Anything creative that sparks tangents. Writing in any shape or form, comedy, artwork be it traditional, sculp or graffiti, music whatever the genre, film, literature, djing or vjing and a degree of self sufficiency
Music
Sher Khan, Alfonzo, Myagi, William Douglas and the Wheel, Infinite Spark, Figure 5, The Wheel, Charlotte with Robots, Lucy Styles, Delta Row, Fishcake, The L.P, Funkdub, Tony Bear, The Time, Real Crazy Apartment, Big Si, The Invisible Wires, The Staggers all and more available on myspace.co.uk/bandsname. On a more commercial level we apprecciate The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Al Green, Kenny Burrell, Stevie Wonder, Paul Weller, The Charlatans, The Kings of Leon, Broken Social Scene, I am Kloot, The Electric Soft Parade, The Proclaimers, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Goldfrapp, Jet,The Fratelis, Mr Scruff, FC Kahuna, Crazy Penis...
Movies
The Aristocrats, The Motorcycle Diaries, Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Man Bites Dog, La Haine, The Lord of the Rings, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, Ferris Beullers(?) Day Off, The Goonies, Clockwork Orange, The Empire Strikes Back, The Corporation. Too many more to mention...
Television
throw away your television
Books
the shortlist right now is; Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, The Outsider by Albert Camus, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Dummy Waiter by Harold Pinter, Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson by Hunter S. Thompson, 17 Dead Englishmen by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Rober Tressel and Junky by Willian Burroughs
Heroes
Jon Wilmot the Earl of Rochester, Satirist, drunkard, libertine.
Robert Burns, bard, drunkard, fornicator.
George Orwell, writer, critic, literary genius.
Bill Hicks, comedian, lover of humanity, party beast.
Ewan Mcgregor, actor from trainspotting and new Obi-Wan.
Alexander Trocchi, one of first beatnick writers from scotland.
Ivor Cutlor for pure strangeness.
Eddie Izzard surrealist genius, the executive transvestite.
Billy Conolly finest scots comedian of his generation.
David Icke, just wish we could get our skulls around his theories.
More to be added...
Greetings and salutations! We were an indie type mag with no corporate ties whatsoever. That left us to enjoy being unshackled in terms of what we printed, published, listened to and promoted. However that nasty phantom the tax man halted proceedings and so we stopped being a mag and have now become promotions/events managers. We help manage and arrange tours with Miyagi, Andy Hickie and The Merry Maidens, Heal the Last Stand, Chris Ingram and The Loose Kites alongside organising and managing regional and national gigs/tours and arts events. Come April 2009 we will be on our 12th tour in as many months and for the first time we are going to Ireland with a selection of the aforementioned bands.
From our base in Chester we promote local regional and national talent. We seek out artists, musicians, poets, writers, cartoonists, dj's, vj's, critics and wish to help others find an audience, a platform or just get their talent recognised. We specialize in events and gigs and will put on jamborees everywhere and anywhere. From your living-room to your shed, from your wedding to your birthday. We have an immense contact network all over the United Kingdom and can literally fix you up with your cultural needs where ever you reside.
We have been helped immensly by Dr Hermans, Rainforest, Alexanders Jazz Cafe, City Bar, Chester University, The Frog and Nightingale, Chester Gateway Theatre, Pyramid @ Parrhall in Warrington, Telfords Warehouse, Oxfam in chester and wrexham, Central station in Wrexham, Debees in Winsford, Avalanche Records, Fopp Edinburgh, all of whom have helped promote or sponsor us in some way shape or form.
When we get our new magazine on the road we will let you all in on it as we will be looking for creative input. It WILL be in black and white, be creative writing only, have NO adverts and will cost you NOTHING, thats right, nada, gratis, free.
I the past we have been lucky to hold bonanza interviews with kind bands such as Badly Drawn Boy, Little Barrie, Millburn, The Pigeon Detectives, Akira The Don, The Rohypsters, Real Crazy Apartment, Alfonzo, The Loose Kites and Pama International.
Bands or acts who we have booked for events in the past four years include Go Faster, The Scratch Perverts, The Loungs, The Indelicates, Fight Fight Fight, Death Of A Party, Printscreen, The Loose Kites, Everything is Now, Cult 45, Funk Dub, Charlotte With Robots, Alfonzo, Fox Gang, Sprouting Twigs, Fran and Josh, Matt Stott, Two Base Hit, Asbos, The Drifting Flames, Ego King, The Tommys, My Amiga, Carley Square, Real Crazy Apartment, Married To The Sea, University Of The King, Dance Off, Dave Greenald, Andy Hickie, Neal Thomson, Gintis, The Time, Hero Project, The Loving Cup, Real Exit, Aspen Grove, Lucy Styles, Beehive Project, Out From Animals, The Fountains, Sound Stripe, Joe Rybicki, The Snowball Effect, Caro Snatch, The Irie, The Dukes Of Portland, The Roosters, Mirrorball, The Stops, Super Nought, The L.P., The Invisible Wires The Cosmonaughts, The Prestige, The Time, Heal The Last Stand and the immense Miyagi...
We have been lucky so far in that most people of an artistic inclination have been encouraging and have helped push things onto another level. We cannot guarantee funds but what we lack in money we make up with our enthusiasm to help every cause. If there is anything whatsoever you or yours feel can do to help or indeed need help with just get involved. If your music needs reviews, links to a site, pics published online, or wish to commit an article, story, poem or would like to perform at SiliconeFish Night just email via myspace. Failing that just stick us on the friendly fire list we will return the favour.
