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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 16, 2005 15:17:29 GMT 1
It's going to be some way off appearing yet, but I've just taken the sleeve photos for the next Dizzy Tiger compilation. It's called Anti, and should feature gorgeous sunny photos of the outside of our house, where the "-ques" bit has fallen off the sign outside.
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Post by rashamon on Aug 16, 2005 15:30:25 GMT 1
Good title. Well I have a track waiting in the wings for just such a compilation. I'll let the Gravity collective know and see what they come up with.
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Post by marcusjr on Aug 16, 2005 17:52:15 GMT 1
We were only saying the other day that we should stop fobbing Stu off with crap that other labels have already had their paws over and give him some virgin exclusive crap. This would appear to be such an opportunity. Quick Rumiko! To the studio! (via the Offie)
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 16, 2005 18:24:38 GMT 1
Thanks all, that's great. Will update news on possible tracklisting on this thread as stuff gets suggested. Lee, please pass on my apologies to Minimal Impact over the late arrival of the split tape: this is due to some slackness at the Frontier Telegraph end of things (actually, specific slackness between Duncan's flat and Michael and Caroline's flat, so somewhere in the car park then). If all else fails, I'll just get Michael to leave the tape recorder running with Caroline's theremin switched on, and pick up the sounds of the two of them going about their daily housework routine. What says Caroline to a theremin solo for the next compilation, at least?
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Post by caroline on Aug 16, 2005 19:33:44 GMT 1
Meep. That's what Caroline says to that. Does it have to be a tuneful theramin solo? Haven't really got much further than waving my hands at the thing in a slightly panicked fashion as yet...
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Post by rashamon on Aug 16, 2005 23:26:16 GMT 1
Does it have to be tuneful?
I think the only particular for Dizzy Tiger is that it has to be recorded!
;D
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Post by Michael on Aug 17, 2005 12:00:14 GMT 1
Hi everyone, Will get to recording the Frontier Telegraph side of split tape as soon as I remember to take my minidisk player back from the basement. To save time i'm doing it by myself with a little help from my electronic chums. BTW it's gonna be very far from tuneful.
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 17, 2005 13:41:09 GMT 1
Tunes are never an essential element in anything I've put out before! Here's an extract from Steve Gillett's email, regarding the content of the Minimal Impact side:
"I have finished my track for the split tape. It is based on a visit to Brighton University of two Russian Cosmonauts. I recorded their presentation and reprocessed the tape to produce two versions, one is 30 minutes and the second is 45 minutes. So a C60 or C90 release is covered. The longer version is exactly the same up until about 30 minutes and then it gets very noisy (surprise). So you can do a C60 or C90 and have a noisy or mellow end, up to you. I also have some photos if that is any use. The track is called "Heroes of Soviet Union" by minimal impact."
I'm going to use the full 45-minute version, am really looking forward to putting it out. Michael's side can be whatever he wants: if that means drones etc then great! Briefly, on a Spirit Of Gravity tip, Shitmat gets live reviews in both The Wire - issue 259 (Supersonic at the Custard Factory, Birmingham) and the free magazine Spill - issue 15 (Wrong Music at the Glade Festival).
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Post by petra on Aug 17, 2005 14:09:58 GMT 1
i think my homo hero (me and russell) may have something for you stu. i'll ask r about it tomorrow. xox
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 17, 2005 14:34:25 GMT 1
Ta. I expect several of the acts who were on Sun In Wintertime could make a re-appearance as well. There's a short Frontier Telegraph track Michael passed to me that could go on, and of course new stuff from Rashamon and Rumiko it looks like. Del was talking about a Burn Burn Burn track, and possibly some stuff he's been working with various Lo Fidelity Allstars on. He also introduced me to a friend of his called Sally, whose music could be promising (I think she had a song called Head In Car Door!) Another guy called John Simpson got in contact with an mp3 of a gentle song called So Easily that we mentioned using, though he's currently putting together a band, so they might come up with something more recent in it's place. Seb's new stuff as Sparta Sal would be worth a go if he's been recording anything. Him and Ursula are also still in touch with Emma Sullivan, who's now playing in Chrome Hoof - I emailed her via their website to say hello and speculatively ask for a track, but am not really expecting to get one! Any other suggestions would be gratefully recieved. Oh yeah, am off to see Lee play at the Marlborough Theatre tonight, and will stick around in Brighton for some of the next day, hopefully catching up with Rachel, Oliva, whoever's free really. Give us a bell on the mobile if you want to say hi while I'm there.
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Post by Michael on Aug 17, 2005 15:00:08 GMT 1
Hmmmmmmmmmmm......................looks like i've got alot to live up to by the sounds of it. Glad minimal impact is happy with drones (probably going to put random instructions into my sequencer and see what it comes up with). will keep you posted x
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 17, 2005 15:35:35 GMT 1
It's not really so much that Minimal Impact's happy with drones; I don't think Steve minds greatly what's on the other side. I was thinking of your drone stuff in the first place, which is why I suggested doing the split initially.
Oh, remembered more people I'd mentioned doing the compilation to: Rufus, and the ex-Catnip duo of Jamie Tarrant and Paul Phillips.
