Posters done for Organ Octet/Jodi Cave/Tom Hall

back from printing posters for the show next month at cafe oto.  2 colours worked out a treat!

listening to jodi cave’s new pop band ‘fur hood’ - brilliantly joyful, happily glasgow, summery good times… listen here: www.myspace.com/furhood

tenniscoats postscript

Tenniscoats in Brighton / Photo by Greg Neate

Thanks to everyone who came out and saw Tenniscoats play across the UK and everyone who made the shows possible…

Saya and Ueno had a grand time and hopefully we can get them back here for more shows next year.  In the meantime, they’ll be joining Tetsuya Umeda at Cafe Oto on the 28th of June and playing together with The Pastels on a short tour in September including a spot at the Moseley Folk Festival.

noriko/english/chantler back in stock…

I’ve got a few copies of Tujiko Noriko / Lawrence English / John Chantler - ‘U’ back in stock here if anyone is after a copy.

Cheers,

John.

drums

just done a bit of work on the ol’ drums. have retrofitted the 14″ tom with some floor tom legs, fixed up a broken bass drum lug and re-skinned the front of it.  tis sounding good!

Tenniscoats - Glasgow, Mono

click the image to see a big version….

The Balky Mule - Live in London (Video)

ok, this is pretty much all of the video… only 1 more to go after these…

Dustbath Birds
Jisaboke
Ant learning
Wireless
Jupiter

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The Balky Mule in South London

Flyer for The Balky Mule - Half Moon

more info here.

The Balky Mule

I’m going on tour next week playing drums for The Balky Mule. Should be much fun.  If you haven’t heard it you should check out The Length of the Rail n FatCat.  Its a lovely bunch of songs with some fantastic home-style production - hushed drums, mono-synth and lo-fi sprawl.  i dig it big time so its super fun to be going out and about playing the songs.

Dates are:

  • Sunday 03 Union Chapel Bar, London
  • Tuesday 05 The Wheatsheaf, Oxford (w/ Ute)
  • Wednesday 06 The Rainbow, Birmingham Presented by Black Forest Audio (w/ Walt Shaw)
  • Thursday 07 The Shakespeare, Sheffield
  • Friday 08 The Common Place, Leeds (w/ Rosie Taylor Project and Model Warships)
  • Saturday 09 The End, Newcastle (w/ Michael Marwood and Balao)
  • Sunday 10 The Captain’s Rest, Glasgow w/ Over The Wall
  • Monday 11 The Bowery, Edinburgh (w/ Over The Wall)
  • Wednesday 13 Half Moon Herne Hill, London
  • Thursday 14 The Water Margin, Brighton FatCat night @ The Great Escape w/ The Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Brakes
  • Friday 15 3B’s, Reading [Free show]

new modules!

these should be en route in the next few days…  awesome.  can’t wait to run the ‘two organs’ piece i’m working on through the wavefolder.

making good progress with my solo record. will probably be six pieces all up.

Tenniscoats are coming!!!

01/06/09 London, Café OTO [buy tickets] w/ The Balky Mule + Xu Shaoyang
02/06/09 Bristol, The Cube w/ I Know I Have No Collar + Two.Seconds.Per.Sonar
03/06/09 Birmingham, The Flapper [buy tickets] w/ Arc Vel + Robots vs Dinosaurs DJs
04/06/09 Glasgow, Mono w/ Richard Youngs + Apples of Energy
06/06/09 London, Café OTO [buy tickets] w/ Dale Berning + Hiraki Sawa + Duke Garwood
07/06/09 Brighton, Prince Albert w/ Hind Ear + Jacob’s Stories

[click here to buy a 2 concert pass for both London events]