4 Worms + 2 French boys = POP music. Here's the science bit..
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Dreamt my old school class and teachers stole my sheets of paper with private notes on, i went mad! Later in the dream i did some painting on a roof. Spent 45 mins writing a letter to the Council. FIGHT THE POWER!! I wanna grab them by the collar and shout at them "LEAVE ME ALONE!". Just let me be, everyone..well unless you're willing to do something for me that is. Enjoyed wearing my polo shirt collar up like Cantona, the polo shirt/sweatshirt/Cantona collar combo look is what i was mainly wearing '93-'96. Tried to organise our rented Homegame house. I like to think of myself as Rude dog, the other 9 are my dweebs!! I found out that my brother snuck a sound that i loved (that became known as 'kong') into one of the new OLO songs. I can't hear kong? KONG!??Scraps
Xmas list, item no.1
Look! Lady Gaga copied me! Gaga / Heinz .
Panda Bear talks about "darker" follow-up to Person Pitch.
An interview with James Yorkston + King Creosote.
Susan Boyle saying "hello people!" in a funny voice.
Soundtrack
Francois & Atlas Mountains - 'Plaine Inondable'
The Pictish Trail - 'Secret Soundz'
Verve - 'A Storm In Heaven'
Dexy's Midnight Runners - 'Searching For The Young Soul Rebels'
Wavves - 'Wavvves'
Girls - 'Album'
Why? - 'Eskimo Snow'
Talking Heads - 'Remain In Light'
English Bore
Animal Collective - 'Fall Be Kind'
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Boxing day!! Found a peanut in my pocket, penny crayon. I went to my Mum's allotment to dig up some LEEKS for dinner. Ha! yes this really did happen..like in 'The Good Life'. I am a top leek thief! Half moon was watching me..moon moon moon was my only witness! Was that a line in a song? It should be! I'll make that song then, the leek song. Was quite tired from the big leek dig so could'nt manage to do much more. How does Tony Robinson do it? I used the leeks in my big soup i cooked for the old folk. Leek, potato & bacon soup. A last crucial minute addition of garden peas really shook things up and gave it an edge, ha! Fantastic stuff! Soup! HELL YEAH!We got the mastered songs back which sound great! Thanks Rueban! Rueben or Rueban? He's a Fence Collective man i'm pretty sure. I've seen him kicking around with James Yorkston outside the Co-Op throwing stones at Coke cans and swearing at old ladies.
Watched 'School Of Saatchi' on TV, terrible. Reminded me of being at Uni doing fine art. Really made me feel ill. It needed to be MORE like X-factor in my opinion. It was neither clever or dumb, it sat right in the middle. Watched my 1st 'I'm a Celebrity' of the series on ITV2. They were trying to have a serious discussion about Jordan's exit. we really needed Paxman in the jungle!
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Pictish Trail blogged about our new songs.
Olly murrs! On 'Deal Or No Deal'. The sad thing is i actually remember watching this at the time now.
Wowowowowow! What a brilliant idea! King Creosote is a genius!
Soundtrack
Field Music - session on Marc Riley
T.Rex - 'The Slider'
Iggy Pop - 'The Idiot'
Brian Eno - 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)'
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Today felt like Christmas day.Loads of stuff from last night's dream came true today (including bloody badger guts all over my legs). I seriously believe i can see into the future through my dreams. Can't do Lotto though. Went to an 80 year old's birthday party. I ate 3 puddings and cheese and biscuits, i am now soo fat i have no neck. "Two!! two!! three!! one!! two!!" Ahh i only needed two more barley to win. We played a odd game called 'Pit' that i've never come across before. Basically it's just loads of people shouting numbers at each other and it's LOADS OF FUN! "THREE!! FOUR! ONE!!! PIT!!!"
Soundtrack
Collings & Herrin podcast 91.
Aphex Twin - 'Selected Ambient Works Vol II'
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Woke up with the song 'Knights In White Satin' in my head. My brother wrote this about me.. "The Simon Cowell trousers are getting higher,the teeth are getting whiter & your 'flat top' is taller and flatter. The next step is perhaps for me to find a way of dealing with you as the Cowell train is gaining momentum. Lord have mercy on us all."OLO songs...done! OLO artwork....done! ALL GOOD, ALL GOOD BABY!! Can't wait for this to come out now!! News on that soon.
Went to Hertford for a night out to celebrate (the above) with a mate. We watched the football and saw a ropey pub band who loved dry ice, TV theme tunes, and guitar solos just a bit too much. We tore up Dominos Pizza! They called the cops on us so we ran out, popped on our half shells and climbed down into the sewers with Splinter and the rest of the gang. Then we watched the final Jedward performance. From this point onwards i'm now OFFICIALLY AGAINST Jedward now they are out and not the underdogs anymore.
