2 recent recordings from RABBIT CLUTCH - featuring a song not written by Kipz - in fact Set Love Free is 1 of 2 new tracks written by Joel Haslam.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Radio Bingo Blowout!
Feeling Tired and Jaded? Life Getting You Down? Can't find the Motivation to Eat? Step Right This Way For Help - A Whole New Batch of Life Affirming Tracks From The One and Only Radio Bingo!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Message from Gerry and Margot...
'We're so happy about the imminent release of Colne Valley Chaos 6' and just wanted to let you all know how godammed stoked we are for it down here! Tom and Barbara are going apeshit next door listening to loads of their old Giblets and Cheese cassettes and dancing like maniacs! lol! Much as we love the old stuff, Gerry is particularly keen on The Genital Wart Factor, we can't wait to hear if the new stuff kicks as much ass! Lastly, we would like to thank TWAIN for helping us with some of our marital issues, we like to watch his Sexwatch videos and then play some of his tunes whilst exprimenting with some of the things he mentions in his broadcasts. Of course not ALL of them, the spatula is bent right out of shape after we went too far last week. LOL!
well anyway, that's all for now
don't forget to mail us a copy
love
Margot and Gerry
xxxxxxxxxxx'
Monday, July 02, 2007
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Colne Valley Chaos 6
Ok Guys - The Time is now right for the next installment - I am starting to collate material for a brand new CVC. Just got some new Rabbit Clutch material to sift through. I will be approaching folk for material to add soon. Anyone with access to the webspace FTP can upload files there - better still would be stuff on CD. Cheers.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
Colne Valley Chaos 5 - Vampire Tree
Tom Taylor's edition of the CVC series is now available on the compilations page.CVC 5
Here's some tasters:
John Thomas - Big Rocks
GWF - Prisoner of Huddersfield Dance Mix
Mile High Henry - Mrs Confucious II
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Colne Valley Chaos 4
CVC 4 Up for Download on the Compilations Page
Some Tasters...
Radio Bingo - Challenge
Easy Street - Bastard Squad
Pagans - franksinatranazi
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: Bernard Manning arrives in Hell
And yes, we can join our dead correspondent in Hell right now...
Over to you...
Over to you...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
Updatey, Updatey
Things have been very quiet from the Twain faction of CVC of late, what with stupid amounts of real work to attend to. Still there are a couple of things worth noting.
* The secret plan to put together a live version of The All New Lucky Boys is progressing slowly with the agreement of the bumble bee jumpered Mr Kipling to come on board and play bass. Attempts to draw Jon out of the attic/pub/toilet and join us for rehearsals and thence live on stage have all been fruitless. Not a pineapple, not an apple. Not even a dirty berry. This saddens us, but still we plough on. We have a set list. We have a band. We've not all been in the same room holding our instruments at the same time, but that will happen, I'm sure.
* I've just finished repurposing an old Windows machine expressly for music production. It has a dedicated four input mixer and is running FL Studio 7, Adobe Audition, Reason LE, Melodyne and Jet Set Willy on a Spectrum emulator. Wheee! We must perform a Quirkafleeg!
* With the computerstudioatron now finished, I should be able to record some tracks for the covers CD compo - as soon as time permits. Time is a bitch though. Time has me tied to a chair with a hessian sack over my head. However, thanks to Bias Sound Soap 2.0, I have an old track ready to go! Will upload it this weekend. It's an ancient cover version of Gibs choon "Strong Bobby".
* Jon J. Ugulation handed me a grubby CD full of film related Radio Bingo t'other day. When I'm feeling sane I'll give it a listen and digitise tracks for the movie compo.
Twainy, over and out. Way out.
