afurnishedsoul

the link up there doesn't work, so here's the 'good' link for Vague Angel's 'Let the formula forge itself fantastic'... Click here for mp3

Hey, Al and myself, that is Jeff, are trying to form a new band. At the moment we're practicing as a two-piece, drums and guitar. We're working on two songs right now, one bordering on octave-chord-driven (post-)hardcore (as opposed to mttllcore), the other one being a bit mellower, but with a bit of a gloomy feel to it. I guess influences make things easier (though this is by no means definitive or 100% accurate), so i'll just drop a few names: Fugazi, Slint, Helmet, Ten Volt Shock, Miniwatt, quiet Shellac songs, etc... We're both in our final year here in Aberdeen, so this isn't your next band that wants to make it big, f*** loads of groupies and spend the next five years touring up and down the country. We want to practice regularly and be able to play gigs at some point, but it's mostly about having fun and doing something together. Maybe adding political content to our songs also. At the moment we're using the name 'Climate Change is Happening...' to fetch everyone's attention. We might keep it, or we might change it if the future bandmembers disapprove... So if you think that'd be your kind of thing, musically and approach-wise, pm me or reply to this thread and we can get together for a pint/orange juice. It'd be cool to get this thing going Thanx for reading this, have a good day...

the down and out thing was written by the other guy though. anyway dino, don't take forum posts too personally. it's the internet, misunderstandings are inevitable because you can't see or hear people. the best would be to beam all forum users into a pub one day. we could even have a beer and people are usually nicer when you are close enough to punch them hehe... or we could just go sit somehwere and smoke together back to the topic. i saw fear and loathing (the film) when i was sixteen, liked it a lot, but never took the initiative to actually physically go out and get the book. which is something i might do now, some stuff that was posted here has raised an interest in it (i'm not reading that much anymore, which makes it harder for me to get started with a new book, plus i got more and more into kuper/tobocman/drooker/masereel/ward/patri comics recently, which, to me, is good stuff yet you can "read" it quicker). actually my flatmate has most of hst's books, so i'll go steal some of those as soon as i'm back in aberdeen... thanx for that

Hi, I hope this is the forum this is supposed to be in. After I lost my server one year ago, I could no longer offer free downloads of my songs on my website. I've now opened a new account at purevolume.com, which has three songs that are available for download... a mellow one, a more rocky one and a demo. Friends of The Lapse, Fugazi or stuff like that are likely not to completely hate them. http://www.purevolume.com/afurnishedsoul Feel free to download them, I hope you'll enjoy them. No guarantee though My personal website will updated soon... http://www.geocities.com/afurnishedsoul Have a good weekend, Jeff / Afurnishedsoul

wow... you come here to see what gigs are going to be on after your exams finish on monday and then you see that all you can possibly do is 'celebrate' the last night at drakes. that really is depressing news finding out the bad news, listening to confuse the cat, geert singing 'this is so unreal, the discovery of a cold, cold world'. rarely had such a fitting out-of-the-blue quote-of-the-moment whispered from my headphones :/ i wish you all the best, i don't know you all too well but i believe you when you say that you won't just disappear and i'll set my hopes on that! big thanks also once again for supporting our little cruisade last year in may! that was truly amazing and i'll never forget it! j.

is there a website where i can listen to some music by the other band supporting aereogramme? (i already know turning 13) (i have read their name about a hundred times in this thread, but i still managed to forget it as soon as i opened this page to write my question...) i'll be there anyway, got my tix today

