogy Tapes. Very interesting things to see, listen to and buy there - like these things. Check the totally weird sound at the start of the first clip, what's going on? It sounds like aboriginal bullhorn or something. It gets totally intense as it continues. Then by way of contrast, some delicate Japanese chamber music. CUTE!

Sunday 19 June 2011

MASTERCLASS



FU were fucking sick when they first started. They absolutely killed it when I saw them play in Cardiff, me and gary morgan went there with Matt PBS who had to have a little sleep on the drive home. I think this was pre-bowling shirt era too, wow.

Friday 17 June 2011

Without Loving Grace



Cannot recommend this enough, all 3 episodes are on youtube, make the time, watch it.

terrible feelings

Impending Doom 7" by Terrible Feelings

STILL GREAT



Yesterday I went to Lis & Claire's Pop-Up shop. Hi Bobby, I saw you there - congrats on the Berlin thing, sounded totally awesome. Do you wanna do the same thing upstairs at my work? I can hook it up. Call me.

Anyway, I was hanging out with Murphy and Simon Panrucker (AMAZING DUDE) and talking about receeding (sp?) hairlines - I have one, but I don't care, it's been the same since I was 16 years old. I don't give a fuck. I've got my dad to thank - he had a photograph on his desk of  himself and my mum on their wedding day in like 1876 BC; they are both totally stoked obviously, but haha, the altitudinous 'line is already plainly visible - he looks like a funky einstein or something. Also he is wearing a sweet tweed suit with flared trousers. Please don't forget to pause for a minute and consider the somewhat orthopaedic shoes he's got on too. I'll scan it and put it up here.

My helmet hairstyle conceals it, my shame (no shame) fairly well, but please know that I'm in the market for a new do. My housemate Sam is going bald rapidly, but he carries it off with aplomb thanks to his charming demeanour and expert gentleman's barbourwork. Sam wears a massive, fake gold chain without a hint of irony and plays in a pub-rock influenced blues-punk band. What a guy, he rules.

I have been experimenting with a side parting, but am yet to find a product that doesnt make me look like I've got a gross, greasy rat's nest on top of my skull. Dax wax is too solid, bryll cream is too oleaginous, wet look gel is too ridiculous to even consider.

Panrucker has a really pronounced hairline - its kind of like the hair is jumping off his head. He is still my favourite freestyle rapper though. Anyway, all this talk about hairlines reminded me of the soft pack, who you will notice have a couple of great receedos and rule pretty hard generally.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

BEEF CHAD



I can't decide if this is terrible or amazing. What do you think? Why?

Monday 13 June 2011

Tuesday 7 June 2011

DEATHGRIPS

Death Grips - Exmilitary by deathgrips

CLIMBING WALL

MANSLORTER



I kind of, sort of, almost remember watching this when it was on TV the first time around, when I was 11 years old. Woah. I used to have a lot of the same posters on my walls anyway and had a tape recording of Donington Monsters Of Rock from the same year from Radio One. haha. Nobody has told Chris his band is totally shit, and if they did he probably wouldnt have cared anyway. Also, he has a terrific otter-style moustache that I still can't grow.

When they do the concert at school its pretty amazing on the level of the infamous 'Gancha' video.

Monday 6 June 2011

Tuesday 31 May 2011

mental kids. shit song.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/24175601?

(sorry i stopped the embedding because it was annoying the fuck out of me playing automatically everytime i came on here. ha)

p.s. the new design makes me feel a bit ill.

TIME HEELS



This is like something moroder would do or something

Wednesday 25 May 2011

MISH FITZ



thanks for the heads up wesley. x

Jean-Michel Basquiat

03 Gray 3 by Nickel B

INFO

Wednesday 18 May 2011

MYSTERY MEET



I have no idea why I like this song so much

Monday 16 May 2011

WAIT



RICH YOU WILL DIG THIS

this reminds me of BS2000, or whatever

I DONT GET IT

A Journey into Discoid Funk



This is the drummer from the Shadows/Cliff Richard apparently. oooh.

Sunday 15 May 2011

HIGH AS A KITE

a lot of people haven't ACTUALLY seen this, they just feel like they did because of cosmic consciousness etc

Tuesday 10 May 2011

UNEXPLAINED STAINS



Where I read about them - HERHEHREHERHERRRE

Monday 9 May 2011

Sunday 8 May 2011

DONT DIE ON ME



I had always heard about this guy but never actually listened to his jams until now. THIS SONG TOTALLY RULES

Wednesday 13 April 2011

SKI FUNDAY



woah, wait, what?

Tuesday 12 April 2011

LOVE CRAZY

I bought this LP on saturday because the cover was so wild.


You can't go wrong with a Zairean mermaid 'naif' reclining next to a miniature waterfall, holding a small axe (or is it a book), manifesting a love-vision in ectoplasm. I just read on the back of the LP that the mermaid is a symbol in Zairean art for the river crocodile who lures sailors to their deaths.

Anyway, this song is on it -

Sunday 10 April 2011

and also

THE FEELING OF LOVE - 'I AM RIGHT, YOU ARE WRONG' from sebnormal on Vimeo.

