cardiff in flames

Holy fuck my college ipod playlist has come to life and decided to tour the uk! Rise against Thursday and poison the well are coming to the UK for 5 dates (including cardiff!) in november. All three of these bands are fucking awesome! Maybe more so in past years, but what the fuck they are still going to play their old songs right? This show is going to be sold the fuck out pretty quickly so I'd grab your tickets soon, for the Cardiff show you can buy tickets here . Below is a reminder of why these bands are so awesome:

Rise against - Reveloutions per minute

Thursday - Full collapse
Thursday- Five stories falling (I fucking love this record)

poison the well- the opposite of december (a season of seperation)

The decline of western civilization

I really do not get why anybody would find getting this wasted fun! It's fucking disgusting, this weekend binge drinking culture is turning men into primitive apes and women into uninhibited cum dumpsters. Why certain people are unable to enjoy alcohol and drugs in moderation is beyond me, this does not happen in other countries so why here? These pictures were taken by polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz in my home town of Cardiff, in a recent newspaper article maciej, who has spent the last 4 year documenting british nightlife, commented:

"Everywhere I go I like to take pictures of the people and surroundings. I had never seen such scenes in Poland or any other country I had visited before. What I have seen in my time in the UK has been something completely new to me."

Maciej is releasing his photographs in a book called Cardiff at night.

Check out Maciej's flickr here.

Free agents is a 6 part comedy series that aired in march of this year. I decided to give it a watch because Matthew Holness (Garth marenghi's dark place) plays one of the characters in the series and he is a funny funny guy! The series as a whole is not amazing but it does have some really funny laugh out loud moments usually involving Anthony head. Here is the whole series give it a watch if your bored and in the mood for some non cringey rom com laughs:

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Deep elm records have released another awesome free 16 track sampler of all of their new bands! The sampler is called bonfire of trust and features bands like moving mountains, dartz! and ride your bike. They are also offering up a new emo is awesome emo is evil compilation that has classic tracks by appleseed cast, camber and sounds like violence on it! check them out here. Here are some of my favourite tracks from the two compilations:

Sounds like violence- you give me heart attacks

Fire divine- Reputation outlives application

Track a tiger- Light (I'm a sucker for the french language)

Speaking about me being a sucker for the french language, you know when you see somebody, in a band or in a magazine or on the Internet and you just think to yourself, Man If only I could meet that person and speak to them then I just know......I KNOW that I would be able to kidnap them, hide them under my bed and make them my wife. Only joking I do love me some coeur de pirate though! Her voice is like pure silk and I can't think of anything better to listen to on a Sunday afternoon. If she does not tour the UK soon I'm moving to Canada so I can stalk and kidnap her there........kidding kidnap is wrong please don't arrest me. Check out her myspace here.

Coeur de Pirate || Comme des enfants from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.

Eastbound and down is a new TV series starring and written by Danny McBride. It's about this washed up pro baseball player who after falling from grace has to move back to his home town to live with his brother and his brothers family. If you like Will Ferrell style comedy you will fucking love this! Check out some clips from the show below:

The Best of Kenny Powers from Danny McBride

GOD MUST BE LAUGHING DOWN AT ME....Ha Ha Ha

THEY WERE SO FUCKING GOOD! Highlights were definitely, red handed sleight of hand straight into art is hard, the martyr (so good!) and the last song before their encore, what have I done, such an epic way to end their set! If you like the above poster for the cursive show it was done by my (inbetweeners voice) friend, Check out his awesome blog here.

CURSIVE- WHAT HAVE I DONE?


Check out these rad poster designs for the recent gallows tour. Artists and illustrators were recently asked to create a poster for each date of the tour, some of the artists involved include Luke Drozd, Dan Mumford, Drew Millward, Graham Pilling (pic directly above) Gavin beattie (1st pic) and tape ears (middle pic) all of the works are available as limited-edition prints.
Check them out and buy them here.

Oh Bianca, Sierra, how I love your head space, if more people thought like you the world would be a nicer place to live in. Cocorosie have been an obsession of mine for a while, not just their music but the whole mythology that surrounds the two sisters. Bianca and Sierra were born in iowa, their mother was an artist who constantly moved the sisters around the country and their father, a teacher, was involved in shamanism and the native american peyote religion. After losing contact with each other they eventually met up again in paris where Sierra had been training to be an operatic singer and the pair recorded their first album la masion de reverie in her bathroom! Read up about them here, have a look at biancas art here, check out this recent interview here, listen to their new/ish track below and watch the youtube video.

Cocorosie - God has a voice she speaks through me

Brand new have announced they have started mixing their new album with Dave Sardy and are expecting to release it this summer!

One of my new favourite Cardiff bands, Samoans, have been in the studio and recorded an amazing 5 track demo. Dan, tal and calvin make up samoans who sound a bit like early hopesfall crossed with american football/ghost and vodka with the vocals of a young simon neil. Their music is definately the culmination of lots of different influences and their live show is full of passion and energy. Their whole demo is available to listen to on their myspace and also check out dan's other band circa regna tonat here.

Samoans- Neon Tentacle

Talking about ghosts and vodka a reformation may be in the works this recently went up on their myspace:

Oh, Hello there.....
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Music

Hi.


We just got done having our first practice in 8 years or something like that. Honestly I can't remember the last time we were all in the same place at the same time. At any rate... It happened.


We will keep you posted... or not. One or the other.


-GnV

EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED

Check out their myspace here.
Follow the band on twitter.

li wei what the fuck?

Seriously how does this guy take these photo's?


Li Wei is a 37 year old performance artist from beijing who has traveled all over the world creating his amazing death defying photos. Check out his work here.

I work as a sound engineer for a well know music venue chain in the uk ( I'm sure you can work it out there is only one after all!). This is an awesome job MOST of the time as I get to listen to loads of bands meet awesome people and take time off whenever I want. However there is a down side, this being the fact that 80% of the bands that I have to listen to and engineer are complete shit and wonder why no sound will come out of their guitar amp when they have plugged into the bass amp next to it (I shit you not this actually happened!) So it's always awesome when I get into work thinking that I'm going to have a shit shift, due to the fact I haven't heard of any of the bands playing and I find a new band I fucking love.
Strange news from another star are a three piece band from Cardiff which combines refused style riffs with off beat at the drive in drums and early future of the left style vocals. Their live shows consist of boiler suits, an elevated bass player (he stands on a stool) and guitar thrashing dance moves. The e.p. double denim: full frontal is awesome however it doesn't really capture the raw energy this band gives off in a live performance so buy the c.d and definitely catch them live!

Strange news from another star- letter from the queen

Tonight I'm mixing Mc lars, Failsafe and a new day who are awesome check em out!




A new day- koko ni dare mo imasen