Gay against Croc

Croc will be awesome tonight



apparently the croc guy were walking about wearing signs and crowns advertising this

Glitch Mob Street warfare

The Glitch Mob attack san francisco.



Looking forward to seeing them at Baller$ social club in glasgow in November. I'm not sure of the date or venue but I'll post them when I know.

Hello-ween

My friends Jinty(gatr)and Oliver(unicorn kid)are playing a special halloween show at the Cathouse in Glasgow tonight. It'll be about £5 and starts at 7.

I'd post the flyer that the firestorm events guys made but I really don't like the look of it.

It's all baby blue and covered in really bad fonts. Anyway everybody should come along and get all dressed up.

Have a nice halloween.

Batmanga

Awesome Japanese batman comics that have been lost since 1996







"In 1966, manga prodigy Jiro Kuwata was commissioned to do a regular Japanese manga version of Bob Kane's Batman comics, to tie in with the Japanese launch of the Batman TV show. Kuwata quickly decided that Kane's scripts wouldn't play to a Japanese audience, so he remade the Dark Knight for the expectations of a mid-sixties, manga-familiarized audience. The result was stunning: a weird blend of genius suspense and gonzo weirdness, as villains turn into dinosaurs, commit strange crimes, rise from the dead, and rampage through a mangified Gotham City that has the streamlined wonderfulness of space-age Japanese pop culture."

The best of Portland

Recently XLR8R TV have been doing a series of videos on the happenings in Portland, Oregon. This includes all the rad bands, illustrators, things to do etc. As usual XLR8R have done well, choosing the right people to interview and asking the right questions.

I especially liked the episode on E*rock. That's probably because I love everything he's ever been involved with. All his music, illustration, animations and Audio Dreggs.



You can watch all the Portland stuff on the XLR8R youtube page.

To round up the portland series XLR8R asked awesome Portland dude Copy to make a mixtape featuring the best of Portland.

It's the amazing. Here's the tracklist.

86 'Til Infinity PDXLR8R

01 Nu Shooz "Point of No Return" (Atlantic)
02 Glass Candy "Etheric Device" (Italians Do It Better)
03 Strength "Wilderness" (Community Disco)
04 Arohan "Darkunderground” (Previously Unreleased)
05 Hedford Vachal "Toys" (Tirk)
06 Atole "Satyricow (Copy Remix)" (Previously Unreleased)
07 Yacht "Summer Song" (DFA)
08 The Blow "The Love That I Crave (Strategy Strata Mix)" (Holocene)
09 Solenoid "Runway Relocator" (Failing)
10 Copy "Breakfast" (Previously Unreleased)
11 Panther "Violence, Diamonds (E*rock Remix)" (Kill Rock Stars)
12 Dat'r "Innercom/Innercalm" (Hush)
13 Starfucker "Holly" (Badman)

You can listen and read more about it Here. Unfortunatly I've not found a place to actually download it yet.

Another face shred'r picture

This was made by Steven Hill and it's awesome

If anybody needs posters, t shirt designs or anything like that done, you should get in touch with him.

Props

Coming soon

Sick Indoor Park

I went out a drive with my friend Billy today and we came across this sick little in dorr park in the middle of knowhere. Well it's in a little gym hall somewhere in Blantyre. It's run by the people that do the Radworks summer skate lessons. It was full of rad little kids asking loads of questions and only cost a pound to get in. I've skated quite a few DIY gym hall style parks before and there usually slidy and far too cramped. The layout of this park was pretty good and you can move the ramps about as you pleased. The ground was definetly coated with something that made it not as slidy as other gym halls. It's in a place called Calderhouse in Blantyre. If you live with in a few miles drive you should check it out. It's pretty hard to try find on a bus too. And maybe then not worth it. The only other indoor park near me is Unit 23 in Dumbarton. It's over priced and always too cold. As fa as I know it's open Saturday and Sunday From 10am - 5pm.



It's not worth invting all your friends there though as it might get a little cramped.

