Ugly

Saturday night saw the launch party of the double CD, 'The Ugly Truth About Ipswich'. The CD features many bands from Ipswich's 30 year back catalogue, along with more current bands doing the rounds. I'm particularly pleased, as one ex-half of Pindown, to be sandwiched between Earth Mother Fucker and Tender Lugers, two of my favourite tracks on the release. Alongside such delights are Extreme Noise Terror, who are the only band on the CD who can claim the duel boast of inventing a musical genre and to have appeared on stage with KLF at the Brit Awards (R.I.P Phil), and the short but perfectly quaffered 1980s pop icon Nik Kershaw. Ipswich's musical history is nothing if not diverse.

The launch party featured Henry Homesweet, The B. Goodes, These Are End Times, Jack Rundell, The Waxing Captors and Broken Shapes (ex Life And Times Of) across two rooms in an Ipswich venue, with a CD being given away with the ridiculously cheap admission price of £1. However, fear not if you didn't make it and want to get your hands on a copy of the CD, it is available from the Antigen Records online shop for £0.99. More details about Antigen Records can be found on their Facebook page.

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Pindown

Pindown circa 2009. Photomontage for The Ugly Truth About Ipswich CD booklet.

The Ugly Truth About Ipswich

image: © antigen records 2011

"Antigen Records, in association with Corndog Records, are relieved to finally announce the imminent arrival of The Ugly Truth About Ipswich. A definitive 2 CD compilation featuring 30 years of pop, rock, punk and unidentifiable strangeness from some of the most successful and innovative Ipswich artists."

Well, I can now proudly say that I am going to be on a CD alongside Nick Kershaw. Well, not directly alongside him, Pindown are in fact sandwiched between Earth Mother Fucker and Tender Lugers, but hey, Nick will be opening that particular CD from this 2CD set.

Too many other bands on there to mention here, check out the immense track listing on the Antigen Records Facebook page here.

The Ugly Truth About Ipswich compilation. 2CD set for 99p.

Released 23 April 2011.

Hyper upload

I've just added two videos to Vimeo, Aggressor and Hyper Reality. Both were made in 2009 as additions to the projection Jason and I performed in front of for the last Pindown live outing in Colchester in the same year. The rest of the backdrop was made up of older pieces of motion I had made for a gig the previous year, as well as footage by long time collaborator Richard Rasu.

Of the older work I had produced for the backdrop, these were mostly culled from my existing foray into experimental film making; Back Chat, Contractual Freedom, and DigiDigitDigital, all of which are available to view on Vimeo in their original state.

These two pieces are not intended to be viewed as 'music videos' as they were created to be seen in a live environment, partly to add another dimension to the aural assault that was Pindown live, but mostly to take attention away from the fact that Jason and I weren't exactly a dynamic presence on stage. They have been added now, with the original recordings of the tracks as they appeared on our 2004 Democracy In Action release, as a document of work I've done to date. While this is something I've been meaning to do for ages, now that I look at these out of context of them being designed for a live environment, I'm not particularly keen on them although I do feel they suited their purpose at the time of their production.

Production note:
The reverse type in the Hyper Reality video is due to the fact we needed to project with the use of a mirror in order to get the visuals to fill the wall behind us when performing on such a small stage.

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Dubdog on Vimeo

Dubdog on Vimeo

I've been meaning to set up a Vimeo account for a while after I realised a few months ago that my Ourmedia files had broken links. Currently uploaded are Contractual Freedom (2006) and the second film I ever made, Back Chat (2005) which hasn't previously been available to view since it appeared in an exhibition 6 years ago. Unfortunately I've had to remove the audio from Back Chat for legal reasons, which makes it less effective, but as an exploration in the process of filming then refilming footage, it just about holds together.

In the near future I plan to post DigiDigitDigital, my 2007 film exploring digital delay, as well as films I made in 2009 that formed the backdrop for the last Pindown performance Jason and I did in Colchester.

These works are being posted to document an explorative process I went through several years ago. I currently have no plans to make any more films, although as I start to investigate MA courses to do in September, this may well change.

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Vimeo