* The secret plan to put together a live version of The All New Lucky Boys is progressing slowly with the agreement of the bumble bee jumpered Mr Kipling to come on board and play bass. Attempts to draw Jon out of the attic/pub/toilet and join us for rehearsals and thence live on stage have all been fruitless. Not a pineapple, not an apple. Not even a dirty berry. This saddens us, but still we plough on. We have a set list. We have a band. We've not all been in the same room holding our instruments at the same time, but that will happen, I'm sure.
* I've just finished repurposing an old Windows machine expressly for music production. It has a dedicated four input mixer and is running FL Studio 7, Adobe Audition, Reason LE, Melodyne and Jet Set Willy on a Spectrum emulator. Wheee! We must perform a Quirkafleeg!
* With the computerstudioatron now finished, I should be able to record some tracks for the covers CD compo - as soon as time permits. Time is a bitch though. Time has me tied to a chair with a hessian sack over my head. However, thanks to Bias Sound Soap 2.0, I have an old track ready to go! Will upload it this weekend. It's an ancient cover version of Gibs choon "Strong Bobby".
* Jon J. Ugulation handed me a grubby CD full of film related Radio Bingo t'other day. When I'm feeling sane I'll give it a listen and digitise tracks for the movie compo.
Twainy, over and out. Way out.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Henry's Smoking Column - Pre-historic smoking
My current research has revealed that smoking was common through a significant chunk of pre-history.
It was first done by dragonfly-like insects in the early Palaeozoic era as a form of extreme cannibalism. As far as I can make out from the limited texts available, the central tenet of their belief system held that inhaling the 'soul smoke' of rival clans caused 'great joy and upliftment to the skies.' Gradually, the practice came to be seen as barbarous and was sold off to the now extinct Malanga fly who developed it to a fine art, using beautifully crafted obsidian pipes in convoluted rituals. They concentrated wholly on smoking members of new species with particularly desirable character traits in the belief that they would aquire more legs or a liking for sprouts, or whatever.
They seem to have had some measure of success: the dominant theory about the eventual fate of the Malanga (one I made up all by myself) is that they evolved into 'mind bees' that live in your head and become terribly agitated the morning after you have a night on the tiles, when they cause tinnitus.
It was first done by dragonfly-like insects in the early Palaeozoic era as a form of extreme cannibalism. As far as I can make out from the limited texts available, the central tenet of their belief system held that inhaling the 'soul smoke' of rival clans caused 'great joy and upliftment to the skies.' Gradually, the practice came to be seen as barbarous and was sold off to the now extinct Malanga fly who developed it to a fine art, using beautifully crafted obsidian pipes in convoluted rituals. They concentrated wholly on smoking members of new species with particularly desirable character traits in the belief that they would aquire more legs or a liking for sprouts, or whatever.
They seem to have had some measure of success: the dominant theory about the eventual fate of the Malanga (one I made up all by myself) is that they evolved into 'mind bees' that live in your head and become terribly agitated the morning after you have a night on the tiles, when they cause tinnitus.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Monday, May 07, 2007
Colne Valley Chaos Covers
Just to get everyone up to speed on the Covers Project.
We now have 7 tracks:
Satan's Willy - GWF Medley I
Rabbit Clutch - Banana Tig (GWF)
Kipling - Adventures (Gibs)
Kipling - GWF Medley II
0=2 - Black Pudding / World Without Mirrors (Rabbit Clutch)
0=2 - Spectres in the Wind (ETR)
Fog - Meh (Karl Karcass)
They are not all uploaded yet but will be very soon
update - all now uploaded
ALSO - kips has done 2 tracks for the potential comp
Colne Valley Chaos at the Movies:
Satan's Willy - Evil Dead II
Kipling - EraserHead
We now have 7 tracks:
Satan's Willy - GWF Medley I
Rabbit Clutch - Banana Tig (GWF)
Kipling - Adventures (Gibs)
Kipling - GWF Medley II
0=2 - Black Pudding / World Without Mirrors (Rabbit Clutch)
0=2 - Spectres in the Wind (ETR)
Fog - Meh (Karl Karcass)
They are not all uploaded yet but will be very soon
update - all now uploaded
ALSO - kips has done 2 tracks for the potential comp
Colne Valley Chaos at the Movies:
Satan's Willy - Evil Dead II
Kipling - EraserHead
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Telescopes 2007
0=2 has gone and dun a new version of the Gibs classic Telscopes
Telescopes 2007
now he's gone and dun a version of the very first Gibs track
Dogs in the Study - Blanker Mix 2007
Telescopes 2007
now he's gone and dun a version of the very first Gibs track
Dogs in the Study - Blanker Mix 2007
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Les & Shirley
It's been a bit quiet on the blog lately - so hears a little bit of classic fun to keep you going!
