Winter Wonder Band… ahem well!!!

A frozen internet machine here has made us be a little slack on the blogging front last week…. but warm up our hands with some naughty internet viewing we did and here we are….. With double digit sub-zeros and wearing of double layers of underpants we really did think the man above was trying to rewrite historical events and rid the earth of musical fat cats and bullshit pedallers… well yeah uno…. but no, oh no, not even freezing the Verruca that is Snow Patrol has worked (I checked on the Google and they did not fall off!!!)

The walk to the cabin was a cold one…. but walk we did with Cup-a-Soup in hand…

The old graveyard nextdoor has had no grandiose gothic influence on us – we think or hope or pray:)….. but we feel we may at least be entertaining some ghouls, ghosts and hereos that are buried in our outdoor arena each night we rattle our tunes into the darkness!!!

…. ok so enough of the nothing blog and on with our planning of world domination here….. so like the “Modern Band” of today Jon and my good self will be setting aside “downtime to strategically plan income revenues and marketing streams and good old fashioned Music Geographic Markets…. so that the next time the cold snapple comes we can bottle it and live like the kings of the Lee Valley in house below!!!!!….. ”

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Top 10 Worst Songs of the Decade

Whilst sitting here, pondering the common woes of my musical brethren, i look back over the past decade and consider compiling a Top 10 Worst Songs of the Decade list….and I fantasize about the many ways I could perform a lobotomy on Paris Hilton….or eye gouging James Blunt…or both….As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!…but those pictures were just that; pictures….and no more…vague urges to dispel the hate and disappointment…to sooth the seething rage…

so i turn my attention to the last decade in music knowing full well it came at a cultural price…common denominator stuffs of dreams we were given…and like the McDonald starved jumpy monkeys that we are…we lapped it up…compromised everywhere…any lick, spit or shred of intellect discouraged…frowned upon….big frowns…lone voices of rebellion…lost in the chasm of the gaping cunt that is simon cowells frown…or the potato face lifting louis walsh…but even they know know no better…thats TV…thats entertainment…surely…thats not music…surely if I propped her up just right I could still get my index finger through Blunts eye?

no…surely I cant vent my anger there….I must go further…wider…the bigger picture….what I found was of no real consequence…what I found was a tiny feces stained wall…and scribed there in handwriting “hey guys, if we throw enough shit against the wall, guess what? it doesnt collapse”…and you know what? it never does…no barrage of shit music will ever bring the whole shit house down…theres plenty of music to sooth the seething rage and caress our collective lobes…plenty…its just that you wont find it in this here blog…here you will find sure signs of the apocalypse…and it aint pretty…..read henceforth into the black hole that is “The Top 10 Worst Songs of the Decade”…..the list is endless to be honest…its just…you gots to compile a list…as was..is now…ever shall be..amen..

…but isnt it fun to list things?
…in top 10 format?
…cmon…were all just McDonald starved jumpy monkies at the end of it…have a gander…

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1. Paris Hilton – “Stars Are Blind”

…and UB40 were pissed off

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2. James Blunt – “You’re Beautiful”

never getting on a train with this guy again…

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3. Tila Tequila – “I Love U”

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Bad Porn, Badder Music

we had a feeling…to put some new music here…..bad porn, badder music…badder in a michael jackson kind of a way…that sort of thing…it makes perfect sense to us….”All My Honey” is a new one…the one you are about to hear….we recorded this in the cabin late in the night….good thing for us James’s granny is deaf in one ear and cant hear in the other…because if she could muster some aural ability she would no doubt come knocking on the door and inform us that we are, despite our unwavering confidence in ourselves, shit….nevertheless….for your sins….ever faithful and dear listener….abandon all hope ye who listen here

Download All My Honey here…

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Things to throw out in 2010

Yes yes yes, that time of the year has rolled around, where everyone feels a little older and wiser and of course….. eloquently rounder!! Here in the Lee Valley a fresh new start to the year has beckoned us to throw away the trends and BS of the last decade and conjure up some new ideals and BS for the coming one….. oh where to start….

1. Underpants

Nope dont think so… with this cold spell here in the forest… these luxury items will be praised and blessed!!!

