Happy 2009

Saw this and thought of you....

Tron

here's some tron based shenanigans...

Tron
by freres-hueon

The Strokes - 12:51
by Flouzoom

Super Nashwan

This is a new shot of Super Nashwan as people have been getting tired of us sending photos of our pets/friends/favourite footballers when they asked for a picture... Our mate Ali managed to blag his way into Bestival last year as it was his picture not mine on the programme. Thanks for the shades Tommy. I'm gonna thief them from you someday.

All that's Left - mixtape 4

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1) Ratatat - Wild Cat. Definitely one of the best things we saw at the Secret Garden Party this year. Album is great too.

2) The Stone Roses - The Hardest Thing in the world. Reminds me of first kisses and motorbikes in the highlands. The Stone Roses were part of my childhood and I'll always love em for it.

3) Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica. Top Brian Wilson-esque vibes from Noah Lennox. He also plays in the excellent Animal Collective who we share an agent with. So when you read this Mark if you could hook us a support slot that would make my day...

4) Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow. Like the tune. Like the band name.

5) The Flaming Lips -Buggin'. I'm so glad the flaming lips exist. They always make me smile. This summer I discovered soft bulletin for the first time from Paul our bass player and it instantly became one of my favourite albums. The more I find out about this band the more I love them. Every spoonful ways a tonne.

6) Hudson Mohawk - Zoooom. Glitsch. Skweee. Whatever you want to call it. Mohawk Rules it.

7) Black Lips - Veni Vidi Vici. Young Guns from the Vice Label. But that's no reason to hate them. they're far from being a fashion band and when I saw them live last year they rocked the house.

8) LCD Soundsystem _ Momentum. I've been rinsing Mr.Murphy again this week. I know I put some Lcd in a mixtape before. But I'm still loving them this week too! Hopefully you are as well.

9) The Beach Boys - Surf's Up. This is my favourite Beach Boy's song. Heard it first after decking a bottle of £3 wine with Gwilym from the Golden Silvers. Top memory. Top tune. Glad you made it to the other side Gwil.

10) EL-P - Deep Space 9mm. My mate Raj used to mash this track at his club Traveller in Newcastle. Was there with DJ Krush listening to it and was spun out. Krush urned to me and siad "I'm so pleased to meet you". Was genuinely touched til I found out that those were the only words he knew how to say in english other than "please pass the towels!" Love to the Def Jux. Dedicated to Matt Dew...

Everybody loves

a free party. Hope to see you there.

film your friends

Here are some films I made for my friend's bands...1st one with Phil and Andy.

Rolling Rock

the day in photos

Loud and Proud

My head is a happy train wreck after last night's halloween Shenanigans @ The Proud Galleries.
Big thank you to everyone turning up in Nashwan Colours. Rocking.

Special props got to go to James Kinkane. He leant me a guitar, he got me drunk. good lad!

Here are some photos below courtesy of Jersey film-maker Phil Clyde-Smith who was at the gig.

Thanks again to everyone.

Saturday

This week has been bleak. Insomnia and the Blackest moods. But I'm happy now.

After the non-stop intense glamour working at the call centre trying to avoid my own personal credit crunch I've just had a great Saturday. St.Johnstone won 3-0 against Partick Thistle. Get in. Wrote a song I'm really happy with...Then met up with Si Clarke (guitar hero of milkteeth/hungerpangs) to grab some music. we spent our ill gotten call centre gains on coffee and cigarettes and records we don't really have the money to be buying.

I got Screaming Tea Party's new E.P "Golden Blue" which was predicatably brilliant. In my book the coolest band in the world right now.
check out the video below, then go buy the whole thing.



Now off to meet another guitar hero Jack Ross to continue our quest to find the best turkish kebab house in east london. For those of you who wanna know the brilliantly named Testi at the start of stoke newington high street is currently edging it over the Bos Cirrik and Mangal Ocakbasi: both on Kingsland road.

More exciting than any of this my girl is coming back on monday after an aeon in the cooke islands and the northern territories, wrestling sharks and climbing volcanoes. i feel a bit like these dudes below...

Super Nashwan Halloween Party!

This one is going to get rowdy at the proud galleries.
THURSDAY 30TH OCTOBER
Come dressed up. Whichever of our fans is in the best costume as is usual will get a bottle of tequila.
Last years battle between a man sized tube of colgate and a transexual mummy was truly a sight to behold.

Doors 7.30pm. SUPER NASHWAN on stage 8.15pm sharp.
See you there.

