Sexwatch UK!

Can you believe that I get paid to blog? WELL I DO! Yep. I write a regular column about my ludicrously ill-fated relationships with women.

No really. It's all true.

Lately though, I've been becoming a little bored with it and have been wanting to make it more and more surreal...

Hence, this. "Sexwatch UK" a podcast about the sexual habits of the British. Now - I wouldn't usually post this kind of stuff up here, but this edition of the podcast has a direct link to the GWF. It features the instrumental track "Theme from a Summer Place", which was previously used to similar effect in the GWF creation "Farmyard". I actually wanted this version to end with an explosion too - but couldn't find one funny enough...

Anyway. Take a wisten:

Secret Army Supplies - Game, Set and Match

Here's a bunch of tracks that were recorded on to one side of a storybook cassette...

Can You Smell My Bell Mix 3 by Gibs
Love in a Disco by Gibs
Models of Yesteryear by Hodgie

Jase if you let me a know a title for the unknown track I think it would be nice to put it on the main site - let me know --- also I have loads of webspace (20GB) that I can let you have access to if you want to use for files, mp3s etc...

4-Tracks Revisited: Part 1

What was once several shoeboxes full of cassettes, there now lay a small bag of about twelve 4-Track master tapes on my kitchen table. I'm taking my time going through them and the whole laborious journey is revealing some things I don't even remember doing.


I have salvaged some damaged fruit from this process, given it a bit of a polish and can now present something lovely to you lucky chaos-muffins. It's a track from January 1991 entitled 'The Bridge of Principle'.

Based on an original composition written by myself with Stephen Clements (from The Deadly Toy Affair, Clock, The Pagans and Giblets and Cheese), this version has an over-dubbed vocal track on it - written and performed by Karl.

The conversion process has not been without its flaws. The track is too slow, which is the result of me having the pitch knob incorrectly turned up while recording the original back in the day! Also, I don't own a 4-track tape deck anymore so I had to sample the entire tape one side at a time then reverse one of them and sync it all up. As you can imagine, this has the very likely potential of going out of phase. Furthermore, there are a couple of occassions where the entire instrumental section drops out for a small number of seconds - don't ask why - any way, if you ever did hear this track back in 91, I hope this gives you a warm nostalgic feeling.

Listen to - The Bridge of Principle

...and watch this space for a long lost Gibs track I'm still cobbling together.

Cave of Silken Web

More promo craziness this time starring Mr. Twain and the enchanting Spider Women of the Silken Web...



Hope you don't mind me using your track Karl...

Give Me the Autowash - CVC Promo

Here's a scrappy little chaos promo I slapped on YouTube today complete with soundtrack by the gorgeous Genital Wart Factor.

Where's Captain Kirk?

I got that vid over there on the right offa the market for about a quid years ago - It's Billy Shatner talking some great talk and interviewing some proper noodles about UFOs etc.. interspliced with a German movie about Erich Von Daniken and his theories on Ancient Civilisations and Interplanetery Macgubbins. Perfect stoner material and indeed it ended up getting sampled and appearing in the following track - from the never released album Green Pants Express.

Another World - 0=2



If you want more crazy bill check my other vids on YouTube for more clips...

KJ!

Here's another little diversion, but this time with a definate CVC connection - filmed by Spiney at the Manchester Academy May 2006. Fog was there as was the infamous Happy Dave and a gent called Kilner. Anyway, this has been a popular hit on YouTube for a few weeks and has attracted the attention of the Bass player, Kneill who has contacted us and we're gonna send him the rest of the gig on DVD so that's pretty cool.

I was persuaded to post this when nosying at some of Karl's other online musings which included him saying he loves this track so thought i'd stick it on the blog.

The gig was pretty good but not the best I have seen them - that would be in Autumn 2005 Manchester Academy (larger venue) - awesome!