Berlin

I'm going to be in Berlin at the start of December with my Mum for a few days. I plan on seeing ratatat and drumcorpse. I thing Gtuck might have a show around the time I'm there. If you know of anything good to do in Berlin please tell me. I'm constantly on the Momus blog, he's always talking about rad stuff happening in Berlin. The flights havn't been booked yet and I've still not got a passport. Really need to start preparing for it. I'm really phsyced about seeing ratatat though.

Been slacking with posts

Not been well for the past few days. The cold and horrible weather is taking it's toll on me. Me and Jinty have made a start on the face shred'r zine. The first issue is on empolyment and unemployment. It's going to be reversable. Jinty is doing the drawings, I'm going to be doing the words and we're both doing the brains. We're hoping to have at least 50 copies printed by mid november. I've already done a few articles and Jinty's drawings look super rad. It'll be free. We're going to try leave them about places in Glasgow. Like Recoat Gallery, Mono, Stereo, the Flying Duck and some other good places. Basically anywhere people will let us leave them.

As far as I know the club night me and stevie(rug cutting)are putting on is still happening around February. It's going to be called Mumble Club I think. We're looking for a venue before February though. So if you know of anywhere let us know.

The Very Best

I found out about a new musical collaboration today between dance duo radioclit and an east african singer called Esau Mwamwaya. This East African man called Esau Mwamwaya moved to London in 1999 and ran a second hand shop in East London up until recently. The story goes that Radioclit have a studio on the same street and went in to buy a bike. They thought Esau was rad so invited him to a flat-warming party. They realised that he had an amazing voice and decided to work together.

Just now there working on a full length album but they put out a free mixtape/bootleg album. Esau sings over remixed tracks by m.i.a. and that theme from True Romance. It has such a nice feeling to this album. I've been listeing to it all day. It sort of reminds me of "Graceland" by Paul Simon.

You can download it Here

It's definetly worth a listen. They've titled this collaboration The Very Best. And it's probably the very best free album I've ever got legally. It feels so much better when the albums free and you don't have to illegally download it.

Face Shred'r Zine

keep checking back

The Political compass test

I took the Political compass test.

Here are my results:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44



This makes me solidly left-libertarian.

Some results from historical figures

Favourite mixtape

I've been listening to this mix by Acid Boy Chair so much. The mix was for RBDX and it's awesome

It's called Broken Needle and you can download it Here.



I don't know the tracklisting. I wish someone would give me it.

Front Row

Yesterday I went and checked out The Front Row exhibition at Recoat Gallery.

High Fashion and Illustration come together in an exhibition featuring new work from eight illustrators and new fashion designs inspired by the classic couture looks.

Each artist has created work inspired by the designs of seven internationally renowned fashion houses – Chanel, Balenciaga, Lanvin, Zac Posen, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior.

The artists participating are:

Bernie Reid
David Bray
Amy Whiten
Caroline Mooney
Micca Okada
Katy Smail
Mhairi McMullan
Rebecca Eskilsson
Claire Hamilton
JERFO



I might buy this piece


I ended up coming away with so many zines and other freebies.

Everyone should go down and check it out. They were selling awesome t shirt in recoat too. It's only a five minute walk from Kelvinbridge subway

Withnail and I

I spent today watching rad films. The first and best film I watched all day was called Withnail and I. It's a a brittish film made in 1986 directed by Bruce Robinson. The dialouge in this film was so perfect.

Here's one of my favourite scenes from the movie.

Girl Germs

Another post today just to ask if anyone has any issues of Girl Germs zine can I please borrow or buy some issues. I can't get any about the net. I've been told their really awesome. I wouldn't doubt it aswell, it's written by two members of the bands bratmobile.

mixtape appologies

sorry that the mixtape I promised yesterday has taken so long. I have the tracklisting and started recording it. I just don't seem to have an hour free in the day to do it. I've switched computers just now so I can't even do it with this free time I have just now. The tracks on it are some of my favourites just now. Artists like digiki, Kyoka, The slits, Doddododo and Bruno and Michel are smiling + skipper are alll on there. Plus loads more. It's going to last about an hour and five minutes. The exact time it takes me to travel from my house to college.

I'll get it up as soon as possible.

Cocaine Insane

really interesting
found while just browsing, not sure who made it and what it was made for. I really didn't no much about any of this.

