The Best Of Madeira 2004

Do you ever get the feeling that this blog is moving ever so slightly away from its original mission, to highlight the musical offerings of dossbandland? Well, I do - but frankly, hardly anyone reads this blog so I don't give a floppy flying flip flap.

After admiring Fog's lovely holiday videos, I ventured in to my external hard drive to dig out this little piece of hobby material.
Its a cut down version of one of my holiday videos from 2004. I like this 8 minute 42 second version alot more than the original one I committed to DVD at 36 minutes 50 seconds.

Don't expect great laughs, its a family affair...

Rising High: Psychodelic path of discovery

Just wanted to send out big shouts of thanks to all the hottie nurses who recently demanded sexual favours in return for access to high quality medication(s) (I wish) the Lignocaine & Morphine were simply exquisite, and has truly been a great inspiration to my music – thank you! Student nurses rock!

Ostrich Tentacles: Digital joygasm & new beginnings...

Recently myself & various despicable Colne Valley reprobates hit an Ozric Tentacles gig in Manchester for Fogs birthday (where I proceeded to embarrass the hell out of everyone by skating through the streets & knocking into various smashed hippies in the Academy with my deck) - utterly delicious! I was totally inspired by the experience, and as a result I've found myself left with a strong desire to start making music again (after a lengthy 6/7 year break due to uni etc)! In this way I've begun playing around with sound(s) again, so you can expect some new material (as well as old) to slowly emerge as time goes by! Just been doing a sound check & seen as though it’s kept me up until 5:46 am Saturday morning I thought I'd record it & post it to justify the sleep deprivation (its not a song) but its a taste of things to come!

Snagglepuss.mp3

Young Frankenstein

Here's a very silly 0=2 song...


Franky by 0=2

Ambient Reverb

Here's a track by 0=2 that was heavily inspired by Aphex Twin.

Hodred by 0=2

Summer Holiday Part 3

Things were looking good on the morning of day 3. The birds were singing and the sun was shining through the clouds. The drive to Scafell Pike was pretty gorgeous as the Sun was starting to illuminate the hills. I was convinced that this was to be the glorious day of the trip. Then it started to seem like we were driving away from the warmth and sunshine, and things started to look more foreboding. We pressed on regardless and by the time we arrived at the base of the mountain it had become almost gale force even on ground level. And so of we went...

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Picking Up Girls Made Easy!

If Only I had owned this records when I was a teenager, I would of been stud of the Colne Valley. Apart from the fact that there are no beaches...

Here's a useful lesson:

The Beach Pick-Up

If you want to be educated in the art of picking up women you can download the entire album here.

Lysergic Union: When Worlds Collide

Stumbled across this whilst scouring through my old tape collection! It’s an 11 minute sample from the original 50 minute performance featuring me & Ben lost in psychedelic space on that old classic analogue synthesizer the Jupiter 4 (recorded at Laurel Bank in about 1993 or there about)! Blew my mind finding that one I can tell you (Kiploing this one's dedicated 2U)!

LysergicUnion_RM.mp3

Anal 2 Digital: Drum Machines Ate My Soul

A big horsy high going out to all you despicable fiendish reprobates within & around the Colne Valley Locale! Recently found the courage (thanks to Fotswana) to begin converting all my old analogue cassettes from around 93 - 99 to the digital format (in lieu of a forth coming album aptly named Analogue 2 Digital: Drum Machines Ate My Soul). In this manner I've recently begun re-mastering these appalling quality recordings (with more noise than signal - aren’t cassettes great: not) which is painstaking & slow but worth it I'm sure! In this manner I've managed to salvage the following 4 tracks & over the course of the following week(s) more will likely appear subject to workload! Enjoy dudes/dudettes & max respect to Colne Valey Chaos for providing me with a means of banishing my menkal skeletons!

WontTakeMeAlive_RM.mp3 (Boss 660)
EveryLastDrop_RM.mp3 (Yamaha RY30)
IndivisibleMoment_RM.mp3 (Boss DR5)
Cyax_RM.mp3 (Roland R8)

Vintage Tape from Way Back...

Wow - i've enjoyed finding these little gems below tonight on a knackered old cassette - it's just a shame that so much recorded audio from way back is missing but I found these little snippets earlier:

This is me and my Brother playing on the Atari VCS 2600

atari.mp3

This is Craig Mcevoy making a prank call on his little brother (we made a whole tape of these - god I wish I still had it!)

macky.mp3

This is me with a couple of early experiments of tape dubbing (with a pair of headphones for a mic!)

madmike.mp3

flipster.mp3

I'm inspired to scour more old tapes with greater scrutiny now!

Biostupid Girl

We'd be lost without YouTube here at the Colne Valley Chaos blog. We've put loads of our crap on there. One thing's for certain though - however crap our crap is, there lots more crapper crap to be found. I mean, have you seen those video blogs people put up?

My bird and I particularly enjoy the ouvre of "biostudentgirl" - who manages to post lots and lots without saying anything of consequence whatsoever. You can see the original bint here.

And here's our interpretation:



***UPDATE***

This filthy video upset YouTube so much that they banned it! No kidding. They happily host videoblogs with 15 year olds flashing their norks at the camera, clips showing people being flung across freeways in car crashes and folks being beaten to a bloody pulp in the street - but our video was just too hot for them to handle.

Anyway - we cleverly circumvented that by sticking it on Google. NEEEAAAAH!

The Road of Kings

Here's the cover of the book I was reading from in 'Conan Adventure'. I remember taking this book into a 'reading class' at junior school and asking the teacher what a whore was as it was a word I didn't understand in the book - she was a little shocked! ;-)

Conan Adventure

I think 'Conan Adventure' was the first Gibs song that foggy ever let me play the keyboard on. Yes, I know there were earlier times on other songs when I'd interfere with the tempo knob - but this, this was my time to shine!
With no actual musical experience whatsoever, I tinkled and tinkled like a cautious kitten wondering why light reflecting from water through a french window and on to an artex wall was so mesmerising.

Why Conan? Well, Fog had a book about Conan the Barbarian - and with the lack of lyrical inspiration and the sheer feeling of exhaustion after screaming for the last 2 hours on numerous other early Gibs tracks that now don't see the light of day, we decided that reading a book on tape to my dismal efforts on keyboards was all we could muster.

Personally, it's one of may favourites... a timeless classic, although really, created about 19 years ago. (whoah!)

Listen to Conan Adventure

Kipz' Embarassing Songs Part III

Here's part 3 of Kipz' Most Embarassing songs - this one is written by the man himself. Featuring 2 more NWOBHM classics from Priapus!

For me, Crusader was the last vaguely decent Saxon album. This single was always a favourite, I particularly like the guitar solo, but I murdered it wirh a fuzz tone.

Sailing To America

U.F.O. were the first band I ever saw and it was on the 'Making Contact' tour. This was one of the first songs we did with Priapus, and this is a recording of the first gig we ever did. It was Saul's 18th at Scammandon Water Sailing Club. Wevs always liked the
drums in the intro.

When it's Time to Rock

Summer Holiday Part 2

Day 2 and the weather was still shite! We decided to go to Buttermere, which is one of my favourite places in the lakes! This vid shows a fairly short climb to a great view and some choice kiploing moments!

Summer Holiday Part 1

Howdy y'all! This is the first part of a video diary documenting a holiday with Kipz, Fog and Rob to the lake district this Summer. After about 3 weeks of baking sunshine the weather turns shite but we decide to go ahead anyway. You are about to witness the cows of castlerigg communing with the stones!

Dave Nixon - Rewind!

Dave Nixon on the Radio - Remix - Bo Selecta! This is from the same tape as Socksick (i'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel now). It's interesting to note that Kipling quotes this so if you ever here him saying "Are you sure...ure.....ure?" this is where he got it from.... laters!

Dave Nixon Nitrogen Remix 2012

Socksick

Here's a lost song that I stumbled upon today from Giblets and Cheese' first session.

Socksick

Mr Spock's Enormous...

This has nothing to do with CVC at all... except that it made me laugh, the lyrics and performance are a bit GWF-ish and I wish I'd done it first. Also, any excuse to get Star Trek onto the blog.