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I dreamt that i played horror film soundtracks in a supermarket on my old battered, out of tune guitar...and they sounded amazing!! Had my nan on the phone in the morning hinting heavily that she'd like the Susan Boyle album for xmas. "Only £8 from Amazon. Amazon is it? Did u see the Albert Hall on TV last night James? They were all there...Lily Allen, Shirley Bassey, Dizzee Rascals!". Another day, another load of blood boiling stress and anger on Google Wave. Pictish Trail just calmed me down. Its nice to talk to a real human after Google Wave. My Tippex skillz are off the hook!! Loads of Tippexing and blowing of Tippex, this is the reason why i have a blog..to tell you about 'the Friday i used Tippex'. Remember Tippex mouse!?? HA! Went out for dinner at the wine bar in the high street. I'd been in joggers all week, i tried to put jeans on, could'nt. The jeans are getting smaller, i CANT be getting fatter. This was gonna be the first time i'd been outside in 3 days. I brushed my teeth, sprayed some deoderant, shaved and headed out on 'the pull'!..with my Mum. "She's nice James!" "Awww...Mom! Stop!". Ate food, drank beer and had a nice time til my Brother hung up on me in a strop. Strangely enough, this time i didn't actually say ANYTHING wrong. Weird one that boy.Soundtrack
Beach Boys - 'Wild Honey' & 'Smiley Smile'
Girls - 'Album'
Phoenix - 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix'
Zomby - 'Where Were U In '92?
The Beatles - 'White Album'
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Zac Efron is made completely out of clay and melted down chess pieces..FACT! I'm sick of everyone going on about his chess face. I painted a swamp, not every day you do that is it? The previous night i dreamt Eminem died and i slept in his bed. Downloaded the new Animal Collective EP which is AWESOME! 'What Would I Want Sky' might just sneak in my top songs of the year (yes i'm thinking of my lists already). In fact i had a really great day of colourful music! (see list below). I even managed to listen to two albums called 'Gorilla' well, slightly different spellings. Who likes their record covers messy? Ours will be! Just spent the day cutting and glueing and moving things on photoshop. Used every flag in the world, i could'nt let any country down..although there is no English flag. Went a little mad and forgot to eat dinner.Scraps
Drunken Werewolf magazine tweet about OLO Worms.
Soundtrack
Salem - mix
Animal Collective - 'Fall Be Kind'
The Slits - 'Cut'
SFA - 'Guerilla'
Prince - 'Purple Rain'
Hot Chip - 'Coming On Strong'
M.I.A. - 'Arular'
The Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band - 'Gorilla'
Francois & The Atlas Mountains - 'Plaine Inondable'
Why? - 'Elephant Eyelash'
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Great news!! King Kenny loves our new song! That's King Creosote don't cha know! Well chuffed. We spent most of the day trying to decide if we were gonna go with 'The Elastic (WAIST or WASTE) Band'? I wanted 'Waste', always have, it was me who came up with the name in the first place for god's sake! It went to the deadlock so we called on the King again and he voted for 'Waste!'. Big win for Hankins! I got some good gloating in later when the others found out.Soundtrack
The Beta Band - 'The Beta Band' - my ALL TIME FAVOURITE ALBUM EVER!!
Boards Of Canada - 'Music Has The Right To Children' = heaven!
Freeze Puppy - 'Animation'
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We gave the new songs to Pictish Trail and he replied: "it's like 'Come Together' Primal Scream meets Apache Indian".A very nice sunny day in Bunto so i went for a drive then later ate a Mars bar. 2 Mars bars in fact! Got called a 'egocentric psychopath' on Facebook. Watched the new Beyonce video with Gaga. Gaga looks more weird than normal cos she actually looks normal! Beyonce is still a big lady. Felt a bit down in the dumps about myself and so on (boring) then just as i was beginning to feel better and began climbing my way out of the pit of doom i found a Hollyoaks hunks calendar on top of my wardrobe..oh jeeez!! "put those six packs away boys before i cut my wrists!"...or i 'll cut you! ahhh, i stumbled across an idea! I turned to Tony Hutchinson and took the scissors to his muscles and began to cut circles. These circles would go on to form part of the artwork for the new OLO songs. Waste not want not, or..waist not want not? Only OLO's will get that bad joke. The song is about kinda about men's weight issues so it worked out perfectly in the end. The calendar was meant to be found on this day at that precise moment. Thanks God! I worked out who the calendar belonged to. She thought she had moved all her stuff out the room...how could you forget Tony! Later i had a random thought 9from God?) to shave my head. I stuck a thing up on Facebook to let friends vote if i should or not and of course they voted YES. I was gonna give it a go myself but my Mum came to the rescue and did a decent job until near the end where she thought she'd leave her mark by digging the clippers in giving me a comedy bald patch. Nice. I stuck some gel in and styled a Jedward for the evening. There was a time when i cared about my hair, that time has gone. I ended up using my freshly cut hair in the artwork too. I glued it to the photocopies of my feet to make hairy feet.
