Its 10 in the morning, at the start of December, I'm writing you now...

Morning all, After a fairly quiet November, one excellent gig by The French Electric not withstanding, December is kicking off nicely .

Next Thursday , 15th Of December, the inevitable pinhole burns are playing at Tom Banks and Tom Cavanaghs club night at the Amersham Arms in New Cross. Having played there in Rhesus with S*M*A*S*H and on bass for Black Daniel I am really looking forward to getting on the excellent stage.

THEN.

New Years Eve. In the passed I have always objected to gigging on new years eve. This year, however The Inevitable Pinhole Burns have been asked to support the amazing David Devant and his Spirit Wife at The 100 Club. Oxford Street. (That is number 100 Oxford Street). We have £10 cheap list. That is £10 to see David Devant @ The 100 Club on New Years Eve.

Get in touch.

THEN....The Angry Bees are back, its a one off , it is the Buffalo Bar, Steven Horry and Myself are re assembling our noise rock devil group. Leona Lewis has just released a cover of NIN Hurt. This is terrible. Venues will be empty tonight because it is the Xfactor. Colplay are still making records. The world needs us more now than it ever did.

THEN. On the 9th Of January, The IPHB and Entourage are heading to the Mountains of Austria to play at Weekender Club in Innsbuck for their Student night.

More to come from The French Electric, including the best album title ever.

The Inevitable Pinhole Burns are writing album number two. It will be heavier and darker.

I am annoyed by any trustifarians who are able to be at the occupy camp because their because their parents benefitted from Thatcherism in the 80's so they don't have to work for a living. That is hypocrisy not protest. I am just saying what I see. I don't know enough about the financial crisis to pass proper judgement on anyone so I won't.

People can STILL download our album for free from here.

http://corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/The+Inevitable+Pinhole+Burns/Lost+and+Still+Confused/

T shirts are coming, they are going to look great.

I saw two major gigs in November, Carter USM and The Sisters Of Mercy. It was 1991 and it was amazing.

Now I am off to ASDA to by a Christmas Tree.

2011 15 days in " A dark void for the deeply destroyed, the last safe haven for the paranoid and she said...this is all for you. "

Right ok, so it is 2011, I remember 1991 like it was yesterday and that was 20 f*cking years ago now. I knew nothing at all then and very little more now but I am trying to learn as best I can. Anyway. Music.

Where do I start, today i will start with heart kill giant. My great friend Patrick McCourt of Black Daniel fame, asked me to join him on bass in Heart Kill Giant in October 2010, a time when I seemed to have ample free time, so I agreed. I love being in this band, it is totally different to anything I have ever done before but I get to play my beautiful 1978 ricky 4001 on stage. The songs are stunning and Pat has a voice that could melt gold. We have lots coming up but the one I want you all to come and check out the gig next Saturday at 93 feet east. That is Sat 22nd January. We have lots coming up.

Have a listen here http://heartkillgiant.bandcamp.com/track/a-hymn-for-her

It wouldn't be a new year without Subliminal Girls. We would like to welcome our newest addition guitarist and house mate, the amazing, entertaining and eccentric (in all the right ways) Ciaran NcNamee. No one can play like Ciaran, no one even tries. Ciaran plays drums in Mayumi Carrex and the Angry Bees. He can play the guitar to pardon the plageurism *sic "Like ringing a bell".
We have two gigs coming up and they are both early starters. Gig one is the Pop Art all dayer we are on at 7.45 at the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Bloomsbury on Sat 29th January.
The second gig is for my new friend and companion Zac Stephenson to support his band Special Needs on their come back gig. That is at the hideously expensive but still great Proud Galleries Camden Town. Tuesday 15th of February. Again we are on at 7.45. We are also on Spotify. Thanks for the ideas and inspirations.

Arran Lovechild and myself have another new project, we are called The Marksmen, we are writing songs with Sub Girls' Danny "The Frenchman" Le Pelley. " A dark void for the deeply destroyed the last safe haven for the paranoid and she said...this is all for you, we are the tourists we are the holiday romance , just for the evening, we are the one night stands, we'll get together again but only for the weekend" Um...you get the gist. Same ingredients as Self Obsession.

The Inevitable Pinhole Burns are working on our first single, Cassie. We are collaborating with Lamik 2000 of Black Daniel, Stuart Semple and Camilla Hedgeland on the video, release , media and art work. Rob, Lobster, Darren and myself cannot even begin to thank all of those involved enough. Thanks also to Bucks publishing. Thank you for believing enough guys (I want to be Bruce Springsteen). We are not even a year into this. La la love you. Thanks to all of you who inspired lyrics and feedback for better or for worse. Come see us at the Camden Undersolo on Thursday (20th jan, This Thursday).

Mayumi Carrex continues to grow we lost a singer
, we might need another one we are not sure yet.

The Angry Bees.....we can't talk about the Angry Bees.

And finally, There was Steve Horry, "keyboard "Kate Dornan, Andrew Bowker, Patrick Barrett and me, we had a little band in the middle of a period of bad craziness for all of us, that band died too soon, but, as with many things that died to soon, it never got shit, stale or boring. That band was The 18 Carat Love Affair, (The 18 Carat Wreck Affair to its friends). Anyway, we thought fuck it and we are coming back for ONE NIGHT ONLY. 12th February at Guided Missile Club at The Buffalo Bar, Highbury and Islington. http://www.myspace.com/the18caratloveaffair.

And me, I am alright, I am happier than I have ever been, it is Saturday morning, I am in Dalston, at some point I might make some tea. I will never ever learn......

Sincerely J. Rhesus

Chrome wheeled fuel injected and stepping out over the line......

Evening chaps, it is Sunday night and this week I am mostly going to a desert where there is no music or arts culture what so ever to rest my tired head and body after the last few weeks hecticity.

Really enjoyed playing the first Mayumi Carrex gig with the fades at the urban bar which seems to be situated just on the edge of hell. really good for a first gig. I love playing nasty aggressive bass guitar and I was certainly given the chance to do that, next gig is going to be on the 11th December at the Brixton Windmill for Les "Fruitbat" Carter's birthday. Seemed to drink my own body weight in weird imported lager courtesy of Viz the Spoon and pretty much wrote off the rest of the weekend. The fades we amazing as always, good to see Flash back in the frame too. I hope that they are having the time of their lives in New York this week.

Sunday however, I rehearsed for the first time with Patrick MCourt for his Heart Killed Giant project. This involved finding out that I also enjoy playing soft gentle bass guitar too. Rehearsed on Tuesday, warm up gig on Wednesday and finally the single launch itself on Thursday at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton. Well, it was totally packed. Pats' voice is something very very special. I think that he is going to go some distance with this. The press seem to love it, XFM keep playing it and the songs, although a much more chilled out that what I am used to, really stick in your head. You could have heard a pin drop during Punch Drunk.
Check our more here http://heartkillgiant.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-ep

The Inevitable Pinhole Burns have a load of stuff going on but I am not saying anything about it yet. Really enjoyed last nights early show at the buffalo bar, many thanks to A Secret Picnic for some great photos. Next gig is on the 26th of November, a Friday night, in Camden, at the Enterprise with.....Subliminal Girls. Yes I know we have already played our last gig....so what. We can play another few, we haven't seen each other for a while we still have some nice songs to sing and there is no way you could get all 5 of us in a room together unless we have a gig to play. Barbed Wire Kisses etc......

On Tuesday I am of up to Manchester to play guitar for Keith TOTP in support of one of my favourite bands in the world, The Blood Arm. Then I am of to the middle east to sit in the Indian Ocean with my nieces and nephew and get annoyed at their Mid Atlantic accents, they sound like mini Lyod Grossman's. ANd the reference and the top? I just love born to run.

Mayumi Carrex first Gig, Pinhole Burns Updates solo shows and ashes an ashes and second hand passions and stolen guitars

Hello all,

Things have been a little quite on the whole music blog thing the last few months due to various external factors but things now seem to be back on track. Quite a few things happening, I have seen next to no live music over the last few weeks. I caught the last 10 mins of the Indelicates on Friday night, saw Black Daniel the Sat before but both times I was pretty destroyed. I also watched the xfactor once. I will never do that again, I just wanted to see if I was wrong, or may be I wanted to be able to understand what the people at work were talking about, I wasn't wrong.

Anyway, Wayne, Jimmy 2 Shoes, Ciaran and I have been working for several months on a new project, Mayumi Carrex. We are going to perform live with it for the first time, we have 7 completed songs, mostly written by Wayne Rhesus. Jimmys voice is totally different to mine, I am playing bass and not singing at all on this. They are the kind of words that my situation has moulded into. We are playing on 5th November with the Fades in Whitechapel at Urban. (Never been there) but apparently good for a Friday night. Come and see us.

I am playing 3 songs from 1987-1991 with Zac Stephenson and Joe Fox at Bartock on the 3rd November.

This month I have purchased two beautiful guitars one day when I work out how to post pictures on here you will see some pictures. One is a 2002 Fender USA Texas Special Fat Strat, it has a scratchplate straight out of an Essex bathroom. The other is a one of custom build Heritage hollow body with Jason Lollar P90's and a 60's style bigsby unit.....asleep yet? Sorry.






