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.