Superman Revenge Squad

Hello, Practices have now started for the Superman Revenge Squad band gig. And it seems to be going quite well. It's the same band that I played with for my birthday gig four years ago: My brother Adam on drums, Gavin on accordion and piano, Jon on saxophone and Martin back on cello, and we're doing a mixture of old faves and a couple of brand new songs.

Dave Broadbent, the artist behind the cover of the Dead Crow Blues CD and the slowly coming dead crow blues graphic novel (and the Nosferatu D2 CD artwork too) has whipped up a poster for the gig.

Its at the Scream Lounge in South Croydon, and playing before us is the great cassettes, that I've played with a few times and really like (nick from cassettes and I were going to start a "misery rap" group at one point, maybe one day we will) and the William Nein Tea Party, who should be great too - I've played with William a few times as well, and he has some splendid songs.

Hello, It's been a while, but I've recently been running through Superman Revenge Squad songs again and enjoying playing them, and thought it might be time to do some more SRS stuff again. And so I've arranged another gig with the Superman Revenge Squad band that I played with on my birthday a few years ago (Martin on cello, my brother Adam on drums, Gavin on accordion and Jon on Saxaphone)- it'll be on 23rd August, in honour of my birthday a few days before, and will be at the Scream Lounge in Croydon. Practices are due to start soon... I'll let you know how they go. The plan at the moment is to do the gig then maybe try to record some of the songs with the whole band too. I've actually written a whole bunch of new songs in the time since I last did any SRS recording or gigging, so I might try to put a few of these in. Exciting stuff.

Jamie that runs the Audio Antihero record label asked me to write a bit about records I own. So I did, and its up on his website now if you fancy a read - somehow I didn't manage to mention my mass of Will Oldham albums... http://onlineantihero.blogspot.com/2012/02/look-at-me-i-own-records-12-ben-parker.html

I've been asked to play some records at the Audio Antihero birthday/Benjamin Shaw release show in London Bridge next week. On Friday 25th November, at the Miller (http://www.themiller.co.uk). So I am.

Yeah, This House Is Haunted - the play - went really well the other week. It was lovely seeing people act out the words I'd written. The Croydon Advertiser wrote a nice review of it on Friday: "for Ben Parker's first foray into play writing, it was a confident start with fast-paced dialoque".

A bit more non-superman revenge squad (but related) news. I recently wrote a play called "Yeah, this house is haunted" for the Breakfast Cat theatre company in Croydon, and they are putting it on for three nights after Halloween, as part of a double bill with Hammer Sandwich by Roberto Prestoni - here's the poster for it:

The story was obviously inspired by the song of the same name, from the Dead Crow Blues CD, but I've expanded and changed it quite a bit. Whilst it does feature a couple of ghosts, I don't think it'll be very ghostly. I'm looking forward to seeing people act it out.

You can get tickets from here:

For Monday:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=471078

For Tuesday:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=471079

For Wednesday:

http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=471080