sometimes i wish it was possible to just erase all those concepts from people's minds and deprive them of any means of categorising others and themselves. why is there such a need among humans to structure everything according to definitions that are most often easily subverted into their complete opposites or stretched so they fit the agenda, and as arbitrary as pointless can be? it is amazing to see in how many ways we are able to (re-)define ourselves. music, religion, fashion, nationality/ethnicity, politics, etc etc. i am certainly no exception to this, i'm just another human, but i'm so sick of it. fill in some application form and you're likely to be asked about your colour of skin, your faith and a lot of stuff that is usually not in the least of any relevance for what you're actually applying for. and i know that kinda stuff pisses off most of us big time. but then, after refusing to fill in that form (and right we are for doing so!), we are so happy defining ourselves by other means, in private, wearing our chosen identity on a sleeve, dogmatising it beyond recognition and praising/defining/organising our fucking individual individualism to the point where we're just as individual as anyone else on this planet who happens to have gone through the same things and has happily picked up the same abstract concepts to foster themselves an identity. that's when we start seeing ourselves as different from someone else, and then we start choosing which other identities and definitions to like and which to criticize. and we all turn elitist like little bigots who are desperately thinking about what the epitaph on their gravestone should be. we start polarising and we just indulge in simplifying argument and quoting from our favorite rulebooks. a book just smells so damn official and can give all our short-sighted arguments just that little extra-bit of credibility. i don't think it actually makes any difference whether bands sing about christianity or anything else, because in the end half the people, at least, who listen to the songs don't pay attention to the lyrics anyway, and if they do most of them are mature enough (or should be, considering that our society, apparently, is so cultured that we can afford going about teaching the less civilised tribes of this earth, and have done so since the age when we were still burning witches and crapping in a corner in the royal dining room) to judge for themselves whether they like that point of view or not. okay. i see now that you could easily argue that what i am saying here is that it is okay to listen to racist music, because you can dismiss the lyrics as pure mental diorrhea and just sit back and enjoy the music. maybe some people would do that. that's not what i mean though. it's up to personal opinion (and personally that's where i consider that even downloading it would be a terrible waste of my precious time). i have never ever come across a truly inclusive culture or movement. the collectivities that seem most inclusive to me are those that have no idea of their existence, those that have no definition and are truly just marked by people's open-mindedness and lack of self-definition. all we ever do is mark ourselves off from each other by debating our differences. why can't we all be, be different and not judge each other? why do we have to be christians, atheists, democrats, authoritarians, anarchists, punks, rappers, ravers, mods, skins, metalheads, students, workers, intellectuals, carnivores, vegetarians, vegans, etc, etc, etc, with all that fucking elitist baggage that comes along with all (ALL!) of those concepts. is getting along with each other not what most of us actually strive for in life. i don't mean getting along in the sense of giving in until you've given up. i mean getting along as in genuinely putting a little effort into inter-human relationships. it is nice indeed doing something and finding some kind of tradition in it. i mean for example it is great to listen to bands, read their lyrics and think about them, check out their influences and end up going back in time, moving within a certain scene, making it work and feeling akin for sharing the same music taste and ideas. in a way, that's also how friendships work, on a smaller scale. but what makes it turn soar is that point where we then start using that in order to exclude others. and we build some kind of hierarchy of acceptability, as if we were judging people's opinions (and their progress towards the good side, which is of course our own side) on a scale from 1-10. i just feel like i can see that everywhere i go. i don't believe in the 'good' of society anymore. i find atheists just as much of a pain in the arse as catholic village priests, i no longer believe in the existence of one generally good political movement and i find it harder and harder convincing myself that the ideals that i like are actually still there (or were ever there) and that there actually is an inclusive non-elitist and truly egalitarian all-ages club somewhere out there. some days i walk down the street and i see a child smiling and i think, well, life isn't so bad and people are a beautiful thing. but sometimes i walk down the street and i think about what that child is going to grow up with. it will have a national identity, based on a line drawn around a territory ruled by a state that our culture teaches us is necessary (whereas africa should be the best example of how arbitrary the concepts of state and nationality can be), it will have a faith or believe in the rejection of faith, it may have its favorite football team, music style, tv shows, and a whole system of personal beliefs and (mis)conceptions about what it is, what do's and dont's it has to live up to as a consequence of its perceived identity, and it is very likely to be just as judgemental as we all are (me included), to a greater or lesser extent. and then i just turn really bitter, which is why i am abusing this thread to write it all down. it is easy to blame all the shite in the world on things like religion/anti-religion or any other concept or theory, when in reality it is us, the people, who just don't seem able to get along with each other. i don't mind religion or any other belief system. i have my own opinion and may object, but i don't really mind that they all exist. because in the end, that's all just a big excuse. once we have abolished religion and politics, we will start shooting people for other reasons. political opinions and religious concepts, on the one hand, is what is tearing people apart, but on the other hand they are nothing more than abstract concepts that we have created and that have gotten out of hand, yet nothing more than an excuse for violence that has become another reason for violence. maybe one day we'll kill each other over the kind of tea we're drinking. if humanity as a whole went to join the dinosaurs in some future museum run by a new race of bacteria-sized martians or virtual mega-apes, it wouldn't be the greatest loss...

