Reviewing the Situation

After an initial jam through the proposed set list, Jason, Tom and I had a chat about the enthusiasm levels for the live version of the ANLB. Putting together a live set requires quite a bit of commitment - regular practicing, repetitive sessions going over songs to tighten them up...

We have variable levels of commitment to the task and are beginning to feel that - though it's a great idea on paper - it might be a bit of a struggle to get off the ground. Perhaps it might be better to renew energy and focus on the recording projects instead - to wit, Chaos for Kids, Chaos Covers and Chaos at the Movies - with some joint recording sessions thrown in. These can be more ad-hoc, improvisational and, hopefully, fun rather than graft.

Revised List

After much discussion (mostly snarky bullying) we have the following potential set list:

Bay City Brother (Octafish)
Biscuits (Mile High Henry?)
Ghost Daddy (GWF)
Dani Behr (SW)
Flapjack (Gibs)
Shell Suit Family Robinson (ANLB)
Majestic Vacuum Cleaner (Gibs)
Magic Chair (GWF)
The Mad Mind (ANLB?)
The Song About Nothing (GWF)
Skinny Peters (Gibs)
Jimmy the Doughnut (GWF)
The Hammer (Laffmad et al)

Reserves

Sunday Drivers (Gibs)
Grandma We Love You (Gibs)
Field in Cornwall (Gibs)
Daffodil (Gibs)
Baby Cheeses (ANLB)
Spacehopper (Octafish)
Tom Cat (Mile High Henry/Octafish)
Not All There (GWF)
At Tea (GWF)
Too Good Looking to Live (GWF)
Like Me 'Cos I'm Stupid (GWF)

To explain how I've chosen. The songs in the main set list aren't neccessarily the "best" songs - they're the ones that would probably work best live. I've also been careful not to put in too many "straightforward" tunes, lest we end up sounding like The Toy Dolls or Fuzzbox...

Song for Clemmy - Good luck with your course!

0=2 - familylabel

Daffodil

Another possible track for the set list - as discussed in the pub last night...

http://www.mdp156.com/daffodil.mp3

UPDATE

here's the full version of the song with armed robbery

http://www.mdp156.com/armed.mp3

p.s. - CVC mp3s being restored - many of them are on different servers anyway - Karl's are the first ones to be reloaded followed by whatever I can find on my hard drive.

NEWSFLASH

NEWSFLASH
ALL MP3s HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM MY WEBSPACE BY A MYSTERIOUS INVISIBLE FORCE

any mp3s hosted on my webspace (mdp156.com) have vanished whilst all my other files remain intact - the hosting company claims they cannot remove even copyrighted material without request from the webspace holder - what the fig???!!! This effects a fair few mp3s on the CVC website.

Sunday Drivers and other Suggestions...

...for the band.

pagans - soapbox

jason - majestic vacuum cleaner
jason - secret sandwich

gibs - childhood years
gibs - egyptian button salesman
gibs - animal farm

satan's willy - dani behr
satan's willy - tanya the dark one

0=2 - Island of the Spiders

I was getting fed up getting album number 2 compiled so I went through all the left over tracks from the past 3 years and slapped them on this CD. These are the tracks that didn't really work in the context of the first and forthcoming albums but seem to be happier in similar company - so we have a quirkier weirder and darker style here.

0=2 - Island of the Spiders

Now I can get the other one finished and i'll be up to date!

EDIT

2 mp3s had glitches so i've reloaded them - tracks 03 - deep space and track 19- cosmic horror

gonna reload the zip now - apologies if I bump a download

Coming Soon!

After some tough negotiations we can announce the confirmed live line-up of Colne Valley Chaos supergroup The All New Lucky Boys:

Jason - vocals
Kips - Guitar
Tom - Guitar
Matt - Keys and samples
Karl - Bass
Miles - Drums

The project goal is to put together a set of around 8-10 songs from the CVC back catalogue, rehearse them, then perform at a well publicised gig in Huddersfield, home of Colne Valley Chaos. That could be the end of it - or the beginning of something beautiful...

