Watched the Channel 4 documentary about Motorhead last night, and I must say what top fun it was. Although the rest of the band, the roadies, the Super fans (who get their own dressing room at gigs!) were featured the camera spent the most time on one of my life’s biggest inspirations- Mr Ian Kiliminster aka Lemmy!

Favourite quotes.

“Buy in bulk that’s what I say” Lemmy brandishing a bottle of Jack Daniels after pouring himself a generous breakfast measure.

“Hello I am Lemmy, welcome to book at bedtime. Except I don’t seem to have brought a book!” Lemmy wearing only a grin and pair of tight black underpants.

“Its good if you can stand to be alone and enjoy it. Too many people have to be surrounded by noise all the time”

“I became a much better person through LSD”

Interviewer “Have you seen a doctor recently?”
Lemmy “A couple of months ago, because you have to go on tour for insurance”
Interviewer “What did he say?”
Lemmy “My livers okay, my lungs okay, my cloastrol’s okay, my hearts ok”
Interview “How do you feel about that?”
Lemmy “Bloody grateful”

Finally got to my first gig of the year and boy was it a corker.

Big fun night out!

End. The Sounds of Disaster

01. You Only Live Once
02. To Hell With Everyone
03. Countdown To The End
04. Ruin Anyone Anywhere Anything
05. World Went Down
06. Mr Guns (The Theme From 11th Street)
07. Apache Indian Job
08. Brooklyn Home Invasion
09. Good Riddance
10. The Patricide Song
11. Fit To Die

Its been a week of grind. A continued armed police presence in both Leeds and Manchester, as the termites mill about perfumed and preened. Men with silly beards on TV threatening by the power of their voice and PR presense to bring more murder to our glasshouse lives. Yes kids welcome to the sloooooooooooooooow motion Apocalypse, and this week’s Album of the Week is the soundtrack.

This record pressed into my hands by keefybabe with the immortal words “you like loud and noisy stuff don’t cha?”. Well yes sir, I do. . Inspired by witnessing a rockerbilly act in a NY cellar bar playing on during a fire alarm, this album lives up to that inspiration. At turns jazz, hip hop, guitar based, its gloriously mixed with alarm sounds, electronic warning bleeps and infectus sense of whimsical tune. Nearest peers are Mr Bungle at their most demented, Frank Zappa at his most awkward (remember “Hot Rats” just when he got a tune going, he’d stop and play Kazoo. Lots of that sort of behavoir on this album.) and Jim Thirwell’s instrumental Steroid Maximus project. No surprise that its on Mike Patton’s Ipecac label. But I digress. This album is music to loosen your bowels to, give you giggly violent mood swings, and scare the neighbourhood cats.

Favourite track the right rollicking “To Hell With Everyone”.

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grannyannie kindly forwarded this to me

“Got the following on a mail out fron TotalRock (don’t laugh!) this morning.

PRIMUS RETURN
The classic Primus line-up of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry Lalonde and drummer Tim ‘Herb’ Alexander is back together. And the trio will
shortly start recording their first album in a decade. ”

News that they are doing a new LP is indeed good.

However the bastards have been reformed for two years now and done two monster tours of USA/Europe and never once stepped foot in the UK. This makes me extremely grumpy.

However their last release “Animals should not behave like humans” , a DVD of all the videos + a ton of extras, had an ep of new material which although more experimental twiddlings rather than proper songs, showed they are back on form.

A tad over due, but in response to querimonious‘s tag here are my six songs I hold dear.

1.Peter Gabriel-“Sledgehammer”. During the early-mid 80s while all the cool kids were doing their Wham/Aha or New Romantic thang, I was doing the white-boy funk thing. Level 42, Thomas Dolby amongst others. Sledgehammer was the song that got me going in the day, and annoyed the funk out of my school chums.

2.Ac/Dc-“For those about to Rock”. 15 with a pudding basin hairdo, this song magically opened the world to me.

3.Dead Kennedys-“This could be anywhere, this could be everywhere”. For me the Dead Kennedys make sense of the fucked up side of the world. This song. about urban gentrification, made sense of my upbringing on large souless housing estates.

4.Killing Joke-“Love like blood”. Passion, fire two qualities that are important to me, that KJ sum up in their music. One of their mellower moments this song sums up the intensity in which I sometimes live my life.

5.Primus-“Tommy The Cat”. Funk Metal saved my soul and put a gawd awful smile on my face. To say I’m a tad manic about Primus is a complete understatement.

6.Wipers-“Over the Edge”. When I ever I get depressed this little number goes on the stereo and reminds me of how much of an illusion ‘the edge is’. A fantastic punk-surf band, their driving soaring epic “No Fair” was the soundtrack of the only time I truly was deeply upset about splitting up with someone.

