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No no, no no no no, no no, no no no...

The bouncers made us pull up Tuning In. Something about a riot down at the front.

Going Loco

Some of the worst music selection I have ever heard has occurred whilst in a crowd, waiting for an act to appear on stage at a live gig. Is it the same soundman who can't turn up the vocal when asked during the live gig who selects the shit heap of music that precedes the main act? I was at a N*E*R*D concert once and I remember hearing 'Going Loco Down in Acapulco' by The Four Tops. At a Slayer concert you will probably hear DJ Scooter. Not only craptastic tracks that nobody has heard for a decade, but always supremely inappropriate for the audience.

Surprisingly, at these All Ages Concerts we have been performing at recently the promoter Blaise has taken the initiative to bother to book some decent DJs to play in between the acts. We did a gig a little over a week back at Neighbourhood in West London and a DJ named Silverlink was given the job of holding the crowds attention in between songs. It turned out to be one of the best sets from a DJ I've heard in a long while. It combined electro, grime, uk garage, the obligatory rave classics, videogame soundtracks and other oddities that sat nicely amongst them, as well as a few of his own productions.



HEARHISJUKS



He was also decked out properly for the occasion, in a Cassette Playa bleeding eyeballs tee-shirt and some Keith Haring style trousers. It then made sense to hear he is connected to London’s most exciting fashion designer, and flag flyer for New Rave, Cassette Playa. If you aren't aware of her work then take off those cataract glasses you have been wearing for the last nine months. I love her clothes designs and the gifs on her myspace page give me blood vomiting seizures. I have to say I wouldn’t wear them down Watford Town Centre on a Friday night. That however, is kind of litmus test for exciting fashion.

J.

Smack is Wack.

We bought some more equiptment with gig/teeshirt/crack money we have earned over the last three months...

we got...

A METAL BOX.

it makes you do a metal sound. Now we can be more like our heroes Van Halen and Lordi.

SPDS Drum Sampler

Now Nick plays all our vocals on a trigger. This has allowed James to avoid the live shows altogether and finally write that bloody novel.

MPC500

We programmed in twelve phone dialing tones to each of the pads and convinced Alice this was a mobile phone from the eighties.

Jack Leads

We spent thirty quid on leads and hope to lose them all over the next three live shows.

Cornish Pastie

This was vital. We are still waiting to hear back from Greggs concerning the sponsorship.

Novation X-Station

Swanky bit of synthage that now does the new bits on our new bits.

(Sorry for the delay on this post, I had trouble sourcing a photography studio with a white background where I could take individual photographs of all this equipment.)

Japanese Fruityloop Spastics

Coincidences.

Life is full of coincidences, deja-vu and chance encounters. Through a chance encounter I found an amazing book sitting on a table, in the library at school. Some may argue that you are extremely likely to come across books in libraries however this one really did catch my eye. That person might possibly argue further that any book with these freaks (SEE BELOW) on the front cover would catch anybody’s eye. I would then proceed to twat that said person in the eyeball with my trusted parker pen.



Anyway it turns out Japan has been doing East London for the last decade or so and it has been documented by FRUiTs zine/magazine. There is nothing 'neu' about fashion at the moment. Check out the book (I say book, but its one of the best kind, ones with about 300 words, then the rest pictures)

BUYMENT

This place too...
MAGICALPORTAL

HELP FOR YOUR EARS.

NUMBER ONE: FAKE SHARK REAL ZOMBIE.




Canadian 'Fuckshituppers' who are apparently in the country this weekend. Oh, and I think they have something to do with Test-Icicles.

JAWS4WASTHESHITTESTONE

NUMBER SIX... :( -(THATS COLON OPEN BRACKET TO YOU)-



Have you ever tried to save an mp3 with the characters '(' or ':'? Neither had I until I came across these Scottish Gameboy Emokid's myspace. Well anyway mp3 won't let you, so well done to :( for creating simplist and most effective online piracy deterent since Metallica got their lawyers to rape Napster in the soft-drive.

GAMEMOBOYS

NUMBER EIGHTYTEN.*BOLT ACTION FIVE*



Wouldn't it be wicked if there was a band out there that combined the racy live feeling of British Indie rock with the digital square synthesis and 808 claps of Grime music? Hadouken tried it, but Bolt Action Five did it better it (the other direction.)

BOLTYOURSISTERSUP

LOVE FROM JAMES.

CUT OUT AND KEEP INDIE CINDY!

This is Hadoukens entry for Messthetics. Messthetics is a collection of black and white drawings from the fifteen coolest bands in the UK released on Surface Noise Records early next year. You didn't know about it, but now you do, so now you can call yourself cool again.

LIFE HAS SURFACE NOISE

A Nasty Review in the NME

Hadouken's Top 5's of 2006

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night in a panic, thinking that one day maybe all the good songs will have been written and there won't be any more good new music and we'll all have to listen to The Kooks. Thankfully we have nearly got through another year without this happening, to celebrate here are our thoughts on what shit was hot this year. Here's our top 5s, not necessarily in order or fantasticness.

Pilau:

Tracks:

1. Forward Russia - 12
2. Frank Turner - Worse Things Happen At Sea
3. Jeff Lewis - Will Oldham Horror
4. Bono Must Die - Trafalgar
5. Elle Milano - Swearings For Art Students

Gigs:

1. Broken Social Scene, Irish Centre, Leeds
2. Rancid, The Refec, Leeds
3. Forward Russia, Joe's Well, Leeds
4. Frank Turner, Barfly, London
5. Sleater Kinney, The Cockpit, Leeds

Nick:

1. Tiger Force - Beat This
2. Shut Your Eyes - Signal Noise
3. Napoleon III - The Conformist Take
4. Adventure Playground - All Things To All Lads
5. Larrikin Love - Downing Street Kindling

James:

Tracks:

1. Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle
2. Uffie - Ready To Uff
3. The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone
4. Wiley - Eskiboy
5. Strokes- Heart In a Cage
6. Peter Bjorn and John- Young Folks

Gigs:

1. The Cribs - Leeds Uni
2. Young Turks/ The Klaxons- Hoxton Square Rave
3. Bloc Party- Cockpit, Leeds
4. Hot Chip- Cockpit, Leeds
5. Mystery Jets - Reading Festival

All Ages Gig - London 17th December

We're playing a 14+ gig on the 17th of December at Canvas, London. This will be well glamour for these reasons:

1. We will be playing some new songs for the first time.
2. We will be playing some new instruments for the first time.
3. We chose the support and they are all incredible.

Here's who's joining us...

BONO MUST DIE

SHUT YOUR EYES AND YOU'LL BURST INTO FLAMES

TIGER FORCE

Hadouken! in NME