Cable Guy

Here's another promo to lure in unsuspecting Jim Carey fans...

4-Tracks Revisited: Part 3

April 1998: An old house mate, Bill, had quite a nice collection of music equipment. I can't remember off the top of my head what it was. I think there was an Akai sampler, a really old sampling keyboard and some kind of rack mounted synth. On one particular occassion he went away for the day, but not before letting me know I could go in his room and use his gear.
What a nice guy. Any way, I spent a few hours doing music and then went to my room to play some Tekken. I was well chuffed at the time.

At a slightly later date, all this good will paled in to insignificance when Bill came home after splitting up from his girlfriend, shaved half his head down one side with a Bic razor then proceeded to lock himself in his room, get stoned out of his box and then make a little bonfire on his rug, potentially ending the lives of all 5 tenants in the house.

Thankfully, I heard the spitting and crackling of burning books and birkenstock sandles from behind his door while I was on my way to the bathroom. I alerted the other housemates and we saved Bill's life... Nob. We were all evicted and Bill was admitted to the spin bin.

Here's the track, listen to - House on fire NOW!!!

Elemental Offspring

Here's a few tracks that appeared on the back of some obscure releases such as Gibs Offshoots and I class 'em as being sort of collaborations between Fog, Spiney and Jussy -- the tracks were done at a time when we were all simultaneously creating music and so the edges became a little blurred...

Forces of Life - Fog with Spiney's beats
Psychic Pathways - Jussy with Spiney Mix
Autumn Garments - Fog and Spiney
Ambience - Fog with Spiney audio elements
Angelic Voices - Fog with some other poor sods stolen drum beats

More Chaos...

Here's some more scraps from the same tape that had Jor-El and the Phil Butler stuff on it...

Hulk
Impossible
Tape Dub
Salad Time
Bunions Overdub

Phil Butler in Dub

When me and Jase were editing the Gibs Video we decided it would be cool to call up a radio talk show and try and get some mentalist samples to use as overdubs on it. After a few herbal cigarettes, Jase called Phil Butler's phone in and proceeded to have a 30 minute conversation about the Poll Tax - we managed to get about 30 seconds of Gibs from it but now the time has come to hear a little more - ladies and gentlemen, Phil Butler in Dub!

4-Tracks Revisited: Part 2

March 1995: I got my first proper job in London after working part-time for a local Welsh newspaper. I'd landed a position as a Multimedia Designer and worked on CD-Roms (remember them?) in a great building full of interesting creatives. I only managed about 18 months there before the CD-Rom market bottomed out and everyone was made redundant. Any way, back then while pottering about in my lunch hour, I came across this door that had always intrigued me. I'd seen ponderous people walking in and out of there on many occassions and it just added to my curiosity. I walked through it, then down a small corridor, and then in to a sound proofed box room. There amongst the grey foam absorbers lay a Roland JV-80, a Spirit folio 16-Trk, PowerMac 8800 and Opcode MusicShop sequencing software (the American choice over Cubase - I was later told).

I hadn't made any proper Music for at least 2 years, so I didn't hesitate in booking the room out for a bit of extra curricular overtime one Saturday. I made 2 tracks that day, the other one to come at a later date.

Listen to Element

This One's for Jase...

I seem to remember this one used to tickle your fancy...

Jor-el by 0=2

Gibs Jabs

I've found another shoebox of tapes in my under-the-stairs labyrinth.

Listen to the macabre version of the popular nursery rhyme Jack and Jill NOW!!!

Watch that guy dance!

We haven't had a new post for a while... so here's a video of me dancing to the theme from "Six Feet Under"...

Taking Over the Parish

Donald Syndrome at the Parish Pump viddied by Jussy - more on the Syndrome page... Not a bad do but not the best by the band's own admission - we have yet to capture them in their full glory on viddy!!

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

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