All That's Left - Mixtape 3

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1) Liquid Liquid - Rubbermiro (Tim goldsworthy mix)

More than just the cavern. Liquid liquid have depth in tunes. For those of you who don't already know them or 99 records, time to dive in.

2) Monkey Mafia - Lion in the Hall

Ace old school beats from Jon Carter's crew from back in the day. I first heard this as a kid at T- In the Park, in the middle of a bunch of weegies chanting "mitsubishis make you crazy." Good times.

3) The Dirtbombs - The Sharpest Claws

One of my favourite bands ever and probably the best gig that Super Nashwan have seen all together was by the dirtbombs. Let me repeat that ... by the dirtbombs, buy the dirtbombs, buy the dirtbombs. It's all great. Ko, Mick and roadbich all love to you. And I've just found out you're playing back over here on my birthday! get in.

4) The Invisible - Monster's Waltz (Kwes remix)

This track is a kaleidosope of my friends talent, Tom, Leo and Dave, produced by Matt Herbert, with backing vocals by Eska and then refried by fellow synaesthete Kwes! Although I have obvious bias, this is my favourite version of my favourite invisibles tune and I think it slams. Their single monsters waltz is out today. They have badges with pitcures of themselves coming out of the bath... What more do you want?

5) MGMT - Youth

dave fridmann + great songwriters = top album. still not boredof this album yet even though it's been spanked everywhere.
top work. I'm gonna spank some more.

6) Umek _ Libido

Si, George Smiley, lunatic dr. of techno, thank you for introducing me to this! The video is great too. Might have to whack that on the blog in another video bomb.

7) LCD Soundsystem - All my friends

Loved these guys ever since I got the 12" of losing my edge. I was there! This tune now has a special place in heart as Keir decided to crank it full blast at the end of an after party at our studio. Good choice man. A proper moment it was.

8) White Denim - Let's talk about it

Cool tune. Disappointed when I saw them though as no one else was wearing any white denim. A trick missed me thinks.

Naked Dancers from a Mexican

This was sent to me for the blog by the wild mexican writing genius Gustavo Montes de Oca.
Censorship has never looked so good.


THE BPA - THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL from Fabio Resende on Vimeo.

This top lad also bought me a carton of japanese "Mild 7" cigarettes. They say on the packet that "The superbly balanced mild seven blend offers an inspiring moment of satisfaction." Class.

Cola Bottle Punks

Too much time and too much talent. The story of youtube.
These two are great when they get going.
Also check out the link to the brilliant but uncredited edwin birdsong who got that whole groove started.

Indian Summer

Genius. Got showed this yesterday and I still don't know what's better: The guy on the bike chillin at 70 mph or the two indian guys listening to adele and giving the commentary.

props all round.

Floating in space

saw spiritualized at the roundhouse on thursday and the spaceman rocked it. bang tidy.
here's a clip from the roundhouse and a video of the early space man 3 days for those of you who should have been there.
I recommend playing them at the same time.

Christmas on Mars

Been waiting for this for years and now it's being released this december! Genius.
I know what I want for christmas already.....

Witness the Fitness

I'll be Djing tonight with Paul Epworth and Bugz... come down if you're around!

SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK

Charlie Kaufmann is a hero. I just got my ticket to see his new film at the London Film festival. It looks like it's going to be another winner. Trailer Below.

Bear Fight

This is some music from ten kens from canada. Been listening to their album all week. It's deadly. It officially comes out on Monday so grab yaself a copy. Their videos are great and this one has got bears to boot. Hats off to ya ten kens.

ifya divvint nah dahn ask

Spent a good time of my life in tha toon. still miss it. For those of you haven't been to Newcastle let alone scotchy, top of westgate road or cramlington you may not find this as funny as I do. for those of you get it... these'll destroy ya.


and if you liked that...

Violent pizza & other ways to kill an Icon

some of my favourite low budget videos

Xelor takes you to robot high school.


The Postal Service deliver a smile...


Shit Disco. Maybe the most Ronseal of all band names. Terrible song. Stunning Video.


Great Russ Meyer Rip

Black Hole Fun

the large hadron collider has been turned on.
hold on to your dark matter.





I'm excited. (Insert black whole gag here, I can't think of one)... Randomly this reminded me of saul williams cos the first time I heard him was on the hip hop compilation "Black Whole Styles" He's the real bomb. Here's his coded language and list of demands.

I love ping pong and space invaders...

All That's Left Mix Tape - Volume 2

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Various - Diver
Got into these by way of a tip off from Raj Pannu. Think they've left XL now to form a label with soapy tit's beat genius Rustie.

