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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:

youtu.be/UR61qWeckwM?...

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.

If enough of us are willing to risk looking like huge dorks who suck then maybe we can normalise it

ChatGT, what do I do if I’m struggling with weed dependence?

here's a full pair of sketchbook pages for you, please enjoy these fun drawings, show people, learn to enjoy the down time, relax, listen to yourself breathe, wear a helmet

A line drawing of a warped skull in black and white ink on blue paper. The skull stretches across the page into a tendril like form

A digital painting of a yellow/red amorphous mass. Eyeballs stare from crevices in the surface, and it is behind details for a gig featuring Horrendous, Crypt Sermon and Plague Rider, at the Black Heart on the 10th August

An ink drawing of a surreal psychedelic ship against a marbled background. The ship is made of curved organic forms in yellow with blue orbs attached to or hovering around the main hull. In the background is a rendition of the room Lapetus.

A cloud hovering against a Paul’s turquoise back drone. Straight spear like lines point downward from the cloud, with arrow heads at the end of them

Actually got in just in time for #portfolioday - here’s some recent and not so recent squiggling.

Got a new spot completely sorted out and moving stuff underway - horrors of rental industry dealt with for the foreseeable and better environment on the horizon etc etc.

So what I’ve decided to do is get paralysingly anxious about another thing and sit on the sofa not sorting anything instead.

BLUE METAL, by Territorial Gobbing 8 track album

Territorial Gobbing - BLUE METAL

Weekly album mission continued. Jandeked acoustic blues + blak metal screams + glossy synths into short songs and long spaceoffs

territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/album/blue-m...

Measure Twice, Cut Once., by Night Lunch 6 track album

Though the fact that one of the people I'm repeatedly emailing is called Monica has reminded me of New Zealand's best noise rock band.

nightlunch666.bandcamp.com/album/measur...

“YOU MUST PAY US ALL THIS MONEY BEFORE THE START OF YOUR TENANCY”

“Ok, can you send me an invoice and details of where to pay it to”

“Oh yeah, he says he’s sent that but he’s forgot”

Preaching to the choir here but the entire rental industry is run by wildly incompetent parasites.

A particularly ominous one from nice man Wárs.

AN CANDLE, by Territorial Gobbing 4 track album

Mission to drop weekly considered and composed Gobbing albums soilders on over at the bandcamp

No. 3 is layered tremelo shredded trumpet with synth pulse and singing

territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/album/an-can...

Not the worst part to go in the grand scheme of things, replaceable easy enough by a mechanic with the aproper tools and it only broke because the car is old and the screws holding the clips that hold the hose up went, so it's not a long term issue. Still, we got VERY lucky it went when it did.

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

And still actually very good tools - quite like the limitations on faff that those things provide. Should probably get round to getting a minidisc reader, but transferring it to the computer in real time via a cable is very satisfying