The lovely Tayte (Toddy's better-half) made us a videoclip. One day she just posted and said "Hey i made this hope you like it", and it blew my mind. It's very very good. Tayte also takes wonderful photos. An all-round very talented lassy. Enjoy!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Free demos from the vault
Ola!
I have quite a few demos collecting dust on my hard drive so I thought i'd keep slinging them up here. Most will probably never get a release, some might make it - who knows? I wish i could put out everything I have ever done as a way to satisfy the creative urges, and now with the technology of the world wyld webbb i can!
Lemme know what you think.
Breaking Myself (DEMO) by simonjcarter
Sun Rights (unreleased DEMO) by simonjcarter
I have quite a few demos collecting dust on my hard drive so I thought i'd keep slinging them up here. Most will probably never get a release, some might make it - who knows? I wish i could put out everything I have ever done as a way to satisfy the creative urges, and now with the technology of the world wyld webbb i can!
Lemme know what you think.
Breaking Myself (DEMO) by simonjcarter
Sun Rights (unreleased DEMO) by simonjcarter
FBI "Dusty Fingers" playlist
Ola!
I guest programmed Marty Doyle's "Dusty Fingers" on FBI last week and had an absolute ball. It's not often someone gives me free reign over a radio show and it was fun to bust out a selection of my fave stuff from my rekurd collection!
Thanks Marty!
Aegian Sea - Aphrodites Child
In The Wilderness I Wept - Simon Carter
Brooklyn Zoo - ODB
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
Secret Life Of Arabia - David Bowie
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band
Devil Eyes - Tim Buckley
Lost Due To Incompetance - Yesca
The Hunter's Moon - Simon Carter
Summer Hills - Japanther
I Zimbra - Talking Heads
So Ruff, So Tuff - Roger Troutman
I Get Lifted - George McCrae
ST Elmos Fire - Brian Eno
Abdulmajid - Bowie
Evening Shade - Dolly Parton
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Blue - The Verve
Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees
House Of Flying Daggers - Raekwon
I guest programmed Marty Doyle's "Dusty Fingers" on FBI last week and had an absolute ball. It's not often someone gives me free reign over a radio show and it was fun to bust out a selection of my fave stuff from my rekurd collection!
Thanks Marty!
Aegian Sea - Aphrodites Child
In The Wilderness I Wept - Simon Carter
Brooklyn Zoo - ODB
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
Secret Life Of Arabia - David Bowie
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band
Devil Eyes - Tim Buckley
Lost Due To Incompetance - Yesca
The Hunter's Moon - Simon Carter
Summer Hills - Japanther
I Zimbra - Talking Heads
So Ruff, So Tuff - Roger Troutman
I Get Lifted - George McCrae
ST Elmos Fire - Brian Eno
Abdulmajid - Bowie
Evening Shade - Dolly Parton
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Blue - The Verve
Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees
House Of Flying Daggers - Raekwon
Friday, July 30, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Eating Horse?
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/horses-for-courses-as-diners-eye-off-equine-entrees-20100708-101ws.html
You have to be kidding me.
Horses are a bastion of regality; an animal that while not as intelligent as, say, a dolphin, still exude an air of such grace that to kill one in the name of food is just simply wrong. If you have ever looked a horse in the eye, you will know that there is an intelligence there that cannot be denied. Behind those eyes are memories; thousands of years of mankind treating their steeds like members of the family. It is an ancient acknowledgement that our lives and theirs are forever entwined. Do not forget that mankind has existed side by side with horses since 3500BC.
These beautiful, graceful, INTELLIGENT animals have no place on a dinner plate. You wouldn't place your dog on your dinner plate. Horses are infinitely more regal and important to the human race.
This is WRONG. Oppose it wherever you can. I pity those that think that a horse is right for a dinner plate. Why are human beings so goddamn stupid sometimes?
s.
You have to be kidding me.
Horses are a bastion of regality; an animal that while not as intelligent as, say, a dolphin, still exude an air of such grace that to kill one in the name of food is just simply wrong. If you have ever looked a horse in the eye, you will know that there is an intelligence there that cannot be denied. Behind those eyes are memories; thousands of years of mankind treating their steeds like members of the family. It is an ancient acknowledgement that our lives and theirs are forever entwined. Do not forget that mankind has existed side by side with horses since 3500BC.
These beautiful, graceful, INTELLIGENT animals have no place on a dinner plate. You wouldn't place your dog on your dinner plate. Horses are infinitely more regal and important to the human race.
This is WRONG. Oppose it wherever you can. I pity those that think that a horse is right for a dinner plate. Why are human beings so goddamn stupid sometimes?
s.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Pre Release album rundown #1: HOLD YOUR HORSES
For anyone that's interested, I thought I'd start to talk about the songs from our forthcoming album THE BLACK BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE. It's due for release next week (hopefully - at the moment there's a backup at the pressing plant). The album is definitely NOT contemporary, ha ha.
HOLD YOUR HORSES:
This is the second song i wrote for the album. It was written in my former apartment on a day off. I was just sitting on the couch listening to sounds reaching me from other apartments, the background hum of traffic etc etc. That started me off. I really wanted to encapsulate the feeling of solidarity I was feeling - being shut of from everyone else - in this case being a solo artist for the first time without having a band or management or record label - basically being right back at the point i was when I was 18 and first started out in bands.
I got the first half of the song pretty easily - just an acoustic ditty, but when i got to the end of the second chorus i realised that the song needed to go somewhere else. I'd been listening to a lot of early Genesis which completely threw the rule book of songwriting out the window, and i decided to just fuck it up and go wherever my mind took me. When i'd finished the thing i liked most about the entire song is that it just lurched from this quasi-medieval jaunt into a rock opera esque number. At first it seemed a bit too weird. but after repeated listens it really grew on me.
HOLD YOUR HORSES:
This is the second song i wrote for the album. It was written in my former apartment on a day off. I was just sitting on the couch listening to sounds reaching me from other apartments, the background hum of traffic etc etc. That started me off. I really wanted to encapsulate the feeling of solidarity I was feeling - being shut of from everyone else - in this case being a solo artist for the first time without having a band or management or record label - basically being right back at the point i was when I was 18 and first started out in bands.
I got the first half of the song pretty easily - just an acoustic ditty, but when i got to the end of the second chorus i realised that the song needed to go somewhere else. I'd been listening to a lot of early Genesis which completely threw the rule book of songwriting out the window, and i decided to just fuck it up and go wherever my mind took me. When i'd finished the thing i liked most about the entire song is that it just lurched from this quasi-medieval jaunt into a rock opera esque number. At first it seemed a bit too weird. but after repeated listens it really grew on me.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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