Playing Handlebars

Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

Ace

October week

I have the week off and nothing to do. I need to try budget my money and only spend money on the essentials. So far I've oly been out once this week. I'm not quite sure if anything is happening, this week is going to end up being a total waste. We're going to head and see yoko oh no play tomorrow at the 13th note and then go see Bean Butler play at Stereo on Saturday. If theres anything else happening in glasgow let me know.

After having my Ipod stolen on the bus I'm back to using my Mums old portable CD player. I'm going to make a mix CD for the bus too college and back so I don't have to carry a load of CD's. I've made a tracklisting but I don't have all the songs on this computer. I'll make it tomorrow and put it up for download, so check back later

Daily Fail

If your like me and like to see news papers and the media fuck up when photo editing check this blog out.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/search?q=daily+mail

I like how the daily mail take the ones off their website down and delete the article as soon as they notice their mistakes.

Hyperland

Awesome, first time seeing this today. Thought I'd share it.

"Interesting early insight into the world of the internet." By Douglas Adams

House of Muscle

Ridiculous, but amazing video from Holy Wow



I can't get enough of his animations(it's lachlan from gay against you). I've always been a fan of his drawings but just recently he's been getting into animations too.

If you like this you might also like Paper Rad Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Best live bands are from Glasgow

Most of my favourite band to watch Live have came from Glasgow. Well at least those band seem to be the ones that stick in my head. For example I'll never get tired of watching Gay vs You rolling about the ground in ridiculous home made costumes playing noisy pop. I think it's because they always involve the crowd in their performances. At a one show I actually sang most of a song as Joe and Lachlan rolled about the ground screaming. I know alot of people that have said they actually prefer the live show to their records.

Here's a video of the guys in action.



We went to see Weeliz play in the Halt Bar on Friday night for free and I think they might have topped gay vs you in the live show league. I don't really want to try describe their sound, you should just click the weenliz link above to hear them. For starters their drummer was wearing a black mask that he couldn't see out of and sparkly sequin dress. I think he was also chained up. The bassist was wearing a dress and was pounding some toy drill sort of thing when he wasn't playing his guitar. Kenny the guitarist was thrashing at his guitar strings with a butchers knife and drilling holes in it. He even let people in the crowd have a shot of the drill. The girl in the band was wearing a lovely dress and screaming down the microphone like I've never heard before. William, played about with a sampler and rolled about the groud chanting and knocking over pints. Every one in the crowd piled on top of him a number of times. I got covered in beer and kicked in the face. He was flying all over the place literally. At one point I seen him in the corner of my eye fly by me and nearly knock over a table full of drinks. All through the show there was a strobe light flashing like mad that could easily have given someone a fit. At the end of the show someone thought they were Kurt Covain and smashed Kennys guitar into pieces.

I came out just thinking wow that was amazing and I didn't even have to spend any money. I can't even find any videos of them anywhere on the net.

Props to Tayside Mental Helath too. They played before Weenliz and put on an awesome show.

The next Weenliz show is on October 14th at the Ivy bar. Everyone should come along it's a Cry parrot night and it's only 4 quid.

Banksy's Village Pet Shop and Grill

This is pretty much a re-post from wooster but if you haven't seen or heard already Banksy has a new gallery type thing in New York disguised as a sort of Pet shop.













This is pretty different to what he's ever done before. I had no clue it was Banksy until I read it on wooster collective. No graffiti style painting and not even any signature Banksy rats. After seeing alot of new banksy murals and works since he's been in New York i've noticed a definite change in style. Makes me wonder if it is actually Banksy that's responsible for alot of these

Husbands and Wife duos

After the excellent Daedelus show on Sunday we met up with him after and walked him up to his hotel. We had an excellent chat. He told us about his Wife and how she was a talented musician herself. Apparently it's her voice that appears all over the new Flying Lotus record. Anyway daedelus and his wife Laura have a project called The Long Lost. They've got their first single out soon and a US tour in the pipeline.

This got me thinking about another Husband and Wife duo. Lullatone. If you didn't know Lullatone are a duo from Nagoya Japan who make sweet, cute pop songs. They use lots of kids instruments and record alot of the noises you hear around their house.




