Actually for a change, no, I'm not having a crisis. It is a line from a tribute track to Poly Styrene from X Ray Spex and one of the tracks I have been working on for the new project which has finally been named DeKadanCe. Its just acoustic guitars and the wonderful voice of Kaya (Decadent Few / Youth In Asia) whose idea this project was.
It all started when I was supposed to be supporting Decadent Few at my second gig at the Birds Nest when we rehearsed three songs to play as DF's bass player was very ill and they had to pull out of the gig. They went down better than was expected so we decided to record them. Five tracks later and we are so happy with them that we released Identity as a free download on the third anniversary of Poly's death. The other 4 including a very different version of Identity will be released as a CD single very soon. No vinyl yet as we can't afford to do that. Hope you enjoy.
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 know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.
27 April 2014
13 April 2014
Im an Urban Guerilla ...
Things are moving pretty fast after the second gig so this is a bit of an update as I have been way busy.
I'm very excited to announce a couple of releases coming up. First off I have a track coming out on a compilation album of Kent punk bands, this will be released on vinyl and CD round about September time.
More exciting is that I am about three quarters of the way thru recording a few tracks with a singer, who will go nameless for the moment as we haven't finalised what we are going to be doing but all will be revealed very soon and to say it's a bit different for me is a bit of an understatement. Saying that, playing acoustic guitar is a bit different for me as I am used to playing bass not guitar. I will say I am well pleased with the way these tracks are turning out and the whole thing is going to surprise a few people. We are looking at releasing two of the tracks as a vinyl single if anyone out there can help with this we would very much appreciate it.
I also have another gig booked, this time in Canterbury with anarcho punk legends Anthrax UK, The Commited who I did the first gig with and Snide on the 6th June at The Lady Luck Bar. This should be a packed gig so get there early as I will be playing a song I have never played before and may not play again we shall see what happens.
And lastly, I decided to record a cover version and no it's not a punk cover. Many years ago I had the priviledge of playing with the very talented and sadly missed Robert Calvert, he wrote this song in 1974 with the band he was with at the time, namely Hawkwind. The track was banned by the BBC and withdrawn as a single due to a spate of IRA bombings at the time. I have always loved this song so decided to record my version of it as a tribute to Bob and without knowing it released it as a download on what would have been his 69th birthday.
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 know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.
I'm very excited to announce a couple of releases coming up. First off I have a track coming out on a compilation album of Kent punk bands, this will be released on vinyl and CD round about September time.
More exciting is that I am about three quarters of the way thru recording a few tracks with a singer, who will go nameless for the moment as we haven't finalised what we are going to be doing but all will be revealed very soon and to say it's a bit different for me is a bit of an understatement. Saying that, playing acoustic guitar is a bit different for me as I am used to playing bass not guitar. I will say I am well pleased with the way these tracks are turning out and the whole thing is going to surprise a few people. We are looking at releasing two of the tracks as a vinyl single if anyone out there can help with this we would very much appreciate it.
I also have another gig booked, this time in Canterbury with anarcho punk legends Anthrax UK, The Commited who I did the first gig with and Snide on the 6th June at The Lady Luck Bar. This should be a packed gig so get there early as I will be playing a song I have never played before and may not play again we shall see what happens.
And lastly, I decided to record a cover version and no it's not a punk cover. Many years ago I had the priviledge of playing with the very talented and sadly missed Robert Calvert, he wrote this song in 1974 with the band he was with at the time, namely Hawkwind. The track was banned by the BBC and withdrawn as a single due to a spate of IRA bombings at the time. I have always loved this song so decided to record my version of it as a tribute to Bob and without knowing it released it as a download on what would have been his 69th birthday.
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 know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.
22 March 2014
The Second Gig
Well as you may have seen by the video, the second gig went down really well. I managed to stay in tune for most of it and even managed a new song and one I had avoided doing coz I wasn't comfortable with it at the first gig. I am really enjoying doing this acoustic guitar lark and finding it quite liberating from being in a band. Since the last gig I had aquired a Chorus pedal with the intent of trying it out - After hearing what it sounded like I think I will be having it on premanently at every gig from now on - it altered my sound entirely - it was awesome, well haopy with it
I went up to the Birds Nest with Kaya from Decadent Few who had agreed to drive up despite not playing due to an illness in the band. Not wanting to cancel the gig or let anyone down who turned up expecting Decadent Few, Myself, Kaya, Bruce from Mindframe and their drummer did an impromptu three songs at the end with me borrowing Mindframes guitar. Myself and Kaya had had one rehearsal acoustically of all three songs earlier in the week but to do it with an unrehearsed rhythm section was going to be weird - especially as I had met neither of them before. We ploughed thru Power & The Glory (an old Youth In Asia song) something called "In Chains" which was a bit of acoustic blues we had thrown together and "They Shoot Children" (Decadent Few song) in rapid succesion and I was amazed at the response. It was recorded and although I haven't heard it, I have been told by Kaya (who has) that it is rather good - soon as I hear it I will let you know.
Set List:
1. You're A Terrorist
2. Still Called Scum
3. R.I.P (Riot In Progress)
4. Go Back To Sleep
5. Race To The Bottom
6. Pissing In The Wind
7. Generation iDiot
8. Question Authority
2nd Set list - With Kaya Decadent & Mindframe
1. Power & The Glory
2. In Chains
3. They Shoot Children Don't They
I actually stopped playing during the last song of my own set as I was laughing so much at one bloke who threw himself on the floor and was shaking like mad, so much so that he knocked a burger off of a plate and onto the floor where he stopped, picked it up and ate it. I was in hysterics, stareted the song where I left off finished and went for a beer. No encore this time but I didnt care as I had had such a great night and the two other bands Bucha Effect & Mindframe were excellent - both well worth seeing.
The Welsh Tart took a few pictures as welll as the video of Generation iDiot from the previous post and a good night was had by all, unfortunately no photos of the 2nd set as I forgot to give The Welsh one her camera - bugger. Too much waffle for this post - I will post the song I was going to in the next post.
I went up to the Birds Nest with Kaya from Decadent Few who had agreed to drive up despite not playing due to an illness in the band. Not wanting to cancel the gig or let anyone down who turned up expecting Decadent Few, Myself, Kaya, Bruce from Mindframe and their drummer did an impromptu three songs at the end with me borrowing Mindframes guitar. Myself and Kaya had had one rehearsal acoustically of all three songs earlier in the week but to do it with an unrehearsed rhythm section was going to be weird - especially as I had met neither of them before. We ploughed thru Power & The Glory (an old Youth In Asia song) something called "In Chains" which was a bit of acoustic blues we had thrown together and "They Shoot Children" (Decadent Few song) in rapid succesion and I was amazed at the response. It was recorded and although I haven't heard it, I have been told by Kaya (who has) that it is rather good - soon as I hear it I will let you know.
Set List:
1. You're A Terrorist
2. Still Called Scum
3. R.I.P (Riot In Progress)
4. Go Back To Sleep
5. Race To The Bottom
6. Pissing In The Wind
7. Generation iDiot
8. Question Authority
2nd Set list - With Kaya Decadent & Mindframe
1. Power & The Glory
2. In Chains
3. They Shoot Children Don't They
I actually stopped playing during the last song of my own set as I was laughing so much at one bloke who threw himself on the floor and was shaking like mad, so much so that he knocked a burger off of a plate and onto the floor where he stopped, picked it up and ate it. I was in hysterics, stareted the song where I left off finished and went for a beer. No encore this time but I didnt care as I had had such a great night and the two other bands Bucha Effect & Mindframe were excellent - both well worth seeing.
17 March 2014
Generation Idiot - Live
This is a video of Generation Idiot at the Birds Nest in Deptford last friday - 14 March 2014. My second gig and so far the better one of the two. I will talk more about this gig new songs and other things that happened inbetween the two gigs and after in the next post.
Apologies for the shortness but I'm rather busy at the moment - Enjoy
Apologies for the shortness but I'm rather busy at the moment - Enjoy
28 February 2014
Acoustic ... ANGRY Acoustic!!!
Acoustic ... ANGRY Acoustic!!! - this is what I was called earlier this week - I can live with that, and it was taken as a compliment thank you Gutterpunk Photos.
After the last gig Iwas on a bit of a buzz, so decided I needed to write a new song immediately.
After doing everything I.E. Drums, Bass, Electric & Acoustic guitars , vocals, mixing etc on the last load of demos / songs, I decided I wanted this one stripped back to just acoustic guitar and vocal. I'm finding it fairly easy to write lyrics at them moment as our government are giving me (and everyone else) plenty of fuel to be angry about - one brief recording session later and I have an acoustic song which I fully intend to play at the next gig which is going to be a cracker - The Birds Nest in Deptford as support to the wonderul Decadent Few, and two new bands to me, Mindframe and Bucha Effect.
As for the song - Inspired by a conversation at the last gig when someone said to me that they agreed with what was going on and it wouldn't affect them as they were working part time and the government won';t touch them. I laughed and told them not to be so naieve and lo and behold four weeks later they govt are going to sanction part time workers, I just told him to go home and watch his TV and go back to sleep. And that is what this one is called.
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 know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.
