Ok this isn't a blog about sports, but is anyone really searching via catagory? Myspace is surely mostly used by bands and people who have some inexplicable thing against facebook right? No offence to Tom, who I'm sure won't take offence.

Tonight we played a show for the lovely Alex MacHorton of the mighty Glasswerk Promotions here in little old London town. At the Borderline, where our soundman and my brother in law Brien saw Tim Rogers from You Am I play a solo set last year.

It was a 14+ show.

I'm not going to pretend that I know what anyone other than me likes to listen to. In fact, half the time I'm not sure what I like to listen to, other than the stuff in my folks record collection and the few bands that changed my life massively over the years (essentially The Beatles from my folks and then Rancid, Sublime and The Strokes for me. Random I know).

But tonight a few things happened. We can book Friday and Saturday night gigs at some of London's finest pub and club venues til the cows come home and dance silently in that way that they do, somehow managing to be large and uncouth bovines and delicate unicorns of love, but a night like tonight, the early in the week 'industry night' is a new thing for us. We spent ages getting the stage of being headliners for weekend club nights that I would have cut both my arms and both your arms off to headline and now we play these nights, the nights that we started playing ages ago! What goes around comes around and flicks you in the nipples it seems...

We also played really well tonight. We really don't make music for anyone else but the four of us in the band. It's a mix of our opinions and thoughts, and we all have a few things in common and a few passions. This is coming from the fact that the band after us were really good. I mean, lots of fun, great sound and cool. And it hit me. They were subtle, nichey and lovely, and there were things that they did that we wouldn't do by choice (and I'm sure they'd not want to be like us), but I wouldn't want to be them in a million years. There needs to be bands like them, like Mumford and Sons (who I do like a lot) and the kind of band that come after them. But it's not us.

We're not going to be arty in a way that makes you stop and think about the sensual and subtle changes and nuances along the way. We're not going to be indie low fi cool anytime soon. But goddam holy shit balls to the wall. We love what we do. We write big songs. Songs that are good without you having to think about why or how. Choruses like brain tumours, verses like sledgehammers. Our subtleties will make most bands choruses (chori?) blush. I'm not saying it's for everyone, far from it. I'm just commenting on what makes us us and what makes them them.

I couldn't give a monkey's hymen breaking orgasm about any other band, and I'm not asking you to think about us in a new and different way. In the same way that tonight is making me want to re-write pretty much all the lyrics in our current set, it's just what it is. Which is exactly the point of Dead on TV. We have never made apologies or explanations. This has gone on a bit now, but I guess for me it's been a bit random over the last few months. Discovering the difference between honesty and being honest with music.

Roll on we say.

Roll on and Niko don't leave. You're part of us>

Roll on.

Right then it's nearly the weekend and thank god for that right?? I mean seriously, what business does the week have being all long and slow, when everyone's favourite dance partner Miss Weekend seems to fly by like a missile homing in on the poor unsuspecting residents of Fun Town.

Those poor fools. At least it'll be quick. Which is my problem.

Whatever though right? We're all good and happy and the like so it's aces all round the table.

I'm just going to write about the gigs we have booked from now until Christmas and to put a challenge to you (dare, double dare, physical challenge. win). We're not going crazy ballistic as yet with the gigs, as we're letting the songs build up steam themselves live, and of course we're still looking for a drummer (KNOW ONE? ARE ONE? GET IN TOUCH FOOL) to step into Niko's slippers, but we do have some really fun shows coming up between now and your mum, so here we go!

Monday 2nd November @ The Borderline
This is booked through our dear and darling Alex MacHorton and is going to be fun. It's strange that bands spend formative time working up towards headlining places like Barfly and 93 Feet East on Friday and Saturday nights, and then you work really hard to get on good 'industry nights', which inevitably mean going on first or second on a Monday or Tuesday. But hey, at least we realise it and off we go - we're on 2nd so it's still reasonable for a school night, and we promise to have you home in time for dinner. Or something.

