Dear blog reading team,
I'm still a massive Radiohead fan. They're the best band I've ever seen live TWICE (them and Hot Snakes, also twice) and I think this video for me is a good example of them still being awesome. Yes, as individuals they're about as cool as a half eaten packet of ready salted crisps, but as a group I still find them mesmerising especially when they're playing live music with great beats and subtle melodies like this. The last album may not have been great Radiohead, but compared to everyone else's music it's great music. I can't wait for the live dates next year. Hopefully I'll get to catch them again.
Here's the vid.
Indie music rants, fables of old men skateboarding in the past, lamentations on baldness, heroic tales of failed culinary experiments and expansive essays on personal detachment from the modern world.......
Monday 26 September 2011
Saturday 17 September 2011
Blogs of The Day - The Devil Has The Best Tuna and Song By Toad
Hi folks,
I have two great new music blogs for you today (I mean blogs about new music not new blogs about music, just to be clear). The first is The Devil Has The Best Tuna featuring this week in 'The Devils Round Up - September 11th' a nice little complimentary mention of the Girl Muscle's track 'Talk Like An American'. Receiving a compliment off of the Devil himself is a good way to start a Saturday morning! There's loads of previews and reviews of new music on here and in my eye's the Devil really has a good taste! In his words.....
"The Devil is dedicated to unearthing unknown, unheard, unseen, unheralded, unfamiliar or down right unbelievable bands old or new that have not yet hit the radars of the British public"
....and I'd like to thank the Devil for spending his time doing it. I suggest just diving into the Devil's blog and checking out what's being featured. There's regular posts all the time, some with specific musical themes or little features on new bands/new material. I've found loads of new Sound Cloud artists to follow and had a fair whack of new listeners myself since being featured on the blog.
The second blog to check out is Song By Toad. Again it's a new music blog with daily (if not more frequent) posts featuring new bands, new music, featured videos and (I think a very useful part of the blog) features on music industry discussions, aimed I think at helping out independent musicians and small labels. The main author of the blog Matthew writes quite a lot more than the Devil on each subject, especially the music industry features which tend to be very useful, such as this discussion on 'filter bubbles'.
It's great to have someone not just trawling the internet for new music to expose, but also keeping an eye out for music industry information and discussions that new musicians, bands or small labels would normally know very little about. The sad thing about trying to make a living off music in whatever format is that at some point you have to enter into the wider 'music industry'. Whether it's as a solo DIY musician or as an accomplished band receiving offers from big labels to sign up and get their music widely released, it will no doubt help to be armed with some knowledge of the industry. Especially about how music can be digitally distributed and marketed as we are now squarely sat in the digital age of everything.
I'm slowly getting addicted to new music blogs. I'm both excited by them, as I'm finding new music all the time, and slightly saddened by them having to exist (remember when you would meet up every week, hang out, possibly get drunk and talk about new bands with your mates? "Hey dude, have you heard that band Fingerbastard?" "No, what are they like?" "Fucking awesome! They sound like the Dead Kennedys and Blur put together, I'll tape you their album"). When I was younger I had certain old friends that were basically walking new music blogs, it was nice catching up with them and trading new bands to listen to (or arguing about why the bands they like suck). Sadly I think the internet has locked the new generation of these types of music enthusiasts away from the real world and condemned them to blog to unknown readers over the internet. I hope it's rewarding work, I feel it should be rewarded in some way. Maybe an annual music blog author appreciation party? Maybe not.....
To The Devil Has The Best Tuna and Song By Toad I offer my thanks! I hope that anyone reading his might take a digital hop over and check out these blogs from time to time.
Over and out
Lt Meat
I have two great new music blogs for you today (I mean blogs about new music not new blogs about music, just to be clear). The first is The Devil Has The Best Tuna featuring this week in 'The Devils Round Up - September 11th' a nice little complimentary mention of the Girl Muscle's track 'Talk Like An American'. Receiving a compliment off of the Devil himself is a good way to start a Saturday morning! There's loads of previews and reviews of new music on here and in my eye's the Devil really has a good taste! In his words.....
"The Devil is dedicated to unearthing unknown, unheard, unseen, unheralded, unfamiliar or down right unbelievable bands old or new that have not yet hit the radars of the British public"
....and I'd like to thank the Devil for spending his time doing it. I suggest just diving into the Devil's blog and checking out what's being featured. There's regular posts all the time, some with specific musical themes or little features on new bands/new material. I've found loads of new Sound Cloud artists to follow and had a fair whack of new listeners myself since being featured on the blog.
