Hey hey!

So I thought I'd take it upon myself to let everyone know what we're doing or not doing right now!

Call The Medic, Call The Nurse!! seems to be quite on the quiet side with us all doing other things and such.

We don't really know what's happening with the band right now (do we
call it a hiatus? or maybe a break with no specific re-commencement
point? perhaps the second one).

OK... right now...



Kyle is playing drums with a couple of bands. One is called The Revery
who do are kinda rock and roll, kinda hardcore. The other is un-named
and is a recording project with some friends of his. I've
heard bit of it and it sounds nice and brutal. Neither have myspaces at
the moment, though I'm sure they will soon.



Dave is, last I heard, recording a drone guitar solo project. Lots of delays and heaviness and such.



Ham is still playing bass for Yeah Bears and recorded an album with law enforcement inspired hardcore band, Crime Night.



Matt is still doing vox, guitar and bass for Hira Hira.



and I (Simo) am still playing as Simo Soo and have started a new band called electiclitoris.



Thanks so much to everyone who has been messaging us about things still. It's really nice to read.

See you soon?

xoxo

simo

hi hi!
if you go to....

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yrllfnml01f

you can download our whole spectrum show in mp3 form.
heres the setlist in case you want to know whats on it first

Excerpts From The Diary Of
Set The Vocals To Karen O
High School Sporting Grounds Cemetary
JR Kimball
Can We Please Get More Wes Nightmare In The Foldbacks Please?
Finglonger. Fling! Fling! Fling!
I Can Phillip Collins In The Air Tonight


so yes go nuts
xo

Nina Hagen you have such great hair
Bratmobile wrote a song about you
I can never understand what you're singing about but I'm sure it's tops
I really do like you but I like Kate Bush better
But you have much better hair than her
Oh it's so fucking red
Ooo I just wanna eat it

hi

so we have a completed ep we need to put out and know we have a lot of indie labels, distro and pressing types on our friend list so i figure this is the easiest way to address you all.

we're all really proud of this recording and can't wait to get it out. anyone who would like to help would very much appreciated. we're happy to put it out ourselves though the idea of indie label backing would not be shunned upon as we a) don't have a ton of money to release it and b) would be grateful to be able to get it into the hands of people we might not be able to on our own.

so if anyone out there in internet-land is interested send us a message and well have a friendly chat.

either way were so excited to get it out and travel to new places to get it to many many new people

thanks
simo & ctmctn

p.s. we have shirts and badges we'll be putting out soon too, well let you know how you can get one if you want one. ta

Hi!
Simo here. So we recorded today. Here's what happened told in a story telling type of way beginning at the start of the day, obviously.

Kyle and Dave picked me up around 9 this morning after spending all Saturday recovering from Friday night, I was feeling a little not too good. A good night's sleep still hadn't really fixed me up, but Refused, slurpees and cigarettes on the way helped things along.

We got to the studios at around 9:30, woke up Tim, Ham arrived and we started loading our vast array of instruments we'd brought for the day in. 3 guitars, bass, drums, 2 keyboards, violin, mbira, percussion stuff, melodica, noisy spring echo thing I'm not sure of's name, similar thing in mic form and clarinet later we were ready to go. Unfortunately, the PC we were recording on decided to be a bastard and not work. So a few phone calls and a trip to the shops for food later (where I bought a BRILLIANT kids piano for $10, if you've heard of the band Y Pants, it's the same type they used) we started tracking the 2 songs that we had to do from scratch.

First up we recorded our newest song 'Set The Vocals To Karen O' (a lovely ditty about not having anything to sing about because everything that could ever be written about has allready has been written about, with cheeky references to our song 'Penguins Shmengiuns'). We got basic drums, guitars and bass down second take and moved onto overdubs. During the droney-repeat-times-lots end Kyle sat by Dave's guitar and handed him screwdrivers, butter knives, drumsticks and tongs to make noise with at his disposal (see photo below). Kyle played clarinet on the song.