Woke up at 5.30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I set about writing the lyrics for a few songs that have been bubbling over. The last few weeks have been a bit weird so that has helped fuel the fire word wise. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and just generally been there. It never goes un-noticed.

We are going into the studio next week with Lamik 2000 from Black Daniel and we hope to get two tracks down to release on the Indelicates Corporate Recordings label over the next few weeks.

The tracks we have to play with are Bhambi a rambling song about being in a band (jesus that sounds f*cking cliche, there are no mandolins or ragamuffins, it isn't what you think), £12.75 (about a stripper I met but originally about something else), October (about a mish mash of things that have happened in October some good, most bad all confusing) and Gin (A tender love song about comedowns and broken glass). Not sure which ones we are going to go with. (I also haven't discussed this mail out, or any of the song titles with the rest of the band so these are subject to change)

We are playing at the George Tavern on Halloween(31st) too so next weekend is going to be quite busy.

The gig after that is guided missile. 13t November at the Buffalo Bar.

We really enjoyed playing at Proud for Zac last week, I think we may have slightly confused the crowd, the band before us were exactly the sort of PRS driven female fronted regional emo toss that seems to get on to most bills nowadays.

Please try harder bands, anyways. Have a nice sunday.

Barbed wire kisses and hollowbodied feedback

The Inevitable Pinhole Burns
xx

....feel good sh*t of this summer

Well summer has gone. And what a summer it was, a summer with almost no sunshine, except in June. I now am lying in bed with an awful cold. Was it a summer of great music, like the summer of 77 or 69 or 95 or 97 or indeed 2001 or the Primaveras of 2008 and 2009? NO. Festival wise, Secret Garden was great fun but really it was a bunch of Tarquins and Sophies in a field. Not really a music festival more a place for people to use the last of their miow miow and talk about their gap years.
Enjoyed spending time with the helmholtz and of course the black daniel crew. That was great fun. "Has anyone seen an American who looks like he has no business being in a tent?"

We decided to go to Paris for our festival this year. Rock On Seine, and ace it was too. Cypress Hill, QOTSA, 2 many djs, Roxy Music, Arcade Fire (the only 2010 ish band) we saw. You know what, in a sort of a bit too jangly but still very much passable melodicaly way, I really enjoyed what I saw of them before the rain came down and the French couldn't cope, and seeing as they couldn't run away, eat a garlic or buy a beret, they sent everyone home. We met some lovely people, drank lots of beer and really enjoyed ourselves. The Eels I loved last time but I wasn't massively keen on the old school rock and roll style this time.The Parisiennes however, were the single most unfriendly bunch of people I have ever come across. No matter what they say about London, if you speak to someone they will almost always speak back to you they may appear a bit stunned that you spoke to them but they will speak back. The Parisiennes look at you like you are one of the many poodle turds that line so many of their filthy le monde littered streets, then go back to listening to Phoenix. 18 of us then made a break for it in 4 cars for the south of france. Bergerac, a house and pool, stomach problems, amazing sunshine, great times and super holidays, canoeing and serious melon/ cured ham eating down at Club Le Grange.....videos to follow when I get the lead back. Role on next summer. Tom Banks, thank you for putting together such an awesome band of people.

This next part has little to do with music but warrants a mention. Danny, Dave, Walsh and I headed for Puerta Banus (Pueta Banus more like) for a short holiday. When discussing the plans for this we decided that for our holiday we wanted to go to 80's Miami. If anyone wants to go to 80's Miami, book yourself a flight to Malaga rent a convertable and a villa and head for Banus, you can't buy class, but you can buy almost everything else and Banus is the place they take it when they buy it. The whole town is like a working brothel, a theme park for prostitution, boats and well more prostitutes! It has to be seen to be believed, all it is missing is Jan Hammer and Miami Sound Machine, and drink plenty of Alhambra beer before you go out, it is 20euro for a beer in Banus's many poncy establishments. The devil does indeed live in Banus, it is, to plageurise Hunter S Thompson on Vegas " What the whole world would be doing if the Nazis had won the war". Go see it , amazing place! Time spent chiling out in Marbella and wandering the more ish Moorish streets of Granada was superb. Next year we are going back to Marbella. Spanish Bombs in Andalucia.

Music wise Subliminal Girls loved playing at Gracetonbury an annual festival to celebrate Grace Creedy. Thank you to Richy for standing in in place of Danny who was still not quite match fit. He is now however.

