TAKE A SIDE-STEP TO YOUR RIGHT.

I've just finished a remix of Tree Friend Tree Foe for my friends Bolt Action Five. It came out pretty good, I saw a tee-shirt in Topman that said 'I Hate New Rave'. Apparently the high-street marketing men no longer believe it to be cool so I tried to make the most Ravey remix I could. Took me back to my M25 illegal field rave days. When I get clearance I'll be uploading it here, and no doubt sticking it on the next Hadouken! Mixtape with one of their new tracks.

Aside from that the song is based around what I believe to be the Television programme Knightmare. Who remembers this little gem of a show? Plenty of clips on the Youtube website. Fuck Morrissey, Tree Friend Tree Foe is real lyrical Genius.

World of Hadouken!:

Well if I am writing a blog it means I have a severe case of writers block, I'm sitting on three great instrumentals and I havent got a clue where to start with the lyrics. One is a drum and bass track, one is 3/4 swingbeat number and the other is kind of Coldplay with square bass. I'm thinking about doing one track about parental divorce (although mine have never done this, so I'm trying to step out of my shoes for a moment), and the dnb one I'm gonna try and do some sort of gossipy anecdote, dont ask me how though. I also wanna do a song about some sort of suburban Jack the Lad, dad bought him a Vaxhall Corsa, has a mullet or Manga Hair, heavy drinker or a cannibis smoker. I'm also working on some vocal for some other band, something might come of it.

The other three boys are all in Barcelona at the moment no doubt drinking and getting a tan, maybe a few other things. Cunts. (Sorry, didnt mean that... just quite jealous.) Alice is still working on her dissertation, something I don't envy.

JAYMES.

BIG IN THE GAME.

LOVE FROM JAMES.

Hometaping Is Killing The Record Industry

Two fresh perspectives well worth a read:

Richard Russell from XL says 'times have never been better for making music'

Stephen Godfroy from Rough Trade on the art of music retail and fighting back against the high street.

On the subject of Rough Trade, found this Youtube jem from New York anti-folk legend Jeff Lewis...




Pilau
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T4 ON THE BEACH - HELLO JACKET

Watching Girls Aloud on a sunny beach in Weston Super Mare whilst drinking free red bull cocktails, surrounded by channel 4 C-List celebrities = definitely one of the more surreal highlights of the so-called summer so far. I think the red bull had some kind of delayed effect on me though as I woke up at four this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, nasty shit. Anyway, we were pleased and surprised to find a small crowd of people who came over to the 4Music stage to see us play, thankyou for coming, playing to an empty field would have been a bit awkward.

Here's what I/we learnt:

1. T4 on the Beach is literally on the beach.

2. When you go on TV people give you lots of free stuff, this is awkward.

3. If you work in TV you are probably 23, blonde, fit and carrying a clipboard and or walkie-talkie.

4. Kate Nash, The Twang and Calvin Harris are nice people.

5. Patrick Wolf was right.

6. TV allegedly adds 10 pounds, Chris laughs in the face of this danger.

7. T4 presenter Steve Jones has some big lyrics... 'get your hands in the air, weston-super-mare'... DEEP.

8. There is a difference between a make up artist and a face painter, if you ask a make up artist to make you look like a tiger they will not be amused.

Backstage we got given some T-shirts with anti-global warming slogans on them, we also got mirrors surrounded by 12 extremely bright, energy consuming lightbulbs and a chauffeur driven car to take us around the site.

In other news, we finished the first recording session for our still untitled album, we're going to write some more songs, then record them, then release it. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

HOLD STEADY,

pilau
HADOUKEN!

P.S I added some more links to our bands list to the right, check them out. One new addition is this lot, Ghost Frequency:

BRING THE NOISE

Yesterday we took a break from recording our album to catch our buddies Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames play the Barfly at the opening night of the Rolo Tomassi and Meet Me In St Louis UK tour. We only caught the last couple of songs by Guildford based Meet Me In St Louis but saw enough to confirm the positive reports I'd been hearing about them, check em out here

No doubt any review of Rolo Tomassi's tour will mention how young the band are, but that seems an injustice to a band who are not just good for their age, but incredible by any standards. You can check out their myspace here, but your life won't really be complete until you've seen them live so get yourself to one of these dates...



A lot of love has already been shown on these pages for SYEAYBIF, so I'll just say they smashed it as ever, they are going to be incredible on the October tour. James made a guest appearance, thanks to Paul for the pic...

Real Time Collage TV + Tour Supports

YO,

We've just finished putting together a second Real Time Collage Blog which will feature original video content, largely filmed by Bobby Harlow and his crew e.g. tour diaries, single promos and that. Click here to check out Real Time TV

We're also pleased to announce two of the bands that will be coming on tour with us in September. Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames and :( will be doing half the tour each with at least one other act TBC for all dates. For details of all the gigs go to our website


Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames




:( - (Colon Openbracket)




Also, check out this fan video for Rockstars by Does It Offend You, who toured with us in June, pretty sick...



