Photo by Manoj Koeri. Live December 08. Great show with Mob Rules and other bands I missed while going for food. Got drunk in the day, deleted some drums by mistake, shortening our epic 9 minute set to a ridiculously brief amount of time. Fuck it, bands play for too long these days anyway.
Recording and new releases will be happening soon. In the meantime checkout Curtis' record label GRRMAN and a collective I've started for shows and creativity here in Birmingham, HEAT AND LIGHT.
Holy Roar Records have put a Doom Patrol song on a compilation being released/licensed in Japan through Fantome. Cool stuff. Also on the cd are Kayo Dot, Rolo Tomassi, Phoenix Bodies, Cutting Pink With Knives, Dananananakroyd, Bloody Panda, Throats, The Network and more. Checkout Holy Roar Alex's blog for more details.
A fine line up organised by Mr. Sam Pillay, singer of Fixed Grins. Fixed Grins is the new music by Sam and other ex-Crimewave people. They're damn good and immediately fill the void left by their previous band. Why aren't more bands starting at this level in Birmingham? Too busy being pathetic pseudo-bohemian poser punks maybe?
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Here's photos from the first show we just played with another project of ours, No Friends.
A wild Saturday night in Birmingham at the Ideal mini ramp (behind Ideal skate store at The Custard Factory) with skaters flying everywhere and still skating while the bands played on the ramp, sometimes even crashing into us! Also live were Gentlemen's Pistols and Stinky Wizzleteat. Both great.
Booze and bodies in a huge chaotic burst of fun. Really cool atmosphere and hopefully the first of many more shows/events there.