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Last Updated: 12/2/2009

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City: Wandsworth
State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 11/12/2007

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Thursday, November 05, 2009 
If you fancy hearing us babble on for a bit and playing a few tunes, have a listen to the below!

Big up Chris & the Continental Drifts crew.

I think our bit starts around 24 mins in, but the whole show is excellent!

 http://www.sendspace.com/pro/pn5141


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 

Friday, Chai Wallahs 8:15pm, in the middle bit with all the shops, big herbal tea place, groovy.

Friday night (Sat morn), The Bimble Inn 1am, in the Park field down at the bottom of map.

Sat night (Sun morn), The Snakepit 2:15am, in Shangri-La bottom right of map.


SEE YOU THERE!!!!!  ARGGGHHHH!!!

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 
Friday 29th May

Queen of Hearts present...THE CORRESPONDENTS and friends
9:00pm- 2:00am / £7


Queen of Hearts bring you another weird and wonderful night,
OF UPS AND DOWNS, TWISTS AND TURNS...

STARRING:
** THE CORRESPONDENTS **

DJ Chuckles and Mr Bruce : together thisduo play swing with a contemporary twist;

the Big Band sound of the 20s and 30s is revamped for the 21st Century like you never heard before.

See them for the last time before they hit all the Festivals who leapt at the chance to book em.



A night a fun and frolics with
A SELECTION OF THEIR VERY SPECIAL FRIENDS!!

INCLUDING:
Fabulously entertaining
***JEANNIE DEE***

You will Not Be Able To Help Rub Your Magic Lamp When you See Jeannie

If We tempt Her She May Performer Her infamous Bed Of Nails


** puppeteer Juanita **
A mind twisting performance
She will Tease you then take you two steps further than one.

DJ's Mr Bruce, Studio 45's Guests, Gary the Tall

Stomping Blues, Hot House Swing, Mambo Pop !
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 
Blurb below! Best to get there nice and early as it's a popular one.

See you there!

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Saturday 2nd May - ** QUEEN OF HEARTS **
9PM-2AM / £7

Brought to by the 'Cream Revue' Gang
An unbelievable and glorious night Of Swing and Rock 'n' roll with FIST FULL OF TWIST
WE WELCOME YOU TO THE RED ROOM....

Somethings aren't quite as they seem on this night of revellry!

Dip , dive , dance and jive as if the world is ending.....or beginning.........
OUR HOST WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH THE TWISTS, TURNS AND UPS AND DOWNS

LIVE ON STAGE:
THE CORRESPONDENTS
THEY'RE BACK - WITH BRAND NEW MATERIAL ESPECIALLY FOR US This veteran duo play swing with a contemporary twist; the Big Band sound of the 20s and 30s is revamped for the 21st Century.

BE BAFFLED BY.......
OUR OTHER WORLDLY PERFORMERS
Let the bum bum tattooists brand you with their mark- what does it mean?
blink and you'll miss 'em..........

WORKING MEN'S FAVOURITES AND RESIDENT DJ'S,
MARTIN GREEN AND RONNIE KING
WILL TAKE YOU BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH MUSIC FROM THE 50'S TO THE 70'S
a dance phenomenon

Think: DE- JA VU HALLUCINATIONS / DREAM SEQUENCES / FAIRYTALES / TWIN PEAKS / OTHERWORDLY DANCE HALLS / THE TWILIGHT ZONE / TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED / IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE / THE SHINING / MADHATTERS TEA PARTY / ALTERNATE WORLDS

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Monday, April 20, 2009 
Ahoi,

Just a quick message if you're coming down tomorrow night, to what should be an excellent event at an excellent venue, please could you go to our facebook page (or here) and put your name down for the concession list?

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It gets you in £3 cheaper!  Think how many pints you could buy with that!

Toodaloo,
Mr Chuckles


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 

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Zing!



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Thursday, April 09, 2009 

Just put a new track up!

A little new something I've been working on since I got my nice new Mac & Logic Studio.  It's sample free and just an example of other things I like to work on.



Apparently Mr Bruce doesn't like the guitar at the beginning...

Well I don't like him...

Lovingly yours,
Mr Chuckles

P.S. oh and look, 70s funk/country with borderline camel toe!





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Thursday, March 26, 2009 



Ooo, haven't written here for a while!  We've been getting some complaints that we don't update our page enough, so here I am.

Right well where to start.

Had a reletively chilled beginning to 2009 (at least compared to the end of 2008).  Not quite the 4/5 gigs a week thing we had going in December.

Well we've been slowly but surely working on new material.  Anyone who's caught us recently might have heard a few new beats and bobs.  Some cool stuff coming, a few collaborations and what not so watch this space.

Festival season is starting to come together.  Glastonbury, Glade & Lovebox are confirmed.  Looking into Secret Garden Party & Bestival as well.  Might do a set somewhere at the Camden Crawl.  Got a gig coming up a Cargo in June which should be dope! 

Oh, and lots of weddings.  Gotta love weddings.  Mr Bruce does the most lovely rendition of Brown Eyed Girl.

Oh and we're playing at Selfridges for 3 Sundays!  Not quite sure the set up or timings yet but if you want to have bop while you're buying your summer hampers pop on down.  Will definitely be during the day.

We've been spreading our wings recently too.  Cardiff, Belfast, Brighton, possibly Swindon!  Will someone please book us for NY btw.  That's the big one.