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 17, 2005 17:53:46 GMT 1
Rachel suggested (via text, yesterday) Tim Smart, which is a fine idea. Also, I remembered Seb saying a few months ago that there's some personnel sharing between Chrome Hoof and I'm Being Good, though I don't know who. Please advise. Sure would like to see Emma again though. Sod it, off to Brighton, see you later, xxx
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Post by mooominmama on Aug 18, 2005 15:56:09 GMT 1
hey stu whos emma? please keep me up to speed, i might be hundreds of miles away but i'm still interested in yr love life!!
btw how do i start a topic of my own, im a bit thick and simply cant work it out!
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Post by rashamon on Aug 18, 2005 16:55:24 GMT 1
Go to General Board and click on New Thread. It will then give you the same kind of box as a Post Reply but when you post it there will be a new topic in the General Board with your subject. Very much looking forward to my holiday, by the way. Rucksack planning begins early next week!
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 18, 2005 17:28:24 GMT 1
Please see Lewis' "Hello" thread for updates on my lovelife ie. I haven't got one! Emma is Emma Sullivan from Pants/Sophie Sledgehammer, who I've not seen for years. An entirely different person from Emma who I went out with last year, or indeed any of the other half-dozen or so Emmas who I've had a crush on/snogged drunkenly/been tied-up on camera by etc in the past. Also a different Emma Sullivan from Marcus' sister Emma Sullivan. Blimey, keep up! Anyway, isn't this the Dizzy Tiger compilation thread? Hot Roddy's going to be on it too.
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Post by the colonial on Sept 5, 2005 19:05:09 GMT 1
What format is good for you re. sending new music?
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 5, 2005 19:55:23 GMT 1
An emailed mp3 would be ok, 'cos I could burn it onto disc, but a posted cdr or tape would be even better (more definite!) Send anything to my parents' address though, 'cos funnily enough the letter box of my house in the High Street is less than 5" wide, so you can't fit cds, dvds, videos, records etc through the door, and sometimes (like today) the postal workers just leave stuff on the doorstep (hello thieves!)
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 9, 2005 19:01:17 GMT 1
Got the film with the photos for the sleeve on Anti processed today, am really pleased with the shots of the house. So it'll look good, if nothing else! Also on the roll; lovely photos of Luke and Leia cats, funny photos of Reuben's eighteenth birthday, and the greatest photo of Lou ever. I'd post these up if I could, but they're from a disposable camera, and I've not got a scanner. pm your photo requests though, and I'll see what I can do.
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 20, 2005 19:50:16 GMT 1
Mentioned this to some of you already, but have got a recording of the first definite track for Anti: Kim Wan - Chicken In A Box ( www.kimwanart.co.uk ) Oh yes!
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Post by marcusjr on Sept 21, 2005 12:53:58 GMT 1
Possibly the greatest song about poultry ever! Very excited, thank you Mr Stu, thank you.
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Post by the colonial on Sept 24, 2005 18:29:35 GMT 1
There is a track called Disparity II in your email box from me. Its a couple of meg so will take a little while to download. Can send a decent version if neccessary as we al know that MP3s are the worst sound quality ever, and ipods are a mug's game!!
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 24, 2005 18:36:45 GMT 1
Yep, it's there, I'll download it at my parents' tomorrow. You recording as The Morning Star now, you cute little communist? Mp3 should be good enough quality for the comp.
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Post by rashamon on Sept 24, 2005 23:46:33 GMT 1
Ipod Nano? I hope they get so small that people can just shove them up their arses and be done with it.
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Post by the colonial on Sept 26, 2005 17:22:57 GMT 1
i am sure the ipod shuffle is already rectally insertable! har. More tunes soon! The Morning Star - kind of came about from watching Venus as an evening star then change overnight to a morning star which confused the hell out of people a couple of hundred years ago.
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Post by stuhuggett on Sept 26, 2005 19:11:05 GMT 1
Just to add that Richard Hart should be recording a track for this too.
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Post by rashamon on Sept 29, 2005 15:22:46 GMT 1
Is he some relation to Tony?
I'm hoping to get some stuff worked out this weekend with Seb for our contribution. Will let you know. As ever.
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Post by stuhuggett on Oct 5, 2005 20:00:45 GMT 1
Nick - Having downloaded it, I now see that the track must be called Disparity II - The Morning Star; so you're still recording under your own name then? I like it anyway, a lot more going on (maybe 'cos it's multitracked) than in your earlier recordings. Let me know whether you want this, or something else, to go on the next comp eventually.
John Simpson sent another mp3, this time of a full-band recording of a track called Lipstick Fades; it's lots of fun in a tuneful English indiepop style. Him and one of the people he recorded it with have a gig down Harpers next Tuesday, unfortunately that'll be the same time as the Rumiko Jr gig for Helen's birthday, round the corner at the Smugglers. I may try and visit both. John is now rehearsing stuff with the lovely Paul Finch (dDb), which should turn out well I reckon.
If Richard is related to Tony Hart, he doesn't mention it.
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Post by marcusjr on Oct 6, 2005 13:05:18 GMT 1
The wonderful web of the Hastings music scene, at some point in the near future everyone in the town will at some point have been in a band with everyone else in town and then the stars will go out, history will end and the cycle of forming groups, splitting up and forming new groups will begin again.
We will also worship Pete Frame as a minor deity.
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Post by the colonial on Oct 17, 2005 14:34:06 GMT 1
I am recording under "The Morning Star", rather than Nick Verlaine. I would use the second track I sent you "See The Night" maybe. It will all get more interesting when I lay my hands on some decent rythm forming device in the coming days.
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