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[M.A.R.T]

Originally Posted by betamax

but see youve done it again.....split up with yourself after two gigs before you ever really got it going!

dont really think i need to get it going, i know in my head where it should be going and it really isnt working....i may fix it...i dunno...i'll see where i end up after working on some new stuff.

ive just had a lecture from motormark saying i should keep doing it.....so i may keep at it.

either something new or just become a one man devo tribute act.....mr dna!

fucking genius huh?

i know har mar works well....i know atom and his package works well....but they both use a lot of humour in the music and performance...something i dont really want to be doing.

actually the reason i thought gigs on my own might work was after seeing simon bookish, he was pretty much sans jokes. i like that....i'd like to see him again so i can rip off more of his act.

Originally Posted by betamax

So no japanese pogoing MART dancers then?....DAMMIT!

i actually have a strong hatred of using japanese things....because i like japanese stuff but for some reason certain things become ok in some peoples eyes if its related to japan. a good example is yumi yumi....i like them...but ive seen a lot of better beat box bands get slated but somehow yumi yumi were great! why was this? i dont think it was totally down to the boiler suits.

i sometimes feel people use the term japanese as too much of a scapegoat to be accepted, even people who arent japanese label themselves as "japanese style"....these bands can kiss my ass. i hate being tagged in with japanese stuff too.

uhhhh....sorry...

this is kinda straying from the point huh?

whats the point again?

oh yeah...i'm gonna be the next kenny loggins!

[betamax]

Bookish!!!

personally I think your Material is way better than Herr Bookish.....he was amusing but not funny when I saw him and he ended up arguing with a rapidly dwindling audience because they didnt respond to his flaccid 80s revival by numbers....for some reason he assumed it was groundbreaking and *chuckle* ...confrontational.....errrr yeh Simon, bye bye ya loony

I also like your stuff better than Motormark style wise, cos to me their stuff while obviously semi-brilliant it theoretically should be my thing, but I always feel like Ive heard it before (Im fucking contraversial me y'know!)....and that its maybe just 'too retro to be fresh' if youknoworramean

So Im part of the concensus that would say keep working on it in cos you are onto something good (its hard to see it sometimes - when its your own work), if you aint comfortable with your stage presentation, change it so you are, darken it somehow, dancers with guns? (sorry thats pimp-rap innit)....although your 'cute' tag is gonna be very difficult to shake off. I would emphasise it rather than hide it, but i reckon you'll oppose that thought....ho hum

I know what you mean about the lazy Japanese jingo-ism when seeking words to describe what one cant describe properly.......

[M.A.R.T]

Originally Posted by betamax

although your 'cute' tag is gonna be very difficult to shake off. I would emphasise it rather than hide it, but i reckon you'll oppose that thought....ho hum

actually....emphasis is the way!

my new song is called "you know i'm the cutest guy in here!"

seriously.

i'm rad...i know....

anyway....i'll figure it out....we shall see what happens.

motormark so kick my ass though...one of the best live bands ive ever seen....they keep getting better....highly reccomend seeing them when they next come up.

they are a bit retro, i get that....but who isnt?

[Lester Burnham]

I thought the dancing was cute.... but you normally dance like that anyways... you little penguin you.

Personally I think your solo stuff is rad - to the max - and think you should keep at it.

As for Bookish... he's alright, I dont mind a lot of his stuff, but it's certainly not ground-breaking.... I'd say you are superior, my friend (it's the rad-factor X-treme).

If you're going to get a band... you should get a keytar mentalist... an electro drummer... a wacky guitarist (perhaps yourself) and a creepy geek tangled in wires and synths in the corner (perhaps yourself... Just kiddin' ). Though that perhaps sounds like the Kanedas... Whoops. You get what I mean anyhoo... maybe? Urm...?

Make the Eddie Van Halen shoes a uniform.

martin, i dont know if you ever met jeff, that foreign dude who was the guy behind afurnishedsoul. he did kinda electronicy guitary ambient stuff on a 4 track. but he wants to form a guitar band thats kinda hardcorey punky stuff. he left a message on abysmalist board you should go over and read it. iv pm'd you his email.