Mouldy old dough by Earl Brutus.

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.

Envious! It sounds like a truly mighty experience. And a productive one. My soundtrack for the next month gains further resolve...

no idea if productive.
they may wipe the recordings ..
which would be totally understandable.
but yes, you should be envious.
i was.
of myself.
[ as for the tracks we helped towards .. oh my god .. ]

Cathedral City Comedown still one of my favourite songs of the last few years - if they've matched or even beaten it...

not sure you will put what we did on that level.
was another cover version.
no idea as to the final result.
time will tell.

That's an amazing story Mark. Add me to the very envious club.

no envy required until you hear the end result !

'mouldy old dough .. '

bloody hell.
chas-n-dave do not do this as part of their current live set
i genuinely thought they would.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5GWJJP3FM

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/21/little-known-musicians-famous-moments-baker-street

amazingly my mad day with this lot, as mentioned up thread, is actually featured on the new album.
me on an album that people can buy in shops.
wonders will never cease.
even my dad ('how much were you paid !!?' : his standard response to my website/blog/writing groove) was kind of impressed.
subsequently, despite my well known denial of vinyl love, i have gone and ordered the big limited boxset edition with cd/vinyl/mp3/PDF versions of the album.
so far the reviews (q, mojo, tQ etc) have been rather positive.
cannot deny it all feels rather weird.

Nice one.

haha ..

( i am assuming that's an intentional quote as opposed to a generic response .. )

can't wait for this

Mark, we're almost certain to be in the same room at some Pre New thing or other, so we should endeavour to introduce ourselves to each other... not sure how...

i wish that were the case Tom D, but i rarely leave my house these days.

however, i will of course let you know via this thread should i ever venture out again for this bunch of f*ckers.

if you have checked the studio photos of the day i have mentioned (they all were posted on the bands facebook page, i am the bald f*cker in the spiderman t-shirt .. )

Album launch maybe? I'll be there anyway.