Zongamin - Spiral
First saw them at a Halloween party with my mate Leo Taylor playing drums for them.
Still one of the coolest gigs I've ever been to. Susumi + all you're loved! Put something out soon.

Sampha - Rain Stars
Sampha/ Kid Nova is a young and upcoming London musician/songwriter/uber-producer. He'll be remixing our
next single "Space Race" and will be putting out his debut E.P soon.

Shocking Pinks - This aching deal
Criminally under rated DFA Kiwis

Metric - Monster Hospital
Si Clarke of Milk Teeth/ Hunger Pang's fame put me onto this underground one hit wonder. A rock monster. Grrrr.

Screaming Tea Party - Between Air and Air
A Blistering, Gas Mark wearing, japanese wonderland of a band. They've never disappointed me live and
I'll be going to see them again on the 12th of september at the old blue. Koichi has assured me there's a new album coming soon. Look out for it.

Super Nashwan - Touch and Go - rough demo version
A demo rework in progress with George Smiley. It takes samples from our more obscure radio plays from japan, mexico and russia: as well as some kids that Paul met in the Himalayas who he got to chant our name.

Michachu and the Shapes - Lone ranger
Was round at my house drinking absynthe last night. She is a legend. She has a new album coming out
on accidental soon which is stunning. Bjork is a big fan and so am I. Buy everything this girl does. She's the real deal. "thaaaaanks". x

burt and ernie go brutal

Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror

Been one of my favourite songs for years. It has the added bonus of making our bass player Paul seasick with it's mesmeric ways. Today it feels particularly bang on.

the blind eye, landing light, the book of shadows etc.

Right now am sinking into Don Paterson's new book of thoughts, poems and scribblings "The Blind Eye" - a book of late advice. It is brilliant. Here are ten favourite aphorisms from his last collection book of shadows:

Falling and flying are near-identical sensations, in all but one final detail. We should remember this when we see those men and women seemingly in love with their own decline.

Traditionally, the defining moment in a man's life arrives when he looks in his shaving glass and finds his father staring back; but there is a day so much more terrible we rarely speak of it - when he catches himself naked in a full-length mirror and sees his mother...

Suddenly there was nothing I could do to impress her. All the brilliant discussion, the sublime compliments, the poems and songs I laid at her feet... I began to fear the worst: that if I was loved at all I was loved for myself.

All those chairs and bathtubs and cars and shoes which, emptied of us, are immediately returned to absurdity. How many lonely things we make for the world.

Almost everything in the room will survive you. To the room, you are already a ghost, a pathetic soft thing, coming and going.

No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

Though we acquire an air of inviolate religiosity in our solitude, nothing makes us less human than a solitude interrupted; specifically, the monophone treble obscenity of the William Tell Overture on the mobile phone of the guy opposite me on the train, his huge red spectacles, his yelled bonhomie... I find myself praying that his next call will bring him news of the death of his mother.

If you were offered one hour or two, would you really choose two? Now: work backwards.

We’re forever reading atrocities as mere omens; anything to do nothing a little while longer.

I am berated by a young gunslinger of a drama critic for my 'naive and passé symbolism'. In my next play, a young gunslinger of a drama critic is yanked from the audience, hung and disembowelled in the first scene. I take a deep satisfaction in the thought that even he - however naive and passé he may feel it to be - will find in this no trace of the symbolic whatsoever.

All my teachers have been women. Although several men have taken me aside for an hour to tell me things they know.

No email for an hour. The bastards.

I came home. I had grown sick of my accent.

The sadness of old shoes. Putting them on again, I suddenly remember all the old friends I haven’t seen for ages; and then why.

The aphorism is a brief waste of time. The poem a complete waste of time. the novel a monuemental waste of time.



Check out blind eye, landing light, orpheus, the book of shadows or anything else he's done...it's pretty much all consistently class. Incidentally he also edited an anthology with my old poetry/creative writing teacher Jo Shapcott called Last Words. It's great too... as is Jo's first proper collection "Electroplating the Baby" Dive at them and paint your mind.

Buzby Berkley + his echoes

swimming with buzby berkley ( edited from 1933's footlight parade)



michel gondry / the chemical brothers - let forever be


I only have eyes for you (1934) buzby berkley/ ray enright



daftpunk - around the world



Buzby berkley - the gang all's there


feist - 1234

electric shocks

Last night I was invited down by the war of drugs to do their lighting at the windmill. I think I did pretty well apart from nearly electrocuting myself changing the bulbs and blowing the power for half the venue during soundcheck. I then truly surpassed myself by getting so hyped and into the gig that I knocked over the entire lighting mixer at the end of their encore. It sent the stage into a psychedilic fit at the end sort of like the tunnel in the gene wilder version of charlie and the chocolate factory . All this with only three settings at my disposal. Electric.

beats banksy...

