STRD(Y)

Saturday night we play hard party jamz @ Tiger Bar with our dear friends Mutters and new acquaintances LSD and Edgewater Hotel

IT IS FREE

"Tiga Bah very speshowl!"

Chuck, repent!

Not sure that Chuck will be able to receive the bounty of your knowledge, oh gracious one.

Reigning Sound

Watching Greg Cartwright noodle during soundcheck the other day was eerie. Without concentrating on what he's doing, he plays and there it is - that sound from all those songs I've heard so many times. He's been behind a few of my very favourite records and all the while I've never realized how good he is at guitar. His playing isn't flashy but the way he weaves rhythm and tricky lead lines together is unaffected, always serving the song. Glad I got to see them play finally.

They must have played about 30 songs in all and by the time the audience forced them back out for an encore they'd already done their best ones. Also, they sold out of all their men's t-shirts. They had nary a one left, not even a XXXL.

Live Review

This appeared in Now about a month ago, never got around to posting it. In this particular review Matthew plays the role of Frankie Lymon, much to the detriment of all in attendance....

Look what I found you guys:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BY4XIPOI

Full leak of Phrazes For The Young. 

AND IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. HOLY SHIT. 

I'm pretty sure this is what the future sounds like. Julian must have a time machine. He knows more than the rest of us now.

That was very difficult to find. I found it in spanish internet land.

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If one more band "evokes summertime" I'm going to have a conniption. One simply needs to employ ample spring reverb, poorly conceived and executed harmonies atop (or rather astride) mediocre melodies in order to summon the spirit of Apollo, God of the Sun and hazy polaroids.

The sidewalks teem with pedestrian Beach Boys-cum-Joy Division abasements, each in turn sucking life out through the ears leaving behind an empty husk. Enough already.

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New song lyrics:

What good is our love
if it don't go too fast
gotta run from what's to come
and hide out in the past

i'm gonna sell my soul
put it into a memory
give me a feeling when i'm older
of who i used to be

chorus
the lines we draw between the places
we discover who we are
i'm like you and you're like me
that's how i know you'll break my heart

the lines we draw are the lines we cross
becoming who we are
i can't be yours and you can't be mine
that's how i know i'll break your heart

all the things we been told
i don't know what for
in love and life all you do
is run on empty out each door

but when i don't have you
when i don't even have me
the love that beats my heart
will beat me back to who i used to be

chorus

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