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| aaaah - Switzerland in the autumn.....the radio station couleur3 invited us down to christen their new studio - so we christened it....baptised it in Fink....such a great crew of peeps - had a lovely time - afterwards in the hotel bar we were chilling, drinking beers and smoking indoors - just like the old days - the smoking bit i mean - the drinking beers thing is a kinda daily occurence right now whether i like it or not - y'know, sometimes you just can't avoid it...apart from that, i ducked out for a little beach time for a week which was ace, read some books, listened to a lot of albums i hadn't got round to (new Kings album is a bit dissapointing - maybe it will grow on me) and generally got a tiny bit less pasty - however - now back working on the studio tan big time as we put the new set together - loving it..... a few months ago we did a remix for the legendary Verve Records in the USA - a remix of Nina Simone's classic "Chilly Winds" - there were no parts for it, so we just had to grab what we could from the original - but then we went kinda all disco, even, as skev the a&r from ninja pointed out, Balearic Disco (be afraid) - but yeah - it's out on Verve now on their new Remix album - i'll post it on the space later on today.... and yeah - if you're in Krakow on thursday - come and say hi - we're playing the "Off Camera" film festival there thanks to our lovely friend Anna - which will be great this week we played all 17 minutes of Justice's Dior soundtrack on the radio show - hit the button on the myspace to check it.....! right - i'v been doing interviews all morning - just finished - so i'm gonna watch The Daily Show and chill for a second.... fin |
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| got back from the electric picnic damp, my nice trainers destroyed, with a pocket full of euro's and some blurry memories of irish cider, the orb live, sharing a stage with laura Marlin, Yoav, and a fantastic but harrassed Martina Topley Bird, whose set was stopped half way through (for security reasons....bizarre) - she was amazing actually - really loved it - the Body and Soul stage is like sunk into a natural amphitheatre of grass, and made of wood, so it's kinda lord of the rings meets glastonbury, all the hippies were very nice, and it freaked me out hearing the name Fin getting shouted all the time (according to one drunk new friend, at least half the crowd were probably called Fin) and i was grateful of an upgrade from a yurt (which was being used to give the staff free massages all day) to a caravan, admittedly with no power, and a happy hardcore tent literally shaking the earth about 40 feet away, but hey - it was raining VERY hard by this stage, and i ended up wearing, and sleeping in, every item of clothing i had packed - i had virtually hitched onto the site by catching a lift with Foals on their bus, and i virtually hitched out again, as hippies don't do mornings, with Rory and his glorious Audi....aaaaah - happy days.... we got some great gigs coming up in October - a few dates in South Africa, aaaaah !!- amazing - Distance And Time has just come out down there.... (like duo gigs - just Me and Guy), finally, after our Haldern festival gig, some decent gigs in Germany, i'm gonna do like a solo showcase in Hamburg, then do some sennheiser sponsored thing in Berlin - it's a pretty big place....- and apologies to the Germans for not coming sooner.....can't wait to see my Berlin mates again - i'm gonna hang after for a few days and live the dream....- it's been a while since i used to dj there and hang out.....damn them with their cheap rents and achingly hip t-shirts !! - talking of achingly hip - these new trainers i got are SICK - Hederuss K-swiss - all like modern art in trainer form....mmmmm....angular....... alright - after a week of a full house and studio i'm gonna chill.... and don't frget the Future Rock N Roll Show - our figures are great - really chuffed - and we're coming up to our 100th show for Juice Fm, and we still suck !!!! - amazing really, but the music's good !......there's a link on the myspace (it't got a big eagle on it - eagles are cool right? - i guess it should be a pigeon or something urban) or if you're not in Brighton, www.totallyradio has the archive.... |
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| August - just like that one day in august the boys literally travelled through 5 countries in one day....Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France (where i ducked out of the convoy to chill for a few days) then the UK....No Roman Ruins this month, nice festie in Germany - where we got to hang out with labelmates The Heavy around a big backstage campfire. Actually - that was a pretty genius festival - the sound guy from my gig in Portland, Oregon earlier this year was radnomly there with another band - which was cool, but each band had their own Caravan, like a real old school caravan, to hang out in.....with a bar in the middle....genius really....it reminded me of one of my happiest childhood memories...when my friend Ben's Dad gave us a hammer and screwdriver - and told us to send the day smashing up his caravan as he needed the chassis...happy days.... oh yeah - two weeks ago our friend Stef said - "Hey man, i'm making a movie - and i'v got to smash this car up - wanna, like, be in the car while we do it or a video or something" - i said yeah, actually thought about it for a second, then tried to get out of it - but he'd already hired the Rave Grinders (you know those people who like grind on pads attached to them then shoot the sparks)....and besides....Guy was down recording basslines....what's the worst that could happen - oh yeah - and at the end of me being in the car while all the windos are smashed by ten people with assorted weaponry, they set it on fire with a molotov cocktail.....i asked Stef - the car is empty of petrol yeah? and he was like - yeah man totally, and then the DP got in it, started t up and parked it into place......safety first !.....just a normal saturday night in Brighton.....We Lived.....We also had a lovely day at Beachdown Festival in Brighton last weekend - everyone came down and had fun despite the grey skies.....nice vibe...last festie of the season is tomorrow with Electric Picnic i Ireland, where Andy and his hippy hordes are making me stay in a Yurt...really though....a yurt..... August is weird......looking forward bigtime to september and acres of studio time.... Fin |
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Little Blue Mailbox Released: 05.11.2007 Available on: 7" (ZEN7199) - BUY Digital (ZENDLS199) - BUY |
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