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Anyway, although fun and exciting, I'm an old man and will be recovering from my trip - so I actually have no reviews prepared. So, you know what that means? News and gossips!
KATE MOSS TO WRITE NOVEL
As soon as the story was published in late Monday (May 25, 2009 at 6:17 PM), the story was picked up by a ton of "newspapers", including the NME, which Christopher said was "the musical equivalent of the sun".
Talking to Jon Stewart (Sleeper's guitarist), he basically could not confirm (or deny!) this, so in my opinion this gossip sounds legit.
In addition to Stewart's jokingly regretful cover of Blondie's "Atomic" and working at the Brighton Institute of Music, his latest project is as the musical supervisor for the movie Telstar the Movie.
THE PIRATE BAY THEME SONG
Anyway, I got news from respected Swedish record label, Hybrism that Montt Mardié (monttmardie.com/myspace) have written an anthem for the Pirate Bay. You can torrent the song from thepiratebay.org/special (if you don't have bittorrent, you can find it online!)
Ironically, the theme song doesn't sound like it was stolen from anywhere else.An artist has got to make a living just like everybody else, there's no doubt about it. And these are tough times, believe me I know. The thing is though, if I were to go back in time, 10 years or so, and tell the 15-year-old version of myself that over a night, 60 000 people had heard one of my songs, the first question I'd throw back at myself wouldn't be "how much money did I make?".
Don't get me wrong, I love money and I want to make a lot of it. Bathe in it just like Uncle Scrooge. But money isn't the main reason why I write songs. First and foremost I want people to hear them.
Times are so strange at the moment and a lot of people are angry and upset. Still, for each day that goes by I get more and more convinced that we shouldn't try to fight the future, we should embrace it. Try to see opportunities instead of catastrophys.
I've written a song. I call it "We're All The Pirate Bay". It's free and nobody will ever have to pay for it, though if you incist you are welcome to make a donation!
Take care, Monty
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I used to be a radio disc jockey, I went by the name of "DJ Drivel-Head" (it was a bit of a joke because it was really "dri-vu-head" and it was also a nod to Elastica's song "Line Up".) I worked for KFSR 90.7, which is where Emelia heard the Parcels, so I guess our station played some good indie stuff back then.
My time slot was pretty bad, it was every Thursday from midnight to two in the morning and I really didn't think I had regular listeners (although there were these two girls that would call and talk every week).
Anyway, I stopped DJing around 1996, and about seven years later, I received a message from one of my fans:
I used to actively listen to your show for the first hour (blank tape cued up and ready), then I would go to bed and just let the stereo record the rest of the show. After I woke up, there were usually one or two songs I would choose to "keep" and put them on a "keepers" tape. One day, I listened to the tape I had left to record while I slept, and the whole block was really good. The whole tape automatically became a "keepers" tape. The first song was bedside manners, and I started recording too late to get the lead-in, intro information about the name of the band or song. In case you're curious, and you think it would be nostalgically interesting to know what you played in that one night, it was...
He then proceeded to name all the songs, in the correct order and what I said about each song (they were: Mazzy Star, Jesus and Mary Chain, Morrissey, Lush, Frente, Echobelly, Miranda Sex Garden, and They Might be Giants).
The strangest part ? He had recited these from MEMORY!! Apparently he had lost the tape and was telling me what he remembered because he listened to the tape over a million times! He said that he recorded too late for the introduction of "Bedside Manners" so he didn't know who the artist was... well it is a b-side from my favorite band, Sleeper!
Sleeper, is of course, from the London-area, in England. They were originally called Surrender Dorothy (a reference to the Wizard of Oz), but changed their name on account that there were already several bands registered under that name in the UK.
They settled for Sleeper, which was a reference to Woody Allen's film. They were signed to a small indie label called Indolent in the UK.
I first heard of them in 1994 when my friend Mark, who came back from France, lent me the Alice in Vain EP and Swallow EP. I fell in love with Louise Wener when I met and interview the band in real life in 1995 and have been a loyal fan since then.
Currently, Louise Wener is a novel writer, penning Goodnight Steve McQueen, The Big Blind (aka The Perfect Play), and The Half Life of Stars. She's also a part-time columnist at the Guardian. As for the other band members, I think Andy Macclure is a computer-guy who's living with Louise. Jon Stewart, guitarist, teaches music and as session musician (he is the guitarist on Mel C's Reason album) and sometime band manager. Not really sure what Diid Osman is up to.
Trivia: For a short time, Sleeper was known as Sleeper UK because there was already an established punk band called Sleeper.
PS, Sleeper is probably my all-time mondern favorite band, at least when they were active. I've created a fanzine and website devoted to Sleeper (www.louisewener.com), which have been around since Sep 1996! If you are new to Sleeper, I suggest checking out "Nice Guy Eddie", "What Do I Do Now?", and their massive hit, "Inbetweener".
