THE WORMS, A BRIEF HISTORY OF SQUIRM. Read the blog for more-or-less essential detail.
2005: Start. The first songs we write are "Sands End To The Sea" and "Etiolate". Themes of psychogeography, death, and natural history and curation emerge.
2006: Three performances at 'Bohemian Nights', an open mic session at Reading Town Hall. We play Kite, Sands End To the Sea, Yellow Submarine, Etiolate, My Father's Hands, and Science Park. Everyone else there shows more respect for the Beatles.MoreHereOnBohemianNights
2006: Early in the year, we make hamfisted use of Garageband software make our first demo, "Now Look What You Made Us Do". (Track list: 'Science Park', 'Etiolate', 'Penetration', 'Lebensraum', and 'Sands End To The Sea'). It gets us precisely no attention but for one rather unappreciative review in a certain 'Spill' magazine. It's parent company has recently gone bust. Right. You can read the review Here. "Now Look..."'s best song, "Science Park", remains in rude health as a punkishly-minded folk diatribe regarding industrial parks and conference centres..
2006: First collaboration with Ed Rowe, who writes the lyric for long-standing live favourite "Shag", among others. ClickHereForMoreAboutEd
2007: We use the same software, but with more care and competence, to make our second Demo, "Psychogeography" (Track list: "Roisin Murphy's Blue Smoke Pig", "Kite", "Worm Theme One"). This is actually not a bad piece of work, which we have contrived to fail to bring with us when meeting any sort of influential or successful person.
2007: Debut radio broadcast. Kite was played by Sher on her 'Sher Delight' show, on homegrownradionj.com during the summer.ClickHereForMoreOnSher
2007: October 27th, debut show at the Hope&Anchor, London. See our blog archive for the full triumphant tale.
2007: November, second show at Viva Viva, Turnpike Lane, London.
2007- current: Many broadcasts on the radio at KPOV, Bend, Oregon, by Morgan Salvo. Mr Salvo has remained a constant and treasured supporter of the Worms to this day. You can, and should, click Here to find out more.
2008: Unable to understand why chunky-jumpered folk clubs are not beating our door down, we make a third Garageband demo, "On The Mojo Wire" (Track list: 'Amphibia', 'Headshot', 'Science Park' and 'Shag'
2008: Collaboration with DeathStab, premier noise-mongers from Lansing, Michigan on "80s", with a lyric written by Ed Rowe. More info is here: DeathStab'sMyspace
2008: Open mic appearance on April 16th at the Magpie's Nest folk club, London. "The Murderologist" is played, and brings a room of Islington sofa-loungers to a chilly halt.
2008: August 18th, concert for the Alternative Music Network at the Poetry Society, London. We share a bill with the mighty BirdEngine, and consider it to be our proudest moment.
2008: First live appearance as a trio in the Autumn, at the open mic evening, Queen Boadicea pub, London. "The Murderologist", and nothing else, gets played.
2007 and 2008: Three DJ gigs by M and J Worm, at the Potion nightclub for Querida's parties.
2009: First concert as a trio, at the Big Untidy, Reading, January 9th
2009: May 24th, concert at the 'Sunday Roast' night at the Ralph Abercrombie pub, Manchester, as a duo with the mp3 player.
2009: Concert at the Big Untidy, Reading as a duo with the mp3 player.
2009: Radio broadcast on Resonance FM. "Cherries" played on Dexter Bentley's show, themed with the Pestival event at London's South Bank. MoreAboutResonanceIsHere
2009: Unamplified concert at the Hall Of Sound, Pangbourne, Berkshire, as a duo.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
heya thanx for acceptin the add and takin the trouble to have a listen to my stuff..:) cool songs on your myspace, clever words i think and my fave is the folk version of 'headshot'...:) have a great rest of the week luke x
Dear friends, I am playing a free gig at the beauteous Union Chapel, Islington this Saturday. The sunlight will be streaming through its vaulted windows as Blank Canvas and Arctic Circle present this gig during the blessed daylight hours of 12-2. And yea shall its hallowed interior be filled with all manner of scraping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. Let us pray. And then let us go to the pub.
Great to see you boys getting a spit roasting on Sunday (Benny Hill night!). Cracking job (considering how few notes the support act had left you!). If you need a 'virtual bass player' to go with the virtual drummer I know of a jolly keen and talented one! T
The King of Coma track “mental fragments” is featured on the Äisti sajns fikÅ¡n! (cleaning science fiction) Sampler. You can download it for free here:
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