the Middle Ones - Young Explorer @ London Popfest 2009, Salmon & Compass from slarvfel on Vimeo.
Billy: [drunk] Oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy. I feel so good I could spit in Potter's eye. I think I will. What did you say, huh? Oh, maybe I'd better go home.Where's my hat? Where's my... [George takes the hat from Uncle Billy's head and hands it to him] Oh, thank you, George. Which one is mine?
George: The middle one.
Billy: Oh, thank you, George, old boy, old boy. Now, look –– if you'll point me in the right direction... would you do that? George?
George: Right down here.
Billy: Old Building and Loan pal, huh...
George: Now you just turn this way and go right straight down.
Billy: That way, huh? [begins singing, then a crash is heard] I'm all right. I'm all right. [singing] "...the sweetest flower that grows . . .
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the middle ones used to be just anna, and then it became anna and grace which was much more fun, and now it's sometimes anna and grace and their sunday best too. we made a cd of just the two of us, it's got four tracks and you can buy it from us for three pounds (including postage). the songs on it are - fall in, goodnight song, count down, and oh bob! it used to have a photo on the front but our friend alice drew us a new cover. it looks like this:
sometimes we play with 1-3 boys as well. we like to call them The Sunday Best Ensemble, but their actual real names are matthew, john and stuart. we're making a four track record with them at the moment which should be released by WIAIWYA pretty soon hopefully. The Sunday Best came to indietracks with us, it was amazing. indietracks looked like this
we have songs on norwich compilation cds by stop sharpening your knives, howlbackhum and barefeet records.. and some others that i can't remember. we want to make a cd of songs by the lisps! we're also going to make a split cd with our wonderful friends the mountain parade, it's going to be great. ideally we would all like to do the cd launch on the top of mount snowdon (i think that was steve's idea) so if anyone has a helicopter we can borrow please send details to themiddleones@gmail.com
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
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Just a quickie to let you know that we're going to be debuting a load of new songs from our forthcoming album at the Marquee in Norwich this Friday. It's a fancy dress Halloween gig and we're supporting We Vs Death and These Monsters.
The whole shebang kicks off at 7.30pm with NDX and we'll be on at about 8.15 so make sure you get there early. It's £5 or £4 in fancy dress on the door. We’re trying to think up some ideas for what to dress up as. Suggestions please – if we do it we’ll get you a prize!
Come see us at the marquee in norwich on Friday October 30th - a halloween gig and we'll be previewing songs from our new album.... DO IT (come on, I don’t wanna have to cut you)
AND come see us at www.twitter.com/bearsuit band to follow what we're up to at the studio today....
It's official: I am absolutely, completely, utterly head over heels in love with you. You were fantastic today, your music is incredible. Especially the one about Bob Dylan <3
Anyway, I hope you had a nice time, and have a lovely weekend! Rose xxx
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.