We have to decide on a set list before going forward, folks. Some of my fave GWF possibilities would be:

Jive Not Jive
Not All There
Song About Nothing
Magic Chair
Ghost Daddy
At Tea
School Daze
Don't Like me 'cos I'm Stupid

Other mooted tunes include:

Shell Suit Family Robinson (All New Lucky Boys)
The Mad Mind (All New Lucky Boys)
Me and Tom (Don't Get it On) (All New Lucky Boys)
Bay City Brother (Octafish)
Spacehopper (Octafish)
Biscuits (Jon Thomas)
Baby Cheeses (All New Lucky Boys)

Would welcome further suggestions - especially for do-able Gibs tunes!

Klonk!

Tom has been very quiet about about his new(ish) band Klonk, which is a shame really as their ramshackle aimless meandering stylee and pointless Jewishness is somehow perfectly suited to Colne Valley Chaos. They make music that makes me smile in a silly way, go "ah..." and think of Franz Kafka walking to work.

It also makes me wonder why Tom dragged Octafish down the default punk-funk cul-de-sac, when this sort of thing is so much more fun...

Check 'em out:

Klonk on MySpace

LOL!

colnevalleychaos.com - Hacked!

With our obvious connections regarding multinational corporations, military operations and government security databases, our fort-knox-like DNS servers have been breached by the multi-talented Cyber-Error. Props to your cause to end all wars, but do you really think in this case your target demographic is in need of "educating" by forced means?
Try something a little more challenging next time eh?

Matt's on the case - normal service at the CVC website should resume shortly.

UPDATE: And... we're back in business... Move along please... nothing to see here...

0=2 - Hi I'm Worzel

New Epic Track from 0=2

0=2 - Hi I'm Worzel

Post Christmas Banishment Ritual

I'm having some fun making some vids at the moment - here are a couple for your delictation:

ORBITAL - DOCTOR LOOK OUT!


DUEL OF THE FATES - DRUM AND BASS VERSION

CVC Xmas

Looking for that last minute christmas gift for that special someone?

Why not give them the fantabulous Colne Valley Chaos Christmas album!

http://www.colnevalleychaos.com/cvcxmas.html

Cybergothadelia

YARSE! It's another blast from the past... this one going back SEVENTEEN YEARS to 1990. Stoned, freshly dumped and out of work, I monopolised Jason's 520 ST to churn out this set of banging oddities. I called it Cybergothadelia because I couldn't decide whether it was gothic, industrial or psychedelic, these recordings work better now than they have any right to. Though, I have to admit, this time around I left out some of the really crappy stuff...

Some trivia about this collection: Jason co-wrote "Forever Girl" - coming up with the original drum pattern. Jon (Williams/Jugulation) did the original cassette cover, now rejigged for CD. Enough gabbing! Here are the tunes:

1. Forever Girl
2. Cypher
3. I Dreamt I Was
4. Jam from Glass Apples
5. Hear Me Speak
6. Not the Same
7. This is for Zhora

Gemini Fire Monkey

STOP PRESS - Individual links are back up - archive coming soon





I've been spending a bit of time, while stuck indoors, finishing off a set of songs for release as a CD. Almost all the main recording is now done - I've just got to go through tweaking and producing some of the older tracks so they're all up to the same standard...

This download is not it.

Instead, I've returned to an old collection of tunes, originally one side of a C60, cleaned them up and digitised them for release on the global interweb. This is the last recording I did using the Atari STE back in 1996 - so it's primitive stuff. The STE was already out of date back then... Still, there's a certain charm to this collection. You'll be able to download it in one big zip file in a little while - for now grab it one track at a time:

1. Theme from Strong Bobby
2. Liz on Phenobarbitone
3. 8:52
4. The Train Gang
5. Stop the Ride, My Nose is Bleeding
6. Mr. Spooky
7. Life of the Mind

SPUNK!

Download CVC Halloween

Get yer lovely downloads here - listen to individual tracks or just download a zipfile of the whole album:

http://www.colnevalleychaos.com/cvchalloween.html

Pussy? Meet Pussy.

I may well have found Kips' dream web site here.

WARNING! This site is not suitable for work. Unless, like me, you work in your front room.

CVC Halloween Cover