Monday, April 02, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Crazy Sonix!
Howdy - I just did a massive update of audio stuff on the secret cavern and thought a couple of 'em may be of interest to certain chaosheads.
Side 1
Other ones that might interest you include a luvly version of The Pied Piper read by Dear Larry Olivier which contains some really nice music of a flutey kind of nature. Also relive the future with the Missile Command read along - and if you can understand it please provide a translation for me.
For Example take this strangeling - Around the World with Sooty - I bet this was Frank Sidebottom's favourite record as a kid - have a listen and and see for yourself:
Side 1
Other ones that might interest you include a luvly version of The Pied Piper read by Dear Larry Olivier which contains some really nice music of a flutey kind of nature. Also relive the future with the Missile Command read along - and if you can understand it please provide a translation for me.Saturday, March 17, 2007
Twain on MySpace
My last MySpace page was inexplicably banned. I don't know why. That's what "inexplicably" means. Anyroad, I've given it time to calm down and I'm back on there. Hurrah! The new page is mainly for my writing projects BUT I'll also be using it to launch some CVC related stuff too - like the forthcoming Octafish video for "Spacehopper". It's only been up two days though, so is looking a bit sad so far.
If you are a MySpace monkey too, please friend me. We can start a zoo! Or, more accurately, a small primate enclosure...
Go HERE and click "Be My Stalker".
Do it now, or I'll be forced to start accepting friend invitations from 14 year old Essex rappers.
If you are a MySpace monkey too, please friend me. We can start a zoo! Or, more accurately, a small primate enclosure...
Go HERE and click "Be My Stalker".
Do it now, or I'll be forced to start accepting friend invitations from 14 year old Essex rappers.
Friday, March 16, 2007
If Giblets and Cheese were X-rated...
...They would probably do stuff a bit like this
But they aren't and they don't.
But they aren't and they don't.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Photomania
Oh god the memories!
Here's a trio of classic pix from back in the day that Clemmy just sent me!
Here's a trio of classic pix from back in the day that Clemmy just sent me!
Monday, March 12, 2007
Secret Cavern getting a little less Secret...
My site The Secret Cavern is getting a bit more noticed these days - check out this nice feature from SFFaudio
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Colne Valley Band of Yesteryear
Kips came round to my house the other day sweatily clutching a pile of old photos that he wanted me to scan for the site - here's one featuring two CVC stalwarts in their youth - check it!
Timperley Rocks!
Here's a little tribute to Frank who played in Huddersfield the other day - this clip is from a Manchester gig - quality is a bit low but this was the funniest part of the show for me!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Chaos Covers
For all the CVC posse... I've just created a folder on the shared webspace for the new Covers project. Please post all proposed covers here to avoid repeat tracks.
Addendum:
Just thought I'd post a note here to explain what Foggy's on about in the note above. The next CVC project is "CVC Covers". Like the Christmas project, anyone associated with CVC can take part. The idea is to cover a song or piece of music by another CVC group or musician. Only rules are:
No repeat tracks.
No remakes of your own tunes.
Any further suggestions, please direct your commentary to the comments section. I thank you!