Watch out for further upcoming events posted over this site as we begin the task of branching out and staging ever more gigs in and around a town near you. Please forward any work, creative writing, photos, music, or submissions to mrmolai@hotmail.com and we will be happy to publish in the next edition due soon.
TAKE IT EASY, WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW
ONE LAST THOUGHT...here's a sample of poetry to whet the appetite...
I lost my love by the Water of Leith
Where moonlight shone upon beautiful teeth.
Where the dam was built and water flowed
Where we held each other by feel
I held her close and kissed her brow
Where ring on finger I placed by kneel.
I gave my heart to mountain spring
Where burn becomes river
We drank in the dark and kissed by touch
Where the scent of skin makes quiver
I held her strong and smelled her hair
Where hands made noughts of shiver
I held my love where salt became clear
Where sea swam up the stream
Where salmon leap and trout do breed
Where young love starts to dream
I caressed her stomach made her sleep
Where boys use nets to glean
I awoke to sirens’ calls and sailors lament
Where the meandering river flows
Where I left my boy-child virgin scent
Where the mermaids and Vikings go
I kissed her brow and left her spent
Where we skimmed flint across the shores
Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who has the wish to write, criticise, play music, or needs help with artistic endeavors. Failing that just get in touch for a beer, smoke, bet on the whippets or discussion about the various merits of mullet in the england 1990 world cup squad or side burns in the scottish 1978 world cup squad
It's the video for our new single, "BRIGITTE BARDOT".
It's from our new album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN", and it's available exclusively from iTunes and CDBaby.com The single is starting to get airplay all over the place including Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM in L.A. , and it just showed up on the NME's website!
You can download both the single and the album today by clicking here:
Hi there we're having a launch for our album, 'The Strange Cargo Cult of The Bottletop Millionaires' on Saturday the 18th April at St Brides. Also playing are: 'Sparkwood and 21', 'Miyagi', 'Dan Cash and The Band of Ghosts' and 'Rebecca Joy Sharp'. All for only £3
And if that's not enough for a credit crunch night out - its bring your own booze!! Hope to see you.
The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
Hello, thought you may like to take a look at this, our latest tour diary video entry. I'ts quite festive and has a bald hairy man dancing in a wedding dress...
Also, please stop by our profile and let us know what you think of our new tune, Zeus!
it's always good to keep in contact, of course. and thankyou.. apparently i look like cain. i love yours and blaise's company. and again, thankyou for accomadating us. (: how are you? x
it's always good to keep in contact, of course. and thankyou.. apparently i look like cain. i love yours and blaise's company. and again, thankyou for accomadating us. (: how are you? x
HINT [Tru Thoughts/Ninja Tune] @ FUNKMODE, OLD SWAN, WREXHAM, FRIDAY 27th JUNE 2008
"Filled to the brim with genius, forward thinking awkward dance music." - Mr. Scruff
"Your Tremmuh tune is LARGE! Mashed up Sao Paolo last week then Rio too… And absolutely tore the room in half when I played it at Co-Op Easter Spesh a few weeks back. Instant rewind. Big!" - Benji B (1xtra)
“…pushing the boundaries once again…Hint is one of the most creative and perhaps unsung producers around. Check this boy out!” - Straight No Chaser (magazine)
"At The Dance is a corker!" - DJ Andy Smith (Portishead / Dynamo Productions)
hey chris - just to say thanks again for a tidy little weekend of musical mayhem. back to work with a clunk but it was all worth it... amazing times. euan
The incredible Akira the Don will blow minds and burn soles at Telfords Warehouse in Chester, *THIS* Friday night.
Akira is currently working on his second album with famed Yankee producer Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Robbie Williams), and spent the past year writing songs, making mixtapes, cartoons, and strange celebrity fans (Alex James, Andy Bell, Konnie Huq) incurring the wrath of Kim Deal, and producing songs for people, including a top 40 hit for Lethal Bizzle with the Clash sampling Police On My Back. And some remixes. Gonzales liked his Working Together remix so much he asked Akira to come and perform it with him at the ICA. His music has been featured in movies both big (My Super Ex Girlfriend) and small (Finding Diego) and on TV shows both British (Hollyoaks) and American (CSI), but his proudest achievement is probably still supporting Jim Bob from Carter USM at the Islington Academy.
His second album will be out in the Autumn.
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So, join us for a night of eclecticity and not-to-be-missed entertainment at Telfords Warehouse, Chester on Friday 20th June 2008 from 8pm - 2am. *FREE* before 9pm & £4 afterwards.
See my Pet Sounds page for details of the kind of great tunes that I will be playing before & after Akira.
Don't miss out on seeing Kings of the Infidels live on their mini tour from the 11th May with their new Singer and Guitarist Mr. Sean Seery (Ex Part of the Queue)!!!!
Sun 11th - The Cavern Club, 8 - 10 Mathew Sreet, Liverpool 8PM
Wed 14th - Trash, 9a Albion Street, Leeds 8PM
Thurs 15th - Buffalo Bar, 11 Windsor Place, Cardiff 8PM (support band needed)
Sat 17th - The Castle, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester 8PM (support band needed)
Fri 23rd - The Oakdale, Oakdale Road, Nottingham 8PM
Sun 25th - Harrys Bar (Crosby Music Festival), Litherland, Liverpool 1:45PM