hello people. maybe you can help? i am looking for folk who share the dream of playing fast, noisy, loud music that is desperate, pi**ed-off, nerve-wrecking, full of staccato and weird time signatures, passionate, fast-forward and ecclectic. emocore before it became a kerrang-swearword, without the flowers, whining, plingpling-cleanguitar-picking and birds singing. not necessarily a synonym for mediocore or cheesy. do you like bands like kurt (especially those guys), tenvoltshock, (late) jr ewing, envy, defdump, standstill, neil perry, off minor, blood brothers, song of zarathustra? i am playing the guitar, i have played in bands before, at the moment i am in a punkband back home in luxembourg, but what i have been wanting to play for more than three years now is what i have just described above. i have posted ads like this before, but it seems everyone is either not interested or fully booked already. you cant write that kind of music on your own (at least i cant), its a band effort. i am fed up with recording mellow pling pling songs just because my only bandmate is a 4-track, so please help. i want to go out there, spend a couple of hours per week in a rehearsal room with good, nice people and leave the room sweaty and shaking. if you are up for it, please contact me by email (afurnishedsoul@hotmail.com), or meet me at the macrocosmica gig at drakes this friday or at the politik/feverdream/mono gig at drakes later in october. i am a guy with long brown hair (pony tail) and black glasses, quite skinny and average height. if you dont see me ask sharon if im in, she knows who i am. thanks a lot! i hope it will work this time... :/

are there any bassists, drummers, guitarists, singers and screamers out there whod be interested in forming a band? i used to play in a band in luxembourg before i came to aberdeen, since then (almost 2 years ago) i have been recording stuff on my own under the name afurnishedsoul, which was a new and exciting experience at the time, but i am starting to feel a bit bored. i would like to play some live gigs and have a real band again. what music would i like to play? in my former band, everyone was into a slightly different kind of music, so our music was a constant compromise between melodic punk, emo, ska, hardcore and post rock. it was cool because you would never know what was to come next, but now i would like to be in a band that has a more coherent sound. a sound that is both hopefull and utterly desperate at the same time. some people would call it emo, which is okay as long as you dont immediately think funeral for a friend, taking back sunday or any other of those shitty my-girlfriend-has-cheated-on-me-and-now-i-am-one-sad-motherfucker bands. were talking of the perfect mix of the lapses betrayal album or the van pelt, reizigers early records, sonic youths more melodic moments, the trippiness of tristeza, some mogwai explosions coupled with the dreamy moments of appleseed cast, outbursts of the likes of refused or standstill, desperate emocore moments la yaphet kotto, song of zarathustra or envy, intertwined with the fast-forward octave cord driven noise of kurt, ten volt shock and bluetip. sometimes instrumental, sometimes using field recordings or spoken word, sometimes using sung or screamed vocals. this may sound like nothing new, its probably not gonna be, but thats not really the point. its about the music that makes me dance and forget and theres not enough of that particular kind of music in aberdeen, even though there are a lot of good bands playing other stuff. i am a rhythm guitarist mainly, but i can play tunes (not solos) and i am a basic bass player (i cant do slapping though). i used to sing, but would like to leave that job to others at the moment. so i am looking for a drummer, a bassist and one, maybe two, guitarists plus a singer/screamer (no heavy metal stuff, proper hardcore voice, as in guilt, defdump, by the grace of god, song of z, refused, standstill, etc.). possibly someone who can do samples or occasional keyboard parts. all this probably sounds very categorical, and in a way it probably is, but things can change along the way. its just to avoid having another band with 5 different music styles all compiled in one single live set. it would be best if everyone had kind of a similar idea of what this is gonna be about and we all had a common starting point at least. i did most of the flyers, artwork, website, booking, bladibla for my last band and i am willing to give all i have to a new band, but only when it gives me what i really need, i.e. a sound that i can identify with a 100 per cent. the only problem i have is that i dont have an amp at the moment, but ill be able to sort that out soon. heres some links to audio stuff from the above mentionned bands: THE VAN PELT: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/thevanpelt.html THE LAPSE: http://users.pandora.be/fugazi/the_lapse.htm#SOUND TRISTEZA: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/tristeza.html SONG OF ZARATHUSTRA: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/songofzarathustra.html REIZIGER: http://www.dayafter.cz/mp3/Day26-Grab And Nailed.mp3 ENVY: http://www.epitonic.com/artists/envy.html DEFDUMP: http://www.defdump.com