The second blog to check out is Song By Toad. Again it's a new music blog with daily (if not more frequent) posts featuring new bands, new music, featured videos and (I think a very useful part of the blog) features on music industry discussions, aimed I think at helping out independent musicians and small labels. The main author of the blog Matthew writes quite a lot more than the Devil on each subject, especially the music industry features which tend to be very useful, such as this discussion on 'filter bubbles'.
It's great to have someone not just trawling the internet for new music to expose, but also keeping an eye out for music industry information and discussions that new musicians, bands or small labels would normally know very little about. The sad thing about trying to make a living off music in whatever format is that at some point you have to enter into the wider 'music industry'. Whether it's as a solo DIY musician or as an accomplished band receiving offers from big labels to sign up and get their music widely released, it will no doubt help to be armed with some knowledge of the industry. Especially about how music can be digitally distributed and marketed as we are now squarely sat in the digital age of everything.
I'm slowly getting addicted to new music blogs. I'm both excited by them, as I'm finding new music all the time, and slightly saddened by them having to exist (remember when you would meet up every week, hang out, possibly get drunk and talk about new bands with your mates? "Hey dude, have you heard that band Fingerbastard?" "No, what are they like?" "Fucking awesome! They sound like the Dead Kennedys and Blur put together, I'll tape you their album"). When I was younger I had certain old friends that were basically walking new music blogs, it was nice catching up with them and trading new bands to listen to (or arguing about why the bands they like suck). Sadly I think the internet has locked the new generation of these types of music enthusiasts away from the real world and condemned them to blog to unknown readers over the internet. I hope it's rewarding work, I feel it should be rewarded in some way. Maybe an annual music blog author appreciation party? Maybe not.....
To The Devil Has The Best Tuna and Song By Toad I offer my thanks! I hope that anyone reading his might take a digital hop over and check out these blogs from time to time.
Over and out
Lt Meat
Thursday 15 September 2011
Video of the day! Battles (feat. Gary Numan) 'My Machines'
Hello pop-pickers!
I have no idea how they've done it, but Battles have managed to make avant garde and experimental rock music mainstream. Their music is all over TV, in adverts, over the top of documentaries and probably in Hollyoaks (at the beggining when they have the guest directors in for the shit intros with the text messages that pop up on the screens with sad or weird songs over the top whilst the cast are waking up in bed from the previous episode's dramatic conclusion..........no?...........you know Hollyoaks, it's by the creator of Grange Hill.....................Phil Fuckin' Redmond!!!!!!.......it's on Channel 4...................................Flynn is my favourite TV character EVA! lolmegz).
Anyway they also make awesome videos. I've bloged, yes bloged not blogged, their last video for 'Ice Cream' on here a few months ago. This video is better and Gary Numan is in it. I only just realised why Gary Numan spels (yes, spels) his name Numan and not Newman. It's spelt (yes, spelt) like Human, suggesting Gary Numan feels that he is not a human, but a new(er) version of a human, perhaps a more evolved human than us mere non-electro based carbon life forms. Maybe Gary is not human, but from outer space and his choice of stage name is ironic and a rather tongue-in-cheek choice from the reckless invader. I'll get to the point, WHO CARES? not me.
Here's the video, it's very good.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA they're so fucking avant garde that they won't give me (an soley garde-based musician) permission to show their video to you. Search for it on Vimeo...................whatever. Battles suck anyway.
Over and out
Lt MeAt (yes, MeAt)
I have no idea how they've done it, but Battles have managed to make avant garde and experimental rock music mainstream. Their music is all over TV, in adverts, over the top of documentaries and probably in Hollyoaks (at the beggining when they have the guest directors in for the shit intros with the text messages that pop up on the screens with sad or weird songs over the top whilst the cast are waking up in bed from the previous episode's dramatic conclusion..........no?...........you know Hollyoaks, it's by the creator of Grange Hill.....................Phil Fuckin' Redmond!!!!!!.......it's on Channel 4...................................Flynn is my favourite TV character EVA! lolmegz).