Karl
Addendum:
Just thought I'd post a note here to explain what Foggy's on about in the note above. The next CVC project is "CVC Covers". Like the Christmas project, anyone associated with CVC can take part. The idea is to cover a song or piece of music by another CVC group or musician. Only rules are:
No repeat tracks.
No remakes of your own tunes.
Any further suggestions, please direct your commentary to the comments section. I thank you!
Karl
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Henry's Smoking Column - Duma, the lost weeks
Hello everyone, good to be back. For the last X weeks, I have smoked nothing but Duma, the Dutch shag that everyone brings back from trips abroad. It was a mite disorientating, to understate matters and I'm afraid I can't bring myself to write my notes up into a coherent whole. To give you some idea of the experience I had one of my (excellent) trained vervet monkeys transcribe the resulting dictaphone tapes:
[Tape begins]
So. here we are, a sunny, no, overcast Monday in March. Actually, what is the weather like? [shouts] Jo! Jocasta! What's the weather like, darling? [muffled sounds] Ok, light west south west, slight drizzle, 7 octas cover, cat refuses to go outside. Subject under test is 'Duma' rolling tobacco. I will be smoking rollies for a period of . . . well, lets see how long this batch of . . . 40 kilos lasts.
Jesus! It takes so damn long to roll one of these things I'll die of . . . Ah, that's better [blows smoke]. Hmm. Its been a while since I smoked Duma. Maybe I'll have to cancel that sub-contract and move rollie testing back in-house. Damn east Europeans get far too much work from me as it is. So. First impressions. Well, the tar content is good and high, yes I can feel the stickiness. Hmm, good stickiness. Yes, damn fine. A tick in the stickiness box. Two, yes two ticks and a second stick. Aargh! I need someone to roll for me. [shouts] Bingo! Bingo, come here and roll fags for me! [door opens] Yes, I said roll. With those little filters. There on the floor. Faster, please. Good.
Tuesday. We got rid of those damn filters about half an hour into the test, yesterday and the improvement was, well . . . er, marginal? Is that the word? Anyway, good stickiness and the flavour, after . . . 26 hours and 37 minutes, is that of [masticating noises] of . . . somewhere between new car plastic and . . . that particular humus you pick out of a gutter. Hmm, yes not bad. A tick and perhaps a squiggle in the flavour box.
Thursday is it? Bing . . . Bing . . . Go! [mutters] Bingo. Bingo. [shouts] What the hell is this squiggle doing in my flavour box? I pacifically 'splained that no unauthorised . . . unauthorised . . . [muffled sounds] oh, I did did I? Well. So there.
Day, er day 3, no, 5. Whatever, is 'feelings' day. Hey, Bingo - this 'feelings' box is huge. That's not right, is it? I love you. Yes, the feelings I have after [mumble] days of smoking . . . this stuff is of tenaciousness. Like I was listening to 'Trout Mask Replica' and wouldn't switch it off until I got to . . . let's say 'Sugar 'n spikes' even though my, er, buttocks had cramp, or something. Do I know you? [tape runs for 6 minutes 25 seconds with scraping noises]
Sunday. No, Tuesday. I . . . I can't, er . . . What? More smoke. 'Marry, sir . . . It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to. . .' [incoherent mumbling] [tape runs for 47 minutes 12 seconds with nothing but scuffling and distant yowls]
Angström!
[Tape ends]
And I'm afraid that's all. I hope you can pick some gems out of that swill and if not, then swill out of the gems. You'll be glad to know I'm back on the straights.
[Tape begins]
So. here we are, a sunny, no, overcast Monday in March. Actually, what is the weather like? [shouts] Jo! Jocasta! What's the weather like, darling? [muffled sounds] Ok, light west south west, slight drizzle, 7 octas cover, cat refuses to go outside. Subject under test is 'Duma' rolling tobacco. I will be smoking rollies for a period of . . . well, lets see how long this batch of . . . 40 kilos lasts.
