most of the scenes for the skywatchers video today.
children with masks on terrorising adults.
wardy looked terrifying in his finnish drunken clown make up. i think there would be a future for him in children's entertainment, if there weren't such strict guidelines.
here's one of the masks.




just listened to thirsty moon (german prog). now listening to italian prog masterpiece 'inferno' by metamorfosi.

still got a cold. curry will sort it.

might watch 'the last man on earth' later.

put three skywatchers tracks on the player. they are all of the forthcoming album. 'dead flowers for her' is the first single. venik is the singer. notes for anoraks...the string, flute, choir sounds on 'small lights' and 'do you want to go to space young man?' were played on the mellotron m400. the solo at the end of 'lights' was played on a jennings univox.

been making papier mache masks for the skywatchers video. mutated versions of a pig, horse, zebra and goat. i'm going for the surprised look. wide eyed and mouth open.

did our guest slot on Jonny Trunk's OST show on Resonance FM yesterday.

It was thoroughly enjoyable. Cheers Mr Trunk for asking us.

I don't know if it was podcast or anything.


For those that missed it, we played music from: From Beyond The Grave, Forbidden Planet, Callan, Tombs Of The Blind Dead, Macbeth, Quatermass Conclusion, The Thing, Hausu, The Mutations, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, Watership Down, The Jungle Book...

We saw The Golden Hinde too.

blue is indeed a fine brew. 4.9%.

we're on with recording more stuff with our girl fronted band now.

PEOPLE SOUP

started a new track a couple of days ago. metal chuggalugg rock with a power pop side salad if you will. i know what i'm talking about, even if i'm confused.

we'll be doing a myspace thingy soon, when we have finished recordings for you.

fyi the three marvellous girls are called PHILLY, DANNI and CHARLOTTE or if you like CHARLOTTE, PHILLY and DANNI or if you like DANNI, CHARLOTTE and PHILLY.


we're guests on jonny trunk's OST show on resonance fm next saturday. that's the 21st of novembuary. we'll be talking about soundtrack related stuff that we like. i'll try and cram in as much prog rock as i can.

http://resonancefm.com/

resonance 104.4 fm
saturday 21 novembuary 4:30 - 6:30pm



say hello to i monster's little white dove which appeared at dean's house today and is having difficulty flying off. it showed gratitude by shitting in it's water dish.


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Skywatchers album is finished and will be released early next year.
Some tracks are in a slight I Monster vein and some aren't.
Visit the Mice pays page.
Here's the cover art. We dream of being Victorian humanimals.




The girl fronted project is resuming recording. We are called People Soup for now.
More on this later.

Deejayed at Sean Rowley and Christian Laing's Cover To Cover night at The Queen Of Hoxton in Hoxton, London last night. Had to have a piss on the hard shoulder of the M1 on the way back. Plus further pisses at various service stations along the way. Seven cans of Red Stripe has to go somewhere.

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here...

The new Storm Thorgerson book 'Classic Album Covers Of The 60s' is out now!
It features our 'A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars' cover in it's full gatefold glory.
Our cover is in the post 60s section.
It's published by Collins & Brown. ISBN-10: 1843405490 /  ISBN-13: 978-1843405498
The ideal Christmas gift!





Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Album-Covers-Storm-Thorgerson/dp/1843405490/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256672477&sr=1-8

you people.

November 16 should see the release of a double CD/download mix album for Platipus Records. It's in the Art Of Chill series. Ours is number 6. Who is number one? I am not a number, I'm a free man! Where was I...?

So, it's called Art Of Chill 6 : Mixed by I Monster
It's quite different to what is commonly regarded as 'chill'. It's still a mellow ride, but not for bubble baths. We're not bleedin' common.

There's two, 60+ minute mixes done by each of us and includes three exclusive I Monster tracks to tantalize and tempt.

The I Monster tracks will be available separately as an EP through iTunes.

Here's the front cover image...

oh!

done lots of new tracks this week. mostly about outer space and it's coldness. but we feel it has a warmth too.

listening to the second algarnas tradgard album 'delayed'. psychedelic isn't a strong enough word for it. bloody fucking cosmic twatting wang dang doodley psychedelic isn't nearly 0.3% strong enough a word.

i monster ep details soon.

we are djing in london on the 6th november. cover to cover. more details soon.

i'm going for a wee. more details soon.

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the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight.

but i'm not here to talk boxing, milk products or large cats.

i'm here to say we have a download ep coming out in october.
we've got 'dear john', 'daydream in blue - bbc radio 2 session version' and some other tracks available soon.

been busy busy busy with writing and recording new tracks. we hope to be djing in london at 'cover to cover' on november 6th. more details soon.

they'll be a new myspace page for our new project soon.

piss off and let me listen to van der graaf generator now. my finger is bent and tired.

lots of new tracks together.

these are for Skywatchers and our other project, The Venus III

sorting tracks for next i monster ep.

listening to superb quebecois band harmonium.

drinking lager

watching sci-fi film later