After that we did a song which at the moment goes by the un-imaginative title of 'Drum Intro', a song we usually play first or second in our live show. A repetitive noisy number which could be our ode to Some Girls' 'Deathface' in that it repeats and repeats to the point of wanting to break things and not in a testosterone stupor but out of sudden insanity brought on by it's repitition (thanks to my best friend Kimba's $36 Yamaha PSR 4600 synth she bought on eBay and a part I only wrote 2 days ago it calms down in the end, though). We did many many tracks of guitars on it. 6? 7? I don't know. It's no 'Siamese Dream' but that's a lot of guitars for us.

THEN! Ummmmm we added bits and pieces of guitar and melodica to '...Cow Creatures'.

Then it was on to recording vocals to '...Karen O', 'Penguins Shmenguins' and a song which goes by the terrible terrible (Yes, Ham) working name of 'Cheese Riot'. Tim liked the song name, but he would.

'Set The Vocals To Karen O' was easy and quick and other manner of words with good meaning behind them. For the ending Dave, Ham and I read things which was then reversed for the recording. It sounds evil but really Dave was just reading our recording schedule for the day, I was reading an article from the Alternative Press and Ham was (I think) reading random lyrics of ours from a song book.

'Penguins...' was easy. We weren't able to get our friend Kat of Emergency! Emergency! in with us to do a spoken word part for the ending as she couldn't make it BUT Kat if you're reading this we have to go back to do vocals for a song we didn't finish vocals for (which I'll explain in a minute) SO get in touch! Hooray!

'The song which will soon be formally known as Cheese Riot' was rather horrid to us. We all really like this song. It's probably been our most easily accessible song. We've played it live maybe 3 times at the most but we can never get the vocals right. Today was of no exception. At one point Dave even sang the vocals of our song 'And I'm Paraphrasing At Best' over it (this was the first song we ever recorded, it was me and Dave screaming over electronic beats). So that song for the short time-being will remain instrumental until we go back to mix everything.

After that we were all quite fammished. We burnt 3 copies of it, showed Tim a Damn Arms video clip, he showed us some stuff on Youtube and we went our seperate merry ways.

Twas a lovely day. The EP is nearly finished and we all really really came wait to get it out so we can show it to all our friends and be happy and listen to it ourselves when no one's around.

That's all for now
K bye!
simo
xoxoxoxox

So last weekend me and bass wolf ham spent a lovely night in the sunny town of Newcastle watching some brilliant bands (The Let-Go!, Furcurve, Hospital The Musical and Ohana) and DJing some lovely tunes between them (I'll try to form some kind of playlist in this blog). We had ever-so-much fun. Thanks so much to Murray and the Let-Go! for having us and we hope to be back in Newcastle super soon to play shows with their lovely selves and peoples.

Here's some songs we DJed (I don't know order and I'm sure I'm forgetting songs here):

Björk - Human Behaviour
Shellac - Prayer To God
New Order - Ceremony
Pixies - Hey
ESG - Come Away With Us
Prince - Sexuality
Love Like... Electrocution - I May Have Cried a River For Him But He's No Depardieu
The Slits - So Tough
Fugazi - Rend It
Hella - Hello Great Architect of the Universe
Sleater-Kinney - The Fox

Plus TONS of other stuff (yeah messy night)


Here's some photos...

'curve






horse piddle








'hana



lach, dean ham



ohana, furcurve, simo



hospital mike, ham

our synth is sick! it needs medical attention. if anyone knows anything about analogue synths and decent places in order to get one looked at place contact us asap. its a roland sh-09. were very worried.
it can be seen here on the left




please help, you could save a vintage 70s synth today!

while i can remember heres what we played today on 99.9FM. thanks so much to john for having us

call the medic, call the nurse!! - jr kimball (demo)
call the medic, call the nurse!! - no playing with the dirty cow monsters, gir. this is serious what we do (live)
the stockholm syndrome - the pattern maker
love like... electrocution - hunger like numb toes on an oslo sidewalk
oh! belguim - cold cold kiss
emergency! emergency! - my mittens
the mission in motion - exhale you
irrelevant - in the wake
seven star prison cell - vexed
furcurve - caligraphy (well we were going to play it but it was allready in the playlist)

i think that's all we played, i cant actually remember now. if you didnt hear it you also missed a ripping live acoustic version of jr kimball. well try and put it into an mp3. sweeet

simo.