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CONSTANT FRICTION

Dropping beats like old people drop dead

About Me

Constant Friction is our spiffy clubnight and lives in Oldham at Jacksons Pit Cellar Bar and happens on the first Saturday of every month (it also sometimes crops up in other places depending on what we can blag). We were voted XFM club of the week twice last year and have on a cracking selection of live acts every month. In the past we've hosted sets from The Whip, Working for a Nuclear Free City, Air Cav, Napoleon IIIrd, Say, Carlis Star, Band(ism), Starbase 109, Drunken Munks, The Clerks, Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band, and loads more too. Come to one of our nights, dance and be merry :)

My Interests

Music, music, music, crisps, strong cheeses, art, films, music and farmyard animals.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people who want to come and listen to us play shit hot records in dark bars and we're always looking for decent leftfield(ish) bands or musicians for Constant Friction. Ideally acts who will fit in with the kind of stuff that we play at the club nights so have a looksie through our music list and if any of it sounds familiar then get in touch :)

Music:

Yeasayer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Merck, Mantronix, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Ultramagnetic Mcs, Dj Shadow, Devo, Beatles, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Deerhoof, Sol Seppy, James Brown, The Smiths, Gram Parsons, Pete Rock, Dr Octagon, Gang of Four, The Stones, Uffie, The Clash, Optimo, Tom Vek, Kraftwerk, Jamie Liddel, Mogwai, Spank Rock, Sparklehorse, Avalanches, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Diplo, Fujiya and Miyagi, Manitoba, Ed Banger Recs, Four Tet, Koushik, Cansei Der Ser Sexy, MIA, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, M83, Ulrich Schnauss, Vitalic, New Order, Bob Dylan, Tunng, MSTRKRFT, Viva Voce, Quantic, Art Brut, De La Soul, Johnny Cash, Herman Dune, Battles, Feist, Mf Doom, Dangermouse, Edan, Project Jenny Project Jan, Jape, THE WHIP, Arcade Fire, Kavinsky, Portishead, Beck, Gamm, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Jon Spencer, Brian Eno, The Knife, Justice, Brian Eno, Roots Manuva, Pavement, Radiohead, SFA, Warp, Tv on the Radio, The Gossip, Tapes n Tapes, At the Drive In, the fucking DFA, David Axelrod, LCD Soundsystem, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, The Beta Band, Rage Against the Machine, Soulwax, ModeSelektor, Hollertronix, Crosby Stills & Nash, Modest Mouse, Lee Hazelwood, B52s, Modern Lovers, Ninja Tune, Serge Gainsbourg, Marvin Gaye, Simian Mobile Disco, Wire, Gravenhurst, Stevie Wonder, !!!, Orbital, Adam Freeland, Aphex Twin, Meat Beat Manifesto, Wire, Squarepusher, Metro Area, Underworld, Peaches, Joy Division, Iggy Pop, Led Zep, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Joy Zipper, The Jackson 5, Run DMC, ODB, Daft Punk, Bonde Do Role, Roots, Kenny Dope, Main Source. That's it, everything else is shit and I won't listen to it. Except The KLF and a few others.

Movies:

Rushmore, Dazed and Confused, Grosse Point Blank, Old Boy, Scratch, Dark Days, Amelie, Time Bandits, Battle Royale, Being John Malkovich, Children of Men, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Waynes World 1 & 2, American Movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner, Rules of Attraction, Dr Strangelove, Dig!, North by Northwest, etc, etc, etc

Television:

Twin Peaks, Freaks & Geeks, 24, Arrested Development, Brass Eye, Dexter, Monty Python, The Day Today, Undeclared, Kenny Vs Spenny, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Partridge, Lost, Adam and Joe...

Books:

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut / Catch 22 - Joseph Hellier / Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger / 45 - Bill Drummond / Phillip Pullman stuff / Douglas Coupland / Some Chuck Palahniuk

Heroes:

The parents of Evangeline Lilly for having sex that time, The Todd, Steinski, Stephen Fry, Hunter S Thompson, DJ Shadow, Bill Drummond, Wayne Coyne, Terry Gilliam, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Bill Hicks & Chris Morris. Most people called Bill are ok.

My Blog

To my real friends

There's too many of you. I can't fit you all in my top 24. Some of you I'm sure will be devastated to hear that. Deal with it. Big up the extended team massive. Booyah! x
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:04:00 PST

RL's Review of Constant Friction 02/02/07

Here's a nice little review of last weekends shenanigans by Constant Friction's newest superstar DJ Rock Lobster... aka Steph... aka the ginger one.......     Ok, I might as well just c...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:57:00 PST

The Arcade Fire

I need a couple of (or even just one) tickets for one of the gigs at the Apollo in Manc land. I imagine if any of you have any spares you're just going to stick em on eBay and make a sm...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:30:00 PST

Pointless friend requests

So, I've just spent the last half hour sifting through 40 odd friend requests that I've received in the last week and accepted about 3 of them. Where are all these people coming from, I usua...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:09:00 PST

I have become...

...A Myspace goon. What happened?? I'm dicking about with photos of myself in a miserable attempt to look edgy, writing pointless blogs (Look....... here..... pointless innit) and filling in feeble qu...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

FUCKED OFF...

Edited... Note to self: Don't write ranting self absorbed blogs whilst pissed and pissed off. Ok...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:07:00 PST

MY COMPUTER HAS DIED!!!

Yep, it's fucked. It was being a bit wierd when I got in today, then i left it on while i went to get some soup (mmmm tomato soup) and when i came back it had turned itself off. Now it won't turn on a...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:38:00 PST

Paintings and tings

I've put some piccies of the paintings I do up on my profile. Have a look and then tell me which ones you want to buy. I'll have a proper website sorted by the end of November, I'll then let everyone ...
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:24:00 PST

Bats

None of the following can fly (unless in an aircraft or having been flung and that's not really flying anyway): dogs, cats, sheep, cow, tortoises, badgers, shrimp, a spider, humans, frogs......
Posted by CONSTANT FRICTION on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:06:00 PST