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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 21, 2005 23:33:57 GMT 1
So, for the first time in ages, a full-on Mumm-ra gig at Frenchs this evening. I enjoyed it, but references that came to mind (as mentioned in conversation) were: i) Van Der Graff Generator (generally) ii) The Headboys - The Shape Of Things To Come iii) Slowdive - Catch The Breeze (etc) Any opinions? Also, reassuringly, The Heaters (and agents/managers etc): seem very nice guys. What's yer take on their music? I'm thinking: good references (eg. The Only Ones covers, The Libertines influence), but more practice necessary to find their own personality. Still, neither band are in any way Dizzy Tiger-attached, so they ain't gonna give a monkey's! G'nite! xx
Updated: Hmm, I posted this last night when I got back from the Dragon. It makes sense, but I'm thinking: possible future problem of posting-while-drunk may occur! Apologies in advance if that happens...
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Post by rashamon on Aug 22, 2005 9:22:08 GMT 1
Well I didn't really understand what you were talking about but I'm all in favour of drunken post gig reviews.
Actually, any kind of drunken review is pretty funny.
;D
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Post by marcusjr on Aug 22, 2005 13:40:06 GMT 1
All hail the Ra! All hail the Ra!
Don't half sound like Killers though (as ably demonstrated by Del singing Killers songs during their set before weeping into his beer for the rest of the evening).
I like The Heaters but mainly for The Only Ones covers.
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 23, 2005 19:32:58 GMT 1
I don't really see The Killers in there so much; Mumm-ra way less linear. Though their Serial Killers tribute band was a bit of a giveway. (CUT TO: Mumm-ra's credibility flying out the window)
Nah, they've got a couple of good singles in them, at least. So long as they don't "do a Toploader" (who must be cursing their label to this day).
Be fair to Del: he's made some good singles too. Monitor Rock being top of the pile, but there's plenty more of their songs that would top it, if they got released. He was probably just weeping for Mumm-ra's forthcoming loss of innocence.
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Post by the colonial on Aug 25, 2005 23:58:57 GMT 1
Who are the Killers? Mum Ra I have heard of.
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 26, 2005 0:10:16 GMT 1
Blimey, The Killers not popular Stateside? Major-label, Las Vegas "Indie" band, popular album Hot Fuss (feat. 1 good song). Lead singer is Mormon, fondness for salmon-pink suits. Um, yeah.
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Post by the colonial on Aug 26, 2005 0:21:16 GMT 1
This is the sound of me shrugging. You must remember thay I am under the evil radio banner of "CCC" (crap canadian content) - see kim mitchell for explanation. What are you still doing up anyway?
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 26, 2005 7:52:03 GMT 1
Had been down pub! Had gone back online when I got in to see if email fixed yet (no). Then passed out..
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Post by Mystic Mork on Aug 31, 2005 1:42:24 GMT 1
That was their first gig since being signed you know...
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Post by stuhuggett on Aug 31, 2005 9:28:49 GMT 1
Yeah, we knew that when we went along, it's one of those hot pieces of news that everyone has heard, but have all been too cautious to mention in case we jinx the fellers. However, I just double-checked what's remaining of the message boards on their site (click on the band logo at www.mumm-ra.com ), and Niall (bass?) has mentioned that the signing is about to happen - on a post that only went up last night, it looks like. So, even if the deal's not been fully worked out and finalised yet (or maybe it has?), I think everyone can now go "Hey! Mumm-ra sign major record deal! Read all about it!" in the streets, without every passer-by turning round and going "Sssh!"
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 23, 2005 19:59:22 GMT 1
Seen in the NME that Mumm-ra are playing quite a few gigs around the country at the moment, mostly ones actually promoted as Club NME nights. Looks like their push is beginning, then. Be good if they do break through a little, as they'd be the first group from our area (socially, rather than merely geographically) to get that attention, ie: they've at least come through from playing the same gigs as the rest of the local bands (unlike Keane, for instance). For the record, yes, we did ask Noo if he wanted to include Mumm-ra on the compilation that became Sun In Wintertime, but although he was up for it at the time (late night down Harpers, if you're wondering) they never came through with a track. I mention this partly to confirm their credentials, as the NME is nowadays often full of put-together groups allegedly from places like Brighton, who we know damn well are frauds (names withheld for "starved of the oxygen of publicity" reasons).
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Post by marcusjr on Nov 23, 2005 20:37:43 GMT 1
Single out in the New Year apparently. On a related tip Jon who sat in for The Rock behind the kit seems to be doing OK with his group The River Club who seem to have a small deal and keep bothering the toilet circuit at the moment.
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Post by regularbonj on Nov 24, 2005 15:57:36 GMT 1
minor hit! end of...
(Ooh, sour grapes!)
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Post by regularbonj on Nov 25, 2005 17:13:15 GMT 1
has anyone else seen that fuckin mumm-ra comic? what the fuck is it all about? the dude writin that was trippin hard! i'd love to be in a comic, but not that one. Check it out, you can get it from the library (lee will know what its called!) Seriously, check it out...oh yeah its free!
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 25, 2005 17:34:13 GMT 1
We're talking the Thundercats nemesis this time, not the band, right? If there's a Mumm-ra The Band comic - I want one!
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Post by regularbonj on Nov 25, 2005 17:37:41 GMT 1
no, seriously, you dont! Actually, you gotta see it to believe it! go to the childrens library, apparently they're by the door.
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Post by lord_fuxley on Nov 25, 2005 18:58:00 GMT 1
I want one...
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Post by Reuben on Nov 25, 2005 19:14:57 GMT 1
How about a Regular john vs The heaters comic?, everyone would buy it!
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 25, 2005 19:46:16 GMT 1
I don't think I'm gonna start hanging round the Children's Library, actually, would be more than a little weird! Sin'll have to book it out himself, if it's really that worth a look. Good plan, Reuben: while we're waiting for someone to sort a film camera out, why not start on Hastings Toilet-Circuit Bands - The Animated Series?!
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Post by marcusjr on Nov 26, 2005 16:21:04 GMT 1
According to Rufus it is actually a Mumm-Ra (the band) comic and it is absolutely abysmal. I know now that I have to read it, before Sony buy up every copy in a damage limitation exercise.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 26, 2005 19:43:18 GMT 1
I don't get a day-off 'til next Friday, so could someone get down the Children's Library (still off Robertson Street, I think) and get the comic out please? I really wanna see it now! May accidentally have to pop into TVC Video on one of my lunchbreaks and hang round the photocopier near the desk, of course...
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 28, 2005 21:44:28 GMT 1
Bloody hell, this comic is peculiar! There's also a pile of copies free to take from in the (excellent) shop in the re-opened De La Warr Pavilion, alongside similar outlets I expect (see below). It's called Here Is Wherever, "featuring breaking band Mumm-ra The Everliving", and seems to be some kind of educational/cultural project for East Sussex. It'll probably explain it a bit better if I quote the back-cover blurb:
"Reality is constantly on the move on the South Coast of England, as kids from Bexhill, Brighton, Hastings and Lewes demonstrate. In 'Here Is Wherever', their true stories tell of fantastic dreams from the past and the future, secret signs in everyday life, the power of music and cheap time-travel. 'Here Is Wherever' is a book all about the links that can be made between the past and life today. Using four unique Sussex museums, galleries and heritage sites as starting points, these stories suggest that the past isn't lost, just slightly hidden by the present and that it is possible to bump into past characters, experiences and places any day of the week, anywhere you like."
Mumm-ra take the front cover, and the first of the four stories 'Universe of Ra', in which the members of the band slip between Bexhill's actual reality, and the psychedelically-patterned Bexhill of Mumm-ra Reality. They float around the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill beach and, um, Tescos having, well, no adventures whatsoever! The comic (by Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio) is a curious enough item already, uncertainly aimed at every age-group of kids in an effort to bring them into museums and make them more aware of how their towns are shaped by various historical occurences (local or not). But the Mumm-ra chapter sends it completely off-beam. It's only the utter misdirected oddness of the whole venture that makes me recommend you head out and grab yourself a copy, as an ephemeral cultural souvenir. Sony are gonna find it a bit of a difficult one to explain away if credibility issues ever rear their heads... A total "what the fuck..?" experience. Enjoy!
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Post by mooominmama on Nov 28, 2005 22:44:53 GMT 1
please can i have a copy??? i'll be back on the 12th...it sounds kinda scary but almost exactly like the kind of nonsense that is actually about all my brain can cope with at the mo... thought i was handling it all reasonably well too until jon the ambulance man asked me earlier if this really was reality or if he was dreaming... arrrrrgggggggggghhhhh!!! eh? i thought this was all happening only in my head... or maybe jons not real either... yikes!
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 29, 2005 8:36:16 GMT 1
Tying in with several threads: yes, I'll pick you up a copy of the Mumm-ra comic; if you're back on the 12th that means you can probably come along to (I'm assuming) Dean & Jim down Smugglers on the 13th, and me djing at the Dragon on the 14th or 15th (I'm gonna have to double-check this one); my alarm-clock woke me up just in time from a weird dream about a nurse this morning (wasn't you though, unless it was and you were having the same dream..); and only get nervy about Jon the ambulance man if he asks you if you want to see something REALLY scary!*
*Dan Ackroyd -style.
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Post by stuhuggett on Nov 30, 2005 23:30:27 GMT 1
The cover of Here Is Wherever, and more info on the artists, is viewable at their website www.kartoonkings.com Jamie pointed out to me that it is indeed Thursday 15th Dec that I'm at The Dragon (as it says on these boards elsewhere, if I'd only checked!) Lucky he was a bit more sober than me at the time I made the booking. That's all!
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Post by Captain Weirdbeard on Dec 3, 2005 12:18:09 GMT 1
God people keep leaving copies of it in our shop. I think people think cool free comic and they read some and feel compelled to drop it and wash themselves. It's fucking embarrasing.
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Post by marcusjr on Apr 19, 2006 12:49:51 GMT 1
New Mumm-ra single What would Steve Do? available to listen to : www.myspace.com/mummraBacked with Song E. The pysch loud quiet dynamics of yore seem to be absent though they do display a canny knack with the middle 8 of lifting the song out of the bleeding obvious. What do you lot think?
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Post by stuhuggett on Apr 19, 2006 15:26:54 GMT 1
If anyone with broadband wants to burn it I'll give an opinion! Myspace on dial-up has more gaps than an Ital Jets gig.
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Post by alfie on Apr 19, 2006 15:31:19 GMT 1
Hey Marcus, see the list of gigs that Mumm-ra are doing?(on their site) They are all KEY venues in this country, exactly what ALL bands do to get noticed, thats EXACTLY where you guys should be playing! Why dont you book a tour like that when the new album comes out? Thats what i suggested doing when the last one came out, but someone said that "it's no point" if i remember well...mmm I still think that if everyone does it, there probably is a point. Or if there isnt, then at least you get a good audience and get drunk!
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Post by marcusjr on Apr 19, 2006 18:04:15 GMT 1
There's no point chasing the indie kid dollar, we're too old and too country. There I said it. Mumm-ra aren't headlining it's a tour support so it's not a case of posting demo's to venues. Anyway that's Simon's job I ain't getting my hands dirty.
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