Your eccentric keyboard player reporting

Our review from cheesepress.co.uk:

A rare visit to our regional capital afforded me the enjoyable experience of watching four young bands showcase their varying musical styles in a fund raising event for Oxfam at the Retro Bar.

The gig opened with Altrincham based foursome Frozen Trees. The melodic guitar riffs and soulful tones of vocalist Chloe Mattison in the opening song 'Protest' set the stage for the rest of the set. Although they have a pleasing style thats easy to follow, the ability for quick tempo change is available as shown in the penultimate 'Timewaster' and the finale 'Ode', an apparent band and fans favourite although it has to be said the rather eccentric out of tune keyboard accompanyment unsettled what was an emotive powerful end to the set. Frozen Trees are: Chloe Mattison: Vocals Guitars, Ste Airey: Lead Guitar, Ric Wade: Bass Keyboards? Dave Cribb: Drums.

I'm going to have to learn to play while drunk or at least move Ode to earlier in the set...

We've also changed our name to The Foreign Office because, well, Frozen Trees was a shit name.

oooh it's 'King Biscuit Time' er..time and othe Nazi related things

From Beta Band's Steve Mason some new lovely stuff in a video for his new song which does include a black man rapping about UN, Saddam, Blair, Bush etc whilst sporting what appears to be a Hitler moustache. Yay for urban dictators.
Also, I am currently loving an Of Montreal track from a Happy Birthday To Me 4th Anniversary cd called, 'Hitler Song', which I'm not even going to describe, it just requires hearing.

Top of my froggle wishlist

They've actually made this now that's a fancy piece of work. Ric's back from Leeds, I bet it was rubbish and he had a bad time, I bet he did, better have, I hate everyone who went.

Echoes of the Past

Now THAT is a class headline considering the link. In a show of good faith, I will allow I am Kloot to record all of the new album on my Mac and keyboard and it will be brilliant. I swear. If Nine Inch Nails can do it. And me. I rule. I got bus tickets to London for free, proof if ever it were needed.
Also, excitement abound about the bit with Guy Garvey oooh yeah.

Who asked this question?

I do want one, mind

We're going to live forever

...I'm gonna learn how to fly.. See it's true

...

My new favourite search terms to find us

Going out with a bang

Hunter S. Thompson deserves nothing less.

He Sings, He Dances, He Cries

With Ric's Emo nature about to be unveiled for all to see, with some one handed bass playing (I spent 30 minutes searcghing on three search engines and all the bass players I found had two hands), meaning it should be a riot, maybe like Alltamont, I hope so. But if it all becomes a bit much and you need some relief from the mean world join and express your emotions Unfortunately, this lead me to find this which was erm...interesting.

The Emo Kids are naturally the best, with their brilliant couplets
Your eyes cannot look beyond
my all too many faults,

But, lest we think otherwise, on the fateful morn of this day of forgotten flowers, we have a legend in the group. Step forward Heaven's Epitome, who is not afraid to throw his boasts out:
I have won 2 Blue Peter badges for my poetry, and a 22ct gold medal, which is my most treasured, and the most prestigious reward i have earned for being a poet.
Oddly, I never heard Katy Hill read this out

So YAY FOR EMO.

Diagonal Cut Toast > Square Cut Toast

"If you were a girl in 42's and went in the middle of the dance floor and started chewing gum you'd get lots of guys dancing round you"

We should have just left that sentence alone, but there are some things that have to be pounced on in pubs, and weird fetishes are one of them. So, getting up bright and early at 10, I went off to uncover the secret world of bubblegum fetishists on the internet.

Suprisingly, they are few and far between.

However:

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C:

Brian Boone of Virden, Illinois, is known for collecting girls' socks, the dirtier the better. He became known as 'Sock Man' after offering various young women $100 for their used socks. He also has a 'thing' for girls' chewing gum, getting in trouble for allegedly asking two girls, ages 17 and 13, to spit their gum into a cup. Boone was sentenced for trying to get three girls to take a ride in his pickup after he saved their gum for 'fixing a flat tyre'. He has recently been sentenced for violating the terms of his probation. He has not yet sought counselling for his gum fetish.

Moving swiftly away from that, having broken my two big music hoards, I've been retreating to the internet, with this lovely Her Space Holiday 50 minute long mix tape. It includes bits of Brian Wilson, Bjork, Mia, and Her Space Holiday (suprisingly,) as well as shed loads of other artists. There's also this rather wonderful site charting the history of Elephant 6, with a load of live tracks. Try pie, try...

I'm sorry if any of our readers are closet chewing gum fans, this guy proves you are a nice bunch of people. Nathan's hobbies include tracking giant babies, and rating his favourite religious websites. Can't go wrong, really.

Music Legend causes stir

First there was Puff Daddy, then there was P.Diddy and now we have further reinvention from the musical chameleon, innovator and all round bad ass from the hood, DIDDY

We made it simpler. We removed the P. The P was getting in between us. We're entering the age of 'Diddy.' "

We was at [Madison Square Garden] rocking with Jay-Z. The last time I was there, half the crowd was chanting 'P. Diddy,' half the crowd chanting 'Did-dee.' We gonna stop the confusion. 'Did-dee. Did-dee, Did-deee!' Simple. To the point and it sounds strong. It sounds like something is about to happen. It sounds like something is about to go down in history."

Well...

...that's what you get for being a junkie, whino, scumbag who actually still has arsehole fans despite the fact they are just an utter, utter joke

Hope you get off it soon, Pete, or die, whichever makes you shut up.

Caption Competition

A prize will be awarded for the most hilarious entry.

It's Joe's birthday

Be happy for him. If you see him, why don't you sing him a happy song?

I'm thinking of getting him some Brawny Paper Towels the advertising makes it seem essential for any student houses. But keep quiet about it, ok? Certainly don't post it on the internet.

Speaking of happy people, these people seem very happy. I wonder why.

Good-er Soul...

Rubber Soul is gonna be re-released BUT WAIT! Oh dear God no this is not some cheap cash in but rather lovely bands getting together and going YO LET ME SPIT MY SHIT ONTO THESE CLASSICS. And so, we have The Fiery Furnances, Low, Ben Harper, Kweller and Lee (all Bens, not together though) and Cowboy Junkies doing a cover each. Oh and the Donnas, they're not that bad, just not exactly gonna be good either, I'm guessing. But they're pretty, a bit.