Messy Flatters To Deceive Again

Check out the revamped Messy A blog .... it'll be good when it gets up and running again.

Back once again

Semi new kick acid single finally up for download.
KickAcid-Computer lame

Listen

This go's out on behalf of B-koz and all here at shindig.
A big shoutout to B-koz's cousin Timmy,
Hope you get well soon man.

Album update

Anouncements

Congratulations...

...to B-koz and his lady myra, who are now the proud parents of a wee girl.
We were in the studio last week also putting a few more touches to the album.

Kids Are Remixed For Free

Danke to Declan, for this fine remix of The Pinkos' "Kids Go Free".

NEU!!!!!

A certan person requested a promo of the new album so I threw together a quick album sampler.
I think id throw it up on the blog to show what kind of direction the artwerks taken.
these are gonna be worth millions once b-koz gets as famous as bono or bob geldof.

Check it

Hear the new DJ Dano & B-Koz track at our Bebo page

Ar'b Str'p

Up next: as suggested by Fionn, an Arab Strap covers record from Shindig's various artistos. Meanwhile, the new blog is kicking off nicely.

Rejiggle

New, and hopefully improved: Thoughts, Etcetera

Holy

Shit. Fuck. Moley.

HERE IT IS. (I'm quite drunk. Hello Shinduggies.)

UPDATE: It wasn't finished and it was barely three minutes long. I'll put it up again later. I'm quite hungover. Soon to be cured by a locha oul brandy.

DOUBLE UPDATE: I didn't mean to link to actual pornography.

TRIPLE UPDATE: There's Diarmaid, as drawn by Declan many Moons ago.

a plan

daithi says he's djin in the big top in the park on sunday night.
I propose we all go.
cause i reckon itll be pure sunday on sunday during the day.
maybe we could have a barbecue or somethink before hand?

*************************

Download

******

Download

Subincision

What is happening & cetera. Nice to see a bit of the sun again. All that rain can't be good for you.

I Should Stop Quitting Everything*


Yes friends, after a thrilling 9-day run, Trabby de la Schwank's assault on all that is good in music has come to a spluttering halt. For posterity:

TRABBY DE LA SCHWANK - Friends and Neighbours (DELETED! For ever and ever!)

Perhaps Trabby too closely scaled the dizzying heights and too thoroughly plumbed the stomach-wrenching lows of avant-garde expressionism, leading to an implosion of musical thought, or perhaps this whole idea was just really stupid and pointless: who can say?

Onwards and Upwards
To the positives, and as we approach the end of the second month of Summer 2006 (!), what in the Dickens is going down, Shindig-wise?

1. The new solo B-Koz material really is shaping up to be something special. With DJ Dano as chief architect and myself providing a healthy portion of the building materials - to be joined by more of Letterkenny's finest musical contractors in due course, no doubt - all we're waiting for is Da Koz's blistering raps to furnish the thing. (Didn't know where I was going with that but it worked out quite nicely, I thought.)

2. As soon as the B-Koz project gets wrapped up, new October Country/Beesley and Super Eight Kids material will hopefully be sent to the refineries of Shindig's various production facilities.

3. I think Diarmo's never-ending quest for noisy pop orgasm is currently on hiatus for retooling. Fix your god damn lappy D.

4. You'll have noticed the Fionnster has joined us. If you haven't already, download his typically mellow cover of the Flaming Lips' "Race for the Prize", via this post here!

5. Kick Acid has another 200BPM megathon in the works, this time exploring the theme of electronic gaming.

6. As for me, now that my upstart alter-ego Trabby has said all he needs to say (see above), my nearest and dearest Tugboat can come back to the fore. Expect new material sometime before the summer is out. (And/or after.)

But for now, take it proper easy!

*I'll get a reputation.

we are live

well and truly,
i just got broadband in so expect none too many updates,
huzzah.

You didn't even know you were waiting for it

UPDATE: One of Rob's quarterly emails has come through from Norwich (making the title of this post ever-more relevant...) The gist: he's still alive and will hopefully be back later in the summer, which means our annual HOT COLLAB ACTION can begin again! Dirty lovely.

