If there was any confusion clouding your monkey mind as to the respective identities of the two gentlemen in the above photographic, please allow me to set the record straight-* The guy on the left? With the beard? With the bald head? That'd be me- Dave. Pleased to meet you!
* The other guy? Mister right-hand-side? With the Queen t-shirt? Pete. He appears to be known as "The Purpose?" whilst blogging here. His reasons for being "The Purpose?"? Who can say? Who, indeed, can say...
I kind of had to get that out of the way to avoid people jumbling us up in the future. It happens more often than you'd think. It happening at all should be more often than you'd think...
Secondly, I'd kind of like to expand on some of the topicage that Peter "The Purpose?" Porpoise (his rap names are PP?P & Triple P) has been talking about in the previous couple of blogs on here.
Firstly, here's a link to Mike "Not The Guy From The Waterboys" Scott's review of our last ep for Punktastic (where folks are confused & paranoid about what music should be like, & what music should be liked); http://www.punktastic.com/reviews/3113
Check out the bit where you can click on the link to "comment on/review it yourself", or whatever it actually says, at the bottom of the article. It's where I quibble the punx out of a thread.
Here's Mike "Not The Guy From The Waterboys" Scott's Myspace page; http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=126506713
A link to our music is more than he gave us, so i hope the dribbling Jagger impersonator/drunken Hard-Fi wannabe is eternally grateful.
*Words & phrases I'd like to use in reference, also; mockney, Plan B, Billy Bragg, thinks the lyrics to Alkaline Trio songs are profound.
Idiot Idiot Idiot.
Maybe he's alright to talk to in real life, though.
Anyway, as Pete's been saying, we're kind of drawing a line under all that now. We've been a band for nearly two years now, without any kind of target for what we should sound like, what scene/genre we want to be in. I just really enjoy playing the electric guitar within a band, making better sounds; more complex, yet still with enough hook; a "pop" resonance.
We are constantly working out what we are as a band, & as Pete has perhaps implied, we feel the closest to that realisation at the moment.
A key moment in this process was when Jon (our bass boy), Pete, & myself went to A(ll) T(omorrow's) P(arties) last month. Pete's girlfriend Lara went with us too, but, although she is very lovely, she is not officially a member of the band.
To cut what could be a long story short (witch-themed cafes, Captain Clunge, 2p machines, passive intoxication, thwarted marriage predictions, golliwog theories, etc, etc, etc), we realised that much of the line-up for this particular ATP were slightly older, raggedier, fuzzier chaps than you would find at any other festival- genre misfits, not cliched or garishly scowling, uniformly Jagermeister & matt-black E minor to count as mainstream metal. Too gnarly or just damn weird to be punk. Almost "post-rock" in places. Tons of imagination.
There were a couple of generations of these bands, too- kind of all lumped together, because they don't belong anywhere else. Maybe a bit like us? Like our friends?
(If I were reading this, maybe I'd think this was as much scenester mentality as much as Mike "NTGTW" Scott's, but in this slightly surreal situation of my confronting myself over this point, I would answer thus; "some scenes are better than others; generally the scenes which you end up in inadvertently as a result of you doing what you'd be doing anyway- rather than doing stuff to be in a scene. God, but we're miserable, aren't we? Why do we overthink these things so?")
This is pretty much the kind of thing I've wanted to do for yeeeears (heavy... pop... outsiders), & we were already teetering on the brink with some of the stuff we'd been writing (...Bat Queen, Soldier Bear, Mechacabras). So, yeah, we told Gaz about stepping up the drums, which he has responded to MOST admirably, & away we go. We're all pushing ourselves to get every last glimmer of musical energy out of ourselves through our new songs, in the hope of creating a sense of brutal euphoria- like a lovely bear-hug. Like a lovely bear-hug from Ursa Major.
I'm gearing up to do some new artwork for us, too, as we enter what should be a pretty cool new year for us. I do the illustration, Pete does the graphic design work.
Meanwhile, we're racking our brains for lyrics for the new songs- there may even be a concept.
So, we're not gigging for a couple of months; then we'll return with kick-ass tracks with caterpillar tracks. Shortly after that, we'll record them, & stick them onto something you can listen to them on.
Who's for vinyl?
I'm signing off now; if I think of anything else to say, I can say it later...
In a bit!
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