Anyway they also make awesome videos. I've bloged, yes bloged not blogged, their last video for 'Ice Cream' on here a few months ago. This video is better and Gary Numan is in it. I only just realised why Gary Numan spels (yes, spels) his name Numan and not Newman. It's spelt (yes, spelt) like Human, suggesting Gary Numan feels that he is not a human, but a new(er) version of a human, perhaps a more evolved human than us mere non-electro based carbon life forms. Maybe Gary is not human, but from outer space and his choice of stage name is ironic and a rather tongue-in-cheek choice from the reckless invader. I'll get to the point, WHO CARES? not me.
Here's the video, it's very good.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA they're so fucking avant garde that they won't give me (an soley garde-based musician) permission to show their video to you. Search for it on Vimeo...................whatever. Battles suck anyway.
Over and out
Lt MeAt (yes, MeAt)
Monday 12 September 2011
Video and Blog of the Day!
First, the video. 'The Stroller' by Jaill.
Next the blog. The Miniature Music Press. Save it in your favourites if you like alternative music and live anywhere near Cardiff. Plus they were the first blog to get back to me after my exhausting email mega send off. More blogs to follow in the coming days!
Back to Jaill (did you get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA back to jail?), I heard them on a free Sub Pop Records compilation 'Digital Bang' that's available on AMAZON BY CLICKING THIS LINK it was free, but now it's £7.99 (well if you will snooze you will lose.................or will you? that saying makes no sense, snoozing is my favourite past time.............but then I am a loser). Still there's 22 or so tracks mainly all of a very good quality so have a think about it, or just buy the Jaill album for less. I'm ranting again.
Over and out.
Lt Meat
Next the blog. The Miniature Music Press. Save it in your favourites if you like alternative music and live anywhere near Cardiff. Plus they were the first blog to get back to me after my exhausting email mega send off. More blogs to follow in the coming days!
Back to Jaill (did you get it? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA back to jail?), I heard them on a free Sub Pop Records compilation 'Digital Bang' that's available on AMAZON BY CLICKING THIS LINK it was free, but now it's £7.99 (well if you will snooze you will lose.................or will you? that saying makes no sense, snoozing is my favourite past time.............but then I am a loser). Still there's 22 or so tracks mainly all of a very good quality so have a think about it, or just buy the Jaill album for less. I'm ranting again.
Over and out.
Lt Meat
Sunday 11 September 2011
Online music blogs are your bands best friend!
Well (deep inhale),
This weekend I've been shamelessly spamming the good people of the music blogging world with links to my new Girl Muscle tracks. I've been kindly asking the numerous blog and online magazine editors to spare a few minutes of their time to have a listen to my new songs in the hope that they like them and then decide to spread the word about my music to their readers and online communities.
In the process of searching the vast array of online music blogs, (mostly looking for indie/garage rock/lo-fi type blogs) and in the true spirit of a lazy time waster, I've been often easily sidetracked by how good some of the content on these blogs is. I don't just mean the quality of writing, but also the quality of new music being shared to the readers. I've heard a load of new bands I really like and I've now subscribed to a load of blogs through various means (such as Tumblr/Blogger/Facebook or direct email subscription in some cases) as finding new music that actually interests me is becoming incresingly very hard, even as a now avid 6 Music listener.
I've had a rant about this before, in the context of the loss of My Space as a great and simple promotional tool for bands, musicians and alternative music fans alike. I really do feel that the alternative music scene (comprising a great many genres such as indie rock, punk, hardcore, lo-fi, garage rock, noise and any non-commercial based or DIY music) has fallen apart and the once stable DIY infrastructure that existed to allow certain bands decent gigging routes and access to potential fans is now spread so thinly across the world wide web that knowing where or even how to start spamming (marketing for want of a better term) your new music is increasingly becoming a daunting, frustrating and time consuming task.
It would be very easy if all bands could get record deals and let the marketing department of whatever records handle the magazine and TV advertising, music video promotion, arrange T4 interviews and just generally throw money at making your new music sell. That's not going to be the case though, as not all bands are good enough or popular enough to warrant someone else spending any money on them unless they think they'll get it all back.............plus a large profit. Business is after all business.
So, in the initial stages of being a new musician or being in a new band and trying to get some form of coverage to get more fans, more gig offers, maybe sell a few demos and generally let people know you exist, where do you go? Well you still go to My Space, in most cases, as it's still free and kind of useful (although only bands seem to use it nowadays, all of your potential new fans are more spread out or locked away on Facebook). There are also a myriad of other sites that will allow you to host and stream mp3s with the two major sites being Sound Cloud and Bandcamp (Tunecore is also quite useful in terms of getting music into iTunes and Amazon Mp3 etc.). I like both sites for different reasons, I'll keep it brief below as I'm wandering off subject.