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Top 10 Songs Of The Decade

before you disagree with everything that is about to be said spare a thought about how difficult it is to compile these god forsaken top 10s…it aint easy i can tell thee…if you like your music a bit raw then you may like this list…

the past decade is awash with the usual company led dreck that the music industry likes to inject us with…daily and anally…the kind of safe drivel your grandmother can tap her arthritis ridden feet to…but the good always prevails…not in the mainstream so much but its there…like my grandmother always said “I cant tap my arthritis ridden feet to Radioheads “Pyramid Song”…to which my reply was always the same “thats because its in 16/8 time Nan…no one can tap their feet to 16/8″

1. TV on the Radio — “Wolf Like Me”

much hype…and sometimes…just sometimes its true

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masturbate or wikipedia?

Ischtock

how goes it? and a happy new year! yipeee! headlong go we into the apocalypse…and what have we been doing you might offhandedly ask as you flick through the universe of tinternet…one hand furiously pumping your sexual organs in between bouts of guilt and loneliness and educational trips to Wikipedia…we have been doing nothing…and damn proud of it…and we may continue to do nothing as long as it takes us…

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Top 10 T-Shirts that won’t get you sex

everyone is irishhow do fair classmates…how goes thine good selves…all is well with James and meself …still huddled in a cabin in this god forsaken forest…around a stone fireplace watching bony branches lash the windows and caress the roof…nature is evil…(but no M. Night Shyamalan…you cant shoot that visually)……still wretched and ragged paupers are we with nary a penny to scratch together for cheese toasties….but still fight left in us to bring ye good people plenty of tunes and hilarity ridden intellectually down sizing blogs….

FIRST UP: wed like to thank everyone who purchased their very own Class of 1984 record…we hope ye open with delight and spin endlessly until transparent…we do appreciate yer patronage…we can now finally afford that tire iron to raise our bums up from the ground and prevent bleeding piles…thats rock and roll baby…now heres your daily enema…..and just a reminder we still have some 7 inch left if ye want to get your hands on them…were only doing a limited run and prob wont press again..so get to the shop before midnight dear people Read More »

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The Spraoi Festival Waterford

how do folks…yours faithfully, Class of 1984, are playing in Waterford this Saturday 1st of August for the annual SPRAOI FESTIVAL….your daring twosome shall don short pants and cap and take to the PLAZA STAGE at 7pm sharpish..down by the quay….amazing festival…started way back in 93..”Spraoi” is an old Gaelic word meaning “celebrate” or “party”…and party we shall….in the towns and in the streets…so come on down if you please and wel get drunk and make some noise together…refreshments shall be served in the form of champaign from the bellybuttons of thai shemales where available

DATE: 1 Aug 2009
TIME: 7 pm
VENUE: WVW PLAZA, THE QUAY, WATERFORD

see yall good selves this saturday in Waterford!

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TOP 10 WORST DUETS…EVER

good things come in twos…handcuffs, windshield wipers, crutches,kidneys, class of 1984…..right, cheeky enough to include ourselves in there….but hey its our blog after all….good things come in twos and when in relation to the dreaded duet one has 2 options…shit or bust…more oft its bust…..the duet lends itself to too much corn, cheese and just plain silliness…here’s a wee compilation of my TOP 10 WORST DUETS…EVER…compiled from a such a wealth of salty unadulterated balls i feel i may have to shower after finishing it…

1. You Shook Me All Night Long – Celine Dion and Anastacia

anyone who follows my blog will know that this song has appeared on more than one list…this is embarrassing stuff…air guitar in heels is wrong…air guitar in anything but your underpants and white socks is wrong….and the idea of celine dion in underpants and white socks might driveyou insane

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TOP 10 THINGIES OF INTEREST

to us today…….today, today…today is a good day….last night got into bed before 12…have been reading Bram Stockers Dracula before lights out…damn fine good reading…cant get that idea of Keanu Reeves as Johnathon Harker out of my head though…”do you wish me to stay so long?” no keanu…get off the screen before Gary Oldman digests the scenery and begins to chew on you…christ he was bad in that film…in fact that film was a hastily selected bag of pick an mix…but i still love it….and I am loving the book even more so…

on the CO84 front…we are patiently awaiting the arrival of some very special vinyl and shall be dispensing quite soon…got the test prints back from Amsterdam and tis sounding joyous twisted metal…more stuff being printed in London…its geographically complicated what we are doing…but soon we shall have something nice for you to spin on yer turntables of inject into yer ipodricks…soon, soon

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