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Choke

Choke is Unwell

About Me

Choke (2001 - 2006) was a collective of musicians based in the city of Bristol, England. We were responsible for all fourteen issues of Choke Magazine, the Chokecentral website and a regular live music club night called Club Choke.Choke was often seen as an elitist clique because of the strong opinions of its members, who repeatedly failed to realise that having strong opinions is very unfashionable or that healthy, ambitious people only slag each other off in private because they are too afraid of getting their heads kicked in or f*cking up their chances of getting a promotion or a record deal or a blowjob to say what they actually think. Yeah, that's right...you with your shitty little 80's revival band pretending to have liked Gang Of Four since before you were born because you read in The NME that Bloc Party like them...and then randomly inviting other bands to be your Myspace 'friend' even though you hate their music with a passion you reserve for things that are way, way too difficult, innovative and emotionally honest for you to comprehend. Yeah, YOU...with your f*cking pubes shaved into a perfect question mark like the ones that never quite developed in your greed and envy-addled excuse for a brain.For five years Choke supported music which its members believed to be brave, exciting, entertaining and uncompromising. When we got bored of doing it we stopped, hoping that someone else would take the baton. It's hard work being resolutely upbeat about the appalling state of the universe and eventually something had to give.www.chokecentral.co.uk is currently in limbo, awaiting the judgement of Eternity but the Chokeditor is still throwing bricks into the void at http://chokecentral.blogspot.comThe public forum formerly known as Choke is alive and well and can be found at www.ttyc.co.uk. Come and have a fight.Addendum 1 - please don't post random flyers and huge images that have nothing to do with us on our message thing. The (former) editor will delete them as soon as he gets round to it unless they're things that fucking rock or he thinks they look nice.Addendum 2 - Team Choke have not suddenly started hating music. They love it as much as ever. And they still think you're a c*nt.

My Interests

Electronic music. Electric music. Acoustic music The music in your head.

I'd like to meet:

People who like music, dancing, arguing and getting mashed. People that make music for the hell of it and and those that help them on their way. Remember, kids. Music isn't a business; it's a contact sport.

Music:

Choke uses and endorses the following products: Gravenhurst, Ivory Springer, Big Joan, Bronnt Industries Kapital, Fruit of The Doom, SJ Esau, Geisha, Hunting Lodge, Part Chimp, Bilge Pump, Bucky, Rose Kemp, Kiska, Ex Models, Madnomad, Steveless, Chikinki, Mooz, The Girl From Headquarters, Twocsinak, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Tsuji Giri, Morning Star, Team Brick, Hustler, King Alexander, Starfighter-X, Giddy Motors, Male, Knowledge of Bugs, Jackie O, Flamingo 50, Being 747, The Mighty Stars, Angel Tech, The Playwrights, RLF, Charlottefield, Sammo Hung, Stig, Shitmat, 3Hostwomexicansandatinofspanners, Binray, Fixit Kid, Lilydamwhite, The Signal, Todd, Exit Wound, Stuffy / The Fuses, Collapse, Loz Kolezsko, Matt Elliott, The Martini-Henry Rifles, Caroline Martin, North Sea Navigator, The Understudy Inferior, Klang, Suitable Case For Treatment, The Suicidal Birds, Tractor, Pricktaster, The Great Leap Forward, Misty's Big Adventure, A Lion, Mugstar, Rasha Shaheen, Oil Experts, Erase Errata, The Hellset Orchestra, Jeremy Smoking Jacket, The Scaramanga Six, War Against Sleep, Brute Forsyth, New Grand Smoking Palace, An Emergency, Patrick Duff, The Fabrics, The Sonar Yen, Mole Harness, My Two Toms, Onanist Homework Robot And The Guano Ignoramus, Bronze Age Fox, Chang, Mclusky, My Ambulance Is On Fire, Keyop, The Courtesy Group, Hacksaw, The Sunnyvale Noise Sub-Element, Skullsailor, You & The Atom Bomb

Heroes:

None

My Blog

The Choke Blog Is Somewhere Else

Choke is dead.Long live CHOKECENTRAL.
Posted by Choke on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

Choke Awards - The Golden Garottes 2005

THE GOLDEN GAROTTES & THE COLUMBIAN NECKTIES 2005 Here are the results of the annual end of year poll on the Choke forum. The Golden Garottes are awarded to local, national and international arti...
Posted by Choke on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:18:00 PST

Everybody listen to Todd

Everybody listen to Todd. http://www.myspace.com/toddranch   That is all....
Posted by Choke on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:53:00 PST

A Brief(ish) History of Choke

Ladies, Gentlemen and Gobshites. After a year of indolence and recrimination, Choke Magazine is currently in the process of being reborn. Here's a bit of history for the uninitiated: A Brief History ...
Posted by Choke on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:04:00 PST