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About Me

This is a dummy! A ventriloquist dummy. We wanted it to be a nice one that we could tidy away in a box at the end of the evening. Increasingly it became more like the creature from "The Dead of Night". In the film the dummy eventually takes over the body of his master.

Unlike said dummy this site will be a pretty fluid affair. One week we may find we have gone all bosanova. The next week we may find we have gone back to our lo-fi roots. Quite often songs will unfinished and unresolved. More often the lyrical content will sound as if something profound is being alluded too, more often than not they will be scatological.

Please feel free to comment. You can be brutal with us. Although mostly meek we have the hearts of lions - and in human frames you can imagine what levels of indigestion this causes.Here is a film we made under another name.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/12/2007
Band Website: this was it
Band Members: See us hard at work here:

Influences: Some usual, some not so usual suspects...My Bloody Valentine. Velvet Underground. The Monochrome Set. Felt. The Fall. Nico. June Tabor at her most miserable. Would have said Sufjan Stevens but he rejected our friends request and is too clever for his own good. Joy Division. Neil Young. Washing machines with faulty bearings. Glockenspiels. Films with extended bicycling sequences. Unusual pepper grinders. Unusual weather patterns. Maternity pants. Paternity suits. Malted Wheeties. Cheap supermarkets of germanic origin reinventing spontaneity. End of the world theories surrounding peak oil. Abba. Mommintrolls. Nordic melancholy. Mediterranean inertia. Chips with everything - one for each shoulder. Providing enough text to warrant a click on another song. The belief that life can improve. The thought that it will not. Brutalist architecture. Midday reverie. Primitive painting. Ethnic greengrocers. Disapointment.
Sounds Like: A washing machine falling downstairs. Inside is a small whiney animal.
Record Label: nun
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Unmasked amongst the greengage!

Oh the horror, were we not in our local green grocer when the owner choose for a once to address us. Were we not handing over the money for a bag of greengages when he said "you have that band, I saw ...
Posted by R Tasaday on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:59:00 PST

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten.

That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten.Its true...think about it.
Posted by R Tasaday on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:13:00 PST

Our favouritist conspiracy ever or Send Me the Pillow You Dream On

In a break from recording, myself, Elspeth and the guitarist with no name sat chewing our hair and munching on hobnobs. The conversation quickly turned to conspiracy theories. Myself and the guitarist...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:59:00 PST

ho-hum, devils gold etc etc....

We haven't blogged for a while...so this may be a bit rusty. Anyway we have thinking, as we are wont to do, that our experience of myspace in some ways is replicating our experience of school. We are ...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:09:00 PST

Collapsed wall

is our new song. it is about a collapsed wall. Not the berlin wall. Just a normal domestic wall in a tenement flat. we would have called it collapsed gable end but that sounded too much like a medical...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:17:00 PST

all new

well some of it is..like the layout. We found a bar of soap that we liked...finally. We basterdised it. Pretty fashion. We like it. We have put two tunes up for you to take. We will never escape our b...
Posted by R Tasaday on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:28:00 PST

Wood

Well we've posted a new song. It is a stalled song. It could be good. Maybe it could be great. Just not this week. Anyway coincidentally our landlord told us that we were a bunch of wossy freaks with...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:24:00 PST

The shit we smoke, the cookies we crumble...

One of our number, who shall remain nameless, has started smoking again and thinks nothing of rolling his dreadful sticks and lighting them in our recording bathroom. This has created much debate amon...
Posted by R Tasaday on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:33:00 PST

Questions and some answers

The following is taken from a Smash Hits interview in 2005, unpublished due to the magazine folding...It came about because Elspeth's social worker was going out with someone who was a sibling of some...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

The miracle of the lavatorium

Well not so much a miracle. more an unexpected occurance. It happened last night. we were due to record and of course we were having problems tearing Elspeth away from her endless fiddling on the inte...
Posted by R Tasaday on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:39:00 PST