Ouchi Orchestra Exhibition at Amagasaka from lullatone on Vimeo.

Lullatone do music for Japanese TV shows, art exhibitions and jingles for the radio. I think I'll buy the new album they have out when I can afford to start spending instead of constant saving.

I wonder how stressful their homelife is.

"Oh honey you do this dishes, I want to record the sound of the tap running"

Some news

A few new things have came up recently. I think 'm going to be organising a Wednesday night club night in the flying duck. I'll be doing this with my mate Jinty. It might be called Hairy Bones but I'm not sure yet. I think it'll be mainly a breakcore and experimental electronic night. I hope this works out as we've been wanting to do it for a while. Two days after being offered a slot in the duck, Stevie who puts on the Rug Cutting nights asked me if I wanted to do a night with him. I couldn't resit. As far as I know we're going to be doing a regular night at the start of the month from february. Stevie emailed 13th note today to block book our slot. Even though it seems like a long way away it'll give us time to promote it loads and to figure out who we're putting on.

Anyway stay tuned for details.

Daedelus

I think tonight we're going to see a dude called Daedelus. I just learned about his music today, he's pretty awesome and seems like a nice guy. Here's a video of him on xlr8r.



His live sets look amazing too.



I think if you have not much on tonight use should all come to captains rest for this, it's probably only about £6

Breakcore

If you've ever met me in real life then you would have most probably met my mate Jinty. Even if you've only met him once you'll probably find out that he loves breakcore music. This usually comes about when people ask the question "what music do you like". As alot of people don't know what breakcore is, he usually has to explain the whole genre to them and explain what the amen break is. He was the one that introduced me to the genre and told me about this short film called "Notes on Breakcore". This film will give alot of people a better understanding of breakcore and an introduction to alot of the big artists in the scene. I just got round to watching this today and it's such a rad video.







You should check out Jinty's breakcore project Gatr too.

Check this lightshow

Such a busy day today, no time for interneting or social networking, but if you know who done that lightshow thing I posted above get back to me.

Awesome American Hardcore

This is a documentary film about american hardcore punk by Steve Blush. I know before this film he had a book out called American Hardcore: A tribal History but apart from that i never really knew anything about Steve Blush.

American Hardcore: part 1



Here's links to the rest

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twEFP9dlQM
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fjBwdP3Fw
part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DD4Td0W7w
part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8WmE9C_14
part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7qc06iF7o
part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-AlIWG9Tc
part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HejGJXlZJg
part 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSl_UsvGm_o
part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0E6oOlt_8

I really have a thing for reading and watching things about american hardcore punk now, so if you know of anything good realting to this tell me about it. There's some scary dudes in this film and good quotes.

No More spending

If you read the calender post that I did a few days ago you'd realise that I've got quite alot on in the coming months. Most of the things I plan to do will cost alot of money, so therefor I can't really afford to be buying things like records, T shirts, cinema tickets, nice meals out and prints for my room. I just can't seem to stop myself though. I've been spending far too much money. Today though I'm glad I spent money on an EP titled "Red State" by Gowns.



It's members of Amps for Christ and Mae Shi doing this beautiful, smart, noise thing, fused with pop to create something that I think on their own both bands couldn't achieve.

This is the tracklisting:

1. Fargo
2. Rope
3. Fake July
4. White Like Heaven
5. When It Burned
6. Subside
7. Clawless
8. Mercy Springs
9. Advice
10. Cherylee





This is what the band have to say about themselves.

Erika (ex Amps for Christ): I think the music we play is psychedelic in an over-the-counter type of way. Realistic. Fucked-up prosaic. Not the perfect LSD trip but maybe like ODing on sleeping pills or huffing gasoline out of a paper bag. Cool visuals but also puking on the sidewalk. And real emotive.

Ezra(ex Mae Shi): We are not hyperactive. We are confused. We are rarely clever. We are not loud all the time. We are not all boys. We are upset about certain things and we want to talk about it.

Well that's the last luxury purchase for a while. I need so much though, if anyone wants to do a swap for some stuff I'd be up for that. I need a good winter coat, some rad prints for my room and a new bag.