Jesus! It takes so damn long to roll one of these things I'll die of . . . Ah, that's better [blows smoke]. Hmm. Its been a while since I smoked Duma. Maybe I'll have to cancel that sub-contract and move rollie testing back in-house. Damn east Europeans get far too much work from me as it is. So. First impressions. Well, the tar content is good and high, yes I can feel the stickiness. Hmm, good stickiness. Yes, damn fine. A tick in the stickiness box. Two, yes two ticks and a second stick. Aargh! I need someone to roll for me. [shouts] Bingo! Bingo, come here and roll fags for me! [door opens] Yes, I said roll. With those little filters. There on the floor. Faster, please. Good.
Tuesday. We got rid of those damn filters about half an hour into the test, yesterday and the improvement was, well . . . er, marginal? Is that the word? Anyway, good stickiness and the flavour, after . . . 26 hours and 37 minutes, is that of [masticating noises] of . . . somewhere between new car plastic and . . . that particular humus you pick out of a gutter. Hmm, yes not bad. A tick and perhaps a squiggle in the flavour box.
Thursday is it? Bing . . . Bing . . . Go! [mutters] Bingo. Bingo. [shouts] What the hell is this squiggle doing in my flavour box? I pacifically 'splained that no unauthorised . . . unauthorised . . . [muffled sounds] oh, I did did I? Well. So there.
Day, er day 3, no, 5. Whatever, is 'feelings' day. Hey, Bingo - this 'feelings' box is huge. That's not right, is it? I love you. Yes, the feelings I have after [mumble] days of smoking . . . this stuff is of tenaciousness. Like I was listening to 'Trout Mask Replica' and wouldn't switch it off until I got to . . . let's say 'Sugar 'n spikes' even though my, er, buttocks had cramp, or something. Do I know you? [tape runs for 6 minutes 25 seconds with scraping noises]
Sunday. No, Tuesday. I . . . I can't, er . . . What? More smoke. 'Marry, sir . . . It makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him and disheartens him; makes him stand to and not stand to. . .' [incoherent mumbling] [tape runs for 47 minutes 12 seconds with nothing but scuffling and distant yowls]
Angström!
[Tape ends]
And I'm afraid that's all. I hope you can pick some gems out of that swill and if not, then swill out of the gems. You'll be glad to know I'm back on the straights.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Pagans - 3 piece suite.
This was our only experiment with notated music.
I wrote "Sprite", Tom wrote "Lament..." and we co-wrote "Soil...".
Tom played violin, Becky played double bass and I played clarinet, bass clarinet (courtesy of Kirklees Youth Orchestra) + soprano sax.
Not exactly consumate chamber performers, we didn't quite capture some of the rhythmical intricacies but we didn't have a lot of time to practice!
Experiment away...
Kips.
Click Here to Play
P.S. More Pagans Tracks to Be Added to the Main Site Soon!
I wrote "Sprite", Tom wrote "Lament..." and we co-wrote "Soil...".
Tom played violin, Becky played double bass and I played clarinet, bass clarinet (courtesy of Kirklees Youth Orchestra) + soprano sax.
Not exactly consumate chamber performers, we didn't quite capture some of the rhythmical intricacies but we didn't have a lot of time to practice!
Experiment away...
Kips.
Click Here to Play
P.S. More Pagans Tracks to Be Added to the Main Site Soon!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
0=2 - Retro Mania
Here's the first 0=2 Quartet tape. This is one of a 2 tape set of the first Quartet stuff. This tape has definately been through the wars, it's been played to death, snapped and fixed, lost and found. The second tape is still missing although incomplete copies exist. This stuff has been released in a truncated form by Kipz.
Side One - ZBKFO
Side Two - Quadruple Display
Side One - ZBKFO
Side Two - Quadruple Display
p.s. side two was actually recorded first - i think i made a mistake when naming the sides!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Rabbit Clutch - Live in London.