Word to your mammy

updates then, who needs them.
heres something to fill your ears/eyes.
Conor Mc Devitt just gave me the link to his "weblog" which makes fantastic reading material if you ever find yourself having a long spell on the can.
It currently also features his lovely mix which is Shindig approved for sticking on, before, during and after partying which carries the rather stereophonicesque title of "contains mild scenes of peril".

clickit------------->
http://mickalomaniac.blogspot.com/

Mary & Joseph

Neither have I*. Sorry, we won't let this place get as lax on the updating front as Lord Messy d'Angelo's blog of forgotten greatness. Leave him messages so he'll get off his fat hole and write something to all of his adoring fans.

Anyway, an abundance of treasures coming soon.

*I actually have

Jesus

i aint been on the internet in ages.

Beat intelligence

Shindig did another short film over the easter. It's actually part of my final project for this year but expect it to crop up as an extra on the forthcoming DVD of whatever the hell feature length movie we end up makin.

New Tuneage

Well, new-ish. This is a recent redux of a tune I made last year called "I Am Bored". It started out with just that sorta dirty bassline thing you hear, but came to life when I accidentally added a drum'n'bass beat. In this newer version I basically fucked round with the beat way more and rejigged a few portions. And now it's fresher than ever, I reckon.

This starts off what I'm hoping will be a very productive week, so keep it peeled...

TUGBOAT WILLY - I Am Bored (2006 Redux)

To all the

Updates have been slow.
cause weve been slow.

Watch this:
Dave Chapelle - Rick James

And this:
Dave Chapelle - Samuel Jackson

And this:
Dave Chapelle - Turn My Headphones Up!

Away from the snakes

Happy st. patricks day in advance of tomorrow.
Tuggers,Brian, Diarmiad and myself will be in letterkenny for the event,boozing up early and then entering embibing emporiums which will probably have a higher than usual bogger count.

muffpile

Friday night then.
Gardai at the house,puke all outside it,another fubar conga line (pologies daithi) and waking up with loads of people in my room.
Success then.

Visit our Webshite

Always 50 steps behind the pack, we've finally got our holes in gear and joined up with the MySpace "revolution".

Visit our Shindig Records MySpace to listen to/download some of our tunes, and generally fag about and waste time.

Clickity-boink

EvEnTS!!!!!!!!!!

Ey op.
Some Shindig related events that may interest the lot of ye.
Its my birthday this arriving monday the 13th and to milk the rollocks out of it-any folk around belfast can celebrate this rubbish event by goin to see maggot and dj Xain of Goldie Lookin Chain fame on thursday night with us.
Then, on friday some refreshments and light entertainment in the form of Durning dressed as a mexican wrestler will be at my house which will then proceed to much larking about in the Fubar.Diarmiad, you better have your saggy arse home for it.

Back to that gubbins about the kick Acid thing I mentioned previously. Apperently it's in a function room of sorts in the Radisson hotel Letterkenny on the first of April.Its some school related dance thing with a band called Atlus whom will be performing before me.
Its open for anyone to go but due to it probably being a younger crowd than us lot and a bizarrely hollywood related dress code, I believe the interest wont stretch beyond a severly intoxicated tugboat and brian.
Expect live blogging from the event (dont really).

I bet that mixing up the lower and uppercase in the title of this post is ageing you rapidly Tugboat.

£ick £cid

Yeah,kick acids doin a live show.
visuals and all.
Details when I actually know all of them.

I heart LA

i have returned.hows about we get drunk tonight.

Fisting his coin purse, apparently

Senor Rob de la Whoriskey checks in once again from Norwich, gawd bless 'im... The highlights from his latest torrent of knowledge:

hope everything is top notch back in the land of fifty head butts. things have been really good for me over here recently, ive finally got back into my art work after one and a half whole years of being a lazy degenerate. recently ive been drawing dead boys, condoms and pregnancy tests and have been revelling in the colours pink, light brown and most of all baby blue....... spaff!

