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I have cut together five clips of Tooting Bizarre bands live in the studio with Anthony Chapman in High Wycombe. My favourite is 50ft Panda, which you can watch here:

50ft Panda – Variations on a Stick

The rest are available to watch on Youtube:

THE DOGHOUSE RILEY BAND: Cheapies | Refrigerator Lover
TODGER: Technological Arm
TOOTING BIZARRE: Old Kent Road

Here are a couple of video clips of Thumpermonkey Lives! playing tracks from the album “Bring Me Sun For Breakfast” live at Storm, London in March 2007.

Thumpermonkey – My Reality Is Stronger (Live)

Thumpermonkey – Slug City, Part 2 (Live)

Four friends, from a thing called the Tooting Bizarre (co-operative of gigging musicians in London, UK), got together last Friday for our first 20 Song Game.

For me: it started okay, but I foolishly chose a system that was unfamiliar to me (Vanessa’s ProTools rig), by lunch I was running out of ideas. After lunch I dried up completely, cigarette break, thought: sod it, I’m getting out the old Korg D12 with the built-in mic, stuck my guitar in drop-D, 11 songs in 45mins, all lyrics/chords improvised in one take.

Total for the day: 22 tracks, but some I only burnt excerpts from, cos they sucked and were boring. However, the last 11 were very funny (for me).

Two of my favourites are a Carol King “cover”, Will You Still Love Me, and Quee Lord General, which was the last track I recorded. Note muse destroyed by call from mother…

Hear the whole session on LastFM.

Vanessa’s tracks from that day can be found here. I highly recommend listening to “Information Transmission Error Detection”. You will laugh. Like a drain.

Diefenbaker bootlegged their recent gig at Dragon Hall, part of the Norwich Fringe Festival, and it turned out so well they’re giving it away as a live EP.

Animated GIF silliness.