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).