im generally really excited about everything at the minet most of all drawing and music, i dont know about you guys but, has music ever been this healthy? yesterday i finally got my hands on The Knife's silent shout album. it sounds like nothing ive ever heard before and the silent shout video is the sickist thing since the ebola virus rocked african dance floors in the mid ninties, the second track neverland is also an unearthly pleasure to listen to alone in your room with the lights out while looking at the six oclock traffic. ive made a concerted effort to finally get my hands on the global goon album family glue which i, as tuggers and dano know, have been whining on about for ages now so i orderded it. a recent discovery i made aswell was rex the dog who i suspect tuggers might know because of his boner for kompact and their bleepy din. i, despite my best efforts, have been liking death from above 1979, only because i swear i made music just like that when i was 15, with my bass and a boss distortion pedal, its like looking at a fashion photographers interpritation of my early years, where im sexy and class looking. ive also on the basis of hearing just one track been liking battles who made guitar muisic sound interesting for a minet, and frankie sparo who sounds like four tet playing with messy angelo, and messy is being really boozy and funny (by the way i love you diarmo), i found him on the song of the silent land compilation on constilation.

anyway ive been lovin the art work posted recently dano, its bootylicious, the one with the hands tugged me off this morning. oh yeah the album in a day was so pure and so class that i shouted both pure and class out loud when i heard it. i hav'nt really been writing much music recently, bits of pieces here and there. i really want to buy a synthisizer and play some of my songs on that to see what they sound like, but money will stop me from doing that.

right so, sorry for the long silence, hope this finds you all in good health and not full of aids, i will try to be in touch with your bad selves soon adios negros

rob t whoriskey

ps saying fist instead of fuck is the new black eg "fist me that chantelle is a charming and intelligent person, who champions working class resourcefulness in the field of being dappy"

Clap your hands fuck off

Not alot of post action goin on in here the last while.
Me and Tugboat are gonna get our remix boots on again for some local Letterkenny act.
I'll be gone next week to film the next super eight kids video in Los Angeles,
Hype Williams style.

Fat English chicks

Belle and Sebastain were lovely.
Broken Vista Social Scene on friday.
Who's all goin?

fird party

Yadda yadda yadda and all that other bullshit.
Completed the first music video for the Super Eight kids "sequel" album.
It's amazing.
I would upload it here but id rather let some high quality dvd copies circulate first.....
The first hat has been thrown...

Exciting Times

The news that you've passed all you're exams? A conga line in the Fubar? Another gratuitous mention from Daithi in the People's Press? Are any of these enough to warrant a late-night drunken post? Hardly.

What I'm spazzing on about is this here: we're the 266th Album-a-Day in tom7's fine crapart project (scroll down towards the bottom of the page to check us out).

In sadder news, I misspelled 'ingenious', and the entry makes us out to be a load of wacky bum fluffers, but not to worry. Shindig rides again.

We are live, boys

And so, the fruits of our 24 hours of hard labour. All songs were written/performed/produced etc. by Messy Angelo and Tugboat Willy between 13:20 on Thursday January 26th and 13:20(ish) on Friday January 27th. Additional vocals and album artwork by our boy Bunnyhop. To be submitted to the Crapart Album-a-Day project soon hopefully.

Enjoy it, and y'all let us know what y'all think!

THE PINKOS - The Long Wind
01 We Are Live
02 It's a Shocker!
03 Kids Go Free
04 At One Time in France
05 When Does He Appear?
06 Everybody Stands Up At The Same Time
07 Sometimes It's Hard To Make It Look Easy
08 Sleep Every Night
09 Him Being Here Is Not A Problem
10 We Want Her Home

Here's our drunkenly-written lyrics, if you really want them (you know you don't).

An album in a day!

13.10 - Tugboat Willy with the word on the street
We live in exciting times, ladies and gentlemen... Messy Angelo has joined me up in Super-Amazing Studios for an attempt to make a whole goddamn album in a day. So, under the project name of The Pinkos we have to produce either 20 mins/30 songs worth of music in the next, well, 24 hours. (Check out the Album-a-Day homepage for more info.) Messy has given the optimistic prediction of 4 hours for us to get this thing done. We'll see.

14.15 - Messy's Update
Tensions are running high, and despite Tugboat's obvious desire to cave my skull in with a guitar and feast on the juicey insides, we must continue with this album in a day project. We've completed the bare bones of our first tune in just about an hour and it's quite a nice little number, so hopefully the brain eating can be staved off til we get the next few tunes down. Ableton was wanky for some reason today so we switched back to the old favourite, Acid. Now it's my turn to get behind the production table and start a tune... (that's how we're doing this, writing and producing a song each in turn, with help from the other). Anyway, we gots to get back to work, so I'll type at y'all real soon.

