As the poster above suggests, we’re honoured to play X-Ray Horse’s first birthday. Congratulations guys, I didn’t know you could keep a horse contaminated with that amount of concentrated radiation for the period of a 12 months and still pull off a great line up like this one, effort. We’re headlining the evenings festivities, supported by the Elephant Keys, Nephu Huzzband, Roman Android and DJ’s sets by Lucy? and X-Ray Horse DJ’s and a special set from our tentacle trio DJ, Baron Von Badd.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE…

We’re also supporting the Broken Door in the launch of their debut album on the 27th of February @ The Dog and Partridge in Bolton. We originally put them on last year at the still hiatal improv night Consoul and recently did a spot of recording for Emma from TBD, also be on the look out for Barkers remix of a new Broken Door track.

Good friends From the Kites of San Quentin are performing one of their future dub, vocoder, wonder marvel sets. Should be interesting. Last time we got together was great and seriously painful the next morning. Shouts to El Bloody Boyo.

Also on the bill are Manchester based quintet, With That Knife playing, what has to been described to me as a northern take of At The Drive In & Motion City Soundtrack. Check ‘em out

See you Friday,

- Out.

On Friday, I’ll be Manchester. From the Kites of San Quentin are hosting ‘This City is Ours’ and are bringing the Tentacles and myself over the pennines to rock a special one off performance in Salford at the Sacred Trinity Church. Tickets are £5 in advance and it’s being powered by Gash soundsytem. I’ve been told that the building is fantastic and is an amazing place to hold a live performance, because of the gigs surroundings tickets are limited and punters have been asked to respect the building, so no funny business. Saturday we’ll be playing down in Bristol at The Junction.

I’m also having some technical difficulties with some plug-in’s on the site so at the moment the Tweet Feed and the MP3 Player seem to be down, I’ll have those back up and running A.S.A.P
Update:
Thanks to AFDIT the site’s little issues are all resolved.

Linkage

• This City is Ours (Event Info)
• The Legend of the 7 Black Tentacles (Facebook Group)
• BBC Raw Talent Sheffield
• ReMixed in Sheffield
• AFDIT who fixed the conflicting plugins causing the site problems.

Tramlines has been and gone but it doesn’t mean that Sheffield still isn’t hosting a top line of Musicians, DJ’s and Producers week in week out.

The right honuary Gordon Barker has released an amazing collection of remixes revolving around a very angry Partridge styled answer phone message from his disgruntled boss. On the playroll are an amazing host of artists including M.I. Loki, Squire of Gothos, Deadbeat, K.I.D. LI.B. to name a few. Distributing an online release is Sheffields own Planet Terror Records, who’ve steadily been pushing new music on their Netlabel, including releases from Barbarix, Robo Kotch and Titus 12.

The EP is a punchy mix of Dubstep, Ambient, Dub and Experimental showing off some of the diverse talent and production from those detrimental to the Sheffield scene.

The tracklisting:
1. Barker – Big Bad Bernie
2. K.I.D.L.I.B – Big Bad Bernie (K.I.D.L.I.B Remix)
3. Andulus – Bomb A Drop
4. DeadBeat – Big Bad Bernie (DeadBeat 4×4 Remix)
5. M.I. Loki – Big Bad Bernie (M.I. Loki Remix)
6. Anagramm – Big Bad Bernie (Anagramm Remix)
7. V3xation – Big Bad Bernie (Battered Sausage Remix)

You can download of a copy from the Planet Terror Records website (or click the image above you). You can also listen to my remix of Barkers  ’Big Bad Bernie’ dubbed the Battered Sausage Remix on my myspace page.

I also designed the  cover and promotional poster. – Observe how I serve.

You can catch me and Barker both weaving the legend of the 7 Black Tentacles with the rest of the scribes at Shambala this Friday: