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The Long Divide

THE DIVIDE (done not dusted)

About Me



I'm the bassist/spellchecker in Mama Shamone along with my best fiends Mama, Flip X and Jules. Now and again I write stuff that won't fit the tight smooth choocha of Mama Shamone so I chuck it up here. Most of the songs are written about chicken. In some way.
When you're done here have a look at Mama Shamone 's page.

Thank you for walking up to me and pricking my ears up. I am now unusually interested, please stop being so unboring. I am not usually a ready packaged rockstar complete with seedy hotel. Batteries not included.REMIX OF DRIVE BY NANDOS BY SUPERDANE PRINCE VALIUM

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/15/2005
Band Website: thelongdivide.com
Band Members: Some very good looking people. You may have seen them in various attics.
Influences: Pixies, Smiths, Pulp, Liars and any old bollocks that sounds edgy, whingeing and self-effacing.
Also Gang of Four, Joy Division, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Bloc Party, Blur, Clor, Adam and the Ants, Devo, Fantomas, Deftones, Ladytron, Vive Le Fete, Whitey.
Chicken (but not for eating)
Fish (eating but not kissing)
Don Delillo
Road Signs
Roland Barthes
Names of chicken shops
Shepherd's Bush
Small Towns (especially Goole, North Yorkshire)
Sounds Like: Me becoming irritated. In love, in trouble.

Record Label: is welcome...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New songs for the new year

We've been writing like songs were going out of fashion.   Additional to the mastered versions of Over and You Got Me for the single there are two new 'uns on this site.  There are also two ...
Posted by The Long Divide on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:32:00 PST

If you can't beat 'em...

Lock 'em up.
Posted by The Long Divide on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:59:00 PST

Polaroid Freakend.

I re-discovered my polaroid and rollered some retro coating onto my peers.  The smarting longing for an age of landladies and sticky carpets. "I bin in the business forty years, now buy a drin...
Posted by The Long Divide on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:00:00 PST

MONOLOGUE

OH, THE TOILET.   A radio monologue.    Reader should have a low androgynous voice so the listener is kept guessing until the end.    My bowels don't wake up til the t...
Posted by The Long Divide on Tue, 16 May 2006 06:25:00 PST

DOUBLE LIVES / THE AGE OF THE PAMPHLETEER

DOUBLE LIVES / THE AGE OF THE PAMPHLETEER   Live the double live in London.  It's a cliche, certainly, and not an exclusive geographical perk.  It is even impossible not to.  Lives...
Posted by The Long Divide on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:16:00 PST

DO IT

DO IT HAVE YOU EVER TRIED IT WITH ANOTHER? YOURE DOING IT TO YOUR BROTHER HAVE YOU EVER TRIED IT WITH ANOTHER YOURE DOING IT TO  YOUR BROTHER   D.O.I.N.G.I.T.F.U.C.K  thats you and me T...
Posted by The Long Divide on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:03:00 PST

Cobbling Accident and the consequences...

My firm belief in the artist as useful and practical member of society came crashing to a humiliating heap just now. I attempted to repair my shoes, seemingly successfully. Until I held up my hands to...
Posted by The Long Divide on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:04:00 PST

DIRTY STOP OUT

Everyday my heart is breaking for the people asking me for new tracks and requesting when the next gig will be.  I have no drummer, I have no guitarist.  All I can offer you is songs.  ...
Posted by The Long Divide on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:39:00 PST

The Long Divide OF DEATH

It occurs to me now, although I may have muttered the jist in my sleep, how adding the phrase 'of death' revamps and revitalises ever usual and mundane assertion, statement and action; witness: &nb...
Posted by The Long Divide on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 04:13:00 PST

STYLE OR CONTENT

STYLE OR CONTENT You gonna, you gotta Remember, forgetta. Totalia in utter confailure Insigni completa No, to monkey in marina. Is it style?  Is it? Is it style? Or content? Is it? ...
Posted by The Long Divide on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:27:00 PST