To Douche Masters everywhere...
This record was recorded originally on September 11 in Holland, but not that sad September 11th. This was a fun one!! It was recorded where the Pooh Sticks and Beatle Hans i think, as well as some others in the Michel family of groops have recorded. At least the engineer is the same... I think, she may have moved there only recently... but i am sure that Michel was a Pooh holding "drum" Sticks on the day we recorded. I used his guitars(the one in the middle of his profile pic) and Leslie played world famous Cor who was in Beatle Hans's bass .Leslie is a cellist(or is it celloist?) that i asked to play bass. I said"hey, it's got four strings ,too. What's the big deal?" Apperently it wasn't a big deal. She learned all the songs in a day. We wrote Leslie Is A Noise Band after we first argued in a bar about the validity of "noise" .Not as an artform-wich it is- but as a form of music-wich it is not?!
On Top Of That Girl was written for Phillip(a.k.a. Beat-It)of the Kidnappers. I wanted to write a song like Under My Thumb for him cuz he's always frustrated by girls and so I did in a hotel in Madrid. Is that too namedroppy? or is there such a thing as "City Dropping"? I am also sure that there IS such a thing as "city droppings" and they are smelly and stick to shoes and asses unfortunate enough to meet them face to face(what?) Whatever i'm doing feels almost as gross but maybe it's interesting info?? You decide. I wrote Cool Kids for him as well in Daniel Bouche(Alien Snatch)'s dad's house in Uttergrupenbach at the kitchen table watching the German version of Jeopardy or something like that. It's on a Kiddnappers single that you all own,right? You'd go find all Kiddnappers releases ASAP if not the case! Here Come The Nice Boys was written because The Small Faces(my love love love) had Here Come The Nice and i wanted to do something similar because the name came from me telling Travis Ramin that this 45 i found sounded kind of like Sweet and kinda like the Faces and he said something like"you mean OUR band,The Sweet Faces!" and Sweet Faces were born.I changed the lyrics to that song after i found out Terry had started a band called The Nice Boys. I had not heard any songs from them and they had no records at the time. I just liked hearing that my friend was going to keep on rockin'. I'm a cheeseball. I know.Anyhoo! Nice Boys are what they called drug runners in the MOD scene of the 60's or so i am told. I'm not saying Terry & Co. are drug runners, but they do have long hair...and guitars...hmmm...bell bottoms...ok,you decide. I just think Terry is a Sweet Face and i can now say that i really love his band...ANNNDD!!! Now thanks to the Douche Master family, here we are, officially. Maybe we'll play a show someday.
featuring: A Place To Bury Strangers, Mayyors, TV Ghost, Talbot Tagora, Mutators, Thomas Function, Cheveu, Cat Party, Crash Normal, Tyvek, Movie Star Junkies, Lovvers, UV Race, Meercaz, XYX, Nice Face, The Drums, Juri & Elettra.
Hi guys! We have a brand new summer popcast up now at Popshifter magazine! Seventeen of our very favorite summer tunes, PLUS our newest recording "Summer's Gone"!
Catch a wave and surf on over to have a listen! Let us know what ya think!
"Mixing trippy sixties psychedelia with a bombastic, contemporary pop sound" Modern Works play the Psychedelic Shack at the Fishtank in Durham next Saturday December 1st. DJ Support comes from Brighton Beach and Tighten Ups very own Baz O'Neil who will be playing a fine selection of Mod/Northen Soul classics. Doors open at 8pm
We are overweight, but very sexy. We have considerable hair loss, but only on our heads. We look really good, from the right distance.
Finally, we are social status clingers, but are about as loyal as can be! Want to be our friend? We heart you!
(Hopefully, one recognizes our attempt at satire. We do really, really heart sweet faces though!)
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