After the last gig Iwas on a bit of a buzz, so decided I needed to write a new song immediately.
After doing everything I.E. Drums, Bass, Electric & Acoustic guitars , vocals, mixing etc on the last load of demos / songs, I decided I wanted this one stripped back to just acoustic guitar and vocal. I'm finding it fairly easy to write lyrics at them moment as our government are giving me (and everyone else) plenty of fuel to be angry about - one brief recording session later and I have an acoustic song which I fully intend to play at the next gig which is going to be a cracker - The Birds Nest in Deptford as support to the wonderul Decadent Few, and two new bands to me, Mindframe and Bucha Effect.
As for the song - Inspired by a conversation at the last gig when someone said to me that they agreed with what was going on and it wouldn't affect them as they were working part time and the government won';t touch them. I laughed and told them not to be so naieve and lo and behold four weeks later they govt are going to sanction part time workers, I just told him to go home and watch his TV and go back to sleep. And that is what this one is called.
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 know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.
Go Back To Sleep
No need for a false flag operation
Dont need one on a sleeping nation
They want to keep us dumb and ignorant
Try to manufacture our consent
Do exactly what the governments say
Go back to sleep everything is ok
No facts required, No actual proof
Lies always travel, Faster than truth
They wanna chip us to make us dumb
Make us subserviant, Everyone
Bent to their will, Diminish and divide
Each identical, Just as advertised
No evidence needed in the state of denial
We all stand accused, All on trial
Told what to do, told what to say
Told who to vote for, Who to obey
No need for a false flag operation
Dont need one on a sleeping nation
They want to keep us dumb and ignorant
Try to manufacture our consent
Do exactly what the governments say
Go back to sleep everything is ok
No facts required, No actual proof
Lies always travel, Faster than truth
They wanna chip us to make us dumb
Make us subserviant, Everyone
Bent to their will, Diminish and divide
Each identical, Just as advertised
No evidence needed in the state of denial
We all stand accused, All on trial
Told what to do, told what to say
Told who to vote for, Who to obey
6 February 2014
First Gig - Review
So the first gig is out of the way - always a nightmare but even more so when you are not used to doing everything on your own. Everything was going smoothly, too smoothly, I was going up on the train to Sheerness with a few mates then I get that call, you know the one, train cancelled, wrong type of wind or some such crap. Turned out there was a landslide and all the trains were cancelled and there was a bus service that was going to make the jorney nearly three hours - really? its three o clock and I have to be there between six and seven and there is no way I am going to make it. Luckily I get a call from Kay from Decadent Few, do I want a lift to Sheerness, yeah I do, that would be lovely, so thats what I did - got a lift.
Packed everything in one bag and off we went to Sheerness.
So how did the gig go??
Well, I got there with a bit of time to spare so had a chat with a few people while Swampstomper & The Commited were sound checking and then as time was getting on, it was a quick line check for me and on I go. Nervous as hell, quick bit of banter then into the first tune. Fifteen minutes and five tunes later its all over and I'm buzzing from the fantastic response I got despite being out of tune for three of the five and messing up a fair few lyrics, then amazingly got asked back for an encore, so after a quick tune up I did one more.
Set List:
1. You're A Terrorist
2. Still Called Scum
3. R.I.P (Riot In Progress)
4. Race To The Bottom
5. Generation iDiot
6. Question Authority (encore)
Gutterpunk took some fantastic photos for GIGglepics which can be found along with a review of the rest of the gig here.
Packed everything in one bag and off we went to Sheerness.
So how did the gig go??
Well, I got there with a bit of time to spare so had a chat with a few people while Swampstomper & The Commited were sound checking and then as time was getting on, it was a quick line check for me and on I go. Nervous as hell, quick bit of banter then into the first tune. Fifteen minutes and five tunes later its all over and I'm buzzing from the fantastic response I got despite being out of tune for three of the five and messing up a fair few lyrics, then amazingly got asked back for an encore, so after a quick tune up I did one more.
Set List:
1. You're A Terrorist
2. Still Called Scum
3. R.I.P (Riot In Progress)
4. Race To The Bottom
5. Generation iDiot
6. Question Authority (encore)
Gutterpunk took some fantastic photos for GIGglepics which can be found along with a review of the rest of the gig here.
16 January 2014
First Gig
Bloody hell I have got a gig in Sheerness and what a cracker it is too. I'm supporting Kent legends The Commited at their album release party for their new CD "Older & Faster" and reasonably new boys Swampstomper Here is the flyer, come along if ya can - I will only be doing about 15 minutes but thats enough for an old bloke with an acoustic guitar shouting things down a mic. If everyone pisses off outside for a cigarette I shall go and annoy them out there.
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