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In November, the device made another EP. It is bass and piano, and it is available for free download. Here is the artwork.

This shirt is available from the band. Just see how good it looks:

Tasty new Doghouse T-shirt design, with a private-eye, casing-the-joint, lighting Ms. Bacall’s cigarette with a wink, box of matches design.

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.

Todger have been busy. They have been gigging like monsters, and so this document has been produced to immortalise the “interim” line-up, now that Nathan “The Artful Todger” Sparks has returned to reclaim his (drum) throne. I have provided the following ridiculous artwork for the live album. The title is, of course, a tribute to the seminal Peter Frampton live album.

Thumpermonkey are going on a little South London sortie:

Music Video for The Doghouse Riley Band’s hit single “I’m Your Man”. Doghouse lusts after a beautiful women, then stalks her through central London… Tale as old as time. Filmed and edited by me. Starring John Riley and Tijana Mamula.

The Doghouse Riley Band – I’m Your Man

Full album artwork for my prog-metal group, Thumpermonkey Lives!. Bring Me Sun For Breakfast is our second full length release in this line-up, and I’m very proud with the artwork.

We took the Tooting Bizarre on tour back to the old Alma Mater. It was the first time Riley and I have graced a stage together in Norwich since the heady days of Stonasaurus and The Devil Ship Pirates, and the first time Thumpermonkey have ever had whirling dervishes out front of the stage (thanks Al!). Superb night!