15.25 - Tugger's Report
A tiring hour later we've got another one basically down... This one's pret-ty hot, we think. Our plan of using the TV to find names for our songs (we turn it on and the first thing someone says, we use as the title) has proven successful so far: "We Want Her Home", "At One Time in France" and "Kids Go Free" are what we've got so far. Hotte boogie woogie. Keep it peeled, and hopefully we'll have an album for you in the next 22 hours!

16.30 - Gobs of Wisdom, from Messy
We've been hard at it in Super Amazing Studios, and we've crafted our Bravery tribute song "Him Being Here is not a Problem" into near perfection over the past hour. The album has a sort of guiding principle keeping the songs together it would seem, on listening back to the songs. This is good, because I was sure it would sound like two seperate albums mashed together. Anyway, we're away to crap in a bowl, then stick it in the oven, and keep on serving you guys the hot shit that results. Back in an hour or so ...

17.45 - Tuggle my wuggle
Another slice on the pan: "Sometimes it's Hard to Make It Look Easy". And y'know something? There's great truth in that title. This is a difficult undertaking, and incredibly tiring, but we estimate we're gonna get this mutha done by 5a.m. When we start consuming alcohol in a few hours, it's gonna make it either a lot easier or a lot harder, but certainly more fun... Onwards and upwards.

21.26 - Uh oh, somebody made a Mess(y Angelo type song)
Anyway, we've had our dinner break, during which I ate some goddamn tastey and devil benighted hot curry, and we've had the addition of artist/guitarist Brian Mc Devitt (operating under his Bunnyhop moniker? I haven't asked) so things are looking fairly sexy for this album in a day. It's eight hours in and we have 6 solidly well developed songs clocking in at over 12 minutes, so we really only need maybe four more and some vocals to be home free. Artists corner over by Brian is also looking creatively fertile, so expect some artbabies for the cover to be born kicking and screaming anytime soon. BACK TO WORK!

22.11 - Tug(boat) on my Willy please
While Sir Messy d'Angelo fannies about creating his newest opus, I'll sketch Super-Amazing studios as it is right now. Brian is trying to shine a laser in our eyes; I'm typing this; and Diarmaid is writing a new song. The barrel-wielding sailor from the Dutch Gold cans has joined us and is now our muse/slavemaster.

23.04 - Heaven must be missing an (Messy) Angel(o)
Another hour, another post. It's been ten hours since we undertook this crazy mission, and yet another slovenly, sleepy guitar track has been laid down, to be accompanied by vocals later on in the sexy sexy night. Brian hates me. He keeps yelling abuse at me. I wet myself one time he did, I'm away to change now in a minute. I'm gonna just say I have to use the bathroom and hope no-one notices I come back with Tugboat's pants on. The lads went on an expidition to the shops, and came back with a bounty of Doritos, Pringles and a few extra Dutch. It will be a majestic night. Keep on truckin.

00:06 - Drawin shit
this is your boy brian drawin shit going well so far got the sky down screaming phoenix and shit fuckin all y'all up need to figure out earth and sea as this album entails the entire world, was attempting to draw naked woman to represent earth it shall be so and we shall get of on said image she shall be cold on the outside but warm once youre allowed in...................................musics shite

01:22 - Tuggered out
Alright. So, tunes-wise, we've nearly reached our target. We've done NINE songs. Some are good. Some are not so good. Others are excellent. Others still don't quite do what we wanted them to. And a last portion. Meanwhile, Brian's artwork is coming on like a big old load of smen. Whatever that is.

03:47 - The Tao of the Pinkos/Messy
Lifted directly from the Tao of Steve, a godawful shitty film that's currently (dis)gracing channel 4 at the moment. Anyway, it's 14 hours in and we've finally laid down all the tracks that I think we're going to lay down, not including any extra tweaking we may do in post-production, and it's sounding hot enough. Roll on the vocals, which may well be tough to handle, but we are the men for the job ... Fuck yo. It's gonna be hot. We portly slackers rock.

