the mart of darkness

yo! congrats on mongol success, etc. more to the point, the jimmy page in led astray is the guitar tutor from my school and can possibly be witnessed drumming with the staff band on my myspace. small world and all that.

any of you chaps ever seen Second Hand Songs - Home ? i found it vaguely interesting. you may not, i dunno. that is all x

bo. has anyone discovered or posted this already? i dunno, my search of the forums didn't show anything, but i'm often considerably behind the times... anyways... Musicovery : interactive webRadio christ, i've never put a link in one of these before, i hope that works. it's a very vaguely similar idea to pandora.com as far as i can tell. but instead of typing in artists/songs, you select moods/eras/genres. and it looks pretty. it seems fun, i'm sure some of you loveable geeks will enjoy it. selecta! x

uh! awesome! i LOVE tanya in every way. thanks! x

fun. i have a lead breaking/volume control/lead pulling out/accidentally standing on footswitch type incident at every gig i think. but that's because i'm a cock. off the top of my head, some other vaguely amusing incidents related to me being a cock: falling through a hole in the middle of the stage, up to my chest, mid-choon. i did not look cool. dropping a mic, prompting the sound engineer to charge onstage and lamp me several times about the chops, before being rescued by our drummer leaping over the kit and laying into the engineer, all while i stood, stunned, doing nothing. stumbling into my amp and knocking the head backwards off the cab, damaging it somewhat. only it wasn't my amp, it belonged to the headliners. i later sent them a cheque. falling off the front of the stage at kef/lava/glow/whatever, with my foot tangled in monitor leads, dragging the monitor off the stage with me. i sensed the bouncer wasn't amused by the way in which he manoeuvred me over the barrier onto the dancefloor. throwing myself offstage at the end of the set, landing on some kid's leg, and then the rest of the audience jumped on top of me. he screamed in considerable pain, and we very nearly broke his leg. droppping my guitar to the stage (from waist height) in a slightly tame display of rock and roll abandon. only i missed the edge of the stage and it dropped a further 5 feet to the floor. i thought it was ok until i picked it up by the body, and the neck remained where it was. smashing up two perfectly good guitars in a genuine fury, because i thought they were fucked. turned out the amp i was using was overheating and cutting out. duh. buying a new (but cheap) guitar the day of a gig. 3 songs in to the set, one of the strap buttons falls out, and the guitar tumbles to the floor, fucking the neck. the bastard. i'm pretty sure i was sober when most of this nonsense took place. xxx

i have a big bump on my head and what looks like the imprint of 3 bass strings on my shoulder. whoever put them there should win. i have never played guitar that badly on stage before. no, wait. i dont' remember ever playing guitar that badly on stage before. i never, ever want to see the video of last night. it just won't be funny in the cold light of day. on the other hand, it was fucking hilarious at the time. i got the giggles - i think it was a defensive mechanism so i wouldn't plunge my guitar through my own heart in a fit of despair. i still can't believe people watched it. and some of them paid! suckers! xxx

good luck buddy! don't ruin them. incidentally, deadloss have a rapidly growing fanbase in both broxburn and bathgate academies. i shall endeavour to organise a west lothian gig some time. and all because i gave one of my sixth years a cd full of random deadloss shit. today he asked me (on behalf of someone else) what tuning 'star for all' is in - hurrah! people we don't know are trying to work out how to play our songs. this is success baby! xxx

in other news... waz was surprised to discover we have a gig on the 16th, and fears he may be unable to attend - arf! i have no doubt at all that he'll be in contact shortly. xxx

by the way... what happened on union street?

mmm. i've got 'lovely day' - bill withers so far. planned that for years, don't have anything else. but seeing the crowes mentioned, has got me thinking - maybe 'my morning song' will be added to the list. xxx

i concur. meanwhile... what song are you planning sax on without telling us, you knave?

he deserved it.

'draw the line' says you? aye, says i! aaaaaaaarrrr! do we have an accord?

heh heh! i posted bri's original 'ad' in a few more embra-based forums this morning, too see if i could stir up a bit of interest down these parts. but the message at 'edinburgh metal scene' brought on the wrath of one indignant metal citizen. maybe i should have reworded the ad in a more kindly manner or sumfink. anyway, the backlash starts here! FUCK DEADLOSS SUPERSTAR! and FUCK BASSISTS while we're at it. take those statements as revolutionary propaganda, or simply invitations to a good time, i don't mind. x

...is interviewed in the new issue of 'rhythm' drum magazine - got quite a surprise when i caught sight of the article. bit of a dream for musicians though, innit? being interviewed for geetar/drum/whatever magazines. anyways... i've probly posted this in the wrong forum, but i was so astonished to see it i felt i should tell somebody. ciao, x