The first two department shows have been good. However I think that we may have to change the name. Department shows up on almost every commercial website in the world. Not good for SEO. We have a few ideas, I like The Inevitable Pin Hole Burns. Nice reference from track on the wall about Syd Barrett. It is a bit long but I like it.
We have loads more new songs to play. We are going into the studio with Lamik 2000 of the amazing Black Daniel to record over the next few weeks.

Arran and I have formed The Marksmen, a two piece band. That way we only have each other to moan about. Cuts down on moaning time.

Horry , Dornan and myself got together last night and played a few tunes but I was a bit ill. Steve will tell you more about our plans.

Wayne, Ciaran, two shoes and I have finally booked a gig 5th November, name TBC, names mooted include "The French Electric" , "Junior Hacksaw" and "Sauf Pompiers"

Here comes the Autumn, more colds, rain, wind etc all the way until next May, it has to be Primavera again next year. We have also just booked tickets to ATP to throw filthy magazines at Belle and Sebastian fans and to worship Julian Cope.

God I love Julian Cope.

June....goings on.

Morning chaps, it's 9.30 am and I have just been out for the evening with Milk Kan and Black Daniel. I feel fine. I got home at 1am and slept like a log.

It is Glastonbury season and I wasn't there, thats ok too. It must have been so hot there, and apart from the Pet Shop Boys and The Hold Steady, both who I have already seen this year there isn't much I wanted to see. I was going to write my usual , cliche, festival rant. However, I found this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jun/25/glastonbury-live-friday-grace-dent

This is the best festival rant ever. This woman needs a Knighthood and her own daily TV show. She should be made counsellor to anyone whose head is too far up their own bum.

This month I turned 34. I will be 40 in 6 years, i am happy with my life and pleased in my place. Welcome to the first summer since 2008 with (hopefully) enough cash to do something. Most of my friends seem in a good state too. I like this.

Music wise, well, Angry Bees performed at Guided Missile with special guests Nicky Biscuit of TOANWTS (The Owls Are Not What They Seem, which IMHO is far too long a name for a band) and the amazing Charley Stone of Gay Dad/ New Royal Family and countless other acts. We made a terrible noise. People clapped and then we watched "We Are The Physics." What a band tight, funny melodic and increadibly loud. Nickys Owls (as they will always be refered to from now on in) were brilliant. Damien Pinset, in a band, Marcus Fulcher on the drums, sublime, if a little savage , on the lyric side. Great.

The Hold Steady, I am sorry, may be it is because I haven't heard it that much, but the new stuff isn't all that. This was MORE than made up for by the fact that the old stuff Is amazing. It always will be amazing, they do miss something in their lack of moustaicioed keyboard player, but they gained an extra guitarist. As a show, this did nothing for them, but the new guitarist looks like a direct cross between KTOTP and Ian Wilson. The did wheel out some amazing guitars. On to guitars, everyone please, check out The Heritage Guitar Company, Kalamazoo. This is where the next one is coming from. Back to the Hold Steady, great, would have been better with more older crowd pleasers, I hate to selfishly say that, but it is true.

Black Daniel just keep getting better. I enjoyed my brief spell as a bass player for them but they just don't need one! They look much better as four across the front ranting lunatics. I still managed to join them for the last few songs on BV's. Last night was the best that they have ever sounded.

There were some GOD awful bands playing on the same bill, someone with an acoustic guitar in a band, that is wrong, wrong , wrong, you have drums behind you play an electric f**king guitar, who do you think you are? Jack f**king Johnson? or some other sappy twat loved by Australians. And some Le Faux Roux.....pointless and pants, piss off please.....

I am sure i saw some other bands, this month....but I want to go and get eggs benedict so I must go.

On the my new bands thing....The Wayne, 2 Shoes, Ciaran,and me band have a new keyboarding man in the form of Tom Iceman Beats Collinson. We are back in the studio this week.

Department, the other one, are almost ready to go, first gig is booked, 21st August at 93 Feet East. www.myspace.com/departmenttheband

La la Love you La La Laters......

Subliminal Girls....the return, gently.....

Things happen in funny ways, and when, last week we received an email from Keir Mills to say that Sky One wanted to speak to us about a new music program I expected a mixed reaction from the girls.
I received a unanimous, "Let's go for it". Now as with most of these things, probably nothing will ever come of it, but what it did prove, was that there is a certain chemistry between one of the most obnoxious, most difficult but also most fun bands I have ever been in. The missed chances, the great songs and the volatile, difficulties that go with having a five piece band containing 5 front men.

After arriving on the scene to find that there was a lot more people than we expected at said audition, to feel sceptical, but to go on and play electronic hearts again, for the first time, for 8 months with no rehearsal and for it to feel damn near perfect, except for the bass (Danny still out of action for now).