Sound Cloud lets you share tracks across the internet fairly easily, it generally loads quickly and has a few linking and sharing options (a bit like You Tube for music). Bad points with Sound Cloud are that it's hard to search for any other musicians and bands that you may like to find, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can search for bands from a particular location for instance (which was great on the old My Space as meeting other local bands online really helps with getting gigs booked). There are groups you can join for specific music genres or local music communities, but I find they aren't great at generating many new listens and they don't let you do much interacting with other group members. Connecting to other people by using Sound Cloud is still really up to you to figure out. Bandcamp is similar to Sound Cloud but to me seems less useful than Sound Cloud in terms of helping you to connect to new people, but it does allow you to sell music and receive payment through pay pal, which is nice.
So, why am I thinking that online music blogs are so important? I'm not 100% sure that they are yet, that remains to be seen. My logic is that providing that you have some online content, on Sound Cloud or Bandcamp for example, you'll need someone else out in the wider world to give you some coverage before other people will start listening to the music you have online. I generally find that I like to know the opinions of other possibly slightly obsessive alternative music fans before I check out a new band on Sound Cloud. If a band contacts me directly telling me how awesome and original they are, then I'm not really going to believe it (of course most people would have to say good things about their own creative outpourings, a stranger can disagree). Plus, there's a good chance I would never find out about some of the bands and musicians being mentioned on online blogs as they haven't quite got popular enough to get radio plays on 6 Music (which is where I find out most new music that I like).
I think it helps that a lot of the blogs and online magazines are run by self-confessed music obsessives. Not all of the blogs are as DIY and alternative as others, some feature artists I would almost call 'pop', but most have new band reviews or new music showcases that sat alongside the new Lana Del Ray video would make you look pretty important and worth listening to (I'm not singling Lana Del Ray out as her music isn't too bad, she just seems to be very well groomed for a supposedly DIY musician who lived on a trailer park for the last few years, I'm probably wrong but 100,000,000 You Tube hits seems a little suspicious for her first single). It also helps that the authors and editors really know their stuff, albeit within a certain niche in some cases, if you do get a mention on one of these blogs there's a good chance your music will be compared to or reviewed alongside other good new (or old) bands that you may never have heard of, which starts getting you some connections and maybe some fan crossover. A lot of the blogs are fairly easy to get contact details for and are very open to emails and submissions of new music. I think I emailed about 25-30 blogs and magazines yesterday so I'll wait and see if I get any responses or mentions.
I think providing the music obsessive blogging communities keep working hard and shouting about new music then there's hope for some kind of new alternative infrastructure to materialise. It seems that some blog authors have already made steps into managing small record companies and promoting local gigs. I hope this trend of alternative music blogger to real world alternative music industry promoter continues as in my eyes obsessive alternative music fans tend to make the most fun and decent gig promoters and tend to run the cooler labels, which makes sense I guess as it's called the music industry.
Online blogs! I salute you! Please feel free to salute me back once in a while.
Keep your eyes peeled I'll be chucking links up to online blogs I like as I get to grips with a few of them over the coming weeks. Here's a link right now to A New Band A Day (ANBAD) check out the Black Polygons preview a little bit down the page, I really like their music and I've downloaded it as it's free on bandcamp (see! it works!).
Over and out,
Lt Meat
This weekend I've been shamelessly spamming the good people of the music blogging world with links to my new Girl Muscle tracks. I've been kindly asking the numerous blog and online magazine editors to spare a few minutes of their time to have a listen to my new songs in the hope that they like them and then decide to spread the word about my music to their readers and online communities.
In the process of searching the vast array of online music blogs, (mostly looking for indie/garage rock/lo-fi type blogs) and in the true spirit of a lazy time waster, I've been often easily sidetracked by how good some of the content on these blogs is. I don't just mean the quality of writing, but also the quality of new music being shared to the readers. I've heard a load of new bands I really like and I've now subscribed to a load of blogs through various means (such as Tumblr/Blogger/Facebook or direct email subscription in some cases) as finding new music that actually interests me is becoming incresingly very hard, even as a now avid 6 Music listener.