04.48 - Tugjobs 'r' Us
'Post-production', they call it. 'Dicking around til it sounds half-decent and making up lyrics on the spot', we call it. Currently we have some lyrics written but that shit isn't commited to 'tape'. In other news, Brian's a homo. Eight and a half hours left, and we don't intend to use all of 'em. Keep it foolish.

13.56 - All the everybody
Fantastically, WE ARE FINISHED! Ten utterly decent tunes and some fine-ass artwork, all completed in (just about) 24 hours, baby. Sadly, we did cave in to the sleep monster at one point, for 4 hefty hours, but we felt it was necessary. We'd probably have ended up doing some silly things to the music otherwise. We added all our amazing vocals this morning and "post-produced" The Long Wind - as we've called this venture - all while eating toast. To celebrate, we'll have a nice wee sleep this afternoon and party party party the night away at our launch party! Tonight! Expect the mp3s real soon. Peace out peeps.

The Pinkos - The Long Wind
01 We Are Live
02 It's a Shocker!
03 Kids Go Free
04 At One Time in France
05 When Does He Appear?
06 Everybody Stands Up at the Same Time
07 Sometimes it's Hard to Make it Look Easy
08 Sleep Every Night
09 Him Being Here is not a Problem
10 We Want Her Home

Sile bugger.

Al fresco

Boy, being in Letterkenny with nothing to do sure is boring.
I went into chartbusters at one o clock today-cripes that place is depressing.
Hey diarmo and tuggers, hurry up and get home so we can take hits of acid.
Hey this is the 50th post.
Hmmm-Diarmo, write us a film script, ideas, anything, we gotta get filming again.
Wonder if anything goods on the horror channel tonight.

Shindig Nights One: Dano

Okay, this has been knockin about for quite a while but here it is finally.
This is the definitive mix, Its been tweaked a bit from the cd's a couple of you might have got from me and I broke it into two parts for downloading purposes.

SHINDIG NIGHTS ONE: DJ Dano (Part 1)

SHINDIG NIGHTS ONE: DJ Dano (Part 2)

Enjoy!

Shindig Nights Two: Messy

Check It out, Here's Messy A's dope ass mix.

1. Rampart Fury – Mesu Kasumai [Belle Isle Raceway]
2. Outhouse (Main Mix) – Nathan Fake [Balance Vol. 5: James Holden]
3. Tito’s Way – The Juan Maclean [Less Than Human]
4. Technologic (Vitalic Mix) – Daft Punk [Technologic Single]
5. Don’t See the Point – Alex Smoke [Incommunicado]
6. 21.31 (Oliver Hacke Mix) – Superpitcher [Today]
7. Robot New York – Add N to (X) [Avant Hard]
8. I Love Acid – Luke Vibert [YosepH]
9. The Turtle (Pilote) – Bonobo [Sweetness 12”]
10. Brandon – Manitoba [Start Breaking My Heart]
11. Softness of Senses – Xela [Tangled Wool]
12. Constants Are Changing – Boards of Canada [The Campfire Headphase]
13. Cichli – Autechre [Chiastic Slide]
14. Crying in Your Face – AFX [Analord 4]
15. Toadstool Wires – Locust Toybox [Scribble Beats]
16. Hard4U in tha Bayou – Nullsleep [The Gameboy Singles 2002

Heres the link: SHINDIG NIGHTS TWO: Messy Angelo

Crap Memories

I've had Ableton Live 3 gathering dust on my computer for a year or two now, but until today I hadn't really done very much with it apart from mixing some tracks together, using effects and that kinda shit... I'd heard how goddamn good it was meant to be from pretty much everyone, but I just never got round to doing anything serious with it... So I finally gave it a go with sequencing a track today, and - fuck me! I mean, I'm not one to get excited about a piece of software or whatever - but this really is the tits. Of course I'm a couple of years behind here, with version 3 (Live 5's been released recently), but even this edition is futuristic, modern music-making technology, and it's not hard to see how it's become the unofficial industry standard in some quarters of electronic music - in terms of both production and performance.

With the course I'm doing I'll have a lot of contact with other software environments (SuperCollider, Max/MSP, CSound, etc.), which is all very exciting and daunting and so on. But what I particularly like about Live is its capabilities for live performance - which will hopefully play a part in plans for upcoming Shindig live shows - as well as its marvellous, fluid graphical interface. Seamless would be a nice way to put it. And I can't believe I've left it so long to get into using the bugger: believe the hype.

