Superman Revenge Squad

Yep, I'm playing a gig on Sunday - an all-dayer at the Windmill in Brixton - and Martin coming to play cello for the gig. Also playing are An Horse, Yngve & The Innocent and Milk Kan. And SRS is one first at 6. But get for for 5.30 so that you can get the free BBQ first... tickets are available from here:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/52958

We should be playing at least one new song - just got back from practicing it and it was sounding good; seems to be called "I’m ever so slightly spontaneous when it comes to a crisis" - it had a different working title for a while, but I think I'm going with this one... I started writing it a while back, but it seems to work a lot better with the cello on it, so I finally got all the lyrics written and I think its now ready for people to hear it.

I'm currently in the process of trying to write a song with more lyrics in it than any of my others, and I'm trying to actually make the song tell a complete story too. But we'll see if it works out! It's currently called "yeah, this house is haunted" and seems quite promising...

Anyway, see you on Sunday...

Hey - I just realised I haven't updated this blog/news bits for a month now, so haven't written about the lexapalooza all-dayer that I played - here's a picture of me playing it:

I nicked the picture from this blog, that features a review of the day:

http://tracksmonkeyswithlasers.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/lexapalooza-all-dayer-the-gaff-2006/

I played these songs, in this order:

Idiot Food

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

I’m afraid of flying

The Angriest Dog in the world

When Everyone’s dead

This is a happy song

Losing yourself to stadium rock

Been a private detective for seventeen months

Captain non-entity

Get yourself into the arms of drunken people

It was just me and the guitar again, as Martin and his cello couldn't make it. But it was good.

Yeah, I played twice this week with Martin on cello. And it went really well, I think.

We did an open mic slot at the Green Dragon on Tuesday, to try out the songs to a few friends before letting the general public in on them. And they seemed to like them okay.

It was a really good night actually:

Nick from cassettes played his new songs, which all came from an album about Beanos, the second hand record shop in croydon that has been around since 1973 apparently but is soon to be no more, and they were great. I have a copy of the album here, and the lyrics are brilliant - here’s a snippet “I packed a stack of old records in a tescos bag and I took a 109 into Croydon, some were mine, some were yours: once upon a time we called them ours”.

Then the Peryls played, and were good too: nice and harmonic in music and dark and deathly in content.

And last night we played at the Wilmington Arms near Farringdon – a Kick the Plug night – and we played last (suggesting, perhaps, that it was the first Superman Revenge Squad headlining slot, maybe?), and we did these songs, in this order:

Idiot Food

The Angriest Dog in the World

I’m Afraid of Flying

Losing Yourself to Stadium Rock

Captain Non-entity

I’m Gonna Go To Bed and When I Wake U pI’m Gonna Be Someone Else

We’re Here For Duration

Kendo Nagasaki

Before us were A-Line, who we liked, especially when the trumpet came out, and a swedish fellow called Emil Brynge, who was very handy with an acoustic guitar. And the Kick the Plug people are lovely, it has to be said.

I'm thinking of starting an e-mailing list - I thought that it might have been handy to start one before, so that I could have let people know that the new CD is ready, so I thought I'd start one now so I'm ready for the next one - so if you want to join it, please go to the contact bit on this site and send me a message saying something like "please put me on the srs mailing list" or something.

Cheers,

Ben

There's a nice review of "We're Here For Duration... We Hope!" here:

http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2009/05/squad-rotation.html

Oh, and a few people have ordered both CDs (the first and 2nd), so I've set up this link you can click on to order both and only pay postage for one of them:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5763528

Okay - I couldn't work out how to get a button up on this site for paypal, but if you click on the link below this seems to work - please click here to order a copy of the new CD, called "We're Here For Duration... We Hope!":

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5608299

Details of songs and artwork and stuff are on the posts below. But let me know if you want to know anything else about it!