So far....Bryan Mills, Nicholas Munro, Jon Simcox, Paul Cook, Will Foster, Alice Gun, Fiona Brice, Simon the Barman, Arnolf, Tizzy, Wee Paul, Ivor Talbot, Wee Ruth...who have i forgotten?
Em...Paul Jarvie!! And Dougal Marwick.........................Mat Hicks, Lucy Munro, Jennifer Lewd on Whisky, Cousin Simon....oh my god, reign it in Kittens!!
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THIS YEAR-Kittens commence recording debut LP casually entitled "Old Songs" in a converted 'fank' some 30 miles into the wilderness of Morvern, West Scotland. (see pics)
LAST YEAR- Kittens invited to play 2 wonderful live dates in North Portugal (see pics)
THE YEAR AFTER THAT-FANTASTIC PLASTIC release Happy Christmas From The Kittens on 7" split with Fyfe from Guillemots after delightful live performance at Scala in support of said band
SOME MONTHS LATER-STOLEN RECORDS ask to include Kittens song on their first compilation
THE END OF THE NEXT FEW YEARS-Big news band disband but Kittens live strong. 'Culchie sound' discovered, various attempts at rushed cross country recording made, culminating in a hungry weekend at Lone Pigeon's Fife hideaway
THE NEXT FEW YEARS-Mills preserves his sanity by exchanging songs with Munro via cassettes in the post. The songs become ballads, the songwriters become The Kittens
THE YEAR AFTER THE YEAR DOT-Mills moves to London to join big news band from home town of Enniskillen
THE YEAR DOT-Mills and Munro meet in a bar in Edinburgh/form punk band Peashooter
Below: Bryan Mills playing The Mermaid at Bugbear Records, a Saturday afternoon in December 2006. Shot Happy Slappy phone style by Long John Jen Paul McCartney
The Mermaid
S T O L E N exhibition Private view: 6pm Thursday 3rd July, 2008 (for 1 week) The Aquarium L-13 Gallery, Farringdon Stolen Recordings present a group show of objects, fragments and documents that have functioned as either promotional material, merchandise or autonomously as the visual accomplice to an aural cohort.
BANDS/ARTISTS CONTRIBUTING INCLUDE: Billy Childish, Riceboy Sleeps (Jonsi Birgisson from Sigur Ros and Alex Somers from Parachutes, Mathew Sawyer,Pete and the Pirates, Tinhead (The Foals), James Cauty, Shanne Bradley (The Nipple Erectors) , Lets Wrestle, Jock Mooney (Dan le Sac VS Scroobious Pip artwork),Harry Pie, Paul Burgess, John Herve Peron (Faust), Fault Magazine, Geraldine Swayne, Fanfarlo, Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, STOT21stCPlanB, Rowland Smith, J.P Buckle, Caff/Lick, Freak Paeans, John & Jehn, Screaming Tea Party, Dave Mitchell (Ghost Club/ The 3D's),Wet Dog, Adrian R. Shaw & Daisy Shaw, The Grand library of young blood, Throwing Up In Comic Sans Fanzine, Buttonhead, Tome Records Feeding Time, Oxen Of The Sun, Sir Yes Sir
@ Stills Gallery (Cockburn Street) from 7pm tickets £4 on the door / cheap beer!
The Declining Winter is a new musical project led by Richard Vincent Adams, co-founder of leftfield musical pioneers Hood - influenced by Low, The Durutti Column and York City FC.
Skip your tea for the magnificent, synth-laden 7VWWVW (aka MAMMAL), and Doogie Paul of James Yorkston and the Athletes upright bass infamy.
Hey BM - how's it going? Silent film thing sounds interesting - maybe I could do that old Russian film I scored for piano, violin & cello. Only thing is Chris the cellist is not too well at the moment - when is it?? Jxx
