Mouldy old dough by Earl Brutus.

i would like to hope they incorp. machines into the full set, as opposed to bass/guitar/drums etc..
pretty certain one discussion indicated they intended to.

The Pre New Anthem lyric snippets

We crash fast cars
We kill pop stars
We eat Mars Bars

We eat Mars Bars

We don't do Voodoo
'Cause we don't have too

BOMB ME
BOMB ME
BOMB ME

this is a classic stomp of a track.

cant wait to hear the recorded version.

gosh :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xrSHMAXz2I

write up the so called riot :

http://dearme.spex.de/2010/06/08/his-royal-darkness-sir-nicholas-sanderson/

also, now i know where the logo for the pre new was lifted from.

Sweet

^ (concealed Chinnichap reference)

I am going to have to see this band, very soon. You have me all worked up now!

They played on Saturday, LJ, where were you?

Not knowing when bands are playing, that's where I was

Internet, dear boy, internet

well, Shin is on bass (something he isn't too happy about as it means he has to actually work as opposed to being able to just stand there and get sh*t faced!), and his stage presene consists of standing low, hair down covering face, bass neck vertical, and just letting loose

In fact, Damo Suzuki crossed with Holger Czukay!

http://www1.sk-static.com/images/media/img/col6/20100704-132319-437549.jpg

this saturday is the bands last confirmed gig for a while at the 1234 festival.

wish i could go.

it sounds like they have changed the set up quite a bit in the last few weeks.

It's like I know the guy who wrote this story. Wonder who he is...

http://thequietus.com/articles/04671-earl-brutus-revived-jamie-fry-of-the-pre-new-interviewed

Deep roffles:

Speaking of Glastonbury, given the history of the band, you're not the most obvious band for the festival; did you end up having a so-called 'Glastonbury moment'?

JF: Earl Brutus played on a rainy Sunday afternoon in the new bands tent when Pulp were headlining. It was pissing with rain, we were all in a bad mood, we got there at midday, played at 4pm and left at 1am. So that was my impression of Glastonbury.

The only other thing that I thought was hilariously funny, was due to the mud, our gear had to be carried in on a land rover, and we had to walk and got covered in mud, but in front of us was Sean Lennon being carried by 2 roadies so he didn't get his feet dirty. We went on stage doing our thing, and a friend of ours was on the side of the stage when Sean walked up to him and said 'what's this shit?'. To which our friend said 'That's Earl Brutus, and your dad would have fucking loved them', leaving Sean stomping off in a strop. Of course, the fact that we had a full tent for our show that completely emptied when he came on after us was just hilarious.

Also pretty amazing:

Did you wear the suit?

JF: Yeah, I always wear the suit on Saturday nights.

Could you explain more, given that Earl Brutus were not a suit wearing band?

JF: Always be true to yourself. Earl Brutus were a garage forecourt type of band, eating kebabs, but that was 13 years ago, and a lot has happened. Listen to the words in the new stuff; there is a truth to the new stuff, and we are no longer dysfunctional teens. Earl Brutus was talking about growing up in our thirties, now we are about a different era of pensions and property schemes.

I've just spent 2 years on a property venture, in a bid to try and make money because I want a bit of money in my pockets when I get old. It didn't fail, and it didn't succeed, but I tell you what, it was fucking boring. I was exposed to that world, and so the words reflect that.

Yeah, I put on the suit, dressing up and making a big deal of it. It's a northern thing, as Londoners don't seem to do it. I'm a middle aged man, and a middle age man wears a suit; I'm a grown up father of two, so I'm not going to talk about being broke on the dole, as I'm not.

Plus if you're 6ft 1, you can get away with wearing a suit.

Of course, I have to mention Martin [Fry, Jamie's older brother, lead singer of ABC] and the legend of his suit...

JF: His was quite retro; mine's from Zara. Well, when I put on the suit, I do look like the big brother, but every band Martin and I ever listened to dressed up; like Dexys, Dr. Feelgood and Roxy Music. Me putting the suit on gets everyone going: last Saturday George [a fine drummer with recommended tales of his times in Marion and Electrafixation] wears a military outfit, and then Shinya says 'tonight it's showbiz night Jim' and pulls out a full Kimono and headband, and the twins put on their Clash styled t-shirts.

one story even more chucklesome was cut from the edit.

Which you're about to sum up for us now. Um, please.

probably best not too.
there were reasons it didn't make the final edit.
[fear not ned, wasn't that funny, it was more to do with the manner in which jim told it .. ]

That is all just great, thanks Mark!

I saw a bit of the Pre New's set at 1234 on Saturday, think they clashed with someone else I wanted to see so didn't stick around for long but it was pretty good, the bit I saw.

app. jim cut his hand, and the band pissed off the sound crew resulting in vocals being dropped from their set ?

ian harrison @ word wrote it up : http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/07/1234_festival_looks_back_to_th.html

"ian harrison @ word"

mojo not word. doh.

