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the rigid sky

About Me


hello! we've just finished recording a new 5-track CD, a track from which has just been put online, it's called 'hooves'. We've also got another song, 'for the burn of breath', online, taken from a split cassette that never happened. you can download our part of that long-lost split here:
http://www.media-uk.net/therigidsky
our most recent ( ie finished ) cd:
let me shipwreck in your thighs
a cowboy in the seven-day-a-week fight
ox rhomboid
guts rhomboid
patrick stewart
our first cd as a three-piece:
tea
dark town sally
hills and a precipice
art malik
pine teeth
and finally our first release - we don't haphazardly slap it onto a disc any longer, so if you want it just send us a message and we'll e-mail it to you:
ep eins
dr sullivan's secret recipe
tracing contrails
pilots
schlafen dicht parasit
If you want to get hold of these CDs just send us a message, head over to HR Records , or come to one of our shows!
Check out the HR Records page for some other bands we're in / we like.
All of our CD artwork was created by Mark Lock - the pictures above don't do it justice, it's amazing. Each CD is handmade and slightly different from the others, and they all look awesome. Woop!
The killa beez who's helped us out / supported us / played with us ( sorry if we've forgotten you - wear a brighter t-shirt next time ):
Our families, Chris Owen, Gem, Liam, Mark, Andrea, Mambo, Spanish D, Alex Nizlaa, Treadders, Dan Miles, Rob C, Steve R, Andy W, Simon 'Cock' Ralph, Lee Nutland, Rich Wiseman, Colin M, Ben H, Joe Hall; Jonny, Mark and Jem from Zoo Logic; 'them five wankas' from Seven and Thirteen; anyone who's ever bought or listened to one of our cds; Carlo from Mexico for giving us hope that somewhere out there people actually give a shit; Cypress Hill for the good times... I'll update this if I remember anyone else. Or it might just disappear one day. Who knows.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/27/2005
Band Members: James "spacker" Hobbs - drums

Ed "cunner" Zabkiewicz - guitar

Rob "salad" Taylor - bass
Influences: Oceansize, The Moirai, Mogwai, Sparta, Deftones, Reuben ( the good bits ), Aereogramme, Ostinato, Elliott, Far, Mick Hucknall, Chuck Norris, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, loud shit, Mono, 65daysofstatic, Tool, George Benson, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Tropea, Dancers, Curves, Action films, guns, women, drugs, getting hugs from warm robots, skulls, Liberty 37, The Copperpot Journals, New End Original, Headswim, Faraquet, Seal, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Ursa, Capsule, damezumari
Sounds Like: Alan Rickman's german orgasm
Record Label: HR Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

we're not dead!

oh no, we're not. we're going to be recording something rather closely resembling an album in the fairly near future, as soon as we've got the space to do it.expect some news in a month or two :)in th...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:30:00 GMT

hello hello

evenin',it's all a bit quiet here, as we're now living about an hour apart from one another. we haven't given up, though. some point soon we're going to craft some more shit together.a big 'HELLO!' to...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:08:00 GMT

Radio gagaraaaghhh

Hello. Sorry to anyone who tuned in to rivergibbsfm the other in the hope of hearing our live set - it wasn't played. I know a few of you did. Pants. They will play our shit at some point, I've been t...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:52:00 GMT

Ta very much

For fuck's sake, I just typed out a huge bulletin and it got wiped somehow. Graagh. So instead of a long rambling rant ( which it was before ), brevity wins out. So here you go. Cheers very much to ev...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:45:00 GMT

the rigid sky to support *shels - check this!

well we're very very excited to announce we're going to be supporting the mighty *shels at The Peel in Kingston on the 10th of July. if you haven't heard *shels check them out here: http://www.myspace...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 08:16:00 GMT

evenin’ - some news

hello there, we'll hopefully be able to post up a new gig date soon.. not sure if it's going to happen yet, but it's going to be a cracker if it does. in london, in july - hopefully, so stay tuned. it...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:33:00 GMT

exciting news!

Well, I think it’s exciting anyway. Yesterday we spent all day locked up inside, and emerged victorious at midnight clutching a brand new CD with 5 new tracks. We haven’t come up with a na...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:41:00 GMT

happy birthday rob

As the title suggests, or in fact states, it's Mr Rob Taylor's birthday today - so happy birthday! If anyone feels like leaving him a birthday message / abuse feel free to use this blog, then we can s...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:33:00 GMT

’tumbleweed’

Felt like saying something about a situation that's got a bit silly. A local band, named in the subject of this blog, seem to have a problem with us. I think it's uncessary. I'm fully confident that a...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:16:00 GMT

New song online, plus news

Evening, well, we've just uploaded a partially mixed version of a new track, taken from that tape we keep banging on about - a split cassette tape with Mr Matthew John ( myspace.com/mathyoujohn ) bein...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:20:00 GMT