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About Me

"'Life in a vacuum' by Random Joe is a mighty fine sub three minute slab of anything goes pop and when I say anything goes I mean just that, wildly frenetic sometimes disturbingly good - harmonies, spidery chugging riffs and a total disregard for time signatures or any notion of pigeon holing, think J Mascis ands Dinosaur JNR mullered after a night session with the Fall, Lemonheads and the Cravats kicking seven shades outta the latest class of indie hopefuls." (losingtoday.com)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 16/08/2006
Influences: The Beatles, Pavement, Radiohead, Idlewild, Super Furry Animals, Beck
Sounds Like: anyone from system of a down to ELO (this is not arrogance, these are actual though admittedly clueless comments from discerning leicester gig goers). in reality we try to sound like whoever NME courts at the time
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

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"Life in a Vacuum" "'Life in a vacuum' by Random Joe is a mighty fine sub three minute slab of anything goes pop and when I say anything goes I mean just that, wildly frenetic sometimes disturbingly g...
Posted by on Tue, 08 May 2007 23:23:00 GMT

Hollow Smoke

Hollow Smoke; http://www.jobhosle.f2s.com/sorted/albums.htm This is now available on iTunes! Buy it. Please.
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:07:00 GMT

Holy Macaroni!

We are delighted to announce that RANDOM JOE will be making a sensational leap back into the live arena at the Firebug on December 10th.It is all in support of Hollow Smoke, a new compilation of 'the ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:06:00 GMT

Hello Beat Merchant?

Do you like.... the artistists in our friends group and/or our four track demo's? Do you play drums? We would like a creative, inventive and subtle drummer to join sad sack. If you can sing and swap i...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:59:00 GMT

Songs

I thought I'd take a minute to write a little something about the songs you can hear on this page. Firstly they're demos apart from Life In A Vacuum which was recorded under the name Random Joe and fe...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:17:00 GMT

Greetings

Hi all,Welcome to the Sad Sack Myspace page. We thought it was time to sign up because if nothing else it's a lot easier than managing a website (see the decaying carcass at randomjoe.co.uk) and it se...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:03:00 GMT