I've had a rant about this before, in the context of the loss of My Space as a great and simple promotional tool for bands, musicians and alternative music fans alike. I really do feel that the alternative music scene (comprising a great many genres such as indie rock, punk, hardcore, lo-fi, garage rock, noise and any non-commercial based or DIY music) has fallen apart and the once stable DIY infrastructure that existed to allow certain bands decent gigging routes and access to potential fans is now spread so thinly across the world wide web that knowing where or even how to start spamming (marketing for want of a better term) your new music is increasingly becoming a daunting, frustrating and time consuming task.
It would be very easy if all bands could get record deals and let the marketing department of whatever records handle the magazine and TV advertising, music video promotion, arrange T4 interviews and just generally throw money at making your new music sell. That's not going to be the case though, as not all bands are good enough or popular enough to warrant someone else spending any money on them unless they think they'll get it all back.............plus a large profit. Business is after all business.
So, in the initial stages of being a new musician or being in a new band and trying to get some form of coverage to get more fans, more gig offers, maybe sell a few demos and generally let people know you exist, where do you go? Well you still go to My Space, in most cases, as it's still free and kind of useful (although only bands seem to use it nowadays, all of your potential new fans are more spread out or locked away on Facebook). There are also a myriad of other sites that will allow you to host and stream mp3s with the two major sites being Sound Cloud and Bandcamp (Tunecore is also quite useful in terms of getting music into iTunes and Amazon Mp3 etc.). I like both sites for different reasons, I'll keep it brief below as I'm wandering off subject.
Sound Cloud lets you share tracks across the internet fairly easily, it generally loads quickly and has a few linking and sharing options (a bit like You Tube for music). Bad points with Sound Cloud are that it's hard to search for any other musicians and bands that you may like to find, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can search for bands from a particular location for instance (which was great on the old My Space as meeting other local bands online really helps with getting gigs booked). There are groups you can join for specific music genres or local music communities, but I find they aren't great at generating many new listens and they don't let you do much interacting with other group members. Connecting to other people by using Sound Cloud is still really up to you to figure out. Bandcamp is similar to Sound Cloud but to me seems less useful than Sound Cloud in terms of helping you to connect to new people, but it does allow you to sell music and receive payment through pay pal, which is nice.
So, why am I thinking that online music blogs are so important? I'm not 100% sure that they are yet, that remains to be seen. My logic is that providing that you have some online content, on Sound Cloud or Bandcamp for example, you'll need someone else out in the wider world to give you some coverage before other people will start listening to the music you have online. I generally find that I like to know the opinions of other possibly slightly obsessive alternative music fans before I check out a new band on Sound Cloud. If a band contacts me directly telling me how awesome and original they are, then I'm not really going to believe it (of course most people would have to say good things about their own creative outpourings, a stranger can disagree). Plus, there's a good chance I would never find out about some of the bands and musicians being mentioned on online blogs as they haven't quite got popular enough to get radio plays on 6 Music (which is where I find out most new music that I like).
I think it helps that a lot of the blogs and online magazines are run by self-confessed music obsessives. Not all of the blogs are as DIY and alternative as others, some feature artists I would almost call 'pop', but most have new band reviews or new music showcases that sat alongside the new Lana Del Ray video would make you look pretty important and worth listening to (I'm not singling Lana Del Ray out as her music isn't too bad, she just seems to be very well groomed for a supposedly DIY musician who lived on a trailer park for the last few years, I'm probably wrong but 100,000,000 You Tube hits seems a little suspicious for her first single). It also helps that the authors and editors really know their stuff, albeit within a certain niche in some cases, if you do get a mention on one of these blogs there's a good chance your music will be compared to or reviewed alongside other good new (or old) bands that you may never have heard of, which starts getting you some connections and maybe some fan crossover. A lot of the blogs are fairly easy to get contact details for and are very open to emails and submissions of new music. I think I emailed about 25-30 blogs and magazines yesterday so I'll wait and see if I get any responses or mentions.
I think providing the music obsessive blogging communities keep working hard and shouting about new music then there's hope for some kind of new alternative infrastructure to materialise. It seems that some blog authors have already made steps into managing small record companies and promoting local gigs. I hope this trend of alternative music blogger to real world alternative music industry promoter continues as in my eyes obsessive alternative music fans tend to make the most fun and decent gig promoters and tend to run the cooler labels, which makes sense I guess as it's called the music industry.
