So, what is this? I find myself alive, surprisingly. A bit like a zombie to be honest... Not a fast running one like in 28 Days Later, no, more like a bluff George A Romero one, shuffling about, indecisive of what to do.
But my slow zombie brain came to the conclusion to put some songs of our first record (Jesus, seems so long ago already) up there on myspace which haven't been featured there EVER. So, make good use of them - listen to them. God knows if there will ever be any new songs.
...remix! Again from long time collaborator Mike Burrell, who, together with E-Fluent, took the Mic in his own hands this time and shows us what rap skills REALLY are supposed to sound like! Yeah, this is addressed to all of you P. Diddys out there in the world!
I just wonder: how do rappers do this without getting a knot in their tongues? Maybe they have two tongues. Otherwise it would be impossible to speak so fast. Plus remebering all the lyrics at the same time. I conclude: impossible. Or there must be some sort of black magic going on. Which is proof what I always suspected: hip hop and rock aren't that far apart from each other. Which is, probably, why this remix sounds so splendid!
Thanks again Mike! Also thanks to Dave Rice for the remixing skills and E-Fluent for taking the time and effort for making this remix possible!
..Did you know that time can be stretched? Time travel is possible and they still haven't found the bloddy Higgs boson? Billions and billions of pounds pumped into the biggest machine ever made by human beings to find something that's ridiculously small and could change our perception of matter, time and fudge forever? Also, some years back Japanese scientist were able to make burger meat out of human excrement. And ate it. Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if we all already did unknowingly...
Well, you know now what I did (apart from the eating shit bit - I mean, I ate a burger, but I hope a 'proper' one) during our absence from playing, gigging and stealing sweets with Olympus Mons. But now, thanks to Mike Burrell and Dave Rice and some strange oddballs called the Legal Orphans, who all did some splendid remixes of some of our old songs, life has been pumped back into the veins of this once so powerful beast.
Also: Moran is gone. I mean, he didn't 'go from us' or something terrible, he just went to Berlin. After deciding that London wasn't for him anymore, he looked for new career opportunities and went on a course to study violin - or was it composition?? And why wouldn't he? Just because he was/still is a great drummer means he can't study violin? He'll teach you! We wish him all the best for the future. It was great having him in the band and he's surley missed.
But life must go on, and hence - voila! - some 'new' music on our myspace! I hope you like what you hear. Don't forget to stop by now and again, there might be something new happening soon...
It's been some time since somebody has posted anything on here, maybe there wasn't anything interesting to say, maybe we're just getting lazy and a bit tired of the whole Myspace thing, maybe we rediscovered the importance of reading books instead of keeping an unkown amount of people updated on whatever interesting/uninteresting things we do. Well. That's why you probably don't find us on Twitter.
But there are these rare occasions when even we feel the urge to share something with someone. 5th of August was one of them. It was a good day!
We played at the Rock on the l'Oule festival in La Motte Chalancon, a two or three hours car ride south from Lyon. After having to get up at 3am to be in time for our flight to Lyon from Gatwick, renting a car there and driving the whole way through a beautiful rocky countryside while getting sunburned, we arrived at 3pm in La Motte tired, but happy. It was the most beautiful location for a festival you can imgagine.
Located between impressive mountains and next to a river and small lake where the locals went for a swim on that hot day, it was just perfect for an intimate little summer festival. We were warmly welcomed, were offered food and drinks and everyone just treated us nicely and with respect. A big thank you to Agathe Morrise and Brice Mourier here!
After the first shock when we were told that we had to play a one hour set, we prepared ourselves roughly deciding what to add to our normal set - a 30 mintues set. So when the festival gates were finally opened and witnessed great, but long sets from Lo'Jo and the Ex, it was our turn to enter the stage at 1.30am. And when it was hot during the day, and I mean really hot, it was cold during the night - and I mean REALLY COLD! But the punters didn't mind. They had beers. And so did we. But when we started playing, everyone was just a bit reserved. They didn't know what to make of us and that was when we realised that we were the first proper rock band ever to play on the festival as we were told before by Agathe and Brice. It was some sort of an experiment.
But Boy, did it work! After three or four songs it finally clicked and the people started freaking out. It didn't really matter that we made a few minor mistakes, I mean we're not Coldplay or something, no-one noticed and we didn't care actually. We, as everyone else, enjoyed every minute. So after finishing the set, we had to do two encores, but because we don't have so many songs, we had to do the Letter and Broken Boys again. Jeez. Vive La France!
So if you ever happen to make Holidays in southern France in August, go to the Rock on the l'Oule outside of La Motte. It's a very special place.
Big thanks also to the Ex, who let us use their gear, which, surprisingly, survived our gig just about!