More on Ableton Live here



So yeah, this is a combination of my trusty old Fruity Loops and shiny, kinda-new Ableton Live 3... Let me know what you think!

TUGBOAT WILLY - Crap Memories [DELETED]
mp3 format; 2mb


P.S. I've heard a sneak of Diarmaid's newest joint, charmingly titled 'FUCK OFF, CITY & PEOPLE!' (his capitals, not mine). It's some hot shit, I guarantee... Look out for an mp3 on Generally Messy at some point soon.

P.P.S. Daniel's been up all night with his consoles and has another edition of his Digital Dungeon, or whatever it is he's calling it these days, ready for consumption over on A Slice Of Class.

Scruidpaiper

glaxosmithkine

Heres an idea, everybody go to the fubar tonight and get messed up.

New year's resolutions

Hey everybody! Hope a good Christmas was had by all... Been a bit quiet on the blog front this past while, so by way of making up for it, feast yourselves on bumper artist updates and some free Best-of-2005 (and one from 2003) mp3s!

Super Eight Kids
The Super Eights have plans aplently for 2006. The fruits of a recent bout of recording with our man Rob T. Whoriskey should materialise at some point in the near future, in the form of an online EP/single of some description. But for a change, recorded output is not going to be the focus for the group this year, with early ideas for a live show slowly gestating. If all goes to plan (knowing us, it probably won't, but we're gonna try hard), the avid populace can expect some hot live action this summer. We'll keep you up to speed on those developments if/as and when they happen.

Messy Angelo
Messy, as ever, is up to his usual old shenanigans. He claims that his album is still on the way but has ominously warned: "If this isn't done by summer I'm scrapping the whole thing". So come on y'all, give the old champ the encouragement he needs. Ridiculously in-depth news, insightful comments and multitudes of mp3s are all available on Messy's site.

Kick Acid
Exciting news for fans of our favourite audio terrorist: word on the street is, Mr. Acid is planning a "political record". Christ alone knows how this will pan out, but expect science to be dropped.

Tugboat Willy
My Kick Up The Hole single is still available here, if you're interested. I've been on a brief hiatus since then, but expect more of my trademark pissing about in 2006.

Beesley/Joy World Corporation/The October Country
All quiet on this front since last summer's Party in the Park performance (ha ha! Christ...) and accompanying single, Bitch! (I Still Want My Money Back). Chances are you haven't heard the end of Shindig's originators though. Keep an eye peeled in '06.

B-Koz
Letterkenny's premier MC is currently representing in Derry, where he's got his Music Tech course going on. We haven't heard any of his output yet, but we'll keep you informed no doubt...


Alright, so I'll leave you with...
A (Fairly Random) Selection of Shindig's Hits of 2005

1. SUPER EIGHT KIDS - L-Shaped Coffin [DELETED]
From the album Sequel; wma format; 5mb

2. THE OCTOBER COUNTRY - Lambchop Jr [DELETED]
From the 2003 album The Gravity blah blah blah; mp3 format; 3mb

3. MESSY ANGELO - Getting There [Tugboat Willy's Wrong Way Round remix] [DELETED]
Internet release; mp3 format; 2mb

4. KICK ACID - Track 6 [DELETED]
Was this even released? I dunno. Anyway, it's from that mini-album he made last year; mp3 format; 4mb; watch out for some incredible clipping towards the end!

5. TUGBOAT WILLY - I Wasn't Expecting This [DELETED]
From the single I Am Bored; mp3 format; 3mb

Woop! Here's to a fucking fantastic 2006 y'all. Stay tuned.

ill assorted

Well christ-mas well and truly fucked off so I suppose I should post.
Im back home again for the next three weeks which is slightly depressing.
Currently havin a wee jab at producing the latest super eight kids banger that me, tuggers and turlough dropped during the festive season.Expect that shite up on the blog soon.(more empty promises)
oh and ive tweaked the shindig nights mix (the ending was shite) so ill probably have that when I can get near some high bandwidth again. (next month)
I started makin videos for each of the songs off "sequel". (about three seconds worth of animation so far) but then my sister (kai) went and took her fancy laptop (notebook) back to birmingham with her.
(fin).