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Excellent video filmed at the Fence Halloween party.
Top bloke!
Soundtrack
Nirvana - 'Live @ Reading '92'
Isaac Hayes - 'To Be Continued'
Broadcast - 'Tender Buttons' - forgot how much i love this album.
Beastie Boys - 'Check Your Head'
Pavement - 'Crooken Rain, Crooken Rain'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Fever To Tell'
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Set off at 6am to drive back to Bunto. It was kinda fun being up at that hour. There was no one about at all..apart from all the early morning ghosts and foxes. I stopped off for a sausage sandwich and Skips and ate them in an empty car park like Alan Partridge. Took a wrong turn somehow and ended up in central London queueing to get in during rush hour and then queueing to get out. I had to stop in Hertford and used the walk from the car park to listen to a mixdown of one of our new songs, ahh i was soo pleased with it! I stood and watched a man (doing my old job) cleaning a function room in the town hall where i used to work when i was 18. I imagined my 18 year old self listening to the song while hoovering the carpet and tried to think what i would have thought of it. As i walked through our front door and into the kitchen 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart' was playing at full volume! What a welcome home! I was soo shattered i could barely mumble the words.."once upon a time i was falling apart, now i'm always falling in love" ah no, that's The Beta Band version, ha, i always get them mixed up. Steve Mason's right though, the lyrics work better that way round. Spent some time correcting the mistakes in the magazine piece that was written about us. Sneezed and split my lip again! I came up with a really great ending to one of the new songs but got over ruled. I know i'm right, i'll leave it for a while and let the others catch up.Scraps
Next year's Fence Homegame dates.
OLO Radio gets blogged by MC Quake.
Soundtrack
King Creosote - 'Psalm Clerk'
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The big news story on Saturday 14th November 2009 was that Bruce Forsyth had the flu.
I'll just leave a gap there.
I'll just leave a gap there.
I had a pretty scary drive to Bristol in my Grandad's car in the wind and rain. I had an iced bun on the passenger seat to keep me safe though. Bought a new phone to replace my old one that's now decided to not show me what's on it's screen. I bought the cheapest piece of crap i could, which turned out to be the crappiest piece of cheap. I hate it! *MASSIVE Christmas hint* I'd love an iphone. I FINALLY collected the last of my Bristol belongings (known as 'crap corner' even now when there is no corner. Even now all the stuff is here in the house, in the loft it's still 'crap corner'). I was amazed how i managed to squeeze everything into the tiny car boot. I even got my old Subbuteo astro pitch in there! I really enjoyed driving round Bristol at night with all the Christmas lights up and all the Saturday night tarts stumbling about. I had the amazing new Hyperdub '5' comp & Hudson Mohawke album on full whack. It was COSMIC! like the film 'Tron'..."all because of cosmic driiiiiver!". Fish & Chip supper and X-Factor in the evening (i'm soo normal!). Found a DIME BAR! Hav'nt had a Dime Bar in years! yeah i remember why now.
Sunday was to be the last day of recording for the new OLO songs (news on those songs will be posted later in the week). It was the first day in our brilliant new practice room. Had a great time and we made big steps towards finishing the two songs. We started at 8am and did'nt finish til 6pm, then we moved onto The Crystal Maze (my old flat) where we continued til 1am with just a short break for a Domino's Pizza & few tins of Stella. It's quite a stressful task this music game. Highlight of the day was when we all recorded our 'Sister Act 2' style backing vocal.."SWAMP THING!!!!!".
Soundtrack
Hyperdub - '5' Compilation
Hudson Mohawke - 'Butter'
Wild Beasts - 'Two Dancers'
OLO Worms - 'Back From England'
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Got some OLO tour dates through, can't say where or when they are but just keep late Jan 2010 free. I recorded the sound of the Boot Camp swamp (pond) for one of our songs. Watched another 'Curb' from the new series..soooo funny! Probably one of the best ever! "Someone threw my blackberry in the ocean!!" "I date the disabled!". I'm behind now, i think i've got 3 to catch up on. A plasterer called in at the house. He talked to me about punk, then Joy Division, then New Order, then his phone started ringing and i got to finish my day. Spend time thinking bout OLO YISO digital packs, physical packs, the out takes & mixtapes. You probably don't know what i'm on about, you will soon, i'll bore you to DEATH! Ate an ICED BUN for pudding and was told "you're out of control!" Raaahahahahahahahhahahahaha!! Really?? Watched Sarah from Girls Aloud on Jonathan Ross, it was like watching a moth drowning in cold cup of tea.Soundtrack
Gary Numan - 'Replicas'
Velvet Underground - 'Velvet Underground & Nico'
Half Man Half Biscuit - 'Back In The D.H.S.S'
The Beatles - 'White Album'
Joy Orbison - M.A.Hobbs mix
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