Superman Revenge Squad

There's an interview with me on the Music Fix website, which can be found here:

http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content/feature/8909/superman-revenge-squad-interview.html

I played at the Green Dragon in Croydon again last night. Just me again. Played after Frivolous Laura, who was good. Strangely, the guy that described me as a lyrical Ninja on his blog was there, and he wrote about it on his site - which is here:

http://www.chaosbeforepredictability.com/2010/02/lyrical-ninja-strike-back.html

And I played these songs, in this order:

Gonna go to bed and when I wake up I'm gonna be someone else

A Good Idea

I'm Ever So Slightly Spontaneous When it Comes to a Crisis

Supersad Morgan

the access self-storage

an old man flicking through a pornographic magazine

the summer we finally cut our hair

I'm Afraid Of Flying

this is a happy song

get yourself into the arms of drunken people.

And here's a picture of me playing it, taken by Tim...

I enjoyed the gig in Bethnal Green last night - it was in a vegan cafe and I got a free meal, which was a lovely start to the evening. And I managed to play a new song, called "an old man flicking through a pornographic magazine" - which I'd had the start to for ages but hadn't managed to finish until the night before the gig when I forced myself to have something new to play. Martin couldn't make the gig in the end, so I was back to having the stage to myself, and I played these songs, in this order:

Idiot Food

Gonna go to bed and when I wake up I'm gonna be someone else

I'm ever so slightly spontaneous

When everyone's dead

the access self-storage

an old man flicking through a pornographic magazine

the summer we finally cut our hair

this is a happy song

been a private detective for 17 months

get yourself into the arms of drunken people.

In other news, I noticed in a review of the Nosferatu D2 album on the internet that someone has called me a "lyrical ninja", which is very exciting indeed.

Hello there. Again, I’ve found I’ve neglected to update the site for a few weeks. But here’s a little update for you…

The gig is Oxford last week was really nice - got to have a good chat with the great MJ Hibbett after I played (which is slightly documented on his blog, which is updated much more frequently than my site: http://www.mjhibbett.net/2009/12/final-gig-of-year.html), and I found this nice review of my set on the OxfordBands.com website: "Superman Revenge Squad turned out to be equally adept verbally, but this was laughter in the dark. SRS is a nonchalantly talented acoustic guitarist, who seems to be permanently tormented by the threat of the imminent revelation of his own mediocrity. His targets are sometimes a bit soft (stadium rock is indeed heartless, artificial and stupid, but it needs no Superman to tell us this), but when he gets it right he can be both funny and moving. In one song, the sounds of a masturbating teenager heard through the walls of a suburban semi is transmogrified by a father’s imagination into the wailing of a dragon, desperate to return to its proper dimension. This is sung with a Richard Walters-like seriousness, so that our response is one of humane sadness, rather than ribald laughter... SRS was able to squeeze good wine out of the bitterest of grapes"

I've had some of my stuff appear in people end of the year lists, which is always really nice:

Sweeping the nation included We're Here for Duration in their tracks of the year:

http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2009/12/tracks-of-our-year-iv.html

Gareth from Los Campesinos! put the Nosferatu D2 album at number 2 in his best of 2009 list (ND2 is the band I used to be in with my brother a few years ago - the album we recorded was released this year by a record label called Audio Antihero - you can order the CD from here is you're interested:http://audioantihero.com/ShopND2.htm):

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7740-guest-list-best-of-2009/2/

And The Sound of The Ladies includes the first SRS album in his albums of the decade:

http://www.thesoundoftheladies.com/2009/12/23/my-10-albums-of-the-decade/

Plans for 2010: There are a few gigs coming up in January and February, but the plan at the moment seems to be to concentrate on getting new songs written, so me and Martin are gonna try to not arrange too many gigs for a while after these two - hopefully there will be an EP released in the first half of the year, with a record label helping us to ‘release’ it in some way or form; the working title is ‘the Dead Crow Blues’ EP it it‘ll have five new songs on it. - but more news on this when I have some. And then, once the EP is recorded and released we’ll be up for doing some gigs again. Hey, maybe even a string of gigs together or something. Oh, and I want to record a live album, so we’ll have to be playing gigs then for that (working title at the moment is “pathetic clowns in apathetic towns“ but, obviously, it‘s quite early days on this! The only thing I know is that I want a title that’s like the opposite to the title Ted Nugent gave to his “Intensities in 10 cities“ live album).

'ello,

Here's the poster for the gig on Saturday in Brighton - do come along if you're in that part of the world - we're on first at five to eight apparenty...

We played versions of "22 Acacia Avenue" and "Fear of the dark" at the Iron Maiden tribute night at the Black Sheep Bar in Croydon this week - and here's some youtube footage of it: