FROM THE BONNEVILLES TO YOU ALL

Hi Everybody,
Jizz wanted to let you all know that we'll be playing Glasgows Eruption Festival this coming cockend, on the Saturday to be precise. Ass well as playing our own shit we willie be playing ass the Reverend Beatmans Blues Trash Trio. To be playing with a legend like Beatman is a real honor for us, so if your around why nipple come on down, tits free in , yes FREEEE in and guaranteed to be a raucus affair.

Also, the after show party will be DJ'd by The Wonderland Clubs Lady Bambi and Eruptions' Rasef, whats knob to like.

See you there you dogs
Andy & Chris

RUSTY SPRINGFIELD - FIST 'n' SHOUT
We'll we got it, the new album from Rusty Springfield. The follow up to "please don't dance..." sure don't disappoint it just rocks and by jove it rolls too. 10 songs coming in at 18.5 minutes all given the Rusty Springfield mark of the damned, its proper Garage Punk n Roll Fuzzy goodness and its in super cool digi-pack so buy it you bar-stewards at £7.99 including postage you've no excuse.

Check these bad boys out at www.motorsoundsrecords.com

Hey every one, just a quick update.

The mighty Rusty Springfield have released their new album and I'll be adding it to the shop page along with an mp3 for you over the weekend.

The Bonnevilles are gigging again after a short break, starting with next Saturdays Eruption weekender in Glasgow, the band will be playing their own set and also have been employed to be "THE REVEREND BEATMANS band for his BLUES TRASH TRIO" check it out and if your in Glasgow make sure you get down to these gigs.

I'll be doing a mailouut this weekend so if you want on that join the mailing list, have a groovy weekend everybody.

Andy Motor Sounds

MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS MAILOUT - Sunshine special

Ahoy hoy good Motor Sounds folks, hows April been to you so far, good I hope. Here at Motor sounds Towers we're all just peachy. Its been fairly quiet around these parts but things are hotting up nicely.

ROCK N ROLL MONKEY AND THE ROBOTS GET MARRIED
No thats not the name of some lost dodgy 80's movie, I'm delighted to let you all know that Craig and Jackie from Detroits Rock n Roll Monkey and the Robots are getting married in July this year and as if that wasn't exciting enough they're going to honeymoon in Ireland, so we're all gonna make the most of the opportunity and play a gig at Beatnik Soul in Derry City. Andy and Chris from The Bonnevilles are going to become honorary Monkeys for 1 night only and provide the backline for Craig and Jackie in what is sure to become a legendary event. The date will be Saturday the 18th of July in a venue to be confirmed.

Rock n Roll Monkey don't gig much in the U.S. these days and not at all anywhere else, so make sure you get down for this one as its is quite literally a one night stand.

I'd like to congratulate those crazy kids on their pending nuptuals and I'm sure they'll live happily ever after in years of wedded bliss. Oh and both of their albums "Detroit Trauma" and "Back To Beatsville" are for sale at our online store, sorry was that crass of me, ah well I'll get over it, check em out, you won't regret it.


THE BONNEVILLES and REVEREND BEATMAN
While we're on it, The Bonnevilles are also going to be The Reverend Beatmans band at a festival in Glasgow on the 20th of June. Our good friend Rasef who runs the Eruption club nights in Glasgow has put together a 2 day festival of Garage, Rock n Roll and Punk Blues types on the 20th and 21st of June with Beatman being the headliner and The Bonnevilles in support, both as Beatmans band and with their own set. So I urge you to try and make that, it should be fantastic.

Looks like The Bonnevilles have a whole lot of learning of new tunes to be getting on with, but I'm sure they can cut it.

YOUTUBE & ME
I've decided to move things along into the 20th century......what year is it? I'll be posting video blogs on YouTube from now on out along with these mailouts and what have you. Apparently a picture paints a thousand words so I'll be painting some for you and giving you a little insight into Motor Sounds Records lifestyle and all that. It should be fun, so keep an eye out for me at gigs with a video camera, I'll be chatting to all the good folks who make Motor Sounds possible and introducing them to you, so stay tuned...literally. Oh and why not head on over to motorsoundsrecords.com and sign on for auto blog updates and you'll miss out on nothing.

LINKS
Make sure you check out these links and tell them I sent ya.
www.motorsoundsrecords.com
www.myspace.com/thebonevilles
www.myspace.com/rasef
www.youtube.com/MotorSoundsRecords
www.myspace.com/rocknrollmonkey

Be good boys and girls
A.

I've a cold for 2 weeks now and I'm fucking getting fed up with it

THE SON OF REVERBIO

I am the bastard son of a thousand sleepless nights, I am the evil twin of myself, I am the creaking door, I am the confused ramblings of a prozac'd Nun, I am directionless like a feather in a gale, I am Holy... like a TV preacher beggin' for the money to heat his pool, I am the lizards tongue flicking and tasting, I am the hot stone in the desert baked for a thousand years by an ancient solar God, I am whats right and whats wrong with our world, I am a product of an enviroment which has been shaped by greed and irresponsibility, I am guilty and inncocent, I am red......................................................I am THE SON OF REVERBIO.

JUST NEWS AND REVIEWS

27th March 2009
Just in....awesome reviews for Rock n Roll Monkeys new album....from Lowcut magazine... now go buy it you swine. CLICK HERE

Rock N Roll Monkey and the Robots - Back to Beatsville
(Rock N' Roll Monkey Records / Motor Sounds Records)

Rock N' Roll Monkey and the Robots obviously dig kitschy 60's sci-fi stuff and retro mechanical toys. But what they also like is to make shakin' cool psycho-pop in the vein of B-52's with lots of twang and surf feel. Inspirations may also be the Cramps take on psycho-whatever with their b-movie twist. All songs are damned catchy and makes your feet twist. I would like to say that this band could be the new saviours of alternative pop. This is great stuff - weird - but groovy.

If you dig: B-52's, Gun Club, The Mummies (5 out of 5 Razorblades)

24th March 2009
Hi all, welcome to the newly redsigned site, redesigned by yours truely. i've been trying out a couple of different looks recently and this is the one that sticks. So for any regular visitors we haven't had a fit of some description. Oh and I should mention the font I've used is Century Gothic, so make sure you have that on your browser to see the site as sexy as it should be.

I may as well let you all know we're currently without distribution as our distro deal with CODE7 has come to an end and in these troubled times we're to small to worry about, I think we got lost in the shuffle. Never mind, onwards and upwards and all that shit. From now we'll concentrate on our online efforts and try and hook up with a few more quality online stores ourselves until we get a distribution deal sorted.

So go to the shop you dogs and buy something.

Andy Motor Sounds

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM NORTHERN IRELAND WHEN.......

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM NORTHERN IRELAND WHEN.......

1 You know at least one person called Mackers.

2 You cringe when you hear someone from your city speak on national TV.

3 Your friends still call you by your childhood nickname.

4 Your Granny had a framed picture of the Pope or the Queen in the living room but not both.

5 A member of the opposite religion has been "after you"

6 You have been "de-begged"

7 You have had a telling off from your da which began with the phrase ´listen sonny jim...´

8 You have at least once in your life considered sniffing glue

9 You have at least one ginger mate, who you call ´Fanta pants´ at least three times a day

10 You know what a barrack buster is, and at one time this was your favourite carry-out

11 When your granny says "Yer ar$e is parsley!!!"

12 When you say in disgust at a lie yer mate told, "Aye rite dead on ball bag!!"

13 When you've ordered drink after hours from 'dial a drink'

14 You have bought '5 lighters for a pound!'

15 If you want to buy something semi legal like a dope pipe, ninja stars or nunchucks you go to Smithfield market

Conversation I over heard

I was doing sound at gig last night and caught a snippet of a conversation, I laughed my ass off.

Its between a long haired fellow and a bearded chap.

Long haired fellow asks " what did you think of the bands?"

Bearded Chap replys "Terrible....unless that's what they were going for, in which case brilliant"

THE DAGGER LEES SPLIT !!!!

It's with sadness and a genuine feeling of what could've been that I type this blog. My good friends THE DAGGER LEES from Dublin town have split. All bands with any decency should split but not before they get to record their opus and this has turned out to be what's happened.

(Fuck it I'm calling them by the name I knew them by before a lawyer made them change it, STAGGER LEE god damn it)

Late last year I heard they were to record the debut album at Detroit Recorders with Jim Diamond, I've been a fan of Jim's for years now, one of my favorite albums of all time was recorded there "The Von Bondies - Lack of Communication" (thats also funny for another reason but I won't go there). But when I heard the Lees had been paired with Mr. Diamond I saw a great rock n roll album, the hard part had been done the tours & gigs, writing and more writing, trouble & strife, heart-ache & joy then pair it with the right guy to make the album and bam your home and dry......or so I thought.

Stagger Lee have been one of the best bands in Ireland for a couple of years now, (the only only possible argument to that could only be personal taste and you'd have been wrong), and by Grums twisted bones they deserved to make that fucking album.

Lets go through it, they got the choons brothers and sisters by fuck have they got the choons, they got Donna and Benni let's face it two good looking women or I'm a fucking Cornish pastie. Donna wailing with Rock n Soul Gospel vibrations and looking so damn pretty the paradox makes you wonder what happened to her that she can sing like that because like all the best its all born of pain baby. Benni, beautiful and the coolest looking person I ever saw on a stage in my life and the coolness comes over in her playing, she looks like she'd show Sinatra a thing or two. Grum, the writhing beautiful dirty bastard guitar daemon, inspired and inspring. Justin looking like a fucking cartoon of himself and drumming like he was melting. It makes me sad.

Ah well, Let it be known brother and sisters I've had a couple of drinks and Stagger Lee will-o-the-wisp'd their way into my misty brain and I was compelled to type this little tribute. Stagger Lee, genuine heavyweight contenders I shall have my memories and my regret.

To Stagger Lee. My friends.

www.myspace.com/thedaggerlees

GOOD SUITS & FIGHTIN' BOOTS POPISIMS Album of the year

HI All,
The Bonnevilles album, Good Suits and Fightin' Boots has made it to the top of Garwood Pickjons albums of the year list, this is a very good thing as Garwood knows his stuff, any man that can run that huge site needs to be operating with fully charged batteries. So hats of to Garwood for his great taste, to quote the man, "this is nothing short od the swampiest “Honest to God Punk-Blues-Rock’n’Roll-Lo-Fi-Trash”! you’re likely to hear this side of the first Black Keys albums"

Check the links Here and Here

BLOOD ON THE SCRATCHPLATE '65 now only £4.99 including P&P

BLOOD ON THE SCRATCHPLATE '65 - NEW PRICE £4.99 inc. P&P Worldwide
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, before the wind before the snow.....No wait thats American Pie isn't it? I'll start again. The first album we put out on Motor Sounds was our amazing compilation Blood on the Scratchplate '65 and when I say amazing I mean it kids, its so good we're going to do another later on this year, but to the matter at hand, we're going to sell these bad boys from now on for £4.99 just to clear our remaining stock, seriously you really should buy this its a brilliant album.Featuring THE ROUTES, ROCK N ROLL MONKEY, THE BONNEVILLES, MUDLOW, THE URGES, THE SURGENS, THE CHILDISH THOUGHTS and more, sleeve notes from Marc Littler from Slowboat films and a killer sleeve design by yours truely and don't forget to check out the mp3s' page at our webshite for a couple of freebies � CHECK IT OUT HERE

MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS MAILOUT, World Financial breakdown special

Hi All,
In these times of uncertainty, its good to know there are heroic types out there working hard for you, brothers and sisters, bringing you culture and by proxy joy. On the other hand there are people out there who scrape along on their bellys, smelling a bit funny and content to sit in their pants all day watching daytime trash TV taking comfort in the knowledge that they will never, no matter how hard they try, ever amount to a damn thing, thats us. HERE'S TO OUR FUTURE BROTHERS' AND SISTERS', it may be cheap, it may be ugly but by God it will be fun or I'm the first Mick in Space.

THE WRENCH ISSUE 8 - FREE MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS CD
We've teamed up with the stunningly beautiful and talented Zoe over at The Wrench Magazine and decided to give away a free, yes you heard me FREEEEEEEEE CD album with every issue and we got it in stock. The Wrench - issue 8 , it features an interview with yours truly and a free 11 track MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS CD, featuring The Routes, Rock n Roll Monkey and the Robots, The Bonnevilles, The Mighty Steph, D-66, Mudlow, Dead Elvis, The Dagger Lees, Grum, The Things and Rusty Springfield. It also has a fucking super cool sleeve designed by the one and only Bob Jesus, all this as well as the usual oily greatness and wait for it, its only £4 inc P&P. Whatcha waiting for you dogs buy this bad boy....NOOOOOWWWWW.

http://www.motorsoundsrecords.com/THE%20WRENCH.html

1...The Bonnevilles - Hardtale Lurgan Blues
2...The Routes - Left My Mind
3...Rock n Roll Monkey and The Robots - We Want to Hear You Howl
4...The Things - Set Me Free
5...D-66 - Mondo Trasho
6...Mudlow - Zac
7...Dead Elvis and His One Man Band
8...The Dagger Lees - Stagger Stomp
9...The Mighty Stef - Hunter Gatherer
10.Grum - Too Much Rockin'
11.Rusty Springfield - I Got (Fever)

ROCK N ROLL MONKEY AND THE ROBOTS - NEW ALBUM - BACK TO BEATSVILLE
As you may or may not know, the new album from Detroits own Rock n Roll Monkey is a work of Rock n Roll genius and you need to own it, if you only buy one more album for the rest of your lives buy this, seriously have I ever letcha down?? huh have I??? I think you'll find the answer to that question is NO, so trust me and get this. Thee Craig Campbell is going into the history books people, be a part of it. £7.99 including postage ...worldwide
http://www.motorsoundsrecords.com/BACK%20TO%20BEATSVILLES.html

THE BONNEVILLES BELFAST GIGS WITH SCOTT BIRAM AND DAVE ARCARI
We also of course need you to buy The Bonnevilles album - Good suits and Fightin Boots which has just got a great review in this months Blues Matters magazine, you can read by buying the mag itself or checking out The Bonnevilles blog on the old MyFace page. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=98154006&blogID=464282608
But onwards to the matter at hand.
TOMORROW, Saturday 17th of Feb w/Dave Arcari at The Black Box Theatre - Belfast
This one is a daytime show kids, 2PM and includes your lunch for the giveaway price of £5
Feb 5th and 6th w/Scott H Biram at The Menagerie Belfast and Masons Derry, respectively. The Belfast show will also have The Hellfire Club on the bill
For those of you that don't know Scott H. Biram, I urge you to get to one of these shows the man is practically a living legend and needs to be seen, for more info heres the mans myface page, drop in, say hi and tell him we sent ya. http://www.myspace.com/scotthbiram

Thanks it for now you beautiful people
Andy Motor Sounds

The current situation in the Gaza strip

I don't wish to become politicised or to get all political on your ass, I also am mindful of Bill Hicks' "Love all the People" ideas, which I agree with but in the past couple of days I have seen half a dozen photos of dead babies/children in the news papers, their little chubby fingers closed and sticking through rubble, or one particularly horrific photo in which a father on his knees over the bodies of three dead children pleads with the sky, what he pleads for I don't know but I'm sure you can imagine. In another image the bodies of a dozen or so dead policemen are laying were they fell, all inside 10 yards of one another, twisted, broken and un-natural. Whilst on the front page of a British dailys' supplement, one poor bastard reaches to the camera man for help, he's not looking at the lens he's looking right at the cameraman, his fingers burnt and bruised, I know he's fucked.

The invasion of Gaza by Israel is a disgrace and one which we should all be ashamed that our governments have encouraged or ignored the hellish situation that has been allowed to fester there over the years. It's no mistake that Israel has done this on the eve of the handing over of the US presidency to a less sympathetic administration. Israel complains of extremist Islam meanwhile it seems to be doing all it can to create extremisim, you simply cannot bomb and murder your way to any sort of resolution, Israel know this, so therefore they must have an alternative agenda.

Hamas on the otherhand have been firing missle across the border into Israel on a daily basis for years now, what the hell did they think was going to happen? Did they really think that Israel, an agresive state, backed by the most right wing U.S. government in history was going to let that continue unabated, it could be argued that if Israel, the U.S. and Europe recognised the legitimacy of Hamas when it was elected then perhaps they may have had other options. But thats all too late now.

The result is dead children, dead fathers, brothers, wives and sisters. Grief and grieving. Little chubby fingers poking up through the rubble and blood staining the dust and mortar from where you know the head is going be. There can be no winners here type Gaza into Google images and tell me its worth it.