Deftones- would be a tanning cream

Marilyn Manson- would be a fashion label for scheming Cruella Deville types.

Metallica- Would be an all american four by four truck.

System of a Down -would be an advice agency that campaigns against personal and government stupidity.

Strapping Young Lad – would be a brand of baby bouncer.

Motley Crue- would still be a bad joke that you send people as a all male striper gram.

Bon jovi- would be a range of mens hair oils and aftershave

Slayer-Your friendly vermin extermination service!!

Pantera- would be a two in one conditioner/shampoo with the slogan “Why take two products into the pit, Pantera Mosh and Go”

Guns and Roses- Would be a flower delivery agency to troops out in Iraq.

Primus- would be a brand of cheese.

One band I really like is The The. Its a pop band with a twisted sense of humour that sticks out like a sore thumb in my music collection of Men shouting over loud geetars.

But I like Matt Johnson, the more whingey and whiney the better. Pile on the bleakness and quirky background music. I will not run away from your 80s synths and drum machines. Come to me I love you!!

Sorry for the temporary insanity but Mr Newt has just bagged three lps (Soul Mining, Infected, and Mind Bomb) for a fiver each.

its THE MARS VOLTA

All the cool kids on the block have been going about this band. At the Drive in, two of the members’ previous band, gradually grew upon me (kinda like Fugazi at their strangest, it was very hyped at the time of release and I picked it very cheap). So thought I’ld check them out.

I’m Listening to their lastest album Frances the Mute and having my mind blown away. Funk, punk, prog, strings, soft and soaring vocals. Quick and easy comparision; Led Zepplin in a car crash with Radio Head,Funkadelic and the MC5.

Genius.

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All Music entry

1. Mastodon-Leviathan
2. Biffy Clyro-Infinity Land
3. Helmet-Size Matters
4. Dillinger Escape Plan-Miss Machine
5. Capt Claypool’s Bucketfull of Bernie Brains-The Big Eyeball in the Sky
6. Auf der Maur- Auf Der Maur
7. Rammstein- Reise, Reise
8. Candira-That which does not kill you….
9. Neurosis- The Eye of Every Storm
10. Fear Factory- Archtype

Been bit of a fallow year for me personally in Rock/Metal. None of my major faves, Rollins, Devin Townsend, Queens of the Stone Age or Voivod have put out any recordings this year. In fact four most the bands on this top ten (1,2,4 & 8) where rooted out over the last couple of weeks in an effort to make the numbers up! I know I’m abit out of touch, but 2004 seems to have been the year of the “Best of Album”, Guns and Roses, Marilyn Manson, Korn… Anthrax even got in on the act by recording stuff off their first four albums !!

Saying that, Mastodon & Biffy Clyro were definate finds, with the added bonus that they are both touring in Feb 05. Well happy about that!

A spot of good sleep last night really helped my spirits to go up. Even when I got up this morning, and events started to proceed  as yesterday (late out, half awake zombie fighting through the train station,  just missed train etc) there was that slight “things are better today” up swing feeling to it all.

Got into work and have managed to sort out 200% more than I did yesterday, so things are looking up on that front as well.

Still feeling a tad drained, so I’m skipping tai-chi tonight (which frankly near killed me last week, seeing as our teacher had just come back from China, and trained us like they do over there eck!!). Nope more early nights and lavender baths for Mr Newt.

My Rawk oddyssey continued. If yesterday was the nice stuff, today I physically tracked down the stuff I came across on T’internet yesterday.

In Manchester’s friendly independent record shop the aptly named Roadkill records I picked up two releases that are definatly making it onto my top ten this year.

Mastodon’s Leviathan- a chugging heavy metal viking trip, loosely based upon the novel “Moby Dick”. How metal is that?!? Plus they are mates with Neurosis and Clutch (both whose singers guest on the album) which is an indication of quality in my book.  It was the video for Iron Tusk that sold me on them. Juvenile I know (but hey thats metal to a T), but people suspended by hooks and ugly men with beards and bad hair doing James Hetfield impressions how metal is that!!

The Dillinger Escape Plan– Miss Machine, was next on my hit list. Been keen on this one after listening to the preview tracks when it first came out, and the EP they did with Mike Patton on lead vocals. However was put off by the price, which the clowns at HMV are selling for 18 quid!!. However got both this and Mastodon’s masterpiece for the princely sum of 11 quid, and they are both the deluxe versions with the extra DVD !! Very smug I am I. Music wise other people can be more eloquent than I. All I can say its Jazz and Thrash in a car crash, put back together by a Nobel prize winner in Quantum physics.

Cracking stuff.

Must stop buying stuff now. Off to London this weekend……so the chances of that happening???