We're in the studio at the moment, recording tracks for our album, we just finished a new track that will be our next single, it's a bit of a change from the first two so we're pretty excited about hearing people's reaction.

June Tour Diary - 01

We're out on tour at the moment, the first two gigs (newcastle and stoke) were sick. We've got Bobby Harlow (who directed our promo vids) on tour with us filming whats we're up to. Here's the first clip, of James smashing Nick's drums, more to come soon.

MAKING THE VIDEO

By Mr. Bobby Harlow

HOLD STEADY,

hadouken!

FED-EX LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS.

Sorry music people, I havent exactly been keeping things musically based recently. This was too funny not to share. A man that builds all his furniture out of fed-ex boxes.

http://www.fedexfurniture.com/

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SCENE - PART II

YO, so after reading James repping his ends me and nick thought we'd also take the oppertunity to shout out our local heroes; REUBEN.



1. We just picked up their new DVD and it's pretty inspiring stuff for a new band like us. These boys have worked their tits off for over half a decade and everything they've released has been the mutt's nuts... and they're funny motherfuckers. nothing but respect for Reuben in the H! camp.

2. Also originally from not far from us is Mr.Frank Turner, Frank fronted Million Dead, whose second and last album 'Harmony No Harmony' was in my opinion the best album released by a british band in a very long time, very little since can touch their integrity and passion. Since their demise Frank's been touring relentlessly solo, I organised a gig for him in Leeds last year and frankly (sorry) it was fucking great.

3. A mutual friend of mine and Elle Milano introduced me to their brilliantly titled EP 'Swearing's For Art Students' last year. They're leicester based I think, but i'm told half of them are from our ends. they make noisy manic artrock stuff with ace lyrics, In what I imagine are their own words:

'They donate a calculated cynicism of the innescapable clichés of industry-manufactured popular culture and the shallow consumerist attitudes of the information age, but also of the British indie rock scene and pretentious, flippant, student culture.'

Deep. their album is out later this year. check it out yo.

4. Since I've been away I've been hearing a fair bit of talk about Meet Me In St Louis, I'm yet to see them live, but this
is very promising.

SORRY YOUR NOT A WINNER

I finally worked out the lyrics to the anthemic 'Sorry Your Not a Winner' by the band who my dad calls... Enter Shakira. (as Pilau once said... Enter Shakira?...I certainly would)

Scratchcard berry!
What is slow pleasure?
That boy sells bass!
Don’t look back now
My wifes a bowl, (do you remember?)
My Wifes a bowl,
Well someones stuck blue tac in my eye!

Sorry your not,
A winner with the airs so cold and lifes so bitter,
What have you got!
to lose but false intentions and a life so pretentious

Scratch card berry,
What is slow passion?
That guys nosebleed,
Don’t look back now!
My wife’s a bowl,
Do you remember
That sweat’s dying.

What? [apt.]

Goodbye
Your wow!
EEEEE!

(Its such a con!)
(Insert your wife!)


Jokes aside, go and buy their album. Its flapping fantastic, and I can't get it off my stereo/itunes at the moment. Not that I am trying to. All the tracks in CD quality make the purchase price alone worthwhile, and when you buy it most of the money deservedly goes to the band themselves... not some middle-aged major label weasel. And they're from St Albans.

Awwooooooooga.

I found one of the most bizarre Internet cult thingy recently through our wonderful drummer Nick. All Nick had done was to fill his MSN Messenger quote with a phrase from a short story about Kriss Akabusi....

'He whispered Awooga into her ear, and patted her on the fanny.'

Intrigued, although a little confused it was enough to crack me up for about three minutes.

It turns out someone on the football365 forums had been posting up fictional, lurid pseudo-porn-mag, sex stories that involved the sexual deviance of former British athletic champion, children's television presenter and now motivational speaker Kris Akabusi(since taken down I may add). Akabusi's catchphrase as some of you may remember, was to belt out the non-word 'Awooga!' in times of jubilation. The stories posted were farcical and ridiculous tales of Akabusi's sexual escapades, littered with hideous sexual metaphors and which always finished with the above quote. The Kult of Awooga had begun.

After joining an Akabusi Appriciation Facebook group which Nick had invited to me, I stumbled upon another hilarious website, which had some Akabusi related banter. I surfed some of the links on the site which seem to deal with subvertisments, culture jamming and parody based humour and then noticed it was run by a member of Shitdisco. Upon finding this out I had no choice but to scream 'Awooga!' But I stopped short of patting Darren Shitdisco on the fanny.

Disclaimer for James's concience: These stories are of course made-up, and Kriss Akabusi is most likely a lovely, decent bloke. When searching for an image I found a fair few pictures of him posing with disabled kids, which seemed to reaffirm this and make me feel pretty guilty about this post. But the stories are just too funny not to share.