I went to see Kips and 'Rabbit Clutch' neé 'Donald Syndrome' at The Good Ship, Kilburn last Thursday. With only my phone I managed to capture this crude vid of the song 'Gibbering Idiot'. Did some post production in iMovieHD to make it look like a bad Super8 as opposed to a REALLY bad 176x120 digital dogshite.
Next time I'll take a proper video camera. Promise!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
0=2 - A Bucket of Billberries - Cover
Here's the cover (not to exact dimensions so may be cut different for CD) for the new 0=2 CD coming soon to a seedy backwater near you...
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
David Icke links to one of my Spider-Man vids!
The ickester has linked to one of my read along movies from his news blog! The movie, Invasion of the Dragon Men obviously has interesting 'Reptillian Agenda' overtones...
Check out the movie for yourself here!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Compilations + Collaborations
A new area has been added to the main site to host all past, present and future compilations and collaborations from the CVC posse.
CVC Xmas is up and all the old comps will be uploaded at a steady pace over the next while.
Click Here to Visit
UPDATE!
3 classic CVC comps now online for download
some tasters...
CVC Xmas is up and all the old comps will be uploaded at a steady pace over the next while.
Click Here to Visit
UPDATE!
3 classic CVC comps now online for download
some tasters...
some tasters...
some tasters...
Monday, December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Seasons Greetings to one and all!Many Thanks to Karl for getting the ball rolling with Colne Valley Chaos Christmas - it's been great fun for all the CVC heads to get together on this project -- what's next? Watch this space! ;-)
Here is a lovely stocking filler for you all from the gorgeous Jeff Lawson - enjoy!
Good King Wenceslas - by Jeff Lawson
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Colne Valley Chaos Christmas is Released!
Ladies and Gentlemen, after 17 days of sterling work Colne Valley Chaos Christmas is complete!
There are two versions available - the Internet distribution version (in MP3 format) and the CD version. You can download the Internet version here:
>>> Colne Valley Chaos Christmas <<<
The files for the CD version are on the FTP server. File names have been numbered so your CD burning software will recognise which order the tunes go in. All files have been standardised to CD quality WAV or AIFF files. The cover for the CD is in the folder "cover" (naturally enough) for those of you with FTP access.
I'll be burning a dozen or so tomorrow for distribution to friends of CVC on Christmas Eve. Please feel free to make your own CDs for friends, family, enemies, people you pass in the street, postal workers and so on.
Everyone deserves a big fat slap on the back. This has been an ace project. For me, this is what this blog was conceived as - a supportive environment for us to collaborate and share our crappy music. Hurrah for Colne Valley Chaos!
www.koretex.net - BETA v.1 up & running!
Hey all, hope your all good, sounds like the CVC xmas album is well on its way to being incarnated for absorption by the masses (those lucky souls won't know what hit em)! Can't wait! Been busy as hell getting my new musical project ready for release in the new year, but the anticipation was killing me; as such as I have just registered the associated domain yesterday & managed to get a preliminary beta version of the experimental sonic engine up & running, I thought I'd invite you to take a peek! Enjoy & looking forward to seeing you all in the Sair on Xmas eve - let the festive madness begin! Naaayyyyy!
Friday, December 15, 2006
Folds
Sorry to break up the Christmas party! I wanted to notify you all that I've completed the track that was called 'Delivery' - you know, the slow violin an clarinet piece? Well, it's changed, gone of on a tangent and it's now called 'Folds'. This will be the signiature track for my next album which probably won't surface for another year or so!
Any-hoo enjoy listening to Folds
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Colne Valley Christmas
Hey dudes. I've had an ace idea. Was just listening to Sufjan Stevens Christmas boxset - and I thought why can't I do that. I'll record a CD full of Chrimbo songs in ANLB stylee!THEN I HAD AN EVEN BETTER IDEA!
Instead of me doing everything, why don't we all make a Christmas album! Yay! What an ace wheeze. Really.