The sound crew were bloody useless in that tent have to say - they cut the power off for one of the bands earlier in the day.

Also Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures was wank.

Per grimly fiendish, this is what they do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyc-HeGmN4

The Pre New Anthem lyric snippets

We crash fast cars
We kill pop stars
We eat Mars Bars

We eat Mars Bars

We don't do Voodoo
'Cause we don't have too

BOMB ME
BOMB ME
BOMB ME

this is a classic stomp of a track.

cant wait to hear the recorded version.

the recorded version is better than i ever expected.

don't all phone at once : http://www.theprenew.com/

made me chuckle.

another interview

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music-features/the-shock-of-the-nearly-new-1.1059806

so, all this time on, is there any interest in hearing this in 2011 ?
if yes, i will drop it onto the ILX listening room [ http://listeningroom.fettig.net/room/ILXOR ] as and when people are online to hear it

this is one of the most important and brilliant bands of the 1990s, of course there is interest. take me to your harvester.

forgive the shameless plug.

final recording by earl brutus, teenage taliban, now available to all.

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/?p=1797

Nice!

We've got a stream of the Pre-New album for the next couple of days.

It's called Music For People Who Hate Themselves and fans of Earl Brutus will find it very interesting I should imagine.

It's lovely. Really, really, really good record. Nothing's quite as monumental as Cathedral City Comedown (a MIGHTY statement of intent) or Albion, You've Done Nothing Wrong (although Night On Leather Mountain comes close) but the whole thing is really nicely put together and purveys a particularly aching strain of British melancholia. Even as it rocks the house down.

Not as good as either Earl Brutus album but then I don't think it's intended to be.

200 copies on cd have been pressed up by the band.

whats left after various folks like me get one are being sold @ rough trade.

it is, of course, fucking brilliant.

Mark
I no longer live anywhere near Talbot Road.
Mail order?

"Music for people who hate themselves" heh heh. thumbs up

@jessie : sorry, no idea as i've never used rough trade, as i am based in the english outback.
if you contact them i'm pretty sure they'll sort something out though ..

Email from Jim Fry

THE PRE NEW have been nominated by the media as “Best Breakthrough Artist of 2012”

We’re up against musical heavyweights including Lana Del Ray, Alabama Shakes, Savages, Frank Ocean, Alt-J and Emeli Sande.

So do the right thing and vote THE PRE NEW : http://www.festivalawards.com/ for a secure pop future.

Votes need to be in by the end of tis week – please pass this email on.

Luv from Jim x

... not sure they've actually been 'nominated', tbh!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ukfa2012

Yeah, they are on the drop-down for "best breakthrough act" on this page.

haha.

you just know this is one of the gang pulling a favour from an old mate ..

could it be this crimbo i finally release MOD to the wire ..

i'll check with relevant people to see if they give me the all clear

this just dropped on tonights playlist ..
damn its ace ..

forgot !

https://soundcloud.com/ireallylovemusic/mouldy-old-dough

enjoy.

still sounds ace.

well, after a bottle of red which is how i suspect nick and the gang intended their music to be listened to ..

At last!

sorry.

spread the word far and wide ..

tis a slice of perfect drunken studio excess ..

Tomorrow night at some pub in Southend:

8pm - Peter Gabriel films/videos/tunes on.
9.30 Tuppenny Bunters Live!
9.45 Nancy Wallace Live!
10.15 Gabriel Ear Wax Live!
10.20 Jim Fry and Gordon KIng (Twist/Brutus/Pre-New) DJ.
11.15 Middle Age Spread DJs.
1pm Carriages

worthy.
buy jim a pint and soak up the love ..
the man is a non-stop story machine.
best 45 minutes of my life (outside of .. well, you figure the rest), was on the phone to jim.
genuine lol moments.

It's the first day of the World Cup and I have Earl Brutus and The Pre New stuck in my head

likewise.
was in the studio two weeks ago with the pre new crew as part of a male choir/football gang thing to help re the bands second album.
ended up being one of the best things ever to happen in my life.
a totally surreal experience given the source of the connection.
(i slept on jamie frys sofa .. and then p*ssed in the direction of a genuine david bowie signed album sleeve ..)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/sh/8f12jg8he3nr0v2/AACZ0wlb_a8JedkhAYOnlqCYa/prenew_the%20joint-8.jpg?token_hash=AAERHdWxXwThq03U6pRR28gi5F275GpV-NFPaA1fiUOIOg&expiry=1402606120

:D

Rarely have the postmodern and the Real mixed so exuberantly, or so well

agreed.
surreal to the extreme.
my head was spinning, and not just from the excess booze.
i kept having these 'hang on mark, what the f*ck is actually happening here' moments.
thankfully, such moments of clarity were interrupted by a lot of laffs.
and booze of course.