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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.

More animated GIF nonsense.

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.

Animated GIF silliness.

Friday night Tooting Bizarre hosted a big ol’ charity gig at the Grosvenor. I played with the DHRB (we rocked) and got to visualise all night. I was helped out by some official Oxjam VJ-DVD when I got too drunk, but the new lappy (Vanessa’s) held up surprising well. Although it could do with some more RAM…

This was also Tooting Bizarre’s first birthday, and exactly a year after the first time I did live visuals (at said TB event)!

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.