The following was my attempt at one of them home made vidz that combines a toon with movie clips - I really liked the bside to the latest Killing Joke single so thought that would be a good track to use as it is relatively obscure and also it lends to the kind of imagery I wanted to use.

Rolling the Ball - In a Japanese Styley...

Hi --- this vid actually doesn't have anything to do with CVC but in my mind it kinda reflects what CVC is all about... well that's my excuse for posting it anyway --- enjoy!!

Technical Note

I've fixed the navigation on the left, so that when you click on an archive link the post list now shows all posts on the current page rather than a list of latest posts. Hopefully this should make navigating through the archives a bit easier.

The OXO Family

Another nostalgic Gibs track that I wouldn't put on the main site but it's notable for it's lyrical use of buggery with a musical instrument...

The OXO Family by Giblets and Cheese

Click the pictures for some ads - in RealVideo format!

2 Brothers united in Muzak...

Karl made me put this up - so you can blame him Jase! ;-)

Tell Me Son by Karl and Jase

Anarchy in the Colne Valley

Here's a little ditty I did after seeing 'V for Vendetta' at the flicks...

V for Vendetta - 0=2

other CVC tracks of wanton rebellion to check out are:

Wake Up by Twain
Only the Queen by Gibs

Kipz' Embarassing Song - Part II

Xanadu - Canadian Rock In a Colne Valley Styley...

This is another track that I wanted to post on the Priapus page when first putting tracks on the site. Really just because it was a Rush track, but Kips was not having any of it.

I do know that Farewell to Kings by Rush was one of Kipz first Rock albums, dunno if he thought of doing a cover version. But that is just what Priapus did, and you can here all of it's Prog Rock Splendour right here.

Xanadu - by Priapus

here's the original for comparison...

ou est la jonzo?

where is jonzo?
its hot outside and i'm hungry
has anybody seen jonzo?

Wikipedia Link

Holy Crap - I just discovered that Wikipedia have linked us to their page about the Colne Valley - Click here!

Kipz' Embarassing Song...

My Expose continues... only this time I am posting a track that Kipz badgered me to remove from the main site for months on end until I was forced into submission. It's a collaboration between him, me and Kemps impromptu one Summer. Some overdubs were added by Kipz later. I love the track, but i'm a bit biased, as it reminds me of Laurel Bank in the Summer and also Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES.

Click Here to Play Zelda King of the Jungle

Karl's Hidden Past

I've really enjoyed listening to Karl's tracks on his new page and i'm looking forward to the subsequent releases to be posted on the Blog but I also feel that a part of Karl's CVC career may be left behind unless I expose it here on the CVC Blog once and for all.

I am talking about the tracks that I listened to as a young teen that made me laugh my ass off with their twisted humour and deranged musical phrasology (is that a word?) and encouraged me to do something similar except with all the controls turned up to 11. Yes, it is true that some of the GWF tracks are as influential but I don't think they were quite as insane somehow.

I have chosen to post one of my faves here, Can-Opener by The Back Seat Boys. I don't know if they did any other tracks but maybe this one was enough.

P.S. - Karl, please leave £50 in old tea caddy underneath the canal bridge in Milnsbridge or my next expose will be I am the Nicest Guy I Know by the Al Jolsons of Death...

Ambient Disaster!

I've posted a couple of more Ambient tracks that I did earlier this year on the fog page. You can also play 'em from here: Donna's Mystery & Star-Flight.

Karl Page

A new page has been added for Karl on the main site - check it out!

Rubbish Song No 3425

Digitising old tunes for my forthcoming and ludicrously overdue CVC entry, I stumbled upon an old demo for a song I wrote for Octafish (who are, incidentally also long overdue their CVC entry).

I remember how I eagerly arrived at rehearsal and told the boys I had a new song.
"It's a bit like Violent Femmes!" I said. We retired to Tom's car and slotted it in the tape player.

"What do you think?" I said 3 minutes later.
A long pause.
"Maybe we should work a bit more on War Pigs," said Tom.

This is that very rough demo: