my name's John and I play drums.

have a listen here

Yeah, could do with recording again to a click track. But it's out there now

done my back in

Numb is good too 🙂
You can buy Numb, I Will Stand, Expire & Energy on iTunes or Amazon; Everknowing & Let Down aren't available to buy – yet…

1) a hole in the ground
2) trying to demolish a 1930s art deco landmark in favour of "hotel & office space"
3) another hole in the ground

1 – Westfield
2 – The Odeon
3 – Park At The Heart

yes folks I bring you City of Bradford Metropolitan Council

as a failed (well, not so much failed as lost-interest-and-couldn't-be-bothered, really) physicist, I'd recommend something by those fine chaps at Viz Magazine. It'll brighten up an otherwise dull life.

either that or a "teach yourself a musical instrument" type book… or something really exciting like a book on Marketing

yes

+1 again

burn them

Depends where you are. If you're in Leeds then try http://www.leedsmusicscene.net

If you're not in Leeds then I dunno

But I think most will actually require some work on your part

🙂

he'll probably turn up in season 3 of True Blood. Now that is worth watching

either that or V (2010)

do you live in a university town?

I'm sure there are loads of students who'd be happy with a perfectly working TV for a small fee; I would have been when I was a student

check with the student onion, they should have a "for sale/wanted" newssheet kind of thing

like most people, if they don't suffer, they don't understand. I had a miserable childhood with it, started improving when I had some skin allergy tests to determine exactly what I'm allergic to, followed up by a series of desensitisation jabs, tailored to my particular problems.

It should have been 3x jabs over a 6 week period, 3 years running, but we (I was 15-16 at the time) moved house after year 2 and I never got the final year's jabs. That would've been 1981ish, then I went to uni; if i remember correctly, '87 was a really bad year.

Since I discovered Beconase about 5 years ago, I've been a happy spring bunny – apart from the heat. Oh well, you win some, you lose some…

FWIW for me it's grass & nettle pollen, plus house dust and house dust mite. cleaning house is not a good job…

an earworm, I think 🙂

listening to the results of 3 solid days in the studio. it's very good, but I'll have to be the judge of that for now…

beconase for me – probably a different brand, but same stuff, as Flixonase

been in the studio 2 days now.

I have our song "Everknowing" making itself known in my head. It's going to be an earworm 🙂

indeed 😉

Old Speckled Hen at the moment, having had a Victory Ale earlier

actually, the whole thing reminds me of an incident in a nightclub in Wakefield many years ago…

I was out with my sister and her boyfriend, and somehow he got talking to another woman; we were 'goths' and this lady – and her bloke – weren't.
Anyway, Ed was basically taking the mickey out of her for reasons best known to himself, and she clearly wasn't enjoying it.
Boyfriend steps up "you chatting up our lass?" "no" says Ed; "why not? You think she's ugly?", followed by a nice right hook…

damned if you do, damned if you don't

isn't that called "entrapment" ?

we still occasionally get mail for the previous occupant.

We moved in here in 1998…

it goes in the bin now.

If they can't be bothered to tell their bank (as that's who it's from) that they've moved then I can't be bothered to redirect it. besides, in 12 years, how do I know they haven't moved again?

i am about to have some wine. THEN I'll have some beer.

Just spent all day in the recording studio, I'm knackereerererered and sweaty, but my work is now done and my drums are packed away. Guitarists' & singist's turns tomorrow, then mixerist on Sunday.

Then a sample might be on myspace afterwards, or we might wait until the artwork is done and do a proper release across iTunes, Amazon, Napster et al afterwards.

no fish in a pond that small – you do mean 2.5ft x 1.5ft x 1ft?

if you meant metres that's a different story. Fish. with an associated filtration system

I remember a neighbouring family, she was English, he Spanish, name of Juan pronounced in the usual Spanish way

They had a son and decided to name him after his dad. Except they anglicised it…

so somewhere in Wakefield there's a bloke in his late 30s called "Juan", half-rhyming with "ruin" because they thought it would be too hard for the locals to pronounce…

"ey up fella, what's tha name"
"Jewan"
"Jewan?"
"yeah"
"spell it for me"
"J-U-A-N"

"oooh, you mean 'hwan'?"
"no, that's me dad's name"

FFS 🙄

Automatic For The People was the first album I bought on CD

Suede – latest CD I bought, the one with Animal Nitrate on. There's a new record shop at the Xscape retail park in Cas Vegas, selling off old CDs for as little as £1.99 or 3 for a fiver. I assume it's old Zavvi stock…

nay, that's just not right, that

does it have to be "funk"?

http://www.leedsmusicscene.net/article/12084/

cool, come along & introduce yourself. I'm the fat one with drum sticks 😉

we have to take a short break now as our bass player needs surgery on his wrists – carpal tunnel syndrome; but we're back in August, as indicated on the Myspace page

I'm trying to get some gigs sorted elsewhere in the North but these things take time. Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Barnsley, York, Wakefield, Doncaster etc – the sort of places we can get to in time to soundcheck after a full day's work.

Bradford's banned though. nobody plays out

I quite like that, although I've never heard it before. It reminds me a bit of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry / early Mission

People's Republic of Barnsley

I work there but I'm not sure if I'd want to live there 😉

close enough 🙂
Singer (and principal writer) is into Joy Division, The Sound, The Chameleons, FOTN, NMA etc
I'm into NMA, Chameleons, FOTN, Sisters etc
bassist is into old school punk, The Jam, Big Country
other guitarist (blutac from on here) is into blues.

mix it up & make it nice 😉
We're working on a cover of Transmission. We did play with "A Forest" but his voice isn't whiney enough 😉

Don't know about Altered States though. We've also been likened to Editors, Interpol, and you might hear some Killing Joke in my drumming

in the studio this weekend so more to come…

echo bunnyhop

that's a band, isn't it?

seems to be a choice with hair – **** off or go grey 🙁

I miss my crimpers

not sure if it would look so good on me now, a fat 45 grey-haired old drummer. I'll stick to the memories eh?

+1 Dawnrazor
+1 Mask
+1 Head Over Heels
+1 Machine Gun Etiquette

All About Eve (AAE)
The Black Album

but of course, I haven't forgotten about these, I still listen now.

anyway, in a "clear delight in the faithful reconstruction of a sound and temperament seldom witnessed…", check this out:
http://www.myspace.com/wickeffect

that's me (and my mates), that is

cockchafer. sometimes known as a maybug. it's a beetle. I think it's harmless, certainly to humans

Play Dead – The First Flower. More of a mini-LP but what a cracker

Kings of the Wild Frontier must hold the record for the shortest time span between being the most desirable album ever to being the most embarassing album ever.

I know, it was a real shame. But listen to it now and, with the possible exception of Jolly Roger & Magnificent 5, it's still very very good. Ants Invasion in particular

Floodland, Love & Children are ok (well, Love is excellent), but IMO the following are better – perhaps it's the dreaded "second album syndrome" that's letting the above down 😉

Sisters: First & Last & Always
The Cult: Dreamtime
The Mission: God's Own Medicine

some second albums that didn't suffer from SAS:
Stiff Little Fingers – Nobody's Heroes
Nirvana – Nevermind
New Model Army – No Rest For The Wicked