So here's the jist of what I think we should do:
Everyone in the Chaos Crew, whoever they may be, pulls their thumb out of their arse and records TWO special Christmas songs and submits them to the blog (or to me or Foggy) by December 20th. Yep DECEMBER 20th 2006. The song can be an all new original composition or a traditional chrimbo song done chaos style. BTW - if you're going to do a "standard", please let everyone know before you start. We don't want half a dozen versions of "Jingle Bells".
Then, when everything is in I'll do a CD cover, sequence the tracks and make the compilation available for download from here in time for Christmas day and Christmas Eve distribution.
Who's up for it?
Colne Valley Chaos 6
The time has come for a new volume of Colne Valley Chaos - There's plenty of new material available to make a new comp, it should be interesting to get this material together and see how it compliments each other. So I'm putting out this message to all CVC heads to think about getting me some WAV files so I can start compiling. Meet me in the comments section of this post to discuss which tracks we should / could use.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Crystal Lake featuring Ebony - Slawit Hip Hop!
Slawit Hip-Hop crew Crystal Lake have reformed with Ebony Fletcher on guest vocals.
Tennents & Terror (featuring Ebony)
Check out the website at www.crystallakehiphop.com (designed by fog)
UPDATE! - CD Now Available to Buy On-Line - Check the Site on the above Link
Tennents & Terror (featuring Ebony)
Check out the website at www.crystallakehiphop.com (designed by fog)
UPDATE! - CD Now Available to Buy On-Line - Check the Site on the above Link
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Tribal Mutations (adventures in the world of Bens Roland SRV-330)
Hey all, finally been released from the grip of political trauma & despair & horror at that Chav ridden hellhole in Uxbridge they call Brunel (Thank Fuck) looking forward to being a full time student again in rainy Yorkshire (slaver, whimper paw paw)! Some decaying rock dude (Bill Wynam) is hitting my village today to turn on the xmas lights, going to go and put him off by nayying at him loudly in a drunken stupor with Princess Lea Lea! Anyway in order to pay homage to Ben's Birthday & memory, I recently rescued his old dusty reverb unit from fog’s Den of inequity & lovingly cleaned her up inside & out; and as I promised Fotswana I have recorded a short song using the aforementioned, so happy Birthday Benjamin, give Nina a hug from me & this one is for you!
TribalMutations.mp3
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Happy Birthday Ben
Well, today is my late brother's birthday and I don't have any new music of his to post so I've posted this clip from one of our favourite childhood films 'Way of the Dragon' (aka 'Return of the Dragon' in the US). This film had such an effect on me that when I went to Rome and visited the Collliseum all I could think was this was so cool 'cos this is where Bruce and Chuck had their epic battle (even though the actual fight was filmed on a set!). Similarly when I was in the main piazza in Venice I was picturing Roger Moore on that daft hovercraft car from Moonraker! There is some footage somewhere of me and Ben re-enacting this classic fight but I don't have the tape, it may be at Kipz' place, if I find it i'll post it on the blog.
I found the following video on Google recently that Spiney had posted featuring a track he and Ben had been involved in and he included the following tribute...
from the murky spiney history a piece done by the late ben phillips on ry30 , me on guitar its become a bit of a lump in my throat , but anyway its here for posterity , if a better copy should surface I will replace it , for all his faults BEN was one of the most naturally talented , & I still miss his hyper creativity & cheekiness , along with so many others I think I always will ...so wherever u are ben , they say you never die as long as someone remembers ....
I found the following video on Google recently that Spiney had posted featuring a track he and Ben had been involved in and he included the following tribute...
from the murky spiney history a piece done by the late ben phillips on ry30 , me on guitar its become a bit of a lump in my throat , but anyway its here for posterity , if a better copy should surface I will replace it , for all his faults BEN was one of the most naturally talented , & I still miss his hyper creativity & cheekiness , along with so many others I think I always will ...so wherever u are ben , they say you never die as long as someone remembers ....
