Thursday 21st August 2008

Another centre spread in the Yorkshire Evening post. A genuine scoop. Two boons in this one aswell, a megaboon and the interboon. Watch as it pervades the folk of Leeds... Sorry that you can't read it from this scan, but it's all taken from the Minneapolis Megaboon anyway.... 

Wednesday 20th August 2008

This is the Jesus Peanut. Minnis found this incredible likeness of the hallowed deity staring at him out of a bag of KP dry roasted in a bar in Newcastle a few months back. He's been carrying it round his pocket ever since, just waiting for someone with a camera to take a snap and record the miraculous presentation in the annals of history..... Moments after this picture was taken, he ate it.

J thinks it looks more like Donny Osmond than Jesus, I thought it looked kind of like a lego version of Tom.... thoughts on a postcard...

Send me a message, it's been so long I've started to ferment...

July/August 

Pete’s blogs - they don’t come very often but when they do, there is much to imbibe. You lucky lucky folk…

 
The Vessels album came out today. Almost nine months after I started this page to follow our quest to Minneapolis to record it, and now it’s on the shop-shelves, like some kind of mega-sonic-pregnancy… 

The press has been mostly favourable and widespread (thanks to the tenacity of Cubendoo) which is ace. I’m not usually too fussed about reviews, but at this point in our mission, we need the good reviews so that shops will stock the CD. And yeah yeah yeah we're not in it for the money, it’s just that if it doesn’t sell we face certain ruin….

I’ve been saving the clippings for when I had a free moment to put them online, but I've left it so long that now to include them all would be like some kind of indulgent rampage, so I’ll limit it to as many as I can offset with other pictures of my days… 

The Rudd took the photo at the top of this review in Rocksound – although she’s not credited as having done so….. Sorry that you can't really read it, but I think they liked it...

I finally made it out into the sunshine. Three days wandering with my friends through a haze of revellers and music through the beautiful and baking surroundings of Cambridge at the Secret Garden Party…

I don’t really like the NME, although in fairness I haven’t read it for years, because I don’t really like it – so I’ve got no idea whether a good review from them is kudos or not? Useful all the same though….

You have no idea how happy it made me to establish this tremendous refuse divergence region under my kitchen worktop....

I used to read Kerrang every week when I was at school – to have been reviewed in it then would have been mind-blowing, let alone to have been furnished with four 'K's. Nowadays however, watching my friends grow babies seems much more mindblowing.....

Did I mention how brilliant Secret Garden party was…..

This review appeared in Plan B magazine – which is ace…. And I would read it all the time if I could afford it…

I played solo at the Moorfest last weekend. I’ve been playing as little as possible of late because of my ailing wrist, but if I hadn’t played, I couldn’t have gotten in to the festival for free and therefore at all, and I would have missed Garside’s new band ‘Big Wave’ who are ludicrously, ludicrously good. Cheers to Gav for sending me this pic…

This is a tremendous paradox. The Megaboon, from the Minneapolis quest, serialised in print in the Yorkshire evening post, and then scanned, and put back onto the megaboon.

Or maybe it’s not.

But either way it’s cool……

We performed as Johnny Cashless and the Tipton three at Hyde Park Unity Day this year, headling the Country tent - ‘Maggie’s Farm’. I didn’t get any pictures of the band, and I only got this one thanks to Irish Gav (Would you like some chocolate, it’s ex-pehhn-sive)

I did Cash, Seb played guitar, Minnis did bass, Stobb did drums, Becka was June Carter, and Tom got up at the end to be El Mariachi Boony Shoes on Ring of Fire. It was a massive pile of fun… And Gav did manage to get one snap of me and the MInnis together, which is ace... 

Plenty of other bnizzle has also happened this month, but maybe we should meet in real-time and I’ll tell you all about it, although I will leave you just one more review, as a reward for getting this far, this time a review of a show we did in London on our last tour, where the reviewer comes a little too close to exposing my shady past for my liking…..

Like Ben says, he spelled ‘queef’ wrong…..

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