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Last Of The Real Hardmen

Malfunctioning Equipment

About Me

RECORDED OUTPUT
Under the name LAST OF THE REAL HARDMEN
4 song s/t CDR a gift to friends (2002). Has "Claire", "Me Vs The Combine", "Goats" and a cover of "Tell Her To Come Back Home" by John Fahey/Uncle Dave Macon. No longer available
Hunting For Teeth CDR compilation given away free at the Hunting For Teeth gig in Derby with Brown Owl, Our Lady Star Of The Sea (2003). Has the cover of "Tell Her To Come Back Home" on it. No longer available
Satellites and Clouds CD compilation has the same version of "Me Vs The Combine" as the 4 tk CDR (2003). No longer available
3/3/3 Anti War CD sold only at the Anti War protest gig at Junktion 7 in Nottingham. Has 2 covers: John Fahey's "Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Invisible City Of Bladensburg" and Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" (2003). No longer available
Wedding Song one song CD written for the wedding of Tony and Jo Woodall. Limited to 1 copy. They've probably lost it and I can't remember how it went...(2003)
6 song s/t/ CDR sold at gigs. Has "Claire" from the 4 tk CDR, with new versions of "Me Vs The Combine" and "Goats" as well as "All This Shit I'm Eating Is Leaving A Bad Taste In My Mouth", "Song For Honey" and the Fahey cover from the Anti-War CD (2004). No longer available
10,000 Miles CDR audio travel diary. Sold at gigs (2004). No longer available
Transparent Lathe Cut 10" on Lone Hand Recordings . Has the same songs as the 6 tk CDR. Ltd to 77 copies cut by hand by Peter King in New Zealand (2004). No longer available
10,000 Miles + extra tracks on Birdwar . 'Proper' release of the CDR travel diary together with the tracks from the Lathe Cut 10" as bonus tracks . Distributed by Baked Goods. Released October 2006 from www.birdwar.com
Un40rmulated 2xCD compilation on Unlabel . Has "Claire" from the CDR (2006). Available from www.unlabel.net.
Split 8" Transparent Lathe Cut w/Gareth Hardwick on Low Point . Has "Ron Asheton" on it, the third song from the Another Country session. Limited to 60 copies (2006). No longer available.
Another Country on Unlabel as part of their Series 52 collection. Limited to 100 copies on CD only. 2 20min+ songs (2006). Available from the Unlabel site.
Feral Debris zine Issue 1 has a CDR compilation on the cover that has "Mygrolshy Vs Last Of The Real Hardmen" on it. It's a track made by Matt Walsh (Navigator) by sampling the LOTRHM lathe-cut 10" in all the places it skipped, jumped or got locked in it's groove (2007). www.myspace.com/feraldebris
Darkness on Low Point . 13 track album of improvised solo electric guitar, recorded live to 4 track. Limited to 100 copies on all black CDR in black-on-black screened packaging, available now (2007).
Unlaut 2xCD compilation on Unlabel has "The Great Kentwood Road Drum-Off" on it. Available from www.unlabel.net
Lords, Felix, Wolves! (of Greece), Reynolds, Economy Of Motion, Damo Suzuki's Network, Glenn Branca, PW Long, The Good Anna, The Telescopes, The Neon Set, Econoline, The Sneinton Stooges, Andy Clambake & The Resurrection Men, The Evil Hawk.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2005
Band Website: honeyisfunny.com
Band Members: Me
Influences: Distance. Alcohol. Cabin Fever. Lungfish.
Sounds Like: It's going to keep changing everytime.
Record Label: Birdwar, Lone Hand, Low Point, Unlabel
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New song up

Hi people of the world. There is a new song up on my profile to be enjoyed by your ears and in turn your brain parts. It's called The Great Kentwood Road Drum-Off. It's called that in honour of an ep...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:25:00 PST

Review of Darkness in The Wire and Glenn Branca

Hi Review from October 2007 issue of The Wire. Last Of The Real Hardmen Darkness LOW POINT CD Nottingham guitarist Chris Summerlin, aka Last Of The Real Hardmen, dresses up his latest release in the ...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:51:00 PST

Live

After making a rash decision to not play live again, it looks like the duo version of LOTRHM (Patch & me) will have the task of opening up for ISIS in the cavernous shed that is Nottingham Rock Ci...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:02:00 PST

Web Presence

http://www.honeyisfunny.com/lastoftherealhardmen/   UPDATED
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:54:00 PST

10,000 Miles review

This is from Tiny Mix Tapes: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/spip.php?article2922 So, I'm not going to be a millionaire from music... Last of the Real Hardmen 10,000 Miles [Birdwar; 2006] Styles: rang...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:25:00 PST

New releases, gigs, forthcomings etc etc

Hi! It's all go and all change around these parts. Here's the gig stuff: JANUARY 10 NOTTINGHAM The Social Sodastream, Airport Girl, Monkey Swallows The Universe, LOTRHM For those who haven't heard Sod...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:46:00 PST

Interview to listen to

Hi I was interviewed by Nigel at the BBC last week and you can listen to it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2006/12/07/ chris_summerlin_interview_feature.shtml featuring mumbling...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:51:00 PST

Video footage

Hi Thanks to everyone who got there early for the Six Organs show last night and kept schtum when Patch and me were playing, we had fun. Here's some footage that Katy took: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:12:00 PST

Live set on streaming audio

http://www.naan.org.uk:8000/augustroots2realhardmen.m3u click this and make sure you've got winamp set up to access the internet and voila you've got me playing Sneinton School Hall on the same bill a...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:01:00 PST

Album Of The Week

Here's what http://www.boomkat.com/ had to say about the impending album on Bird War... ALBUM OF THE WEEK! LAST OF THE REAL HARDMEN - 10,000 MilesBIRDWARCD // £ 7.99 Now for something really s...
Posted by Last Of The Real Hardmen on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:03:00 PST