Delivery - (working title)
I was chatting with Jussy the Kat (Naaaaay-y-y!) the other day via webcam, and I played him the beginning of a track I've been working on. I mentioned the I was a bit stuck with it and he suggested posting it on here.
The thing is - I want it to eventually be about 30 mins long, a kind of background affair, but I'm tempted to split from it's current vibe and go a bit silly. The better part of me thinks not. Maybe I'm just getting bored or too spaced out with the whole thing, especially with my laborious way of making music... Any suggestions welcome.
Listen to Delivery and let me know what you would do with it.
Ta.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Another None-Chaos Post...
....but, honestly, this one captures the essence of Gibs, the odour of the GWF and the stink of the ANLB.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Henry's Smoking Column: Which will you choose?
Many smokers are shallow, vainglorious trolls and the only reason they buy a particular brand of cigarettes is for the way the box looks. B&H smokers, for example, are invariably lacking funds and find the gold ingot look appealing. Not all designs are so simply understood, however, and I have made it my wife's work to interpret the more esoteric aspects of cigarette art.
One of the more astonishing discoveries I made recently concerns the distinctive red and white chevron design of the classic Marlboro box. It was designed in 1936 by Angstrom Grasnovskyj, a visual psychologist and pidgeon fancier, after a severe sneezing fit. The design has been shown, in independent trials, to momentarily hypnotise 83% of all consumers forcing them, against their will, to buy the 'boros.
It also induces belief in fairies, Atlantis and the supremacy of dogs over cats. A state of bald-headed bravado and mild urtication in the palms follows this lapse into insanity and the smoker sparks up to alleviate his discomfort.
It is widely thought by me, that all these effects can be attributed to the stupidity of Americans and nothing like that could ever happen in Blighty. Blue Embassies, on the other hand, are a different matter altogether . . .
One of the more astonishing discoveries I made recently concerns the distinctive red and white chevron design of the classic Marlboro box. It was designed in 1936 by Angstrom Grasnovskyj, a visual psychologist and pidgeon fancier, after a severe sneezing fit. The design has been shown, in independent trials, to momentarily hypnotise 83% of all consumers forcing them, against their will, to buy the 'boros.
It also induces belief in fairies, Atlantis and the supremacy of dogs over cats. A state of bald-headed bravado and mild urtication in the palms follows this lapse into insanity and the smoker sparks up to alleviate his discomfort.
It is widely thought by me, that all these effects can be attributed to the stupidity of Americans and nothing like that could ever happen in Blighty. Blue Embassies, on the other hand, are a different matter altogether . . .
Dr Parsley's Problem Page
I present, for your delectation, "Dr Parsley's Problem Page", a stupid video specially recorded during one of our titular heroine's recent visits chez Twain. Let's hope YouTube don't delete it as quickly as the last one. Please rate generously.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Download Secret Journey
Click here for new 0=2 page with downloads for new album:
http://www.colnevalleychaos.com/secret.html
http://www.colnevalleychaos.com/secret.html
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Kat Slater - Reggae Style!
I occasionally post links that have nothing directly to do with Colne Valley Chaos, but have instead a tenuous "spiritual" connection with the output of our motley peers. Karl Matthews MySpace page is one such link.Karl, claims a recent edition of Popbitch, has Asperger's Syndrome. This autistic disorder has a tendency to make its sufferers rather obsessive. Case in point, Karl loves Eastenders and reggae music so much that there's very little space for anything else in his brain. His song "Kat Slater" (sample lyric: Kat Slater, Kat Slater, in an MC stylee, she's Kat Slater. She's got a daughter who is a sister. Kat Slater. Reggae music.) unintentionally out-Gibs Gibs. In a reggae stylee.
Visit Karl Matthews on MySpace.
Monday, October 30, 2006
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