Sunday, 4 December 2011
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
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
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.
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Monday, 19 September 2011
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Monday, 22 August 2011
Sunday, 21 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.
Friday, 12 August 2011
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
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
Friday, 5 August 2011
Thursday, 4 August 2011
The Beatles
Sunday, 31 July 2011
MANWOLFS
Be A Manwolf Today from éS Skateboarding on Vimeo.
Monday, 18 July 2011
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
Friday, 15 July 2011
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
Old post.
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.
Saturday, 9 July 2011
BEDROOM MOSHERS
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
Friday, 8 July 2011
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
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
Friday, 1 July 2011
BANGER
This is good right? -
Monday, 27 June 2011
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
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!
Monday, 20 June 2011
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.
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.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
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
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
mental kids. shit song.
(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.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Monday, 16 May 2011
Sunday, 15 May 2011
HIGH AS A KITE
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
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
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
LOVE CRAZY
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 -
Monday, 11 April 2011
EDDY/2 = TC + BG { :) }
Total Control - 1 @ The Tote, Collingwood (13th Jan 2011) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.
INTERESSANT, MATE
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Friday, 8 April 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
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)
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
THE GUY'S A TOTAL GRIP JOB
I mean, you either dig on Grails or you don't but the videos are always sexy
NEW GIP JUBS
x
Monday, 21 February 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
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
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
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Rob=Fun
Angels of Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2010 from Justin Wu on Vimeo.
check out the dude in black, sitting down, at 1.09.
And for you V....High Five!
Boys of Milan & Paris FW2011 from Justin Wu on Vimeo.
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.
Monday, 17 January 2011
PARA
Total Control - Paranoid Video @ Victoria Hotel, Swanston Room, Melbourne (31st July 2010) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.
it's mikey from Eddy Current check it
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
Wilmington Shirt Factory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x7fd3/Arthur_Miller_The_Accidental_Music_Collector/