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City: manchester
Country: UK
Signup Date: 11/8/2006

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Friday, March 06, 2009 


Thursday, February 05, 2009 

Current mood:  obsequious
When we recorded the song  YOU ARE THE NEWS.
October 2008.

 IFFY brought his video camera to film a fly on the wall day out. There is a lot of footage that  is for our eyes only. We not only got to put down the song that day, we also had a good laugh! Doing it. It was filmed at a the side of a canal in Burnley Lancashire.
We had the waterways depot for a day. Whilst setting up our equipment, I noticed a box of little pink plastic bags. They  were called GUM&BUTT bags. The purpose of them being,  too  put used chewing gum and cigarette butts in. (some one from the ministry of stupid ideas must have left them there for a demonstration).
During a tea break from recording, we did a spoof video , totally camping up the gum & butt bags.
You see a little of it , about two minutes into the video. Where PETE bends down and demonstrates the product.
(he has not been the same drummer since watching BROKE BACK MOUNTAIN.)
Any way after many nights on the computer,  IFFY has created a video masterpiece.

He deserves
A: a pat on the back for all the hard work
B: A slap
C: both of the above

Finally I have to apologise for how large my stomach looks on the video .
I know the camera adds a few pounds in weight but the cut on that tee shirt  is to blame
(plus all the sandwiches that late summers day) I have lost the gut since then.

Andy:-)
PLEASE WATCH AND ENJOY!!!!!!

Monday, January 19, 2009 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Music
New song YOU ARE THE NEWS.

This is the second song from our Who the **** is Hughie Dibble? Project.
Most of the songs in this venture are very long and complicated. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
We decided to do something around the 3 minute mark, that was very basic and catchy.
There are only three chords used in the song .also it needed to sound like something from 1978/1984.
Hopefully in the mode of  say THE CARS, THE POLICE, or ELVIS COSTELLO.
When the song was first demoed with band, it had a laid back NIRVANA feel to it.
When we finally got around to recording the song ,it became more punchy and disciplined so the whole favour of it changed. As always  with  us ,its anther FREE DOWNLOAD.
So if you like YOU ARE THE NEWS please add the song to your profile and spread the word.
As  Neil Peart once wrote  “ no one can exist in a vacuum”

Andy Swindells
Jan 2009YOU ARE THE NEWS

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Firstly Scarborough fair a Christmas song?. Possibly. Whist we were practicing some vocal harmonies for our next song titled "YOU ARE THE NEWS" I was messing around on the keyboard . After sifting through some of the preset classics that are musical midi files on my Yamaha. I chanced upon this hidden gem.

I thought the arrangement was very very dark and sinister . The story of "something wicked this way comes" by Ray Bradbury immediately sprung to mind. The flow of this version feels like a prelude to an event . Almost in the way that the world is going through transformation. There is unrest and insecurity ,

When was the last time we all genuinely laughed ,and had real hope in our hearts?

Anyway this recording was never meant to see daylight, it was a bit of fun.

The thing is, I cant get the bloody tune out of my head. So as a mater of catharsis , I have posted it on myspace in the hope that by January I will be sick to the teeth of it. I hope you appreciate this tune as it will be a one time post. I had to remove the song GUNSLINGER ROLAND to slot this in.

That song and all the other DARKTOWER songs can be found on our Widget player in the middle of our page. Its worth having a look at some of our other songs there especially our tongue in cheek James Bond song DEVIL MAY care.

Lastly the picture for Scarborough fair, was taken yesterday in my local park , my car was snowed in ,so I took the dog for a walk about. The colour of the sky was a weird blue I couldn't resist taking a few snapshots.

Andy:-)

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 

Current mood:  rockin
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

NEW SONG NOTHING PERSONAL!!

Here is the latest song by us from our forthcoming album "Who the **** is Hughie Dibble"

It a new concept thing that we are having a lot of fun with.

We hope to have a new site up and running within the next few weeks (or months) to put the new songs on.

For now they will have to share the Dark tower page.

Hope you all enjoy it! Feel free to spread the word but most of all turn the volume up and boogie.

Andy:-0

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 

Current mood:  weird
Category: Music

http://thekillershrews.weebly.com/index.html

3 NEW KILLER SHREW SONGS

For you guys any way ! Dead reckoning ,Inconsistencies and zero. Are three songs that we recorded many many years ago but we still perform them in our live set . You can find them on our weebly site .

the address is one the myspace website link.

Last night we were all set for recording the drums for our next single release called "NOTHING PERSONAL" we set up the drums and PA head for the mikes and IFFY said to me "where is the digital recorder" then realised it was at his house "DOH"! never mind we will have to do it another day.

Until then please try and find time to visit our web site and let us know what you think of the old stuff.

Cheers

Andy.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 

Current mood:Quick-wittedness
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

You should check out this site it is brilliant . A fee website for you all out there. It has lots of good features for uploading videos and music. When I find time within the next few weeks, I will upload some songs from our distant past for you to download an listen to. if there are any songs from myspace that you cant download give me a shout and I will post them there.

Cheers

Andy

http://thekillershrews.weebly.com/index.html

Thursday, April 10, 2008 

Current mood:  blah
Category: Games

Half life 2 death match  game tag  SHREW

At this moment in time I am the number one player on at least two of the 22g half-life servers    http://www.22g.co.uk/

And guess what ? my mouse and keyboard have all wonky since the last "steam " update

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr. So I cant play my fave game. So a big thanks to the guys at VALVE (NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

ANDY SWINDELLS

Wednesday, March 05, 2008 

Current mood:gobsmaked!
Category: Blogging

If you only read one BLOG this year!

Please please go to AREIL (he is in our top friends )

And read the killer shrews revue.

Thanks

Andy:)

Monday, March 03, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic

007 we didn't get through

Sadly we didn't make the last 5 in the penguin James bond theme competition.

Never mind its there loss. We will move on and concentrate on doing some new recordings this year. We have a mountain of great songs that need to be put down.

A big thanks to all of you out there who have dropped by to listen to our songs and support us.

Andy Swindells:)

We will have the last laugh . When penguin realise that they could have had us in years to come.