so its time for a new flyer letting yous all know about it.... if yir feeling supportive, cut'n'paste'n'pass it around

cheers

the 'meanies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRvHI5e_yg

From Glasgow to London, from dawn to drunken unconsciousness, a day on tour with The Amphetameanies...

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

Callum fae Runnin' Feart fanzine took this clip of us thumping through '60 hours in Albuquerque' at the Wickerman Festival 2009.... cheers Callum !

round about the time we released "Now! That's What I Call....The Amphetameanies", it started playing on my mind that we had an awful lot of swearing in our songs.

Not like teenage "fuck you" aggressive swearing, but just that general glaswegian punctuation swearing, you know, isn't the fucking weather a bastard today? would you like a fucking cup of tea, you cunt? etc

by my count, there was cursing, as the yanks call it, in six of the "Now! That's ..." set, and we barely noticed it was there, until we got asked to play a daytime family-type festival in Glasgow, and realised Stan would be stood there, in the sunshine, repeatedly shouting "fuck" through a 20k PA system at mums and dads with toddlers on their shoulders.... so we had to choose the setlist very carefully, and leave off some of the best tunes cos they were just so fucking potty-mouthed :)

so, while writing songs for album number three, I think everyone has been subconsciously on their best behaviour, with the result that there's been 10 new songs so far without so much as a "blimey" or a "drat".

however, trust Captain Tourette's, Mr Mick Cook, to go and spoil our clean sheet  He handed us a set of words last week with the word "fucking", in its functional verb form, used in the region of a dozen times.

so there will be swearing on album three, but maybe we'll get our entire quota out of the way on the one song this time.

catch yous later bawbags

gordy

after some discussion, it has been decided that the sleeve art of Amphetameanies 3 should be a photo of all the empty cans and bottles generated during the course of recording.
photo may have to be taken from orbit, at current rates of consumption.
Last night, Jane was in to record vocals on "Nothing's OK", and helped along by a cheeky wee bottle of red, was sounding very fiery indeed.....simply listening to her sing caused me such a thirst that a six-pack of Red Stripe just evaporated...... while Mr Disco at the mixing desk kept himself compus by sensibly sticking to cider.
recording with the ampheteameanies is magic fun, it really is

every day, try and do something that you've never done before... even if its something you'll never do again
yesterday, I finally ticked "cycle across Glasgow city centre, in the rush hour, with several hundred pounds worth of specialist hydroponic equipment strapped to the baby-seat behind me" off my to-do list.