Yay! A new Bomb The Music Industry! song/video!

Bomb The Music Industry! – “Everybody That You Love” from Bryan Schlam on Vimeo.

So, last night I went to see The Cortège play their first gig, at the Proud Galleries in Camden.

Firstly, an odd venue for gigs and the staff seemed to think everyone there for the gig were likely to be knifing people or something. Weird. Anyway, The Cortège were excellent. For those that don’t know, they feature Barry from In Search of Apollo (Jon and Steve’s old band) and they’re well worth checking out. They’re really fucking tight already and have some killer songs. Shame that they were sandwiched between two god awful indie bands.

The first band managed to sound like some terrible school Razorlight cover band playing their first gig at a talent show. This wasn’t helped by the fact that the venue looked like a scout hut or ymca, albeit with a noncey bar, rude staff, expensive drinks and a wholly unnecessary smoke machine that covered the entire room in smoke. The second band, who were on after The Cortege, were much more professional than the other indie dross before them, but equally as shit. Their singer looked like an indie Gary Barlow and their bass player looked like a rapist. Odd, but strangely entertaining!

So yeah, everyone go and check out The Cortège:

The Cortège on myspazz

and here’s a rehearsal video:

Our good friend Dave Hughes has just released a new EP and it’s ace. It’s seven new songs (6 originals and one cover) and they make up the demos for his bands next release, recorded on an old tape player in one take.

Head here to have a listen/buy for the bargain price of £2 (or more if you’re being generous):

Dave Hughes – 7 Songs

So, it had to happen eventually. Even to me. Ladies and Gentlemen of the interwebs, I present to you, my very first fan video. Thanks Jamie!

Ooh look, new music by Naomi Hates Humans. Go check it out:

Click here for awesomeness

and here’s the final two parts of the tour video:

Part 3:

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The ‘Find a hole and fill it’ tour 2010 – Part 3

Part 4

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The ‘Find a hole and fill it’ tour 2010 – Part 4

At last, the tour video is here. For your viewing pleasure, I give you parts one and two…

Part 1:

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The ‘Find a hole and fill it’ tour 2010 – Part 1

Part 2:

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The ‘Find a hole and fill it’ tour 2010 – Part 2

Enjoy! Parts 3 and 4 will be viewable very soon…

So, I’m back form an ace tour. It was a laugh from start to finish. Big thanks to everyone who gave us a gig, put us up for night, fed us, listened and said hi.

I’ve transfered all the tour footage to my computer, so there’ll be a video somewhere in the near future, but for now here’s an ace video of Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun performing ‘Battles’ from the Bristol gig. Enjoy:

I was just looking through some of my old videos on youtube and stumbled on this gem from 2006. There wasn’t much I loved about the Bournemouth music ‘scene’, but Si Genaro and The Poet Hi-Ho were two of my favourites both musically and personally. There was never a dull gig with either of them around.

So anyway, here’s us three giving our own unique take on ‘Garageland’ by The Clash, at The Green Room back in 2006:

What’s that? You’d like to hear me ruin a song by Bomb The Music Industry!? Ok. Here you go…

Future 86 – Bomb The Music Industry! cover by adamboucher

I recorded this last night while testing out the fourtrack app on my iPhone. Everything except the lead guitar line was recorded with the app and the iPhone’s internal mic. I dumped the tracks into Pro-Tools, added the lead line (the distortion is from a Pro-Tools plug-in) and chopped out a few fuck ups. I totally messed up the ending but ho hum.

Enjoy… For some reason it’s not downloadable through the embedded player. Click through to the actual soundcloud page if you want to download it.

I love BMTI! and you should check them out if you haven’t already:

Bomb The Music Industry!