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What did he say?

July 10, 2006

Fucking boss. I was supporting France, and I thought they were the better team throughout the game, but was that the best World Cup 2006 moment or what?

Posted by Chris at 10:16 AM | Comments (3)

Everton FC, dead things and franchises

September 15, 2005

Looks like the ginger-crinkley one and our boys aren't going to have much support tonight, it is a bad omen or just a clear indication of the shape of things to come? I know a lot of you will have no idea what I'm going on about, "football? You mean soccer? Why isn't he talking about music anymore?"... whatever dudes, this is important to me - it is my blog after all.

On another non-music related note, you should all play Urban Dead it's a real-time map-based zombie killing game. Best of all, if you die in the game you become a zombie too! And i should know, I've died three times now and I've only been playing a week.

You should also go to the Battle Of The Art Brut Franchises this Friday at the Luminaire in Kilburn, London. It's basically a load of bands who are (or at least started out as) Art Brut franchises. It's headlined by The Rocks who decidedly, are not an Art Brut Franchise... hm.

Posted by Chris at 02:41 PM

Swish Blog Playlist Mix 12-05-05

May 12, 2005

This week has been one of highs and lows. Firstly the low of finding out Art Brut had missed the Top 40 singles chart by one place (and allegedly two copies!), which was (very) closely followed with sheer elation after finding that Liverpool had lost to Arsenal, giving Everton the fourth Champions League spot. Later on the high of meeting Amy Winehouse, and she was a real charmer too – bonus! In midweek came the low of watching Arsenal joke around with Everton; and finally was the high of having tomorrow off work (there are awards to be won and free wine to be drunk)!

So, hoping to end the week on a high I have made this mix – and bequest it to you – I hope it gives 7-0 style highs to all you Arsenal fans out there.
Making it was a tad labourious – I have a real job too after all – but I would especially recommend The Cribs track ‘Haunted’ at the end which is taken from their soon to be released / soon to be hailed-a-classic album; you should also check out Magazine’s ’The Light Pours Out Of Me’ which was recorded for a John Peel session in 1978.

The Swish Blog, Weekly Playlist Mix, 12/05/05
~~High Quality 160kbps (59MB)~~ | ~~Low Quality 64kbps (23MB)~~

Tracklisting:
1. Saiko Saiko San – Polysics
2. Wax My Anus – Chicks On Speed
3. What’d I Say – Ray Charles
4. In This Chair – Whiskeycats
5. Guns Of Brixton – Nouvelle Vague
6. Stand Down – Art Brut
7. Love Your Shoes – Furniture
8. Scene Damage – Test-Icicles
9. Little Girl (MasterKraft edit) – Death From Above 1979
10. Eight - ¡Forward Russia!
11. Broken Girl – Twisted Charm
12. Sweet Defeat – The Flesh
13. Poor Innocent Boys (demo) – Cazals
14. The Light Pours Out Of Me (session) – Magazine
15. Haunted – The Cribs

Edit:
It seems I rushed this a bit and consequently forgot to change the ID3 tags and add the album art (which contains the tracklisting), if you'd like to add the tracklist yourself it's available here.

Posted by Chris at 10:57 PM | Comments (6)

James, Meghan, Zac and Eddie...

January 09, 2005

Last night was a bit of a write-off. After watching Everton cruise to victory in the third round of the FA cup (only spoilt slightly by cruiser-weight James Beattie, who was described reasonably eloquently by my dad as “…a bit of a pudding”), the night promised to be a whirlwind.

first I went to helen’s for some talking (future. Fate-deciding / synthesising type stuff). We then planned on a quick trip to the pleasure unit for the awesome-incredible-screamy-spazcore-scenekids test-icicles, and (great on record - terrible live) gin palace; only to find when we got there that both bands had pulled out! What! Both bands?

that was followed by a snap decision to head to Holloway road for funfairs & heartbreaks at nambucca. helenium, distraught by missing the possibility of the gin palace midget’s shoes, wanted some special needs shoe-blogging action. This of course meant that we missed out on the possibility of (heleniums #1 shoe blogging target) art brut’s eddie argos at the buffalo bar.

anyway, to cut a long (and boring) story short - after a hideously long tube journey to archway we walked around Holloway road for about 40 minutes, unable to find nambucca; before giving up and going the pub for more gin. gin head this morning very bad, ow.