Naked as we Came

Really beautiful video... a favourite.

But did it make a sound if you weren't there to hear it?

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ALL THAT's LEFT - MIXTAPE 1

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Here's the listing and what the songs mean to me.

1) The War on Drugs - Taking the Farm
Great Band. We'll be playing with them on the 14th at the Dublin Castle. London come down - they'll steal hearts. This is the 1st single from the album "Wagon Wheel Blues". It's top.

2) The Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
The only track on Steve Lemacq's Roundtable show that got a higher score than us. The public were right! This is a cracker.

3) Daniel Johnston - Something's Last A long Time
It was kinda funny when Daniel Johnston played the windmill in Brixton last. You had to smile as tim had to give Daniel's spherical body a helping hand and foot through the gap from the bar to the stage. He only had to go that way cos he had filled the place to the rafters. Daniel Johnston then proceeded to make us all cry with some of the most honest and haunting songs ever. I try to use this word sparingly but the word genius does come to mind with this man.

4) The Black Angels - Never/Ever
taken from the album "directions to a ghost". apparently the house these guys play and record they kept on seeing an apparition of a little girl in a red dress, so they named the album after her. 8mins of spectral psychedelic joy.

5) The Early Years- All ones and zeroes
They made our bestival last year they did those fantastic early years.They swiped me some cider on the saturday, and then rocked it on the sunday as the final band we saw at the festival. A proper moment. A happening.

6) Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23
beautiful space soul. I was introduced to it by Phil Browne having a smoke out the front of the Free Trade over looking the Tyne. He had his cd player and phones on him and this was on it. God rest your soul man. You always had the best tunes.

7) Herald's of Change - Phewture.
Hudson Mohawk and Mike Slott. Kabooming the new glasgow beats. They're both truly Ace together and apart. Hopefully we'll have a remix from half of the heralds soon. watch this space.

8) Kwes (remix) / Super Nashwan - Larger than Life
The Cayote Wolf Himself holding a twisted mirror up to Super Nashwan. He's got a new 7" single coming out soon and you should all buy it.

enjoy!

Red Eye Jedi

Laugh much you will.



Thanks to James from the Kinky Kaners for sending me this.

The Secret Service

The first video is Dorothy Love Coates of Gospel Harmonettes fame, the second is the Davis Sisters. This last video is of a woman called Marion Williams. I have a link with her through an amazing woman in Hackney who was good friends with her in the 60s and even went over to philly with her to sing in her church. Years ago she gave Marion Williams and many others a bed, friendship, some food and some sanctuary when they needed it most.. London could be a racist and rough place for a musician then. Still can be now I guess. Not so long ago when I had no place to stay she did the same for me and let me stay for a while. And last time I was round her house she pulled me out an old marion record: with a really touching hand written enscription to her. I'll no doubt tell you more about her another time. Until then if you like the above check out...

1) Myrna Summers and the Interdenominational Choir - God Gave Me a Song
2) Queen C. Anderson - Never Heard about the City (Medley)
3) Swan Silvertones - Mary Don't weep
4) The Soul Stirrers - Touch the hem of his garment
5) Marion williams - Travelling Shoes
6) Up above My Head - Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Praise. x

Fragments of Dancing Girl

Motor : Bleep no 1. Boom.

open sesame

Sesame Street: Big blonde birds walking the streets, people living in trash cans, and a vampire pimp counting his money 1 ah ha ha ha 2 ha ha ha ha ha 3. The perfect setting for some gangsta rap. Brilliant.

Death take your fiddle

Come thou, thou last one, whom I recognize,
unbearable pain throughout this body's fabric:
as I in my spirit burned, see, I now burn in thee:
the wood that long resisted the advancing flames
which thou kept flaring, I now am nourishinig
and burn in thee.

My gentle and mild being through thy ruthless fury
has turned into a raging hell that is not from here.
Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.

Is it still I, who there past all recognition burn?
Memories I do not seize and bring inside.
O life! O living! O to be outside!
And I in flames. And no one here who knows me.


Written in December 1926, this poem was the last
entry in Rilke's notebook, less than two weeks before his
death at age 51.

How to play Jools Holland

Sing it

Have listened to this so much and yet I still can't get enough of it. About as close to a perfect take as I've ever heard.

Xelor's mad tramp computer

Roel Wouters rocks my world.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice