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one step on from tribute bands: gigs where musos perform note-for-note recreations of classic albums
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9th May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sith Reaction
The BBC has a round up of reviews for The Revenge of the Sith over at their website. The chimps gatecrashed an early screening yesterday and will be posting our own report shortly...
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Chimpomatic Review
Revenge of the Critics
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All Time Box-Office
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Not sure quite who counts all this up...
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7th May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sonic Youth MP3's
BIG selection of B-Side mp3's available at sonicyouth.com. Their site is very cool, but not that user friendly - so you might want to try link number 2, for all the same files...
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homefires
mugison's playing at adem's london homefires festival - sounds good:
Saturday May 21st (doors 3pm)
James Yorkston, Adem, Badly Drawn Boy, Hot Chip (acoustic), Jesca Hoop, King Creosote, Lau Nau plus more guests and DJs along the lines of Jarvis Cocker, Bob Stanley, Beth Orton
Sunday May 22 (Doors 2pm) :-
*Very Special Secret Guests* Adem, Alasdair Roberts, Scout Niblett, Jose Gonzales, Espers, PG Six, Amina (Sigur Ros string collaborators) etc.
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6th May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Crimony Behaviour
If you liked Mike Watt & The Secondmen, check out Crimony, a Watt side project - fronted by Paul Roessler, who is playing keyboards on Watt's current tour.
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dude uk
probably too late for a chimp showing, but there's some lebowskifest uk action tonight in streatham
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Sherlock Holmes Audio
A nice antidote to NWA - the entire Conan Doyle catalogue of Sherlock Holmes stories, available as mp3.
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Sin City
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino
Pretty spot-on adaptation of the Frank Miller super-noir graphic novels, packed with a great cast. Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke are vying for "hardest bastard in town"; Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Brittany Murphy, Devon Aoki and Jaime King as "hard dames not necessarily in need of saving"; Nick Stahl, Powers Booth, Elijiah Wood and Rutger Hauer as "evil bastards"…
If you've read the comics it's like they've come to life - it's basically a shot-for-shot translation, which works way better than most other comic-to-film adaptations. all that's missing is the words. If you're new to the stories, it's like they've taken the Raymond Chandler/Mickey Spillane aesthetic and beaten it into a bloody pulp. Even Clive Owen can't ruin this film.
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vote zappa
or just vote… remember, there are people voting for the first time who were born in the year of the lost boys.
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Short Film Screening
Recent short film "Waiting for Movement" is going to be screened on Thursday May 5th, at The Fleapit cinema on Columbia Road, alongside another Film London commission "Peace & Quiet" and some other shorts.
The film program will be screened twice: at 6.30 and 7.30
The Fleapit
49 Columbia Road
London E2 7RG
Don't forget to vote in the morning.
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4th May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Meltdown
Don't miss an early rise on Thursday to snag tickets for the many great gigs at this year's Meltdown festival. Patti Smith is at the controls this time, with a show by Television, plus Frusciante, Jeff Beck and others doing Hendrix being the chimp favourites so far.
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Meltdown your credit card here
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Rockin' the Sickness
Caught Mike Watt's live punk rock opera "The Secondman's Middle Stand" at the ICA last night. The low key turn out was first deafened by the awesome rock onslaught of support band Capricorns, before watching the entire opera played out as one long piece. Watt was appreciative of the support and the crowd was rewarded by an awesome encore of The Red & the Black, plus a thundering rendition of Corona, with Paul Roessler filling in both vocals and D Boon's missing guitar with his Hammond organ.
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Mp3 Blog
Mostly difficult links to illegit dodgy albums, but there are a few little gems on the Reagan Youth website... such as some live Wilco and a recent Gregg Allman gig.
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2nd May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
velvet gallaghers
now oasis are ripping off the velvets, the who and "glam"
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1st May 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Quicktime 7
Apple is moving things up a notch with the release of Quicktime 7 (Mac only for now folks, PC version coming soon - make sure you update, as the chimp video section will require it). The first pay off is trailers in HD video.
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Batman Begins HD
Fantastic 4 HD
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30th Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
chimpomatic tech update
We've been updating some features of the chimpomatic site this weekend, so hang tight if service is temporarily interupted. News comments are going to be a new feature, plus a few more bits and pieces. The news archive will be back online soon.
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A few favourites from Mark Arm
Charles Mingus - Ah Um
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Amon Duul II - Tanz Der Lemminge
The Flesh Eaters - A Minute To Pray A Second To Die
Jon Wahl - Sour Suite
Red Kross - Born Innocent
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Check the full interview over at buddyhead
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29th Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Windmill Blowback
Mugison on storming form at the Windmill last night - sad as a truck, i'm on fire, CY all great plus an oustanding murr murr to finish and Gael Garcia Bernal in the audience… doesn't get much better
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Mix Up Flyer
Mix it Up with the the Chimpomatic DJ team this Sunday in the swanky Great Eastern Hotel members bar.
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Beeches Report
Caught the one-day-it-will-be-legendary first Beeches gig last night at the Bull & Gate. Good stuff from these Railway Inn graduates. Check surveillance section for snaps.
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More Fear of Music...
...this Friday at the Legendary Montague Arms in New Cross (do these guys ever stop?). Check surveillance section for flyer...
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mugidates
26th April @ Dempseys in Cardiff
Wednesday 27th @ Parker Place in Holborn, London with Tunng and Kid Carpet; 51 Parker St WC2 BPS. Nearest tube – Holborn, £5, Doors 7.30
Thursday 28th @ The Windmill in Brixton, London with Semi Finalists; Mugison and Semi Finalists @ The Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton SW2. £3 www.windmillbrixton.co.uk, Door 8
Friday 29th @ St Brides Centre, Edinburgh with Arab Strap
Sunday 1st May @ The Tron Theatre, Glasgow with Arab Strap
plus Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music? is out on Accidental on May 2nd. First 500 come w a bonus DVD - live footage, interview, general mugistuff
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1st Birthday of I Swear I Was There
WOLFMAN AND THE SIDE EFFECTS, THE IDLE LOVERS, FINE LINES, TEAM B, WILLIAM, THE LOW EDGES, THE GHOSTIES, GRAND DELINQUENTS. DJ's: DIRTY SOUNDS, OLLIE GUY, CHRISTOPHER, JANE DEANE, JONNY DJ.
@ The Venue Basement Bar, and The Six String Bar.
£6 adv. Both venues. Email tickets@twentyfourrecords.com for more info.
£3 Six String on night.
£5 Venue on night.
The Venue Basement Bar, 2a Clifton Rise, New Cross // 9 pm - 2 am
Six String, New Cross Road // 6.30 pm - 11 pm
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Romance in NX
some local action for SE London chimps: Agent Blue video Romance is being screened on Tuesday 26th April at Cafe Crema in New Cross, London, during the iConscious Music & Film Festival.
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I like the Pope, the Pope...
white smoke? surely all smoke is white. don't make much of an effort, do they?
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20th Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fear Of Music Special
@ The Venue Basement (New Cross)
Friday, 22 April 2005
w/ Lady Sovereign (full live band), Punish The Atom (live) & The Pipettes (live)
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19th Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
blockbuster ok shock!
the hitchhiker's guide to galaxy gets the "nowhere as near as it could have been, in fact, it's quite good" surprise rating. plus they were giving out towels, which is always useful.
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New Malkmus
New Malkmus! "Southwestern Blues, INXS, Simon and Garfunkel, Turkish Psych, are only some of the references for FACE THE TRUTH."
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The B.O.B.
chatty dylan breaks cover to read some bits from Chronicle
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Bob's Top 10's
Check out Bob Pollard's all-time top 10 records (circa 1997):
1. Beatles - White Album
2. Wire - 154
3. The Who - Who's Next
4. Alice Cooper - Killer
5. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
6. Big Star - Radio City
7. Devo - Are We Not Men, We Are Devo
8. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
9. REM - Murmur
10.Beatles - Abbey Road
Plus, here's a look at Bob's faves of that year (1997):
1. Upper Crust
2. All the Ghost reissues
3. Mirrors/Electric Eels/Styrenes, Those Were Different Times
4. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Straight to Video
5. Candy Machine, Tune International
6. Jim O'Rourke, Bad Timing
7. Tar'd & Further'd, Siltbreeze compilation
8. Jamboree tape (demo - no label)
9. Polvo, Shapes
10. (tie) Sleater-Kinney and Lynnfield Pioneers, Emerge
5th Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
new mugison footage
some cool new footage up from niceland main man mugison… murr murr sounding esp great live
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is this mugivideo?
mugi snaps by ari magg
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2nd Apr 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
KOTR
KICK OUT THE ROCK is back in business.
Friday 1st April
PUSH Bar
93 Dean Street
Soho
London
8pm - 1am
Free Entry
29th Mar 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Magnetic
Damon & Naomi, Sleater Kinney, Arcade Fire. Seems like Magnet could be a good read.
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