Terms & Conditions Apply

Terms & Conditions Apply is the title of a 3 track digital single that was released this week which includes a brand new track called Drip By Drip - the song is about the DRIP (Data Retention & Investigatory Powers) act - do a search for it if you don't know what it is - and how we have already given away our rights by just clicking agree on everything that comes on any digital device without thinking about it - check out this link about the new Facebook messaging service where you give them the right to record you and snoop on you coz you clicked OK without thinking - but this blog isn't about that it's about music so here is the new track with two others - free to download enjoy.




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A couple of weeks ago I did a sneaky gig supporting a rock / metal covers band. Due to go on about half 8 I hammered a couple of pints down my neck and was then duly told i was going on at ten. A fair few pints later and I was very merrily pissed and did my set - to some people who had waited around to see me and a load that hadn't. No mass exodus for the door - that surprised me and I even done a cover version for my mate Davee Wild who had sadly died two days before (I will miss the Cider fuelled phone calls Davee and the best gigs in canterbury - Rest In Punk my friend) not having done a cover (unless you count the ones with DeKadanCe) i opted for Subvert by Zounds. I was very surprised at the reaction which was phenomenal considering this wasnt a punk gig and was very pleased it went down well too. Hope to do another gig at the Red Lion as I have enjoyed both gigs there.
Here is the setlist from that gig:

You're A Terrorist Still Called Scum
Go Back To Sleep
 Race To The Bottom
This Means War
 Pissing in The Wind
 Generation iDiot
Subvert (Zounds cover)

Sorry no pictures or videos from this gig - there is a video apparently but I havent seen it.

I have a gig coming up next Saturday 16th August in Sheerness as support to Monica & The Explosion - should be fun. See ya at the bar.

Internet Radio Play

After posting the last two tracks on the internet - Facebook and Google+ mainly but various other places as well, I had a nice suprise. I was actually asked if it was Ok to download one of the tracks and play it on a radio station. I had no problem with that and didnt think anything of it. Then I got sent a link to Stench Radio and clicked and looked at their playlist - fuck me, there I was, number three on the playlist alongside such luminaries as Oiz II Men and Argy Bargy. To say I was a bit chuffed was a bit of an understatement, over 100 plays on Reverbnation and played on an online radio in the space of a few weeks, things were looking up. Maybe my guitar playing isn't as bad as I first thought.

Here is the playlist from Stench Radio

If anyone else wants to play my tracks please feel free but let me know or send a link thanks.

Generation iDiot

After posting Still Called Scum on the internet I wrote a few other songs, mainly a load of crap but a couple of good songs came out of it and I posted them to a couple of people I knew to get some feedback from them and to see if I was heading in the right direction.
The thing about sending them to your mates is that they will do one of two things, tell you the truth or lie profusely just so they don't upset you or piss you off in any way. Luckily I have mates that will be brutally honest and they said that with a bit of work the new songs could be really good. I decided against posting them on the internet as they need to be worked on a bit before I did so and set about writing some more.
My changing of the chords on an acoustic was getting better, it still wasn't good as I was missing strings, hitting bum notes all over the place and still couldn't play a C or F properly. But I was going to damn well carry on and would get my fingers round those two bastards sooner or later.
I was playing electric guitar as well, swapping between them so that I could play on one what I played on the other or so I thought. Nope, i found it easier to play barre chords on the electric and open chords on the acoustic, I was struggling with  barre chords on the acoustic but was going to persevere.

Generation iDiot came about one afternoon while I was in a pub trying to have a conversation with someone who insisited on checking their phone and using it pretty much contstantly. Its pretty frustrating when you are trying to say something and the person you are talking to is texting or in this case updating their status on Facebook while in the middle of  a conversation. How frustrating and annoying and more to the point - bloody rude. The other thing that annoys me about modern technology is people taking ipads to gigs to film the gig. You're at a gig to watch the band or whatever not to stand there watching the entire thing thru an ipad whilst filming the gig - show some respect please.
I mean who takes an ipad to a gig ... this bloke obviously

Like the previous song, Still Called Scum, this was entirely played and recorded by myself, I even managed to work out some harmonics on the electric to give it some dynamics, rather than a straight forward chordorama thrashalong song.





Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me or Urban Fallout know - Thanks Russ Crimewave