This was enough to make me feel that we never split up, we took a break, we took something, we needed SOMETHING, what I still don't know. Danny still isn't ready to play and without him we will never ever be subliminal girls proper.

I think the time has come to start putting stuff together again piece by piece, without having any pressure and without trying to be anything. The "last gig" was a last gig because this will be different.

I for one want to make an album.

A bit vague I know.....as we always stole....barbed wire kisses.

it's been a little while

Morning chaps, a little inactive on the blog front of late, not through lack of music, just through lack of writing about it.

Been a bit of a mixed month but all very good.

Firstly the death of a love affair, we hung up our 18 carrot boots for the last time. Loads of people came, it was great but I went home early with killer flu....Rebekah Delgado , now complete with band, came on before us and was absolutely amazing, word has it there will be news from her recording wise very soon.

The new band featuring Ciaran, Wayne Jimmy and I is sounding great, no idea what to compare it too but somewhere between the lost boys sound track and raw power. We are almost ready to go. Wayne is making me a very competent bass player, much to Jimmy's amusement.

Department, featuring Dan Lobster,Rob, Darren and myself are slightly further away from being ready lyric wise, which I must sort out, but also sounding great, somewhere between Stephen Malkmus, MBV and carter USM. We have about 3 songs finished and ready to go and another 6 or so close. Dans guitar playing is amazing and he is a great friend so this is a venture that I am really enjoying being part of, and do they drink....

I have just started playing bass for Black Daniel. I am really happy about this as they are probably my number 1 live band in the world at the moment. They don't really need a bass player as most of what they do they trigger so I am more of an "occasional live addition" but completely love it. Lots of great gigs coming up ,including secret garden party festival, guided missile, potty mouth disco and many many more. do not have to persuade anyone to like this band. Just google black daniel myspace and have a listen., live dates are up there. Come along , you will not ever be disappointed.

On Thursday some band or other played with llyod Grossman, that band were the angry bees, now with two new secret front people.
llyod Grossman is an even bigger guitar pervert than I am, sporting a mint condition 1969 gibson Les paul deluxe gold top and a 57 Les Paul Junior single cut in TV yellow, both original, his taste in guitars is even harder to fault than his chili tomato pasta sauce.
Thank you to everyone who came it was brilliant.

Also I really enjoyed an evening at Secret Danger Society, my friends Oli, Jon and Ben's monthly night at the Moustache Bar in Stoke Newington High Street, free entry for all and reasonably priced booze. I really enjoyed the music though I don't know the first thing about it so i am not even going to try to describe it.

The rest of the month is looking great, tonight Black Daniel at Fox Fest, Black Daniel at guided missile at the buffalo bar on the 8th, Black daniel on the 14th at the 12 bar with the legendaryly dangerous and sublime Milk Kan, featuring Hood and the Blade.

Apart from being potless due to an unpaid sick day I wasn't expecting all is good.

Love you but don't touch me cos your sick.....

korgs and girls.......

Dear bands,

No more bands of blokes with a girl on a microkorg anymore. It is 2010 now not 2007.

However, I am looking forward to the 5 year party, where we all go back to 2005 at the Windmill on Saturday 27th from 2pm.
It is going to be a bit special.
The bands, in no particular order are, The Fades, Ciccone, Bidgie Reef and The Gas, Video Club, The Indelicates, Oliver Levy, Rock N Roll Idiots, The Falling Overs and Myself. An evening that harps back to the days before I had to write Koko and Mirror and certainly before the idle rich bored us with New Rave and dubstep. The days when bands contained interesting people with new original ideas. and heaven forbid, catchy songs that mean something, or nothing.......
Lets get drunk and dance to the longblondes and helen love. suits me.

Back to 2010.

Angry Bees 31st March at 93 feet east. Take the day off the next day.
Angry Bees 29th April at Buffalo Bar with Lloyd Grossman (yes THE Lloyd Grossman)
Angry Bees 12 June at Buffalo Bar with John Moore Rock and Roll Trio (yes THE John Moore)

Jim Rhesus, Jimmy 2 Shoes and Arran Love Child 3rd April at the black daniel all dayer at the kings head Camden with, Black Daniel, The Coolness, Gob Sausage and more.
I like living in a world where there is a band called gob sausage.

This Friday night, Shot By Both Sides, also at the windmill brixton with HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS......

Another new band, bass playing in French Electric going well, also taken on vocal and guitar duties in department, with dan Lobster and others.....

Saw and amazing band called the homosexulas on Sat eve at a night organised by Dee Sada at cable street studios. I like it there.

I am also addicted to peppermint tea.

Self Obsession is and Art Form.