Two fingers up at those who won't miss us when we pass away.

Somehow it eluded me that the rakes split up last autumn, i now feel pretty stupid that i looked for their name on all the festival line-ups for this summer. The best thing about them was their ability to make even the most cack footed awkward kids like me want to dance and throw their limbs about,seeing them at glastonbury 2009 in a glorified 6 man tent was definately one of my highlights of my 19th year.Anyways i digress capture/release (2005) is in my opinion one of the best albums of the decade, so here's a belated r.i.p to the music of a band who had style substance and above all tuuuuneees!

Undoubtedly my favourite song.



Also is this even real? i read somewhere that p diddy has a 50% share in iroc Vodka in return for cringe worthy moments like this:



Marketing calamity of 2010? i think its up their with gocompare.com's operatic cunt.

peas out

A decade late.

I discovered this rare gem, The Math Sheet Demo's (apparently so titled because funnily enough the EP's were wrapped in old maths sheets) by Alexisonfire. Alexisonfire have forever been one of my favourite bands and can pretty much do no wrong in my eyes (with the exception of doing a split with kings of screeching pyshiatric self harm moneen) and this is no different despite the fact two of three songs are on their debut. There is one 'new'/ten year old song on there: The Philosopical Significance Of Shooting My Sister In The Face: An Essay by James Secord which by the way is probably the best name i've heard for a song in maybe, well a decade. As a song though it sounds pretty much like what i imagine most music coming out of blizzard hit canada sounded like in 2001 but thats not necessarily a bad thing. If anything i'd recommend listening to it to remind yourself how much better they've got and the fact they've been around for a decade. It made me think of sitting in a friends smoke hazed garage trying to think of 18 year olds to buy us a 3 litre bottle of strongbow and professing my undying love for all things metal.

Peas

Two things worth the time of day, or night...

It is 2am after all.

Whilst I've got nothing against the army and I'll be the last person to march down Westminster with my unwashed body and doc martens i thought this was pretty spot on.

And this, well a combination of M83, sunshine in every frame and long exposure city scape's just made me long for a tranquil summer riding,barbecuing and swimming in muddy English rivers like the romanticised summers of old.

Will Stroud Cinematography Reel from Will Stroud on Vimeo.

Peas

East coast rap is gay?

Going to what i expect to be one of the most hilarious gigs of my life tomorrow at Brixton 02, i've never really been all that into hair metal (with the exception of motely crue who are Deity's in my eyes), but i defy anyone not to find steel panther a least a little bit funny.

Oh and I'm spending this weekend in Amsterdam getting slightly, no, royally wasted. Plus i think we're going to some sex museums and breweries which is cool with me, and the best thing is its all in the name of education, BA Journalism in fact.
God bless sheffield uni

peas

Wolf Wars

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/wolf-wars/moyer-photography

This is beyond sick, i think i may have been a wolf in a past life.

peas

Fatty's and eye patches.

3 things to hate:

1.Kings of Leon- sex on fire, the average car journey/ 10 minute browsing of radio stations usually yields this horror at least 3 times.

2.The journey, the same basic rule applies to this as above if you swap car journey for nightclub and pretty much every student house party I've ever been too.

3. 90% of people who like these songs and their connotations.


3 things worthy of love:

1. French rider Alex Valentino's clothing line, its named after a Rick James song has a rad team and actually looks good(which is fairly rare in the nike 6.0 age.) Its a bit more fashion orientated than your average bmx clothes but hey something fresh is a nice change.

2. The new Courteeners album 'Falcon', I've often heard this band compared to Oasis but i think that's a pretty defeatist comparison given that any band from the northwest gets this tacked onto them at some point, and I've yet to see anyone who is anything like as influential as Messrs Gallagher were in their glory days of the nineties. Nonetheless this is probably the best album ive heard so far in 2010, which probably says a fair amount given we're three months deep.

3.Addidas Samba's: these shoes are cool as fuck and i've always wanted a pair, since i saw some northern kid do an amazing invert in them when i was about 15. Im opting for blue suede which can never be anything other than classic. mint.

actually make that 4

4. Submarine by Joe Dunthorpe- Possibly the most amusing, mood altering book i've ever read.

peas out

Black hole's, unraised moles.

I haven't had much worthwhile to write about of late, but i went on an adventure of sorts to falmouth the weekend gone. The adventure itself consisted of closed A-roads, reggae and proof that 'my boy lennon' lives and is biding his time in cheap falmouth coctail bars until the death of Paul Mcartney and Ringo Starr.

Head bypassing witticisms aside the real reason we went was to see Los campesionos! in a venue representing your average village hall/under 18's youth disco. Despite spending most of the gig pondering whether 16 is really old enough when your fast approaching 20 years old, i managed to gauge that they were pretty sick and that the keyboard/vocals woman was a solid 7 out of 10.

Upon second reading what i've just written looks like some kind of carling fueled misogyny, which in a way it is.enjoy.

peas