Friday 27th November @ Barfly Camden
This one was offered to us on a silvery platter (it may actually be pewter) by our fabulous man in the hat Mike Lightford, and we gobbled it up greedily expecting desert, but he's still in the kitchen, probably having a nap right now. It's always a big one at the Barfly on the weekend, and we intend this to be big even by those standards. Though my parents fly in from Australia the next day, which means I will no doubt still be drunk, awake when they arrive. Won't they be pleased?

Friday 11th December @ The Black Heart
It's our new local and new favourite pub, tucked away from sight in Camden Town and we're running this night with Matt and Nat from True Grit as The Losers Disco. It's going to be loads of fun so you'd best be there. There will be Rock Aerobics, us, The Standards, dress up and it's all a bit Christmassy too.

So - if you get to all three of these rather unique and sexually eniticing shows, and can, at the last show at the Black Heart, produce for me evidence that you were at all the shows (I'm thinking more photos on your phone than signed affa davits) then I will buy you a drink, to celebrate your status as one of our finest and most dedicated stalkers.

Everyone loves a stalker, and everyone loves a free drink, so we see this as pretty much win-win-win!

Have good weekends sweet peas of destiny

xx

right then, diving in without thinking too much about specifics...

what's going on with us? right, well so far we've played two gigs and had two line up changes, which means I should make the most of this blogging business as it looks like my number's up in two more, and who knows, it might be me next, in which case, nice knowing you. I'll be the bitter guy in the front row heckling and crying a little bit, but I'll say it's not crying it's manliness being forced out because one body can't contain this much goddam manliness. You heard me.

But despite line up changes, all things are moving in the right direction. Good gigs, we're settling into the new sound a lot more. Naked rehearsals with the lights off are helping immensley of course. Playing music only by smell and touch, in that order. I mean that's just properly gross. But at least the lights are off.

We're filled with big ideas, some of which we might even pull off (if you know what I'm saying) so expect some offensive merchandise to be available at gigs, boots of cars near you soon.

Is there much of a story yet? To be honest when I've blogged before it's so focussed on pushing a band as a product and ended up being no fun at all. So much like the new band with the new songs, we're just gonna sound it out and grow into it, and hopefully we'll be roses and not watermelons grown in square boxes - still tasty, a little bit random, but still square, and I don't care what Huey Lewis says, it's not hip to be square. It's not hip to be anything. People shouldn't use the word hip unless they mean it as a joke, or slamming it (you read it here first).

SOOOOOOO.... what to expect?
The simples of it, the upses and the downses of what we promises to bring to the table of your choice are...
storming live shows. we want you involved. we want your sweat and a little bit of blood (non period related please) and we promise to give everything we gots for ya.
songs to make you feel something. even if it's something a bit shit. we've had a vote and we've all agreed that we'd much prefer you hated us more than anything in the world, more than my dad inexplicably hates lettuce of all kinds, than to sit their quietly not sure about where you stand. we may draw a line on the dance floor so you can choose sides (no standing on the line)
a complete lack of bullshit. we've been there and licked that ass before, and it's not only no fun for us (not fans of the date) we think it really sucks the life and fun out of being in a band and playing music you love. so, if we think it's funny, it's going on a t-shirt which is going on your boobs/moobs/next to your laptop if you happen to be No Bra.

I also hereby promise to not do anymore bollocksy us against the world this is our mandate on how we're gonna change anything. we're happy to just make music, get mad at/drunk with each other and do our thing. it's nothing more than a rant, and one that we might change tomorrow.

speak soon sweet cheekses xox


Us at 93 Feets Easters


No Bra @ the same gig. (Offensive DOTV t-shirt next to laptop not pictured)

OK kids,

Here's the info for the launch show - one week out and counting down. It's going to be busy, big, busty, beautiful and no doubt bouncy as well, and you'd best be coming along to swing your sex at us.

xx

Hosted By:
Dead on T.V. & Bugbear Bookings

When:
August 21, 2009

Where:
The Dublin Castle
94 Parkway
London
NW1 7AN

Description:
It's the launch show for Dead on T.V. and we've stolen the keys to the Dublin Castle and are making it our own. Get ready, it's going to be fun.

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