I wanna go where the people go yeah......(getting ones sh*t together)

Morning all. It has been 4 months, and what a four months. In Feb our great friends Jonny Lives! from NYC came over to play with the inevitable pinhole burns. Apart from an aborted trip to Guernsey due to fog which we were gutted about, we played 3 great shows with them and shared a million great stories. They must be checked out at www.jonnylives.com . We are in the process of booking a trip out to LA to play with them. Jonny Dubowsky, Marco Argiro, Claudio Rochat-Felix and Brian Boland are all musicians of pedigree and have played with members of Pearl Jam, The Pixies, The Ramones (yes really) and The Fugees to name but a very few. Together they are the greatest live rock band that you can see where the lead guitarist doesn't wear a school uniform. IPHB have also been playing with the fades. The fades are a garage band the now sound like a british kyuss in the best possible way. We supported them at their sold out single launch for the amazing Mechanno. We are supporting them again this thursday at The Monarch in Camden with Abdoujaperov. It will be ace fun. I will be debuting my new custom shop 355. We are also touring with the fades later in the year. The pin holes go into the studio the weekend after next with Lamik 2000 of Black Daniel, Medicine 8 and Trashmouth. We intend to record four new tracks. Two will be The August Disturbances and Controlled Tailspin the other two don't have names. Dates: 17th May Monarch Camden 25th May The Garage, Highbury 16th June Suraya Club, Kings Cross (My Birthday) 7th July Road Trip, Old Street The French Electric are going great guns, singer Simon has found his feet totally, this is his first band. We are getting picked up all over the world as far away as Russia and Alaska. Some great new songs and a new Human League cover too! Very exciting. If you haven't already got the album it is here! www.thefrenchelectric.com there is a new blog up here too. Dates: 6th July, The Undersolo , Inverness Street, Camden. NOW....click this link..... http://www.btinternet.com/~rhesus/review.htm A long long time ago..... 15 broken drum kits, three smashed custom guitars, two singles, 3 bass players, 2 drummers, 1 near bankruptcy,numerous nervous/ physical/ financial breakdowns and 100 brutal gigs lead to eventual demise of Rhesus, and very nearly me. A few months ago all four members of the final rhesus line up, and a few of the passed ones ended up drinking too much at a french electric gig, we have decided to reform for a one off gig at Gracetonbury at the windmill, Sat 23rd June. We are on at 6pm. (or very early) Please please come. Up in his attic, Wayne found a load of un mixed rhesus recordings that he is going to mix and we will put out later this year. Finally a reminder! My birthday party is at the Suraya Kings cross on Sat 16th July. Entry is free Line up is The Inevitable Pinhole Burns (First on) Rebekah Delgado Generals Wife Keith TOTP The Microdance The Fades Looking forward to it. But for now, a cup of tea. Waking Michelle up and we off to the london pet show. Maximum Rock and Roll.

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.

2010

Everyone is doing their end of year reviews. Top ten best albums/ singles.
Honestly who gives a shit, I heard nothing this year that is as good as Surfer Rosa or even Bossanova so there really is no need for top 5's let alone top tens. Seen some great live stuff though.


Top 3 I like Keith TOTP's album, I love Rebekah's new stuff and the Black Daniel album Let's get sued is great too. This year I have mainly been getting into old stuff that I didn't know about, Bauhaus and even Leonard Cohen.

I have really enjoyed playing in so many different projects this year, Black Daniel, Heart Kill Giant, Subliminal Girls, The 18 Carat Love Affair, the Inevitable Pin Hole Burns,Mayumi Carrex with Wayne and Ciaran, The Angry Bees, Duos and trios and solos.

It has been the year of amazing new friends, and amazing times with old friends. A few sad times and lots of happy times, none of which I regret. I go into 2011 with a head full of ideas and inspirations and a lack of fear not experienced since my teens. So I am 34. 34 is a good f**king age, I know a darn sight more now than I did when I was 26. I wish I could go back in time and have a few words with that f**king idiot back then.

Massive thanks to Liam Black Daniel for sticking his neck out for the pinholes, to Patrick Mccourt for asking me to play the bass for him, Wayne for wanting to get a band back together, the pinholes for asking me to sing for them and always showing up on time. Sub Girls for always being the same and Arran, for, well, just being Arran and constantly putting up with my shit. Steve Horry, Kate Dornan, Ciaran McNamee, Keith TOTP, Holly, Dan Pallett for sitting opposite me everyday and listening to my shit and everyone else ( you know who you all are you aren't named but you are not forgotten). Come on 2011.

Works great, music is better than ever, the window is open, it isn't even that cold and I have the best friends in the world.

If you want to know about the rest of the year see below. I would also like to thank the government for banning mephadrone. That stuff was the work of the fucking devil.

Barbed wire kisses

Jim 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