Umm, what else.  Just got a DVD of The Day Today.  F-ing genius.  I just got my first Mac, not as in Early Learning Centre, but a proper G5 with a new copy of Logic Studio.  Yummy... 


Also...


I'm pregnant.


Umm, not much else.  Here's a new old Mr Chuckles track btw!  Called "Wanna Go Home", cheeky little swingy broken beat number...

............

 http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4i6iw1

Keep it reel, off the hook, definitely not bait,
Love,
Mr Chuckles





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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 
Arghh!  It's out!  And on our page! 


It's got our parents in it!


Yes!



Credits below, big ups to all involved.  We love you all!  Might have a proper screening at some point, but we'll have to see...

Performed by The Correspondents


Written, Directed and Edited by Ed Kevill-Davies (http://www.edmundkevilldavies.com/Welcome.html)


Dancers were Rosie Woodward (www.myspace.com/preciousisis) and Wendy Bevan (www.myspace.com/wendyrosebevan)


Equipment supplied by Alex Wykes


Make Up by Kristina Vidic


Stills Photography by Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf


Guests:

Muffn and David Bruce

Henrietta and David Cole

and Viv Maclean


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 
Hmmm, just realised the link to buy our EP somehow dropped off the page!

It's back up, and just in case you missed it you can download it from Sounds Orange for 5 sterling here!

http://www.soundsorange.com/package.php?la=24&genre=%

Bring the noise,
Chuckles


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Friday, February 06, 2009 

Track:  Werd

Made:  About 2 or 3 years ago.

Artists:  Angry Rabbit Productions.  www.myspace.com/rabbitsong

Vocals:
Futuron (www.myspace.com/circusofcircles)
1BlindMic aka. Brickdust Shovelface / Salvador Gnarly (www.myspace.com/1blindmic)
Me!  On vocals and production...

About:
This was a crew I was rolling with back at Uni.  We put some dope tracks together.  Good times...

Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/k7wks5

Also check out the well funny music video we made here!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7558075034814955086&ei=GB-MSanrOovKiQLohsS9Cw&q=angry+rabbit+productions+the+munchies

p.s. I fucking loved that cap!


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Monday, January 26, 2009 
Track:  3/4
Made:  About 2 or 3 years ago.
Artists:  Mr Chuckles (producer & rapper)
About: Right!  Now you can finally hear a bit of yours truly rapping!  A cheeky little double time solo effort.  Might even perform this live in Correspondents sets so watch out for that!  My rapper alias was Typerite back then btw...
Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/0rsk2m

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Friday, January 23, 2009 

Ahoi!

Right next up is a bit of Jump Blues meets Rhythm & Blues from
Wynonie Harris. This guy is the fucking don! If you think lyrics these
days are suggestive you should check out some of his. Here's a small
sample, "Bloodshot Eyes" is probably his most famous hit (covered by
loads of artists, but originally a country track by Hank Penny in
1950), another hit "Quiet Whiskey" which probably has one of the best
intro's I know, and "Keep On Churnin ('Til the Butter Comes)'" which is
well, you can probably guess what that's about!

I play quite a few of these before our sets so you might recognize a couple...


Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes 1951
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/u1fksv


Wynonie Harris - Quiet Whiskey 1953
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/3pb9t8


Wynonie Harris - Keep On Churnin' ('Til the Butter Comes) 1952
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qu2fwy


Edit:  Ooo, and I just had to add this seeing as we're on the R'n'B tip. It's definitely the best version of this song I've heard.

Little Willie John - Fever 1956
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/pc0std


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Monday, January 19, 2009 
Track:  Look What You Get
Made:  About a year and a half ago.
Artists:  Mr Chuckles (producer)
About: Samples "300 Pounds Of Joy" by Howlin' Wolf.  Was never too sure what to do with it, I suppose it was going to be a Hip Hop track with rappin' and what not.  Anyway I really like it!  Goes a bit Big Beat in the middle with other little changes...  Enjoy!
Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/1et6z5
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Friday, January 16, 2009 
This is another little thing I've been thinking of doing for a while...

Basically PD stands for public domain, which I quote from Wikipedia refers to "a range of abstract materials - commonly referred to as intellectual property - which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose."

This basically means that any music (or any other "intellectual property") falls out of copyright after a government legislated period.  In the UK this is 50yrs after the year it was first published.

This is good news for us (and you)!  As it means that I can sample anything made before 1959 and not have to worry about being paying for samples.  I'm not sure if I completely agree with this, but hey, the law is there...

I'm not a big fan of illegal downloading, although I think it serves a purpose and has done more to promote music since the radio was invented.  However, all very well and good complaining about Britney Spears not being able buy her 5th Malibu mansion, but it does have serious implications for ground level music.  Ask any professional musician.

Anyway I've decided to offer you guys a couple of PD tracks that I think are dope, every now and then.  This isn't illegal, nor is it not profitable for the industry as I'm pretty sure you guys reading this aren't going to be the sort of people ordering easy listening compilations from Reader's Digest!  New demographic and all that, and if some of you like what you hear you might go out buy some more!

Expect a lot of Swing, Rhythm & Blues, 50s Pop/Rock, Blues, Jazz etc...  Music your grandparents listened to, but hopefully the good stuff!

So here we are, first up a tracks by Frankie Vaughan from 1957...

"You've Gotta Have Something In The Bank Frank"

http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/arrenk

"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"
http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/glbtlv

Peace,
Mr Chuckles!
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