Online blogs! I salute you! Please feel free to salute me back once in a while.
Keep your eyes peeled I'll be chucking links up to online blogs I like as I get to grips with a few of them over the coming weeks. Here's a link right now to A New Band A Day (ANBAD) check out the Black Polygons preview a little bit down the page, I really like their music and I've downloaded it as it's free on bandcamp (see! it works!).
Over and out,
Lt Meat
Video of the day! Girl Muscle - 'Your Boyfriend'
Доброе утро, comrades!
OK so this is a video I've made for my old band, out of old copyright free public information movies. It's a essentially a no budget music video I cut together for my band Girl Muscle. It was half made out of boredom and half out of being frustrated at having no budget to make music videos with.
All of the footage used was downloaded from archive.org (which is a great website that I keep returning to when I've not got much else to do other than watch loads of old movies and public information films). All of the footage is free to use under creative commons licences, so if you fancy cutting something similar then get over to the website and get downloading.
The quality isn't great, but I'm not one for much quality control if I'm truthful, I'd rather get some of this music out into the wider world than wait until someone pays me to do it (which isn't likely in this day and free downloading age).
The song is available to download at girlmuscle.bandcamp.com
Thank you for reading this far!
Over and out.
Lt Meat
OK so this is a video I've made for my old band, out of old copyright free public information movies. It's a essentially a no budget music video I cut together for my band Girl Muscle. It was half made out of boredom and half out of being frustrated at having no budget to make music videos with.
All of the footage used was downloaded from archive.org (which is a great website that I keep returning to when I've not got much else to do other than watch loads of old movies and public information films). All of the footage is free to use under creative commons licences, so if you fancy cutting something similar then get over to the website and get downloading.
The quality isn't great, but I'm not one for much quality control if I'm truthful, I'd rather get some of this music out into the wider world than wait until someone pays me to do it (which isn't likely in this day and free downloading age).
The song is available to download at girlmuscle.bandcamp.com
Thank you for reading this far!
Over and out.
Lt Meat
Sunday 4 September 2011
I'm cleaning out my hardrive
Dear squadron,
I haven't posted much to this lately and I've been on a hardrive space freeing up mission this morning and found loads of old photos and cool stuff that I thought had been lost years ago. I'll probably start posting random photos and videos up as I get through the numerous old folders I've just found.
So, here's a random image I just found on my old hardrive. It's of Randy 'Biscuit' Turner of the Texas Biscuit Bombs and legend texan p(f)unk rockers the Big Boys. I played guitar in a punk band a few years ago called Four Letter Word. I was lucky to be playing in the band when we toured with the Texas Biscuit Bombs for two weeks across the UK. All of the Texans in the band were true gentlemen, in very different individual ways, and I remember them all fondly. Especially Biscuit, who sadly passed away on 18th August 2005. I think this photo is a video still from a gig we played in my hometown of Newport, South Wales in TJs.
It's doubly sad that the owner of TJs, and longtime champion of great local music in Newport, John Siccolo passed away in March 2010 and the club has not been open since. To both Randy 'Biscuit' Turner and John Siccolo I say 'farewell and thanks for everything' I've taken influence from you both and the world is a lesser place place without you! Especially the world of alternative music.
Over and out.
Lt Meat
I haven't posted much to this lately and I've been on a hardrive space freeing up mission this morning and found loads of old photos and cool stuff that I thought had been lost years ago. I'll probably start posting random photos and videos up as I get through the numerous old folders I've just found.
So, here's a random image I just found on my old hardrive. It's of Randy 'Biscuit' Turner of the Texas Biscuit Bombs and legend texan p(f)unk rockers the Big Boys. I played guitar in a punk band a few years ago called Four Letter Word. I was lucky to be playing in the band when we toured with the Texas Biscuit Bombs for two weeks across the UK. All of the Texans in the band were true gentlemen, in very different individual ways, and I remember them all fondly. Especially Biscuit, who sadly passed away on 18th August 2005. I think this photo is a video still from a gig we played in my hometown of Newport, South Wales in TJs.
It's doubly sad that the owner of TJs, and longtime champion of great local music in Newport, John Siccolo passed away in March 2010 and the club has not been open since. To both Randy 'Biscuit' Turner and John Siccolo I say 'farewell and thanks for everything' I've taken influence from you both and the world is a lesser place place without you! Especially the world of alternative music.
Over and out.
Lt Meat
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