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  • Dinosaurs, Boxes and Riots!

    Hello! I don’t want this to be one of those blogs were the poster just apologises repeatedly for not posting for ages but, erm…sorry…

    Anyway, a fair bit has happened so let me fill you in. First of all a downsized Tiger Mendoza consisting of Dan and I played a couple of gigs last month with a kind of best of Tiger Mendoza type set with me on controls and vocals and and Mr. O’Driscoll on guitar. To be honest we weren’t sure if it was going to work but it seemed to go down really well. The idea was a king of Amon Tobin / Soulwax type set with lots of TM tracks mixed together in to a continuous 30min mix with Dan playing guitar on top. I suppose it was like trying to convince people to mosh to a DJ set. Which they did. Which was nice. Cheers to Oxbox.tv for having us @ Fat Lil’s in Witney and to Fred Toon for letting play the 2nd and last Psychotechnic League night at The Wheatsheaf, Oxford. You can see some footage and an interview we did at Fat Lil’s by going to the video page. And talking of Mr. Toon…

    I’ve been helping Fred and Jo and Tim from Space Heroes of the People (aka The Modernist Disco) put together a compilation of some our favourite Oxfordshire electronic acts which is coming out MONDAY 2ND MAY (with CDs to follow a week later). Here’s the cover:

    We Do Not Have A Dinosaur

    And here’s a list of the acts involved:
    Cez
    Coloureds
    Death Of Hifi
    King Of Beggars
    LeftOuterJoin
    Sikorski
    Space Heroes Of The People
    The Evenings
    The Grudle Bay Riots
    The Keyboard Choir
    The Kinetic Wardrobe
    The Manacles Of Acid
    Tiger Mendoza
    TYSTYNAPYSLU
    We Are Ugly….

    There will be some CDs available too from Rapture Records and Truck Store. All profits from sales of the album will be going to the Red Cross Japanese Tsunami appeal. Go to via http://plmd.bandcamp.com for more info.

    Oh and the Riots? More on that soon…

  • Ghostly Swim

    I realise this is probably pretty old to some people now but a little while back the brilliant [adultswim] posted a free compilation of stuff from the Ghostly International record label, and it’s a really quite brilliant little compilation. And Free! Here’s the player Sorry, the player auto-playing whenever you go to the site annoid me. Here’s the first track instead:

    Michna – Triple chrome dipped

    The whole lot can be downloaded from here.

  • Gnarls Barkley: Going On

    Great song, cool video.

  • Foo Fighters vs Prince

    I was talking to someone last night and and we got on to the subject of whether or not the Foo’s had lost it. Now, I’m a pretty big Foo Fighters fan, but I was being told that after ‘The Color And The Shape’ they kind of lost it. My friend then went on to say that Prince’s Suberbowl 2007 cover of Best Of You was better than the original.

    So I’m mulling this over (with my chipped tooth after hitting myself in the face with a mic and at a gig last night) and I still have to say ……No. The Foo’s are still great. And maybe I do like the MOR acoustic stuff too much but hey, such is life. So here – Dave’s acoustic version of ‘Times Like These’ from One By One:



    See also:

    >> Prince’s version of Best Of You with All Along the Watchtower intro

  • No real reason…

    But it is one of the greatest songs ever. That’s all.

    New Order – True Faith:

  • Eternal Life

    The last post would probably make a lot more sense if you could hear the Jeff Buckley song so here it is:

    Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life (road version) [96kbps, mp3]

    Buy the album