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TIs this music?"Ex-men, divine intervention"
TDaily Record"Underworld after six pints of mild"
TThe Sunday Times"Sort of swing-beat with a little pop sensibility" - that really what I said?
TGill Mills"We are loving this at BBC Radio Scotland headquarters"
TVic Galloway, Radio 1"I'd rather live out the rest of my days high on skag than allow The Ex-men to sully my senses ever again"
TThe ListTop 5 albums of the monthANDAdam and Joe spoofing avant-garde pomposity
TSkinny"Not sure how the references to jism and Tracy Emin's bush would go down with the teatime millions"
TMetro"Acclaimed DIY videos"
TTom Robinson, 6music
"...an Art Brut playing Parklife aesthetic..." Artrocker
We're a two-piece, speaking, electronic thing...
Piece one: Matt Green (The Tall Boy, Juno, Boyracer)
Piece two: Jack Sims
Here's our video for 'The Curator'. Its been getting some play both sides of the channel – you can even buy the video on the Mixmash Dance and Indie compilations. It's been shown on BritHits (Sky) and VITV, MCM (France & Belgium), Virgin 17! Hell yeah! With that little muppet appearing...(the work of Glasgow pupeteer, Shane Connolly)
Check out the youtube here:
Thanks for the airplay over the last few months: Sharon Oakley on Clyde 1, Vic Galloway and Huw Stephens on Radio 1, Jim Gellatly on BBC Radio Scotland, Keith Manson on Black Diamond - yes we'll be back Keith. Watch out for appearances by Karine Betou on some new versions. We've also been working with Popcorn Superhet, who has done a killer shoegaze remix of 'Suck her' that you'll be hearing more of and there're tracks up done with Adam Zanders (Fantasy Control Entreprise) and Rajaneesh Dwivedi (Fanga) and Nick Ramm (Cinematic Orchestra, Clown Revisited). New epic Glasgow instrumentalists Suplex The Kid are talking about getting us in for something too and Firebrand Boy has taken time out from signing girl's breasts to write a mournful balad that he wants vocals on….
The blogs still don't know quite what to make of us. There've been remarks about Jack's ("posh-trying-to-be-cockney") accent and we've had magazines like the Skinny chasing their tail and all mixed up (check our blog - or even Mr Stuart Logic's wee Jack vid). Other achievements include our headline at King Tuts and a support for Skint & Demoralised (you dressing room hog, you!). We're also planning on touring a bit further afield in 2009: France, Spain, Germany...
And another thing… our Eurovision 'Cage de mots' song and video in 2008 has led to a collaborative music video project that we're setting up between Scottish and French based video/film artists, in association with the Alliance Francaise in Glasgow, La Compagnie Grand Bruit, Les Eclectiques and Glimpse films. Here it is if you didn't see it yet.
Wordcage / Cage de mots (Eurovision 2008)
With Seb...in Montellier
Until Glimpse, Grand Bruit and Les Eclectiques get it together, there's still...
In spring 2005, after Jack’d been living in Paris for some years, he received an email from Glasgow musician Matt Green containing an mp3 of a piece of electronic music he’d composed and to which he’d added a recording of a poem Jack’d written. Matt’d heard a version of a rock track by Paris musician Tristan Abgrall with a spoken vocal of Jack's cut and paste over the top and this had inspired him to write a piece for one of Jack's poems. Matt asked Jack to send him further recordings of vocals and a regular exchange of audio files begain over the net. After a while the as yet unnamed Ex-men did a couple of live shows (1st in Tchai Ovna in Glasgow, 2nd in Le Cadran Breton, Montparnasse) and Jack decided to move to Glasgow to hook up with Matt in person.
The combination of Jack's spoken vocals and Matt’s electronic indie pop made for a sound all their own - ah! They discovered a thriving spoken word circuit in the UK. Other UK-based acts who combined music with spoken word also began gaining notoriety - Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, George Pringle, The Shellsuit Massacre.
Course, speech with music ain't nothing new; in the USA on the jazz scene, you get all that Jack Kerouac stuff, but also in France, artists like Loic Lantoine and Serge Gainsbourg. The Ex-men throw a little wink in the great man's direction with the sample used in 'A life of love' (from the song ‘Contact’ recorded with Brigitte Bardot).
Hello Ex-Men, cheers for the add, glad I could be of service but just be careful not to eat your lunch in time with the tunes otherwise you'll get indigestion and heartburn isn't sexy!
hey hey thanks for the message! Album is nout now @Underground Solution/Ripping Records Edinburgh with full UK/Worldwide distibution from 31 August 2009!!!!
Fourth EP from the savage sound system - 'Nothing Here Works But Your Works' now available for free download from ineedmusik.com Features Shellsuit Massacre, Sacre Noir, R-S-T, The Riddlah, Shiloh_zen, U-Turn and many more.....
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