RADICOOL



I bought this album on a whim because the cover was so fucking weird. This song is prettty coooool, at least for a couple of minutes anyway. Chris Squire is the bassist for YES fyi

Friday 8 April 2011

Wednesday 6 April 2011

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Wednesday 30 March 2011

Tuesday 29 March 2011

Thursday 24 March 2011

JERKY MAN



BEN WEASEL I BELIEVED IN YOU UNTIL NOW

Sunday 20 March 2011

Death Metal Friday



Sheesh - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFIzWjT5I4

Wednesday 9 March 2011

ZAMROCK APPARENTLY





I HATE WRITING ESSAYS MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF FCKKKKKKKKKXXXXXXXX

Friday 4 March 2011

Sunday 27 February 2011

WHERE EAGULLS DARE



saw these guys last night... they were really good (despite the singer being a bit of a tool)

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Strange Fruit

Once upon a time...



...I could not get enough of this.

THE GUY'S A TOTAL GRIP JOB



I mean, you either dig on Grails or you don't but the videos are always sexy

Moon Duo Duo



This Moon Duo song never fails to rock my world.

NEW GIP JUBS

hi, I just invited two new dickheads to the wild web party we have going on here. Expect some misery / science / high-end funk any day soon.

x

Monday 21 February 2011

Friday 18 February 2011

YONKERS

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Booze

Shapeshifter


Like the song. Not so sure about the vid.

HYPE



dave is still kool



OFWGKTA

Tuesday 8 February 2011

Friday 4 February 2011

PAR



hahaaaa the first minute and a half

VIA OLIVER FISHER PRICE

Thursday 3 February 2011

Wednesday 2 February 2011

NON-VIOLENT TAEKWONDO TROOPERS



This is a documentary about "song-poems". It's well good -->

ANGELERIA! SHOW ME YOUR SELF COME AND LIVE THE SPIRIT OF JESUS CHRIST THANK JEHOVAH FOR KUNG FU BICYCLES AND PRISCILLA PRESLEY

I wrote one once too;

"oh pork soda
just like delicious bacon
with a hint of peach"

it's more of a haiku but you get the idea......

Monday 31 January 2011

I < 3 I.M.



so can we do a zine of all the tags?

so there!

Sunday 30 January 2011

SOUND ART M8



christian marclay = big dog



the weird woman who introduces this is directly out of a david lynch film

SOUND ART M8



christian marclay = big dog

Friday 28 January 2011

TRILLION PIECES



watch it til the end, yiiiikes

Thursday 27 January 2011

Tuesday 25 January 2011

PAT CUNT



Tom Ellis ‎"The wait is finally over. modern youtube only 'release' of "store locator" by Tesco SS - featuring members of Hygiene, Shitty Limits and The Rollercoaster Project. Chrissie Heinz-Beans vocals, Pat Cunt guitar, Dickie Tummie bass, Tim Limits drums. I'm Pat Cunt btw, best name imo"
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Monday 24 January 2011

Sunday 23 January 2011

Wednesday 19 January 2011

NEU PANDA BEAR AND S K EIGHT BOARDINGGG

ATIBA EVANS Panasonic GH2 Skate from skatefairy on Vimeo.

Atiba Jefferson and Ty Evans test the Lumix GH2 DSLR camera for Panasonic. Originally shot 1080i for Panasonic CES 2011 show. Nostalgic film mode with no color grading to show image straight out of the camera. This version de-interlaced and compressed for the web.

Lumix G Vario HD 14-140mm/F4.0-5.8
Lumix G Pancake 20mm/F1.7
Lumix G Fisheye 8mm/F3.5
Lumix G Vario 7-14mm/F4.0
Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm/2.8

Official Panasonic Lumix GH2 site:

http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/systemcamera/professional_movie/index.html


EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Masaaki Shibuya

PRODUCER
Setsuko Walsh

DIRECTED BY
Atiba Jefferson
Ty Evans

FILMED BY
Ty Evans
Atiba Jefferson
Frankie Martinez
Griffin Collins
Mike Manzoori

EDITED BY
Ty Evans

Original Music
Noah Lennox
"Atiba Song"
Panda Bear
Noah Lennox
www.myspace.com/pandabear
Paw Tracks Records 2010

Thanks to everyone that made this possible!

www.atibaphoto.com
www.skatefairy.com
www.panasonic.com
www.camcaddie.com

Tuesday 18 January 2011

GERADUS t' HOOFT


If anyone hasn't yet, check out the new episode of HORIZON. It's insane, my mind dissolved and came out of my ears, nose, and eyes.

Also, this guy Scanner is giving a talk at my school tomorrow. He's looking really cool in his fleece.

Scanner: South Bank Show (1997) from Scanner on Vimeo.

explosions in the blues

Sit Unravel Stare Accept

My Fairy King

Sunday 16 January 2011

Sunday 9 January 2011

Monday 3 January 2011

Wilmington Shirt Factory

this is a really interesting twenty five minutes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x7fd3/Arthur_Miller_The_Accidental_Music_Collector/

SHOWING OFF



OR

I did, and it is.