Watts

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An egg shaped character stomping through purple clouds. It has two muscular arms emerging from about two thirds of the way up the egg, the shoulders of which form the brow for glowing pink eyes. It has a large lower jaw jutting over the front of the brow and small legs that disappear into the purple fog. It looks furious.

Drawn an angry egg.

Listened to Divine Cargo during: divinecargo.bandcamp.com/album/demo

James Watts is Weird drawings and strange sounds. Artist and musician based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.I do daily drawings, illustrate for (mostly) bands, and put on and play in weird musical projects. Help keep me ticking over. If you're interested in m

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A swooping winged creature, that looks like it’s composed of lengths of gristle and bone flies over a cloudy brown backdrop

Drawn a gristly gargoyle

Listened to Ramesses during: ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/take-t...

Anyway I’m really stressed about this whole self employed things and organisation and promotion and affording to live so if anyone wants to commission something or give me literally any useful advice on making this work as a socially inept autist who may well just be bad at art then give me a shout

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A huge lumpen monster in full oranges and blacks against a dark purple and orange backdrop. It’s mouthy and what might be it’s nostrils and eyes are full with fiery glow and billowing smoke and it sits in a cloud of dark brown or black smoke.

Drawn a big lad

Listened to Human Leather during: humanleather.bandcamp.com/album/here-c...

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Drawn a frail ent

Listened to Wrekmeister Harmonies during: wrekmeisterharmonies.bandcamp.com

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A white floating orb like creature against a background of sludgey yellow clouds. It has long arms or flippers dangling below it and four hollows along the front containing glowing orbs.

Drawn a floating thing.

Listened to Mr Oizo during: mroizo.bandcamp.com/album/lambs-...

James Watts is Weird drawings and strange sounds. Artist and musician based in Newcastle Upon Tyne.I do daily drawings, illustrate for (mostly) bands, and put on and play in weird musical projects. Help keep me ticking over. If you're interested in m

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Drawn a big fella.

Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/cut

A flesh coloured alien creature against a sand coloured backdrop. It has a long featureless head and two arms ending in tentacle like fingers. It stands on four legs splayed out from a central torso, which is wrinkled and has what look like plates running up the front. To the right is a block of interlaced straight lines, with what looks like some kind of abstract script below it.

Drawn a creature.

Listened to Aphex Twin during: aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care...

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A portrait or a vaguely humanoid figure in oranges, yellows and red. The head is a featureless lump bar a line of black gem like eyes and the torso is fluid and lumpen. It looks as if the character is within somewhere very hot, as if it lives inside a sun.

Drawn a sun dweller.

Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/desire...

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Gig poster: FREE MUSIC LESSONS £7/13 NOTAFLOF October 2nd at Wharf Chambers 19:30 HAPTIC HELL ON HEARTH THOMAS CARROLL Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit wharfchambers.org/join. Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

I’m playing a gig for @free-music-lessons.bsky.social at wharf chambers in leeds on the 2nd october.

Alongside HAPTIC ( @stevenhess.bsky.social ) and THOMAS CARROLL ( @snufkin.bsky.social )

more info: snufk.in/free-music-l...

I remember seeing something that she was looking for live members a while back

*slowed down wrestling soundtracks in a windowless flat*

YouTube video by Wrong Speed Records Human Leather - Dark Depths and Surface Tension - (Official Video)

New on Wrong Speed Records!

"Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body" is the long-awaited debut album from the mighty HUMAN LEATHER

Watch the video for "Dark Depths And Surface Tension" HERE:

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Oh there’s always a promoter and a venue, and if it’s sometimes you get lucky and they do things, but as I’ve got close to ‘professionals’ of late the attitude seems to be that the gig gets booked and that’s it unless you chase. And apparently that’s because someone can do the chasing as a job now?

Apparently promoters don’t send you the specifics for a gig anymore and you are supposed to ‘advance’ it which is something someone can charge for doing. Remember when people did this stuff because they cared about it and it thought it was good?

DIY or Die etc etc

Wild that there’s a whole industry of ‘booking agents’ who’s job it is to email about booking bands and a whole industry of ‘events promoters’ who’s job it is to say “ok”, and then nobody does anything unless prompted and people charge to send emails

The Music Industry is fucking leprous isn’t it.

Can’t wait to get loads of splinters forever.

Similarly I really like the recording on Life Metal and Pyroclasts but I kinda wanted them to do more with it? I feel like maybe the point at the moment is to get at the distilled down to it’s essence drone stuff, but I was really into the various guests and collabs etc around Monoliths time

Yeah I generally like all their stuff but post Monoliths it felt maybe less adventurous? Didn’t spend a lot of time with Kannon and I’ve just found the record moving so I’ll have to give it another go

Can I just make a sofa? Can I just screw some bits of wood together into a sofa shape and put cushions on? Does that work?

Their best album, I reckon

Used to use this as a nap soundtrack for ages because the spoken word at the end properly jolts you awake.

Wait, if there is already one of these, and I was the second, then I would be Corn 2.

I do already have a knitted yellow balaclava, so I’m part way to corn.