Shirokuma GO!

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Well then. After months of mulch, stress and hangovers Shirokuma is GO!

To recap: Shirokuma is a old, dear friend of mine whose album I produced mid to late last year. At last things are ready to roll, records are pressed, website up, band rehearsed etc.

The first EP, "Moonlight in the Afternoon" is out on the 16th of Febuary on Faith and Hope records. The rather tasty album, "Secret Moves at the Midnight Chess Club" will be out a few months later.

Myself and Jarlrmai are backing him up live, along with avant-house pioneer Robin MacKenzie and J-Pop wunderkid Naoko. Expect sloppy beats, daft dancing and lyrics about cats. The only date I can slip you so far is on the 13th of Febuary at the Retro Bar in Manchester as part of To Amy With Love. Details:-

http://www.toamywithlove.co.uk/

We should be hitting London, Scotland, Liverpool, Nottingham . . . basically everywhere sometime soon but I've not got a confimation yet.

The website is live, put together in the main by my lovely girlfriend Celeste and is at

http://www.shirokuma.co.uk/

There are previews and full non-album mp3's there. Have a listen.

I'll be adding to this when I know tour dates etc.

P.S. Apologies to Nick Southall for my lack of communication over the last couple of months but this has had my focus. I'll be in touch.

P.P.S. Did I mention I'm putting out a record myself in a few months? Probably. Oh well. I'll give all details on tours and discs for that when I know what's going on.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Rawk! Go forth and do what needs doing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right. If you go to the site grab "My Second Dream". Ace track. Any feedback on the mp3's will be much appreciated.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 26 January 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Dum de dum . . . . FEEDBACK YA GEFFERS!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck Lynskey.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone in Manchester can check out City Life this month which has a loverly feature on Shirokuma!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone got the 29th of Feb issue of the NME? (i.e. the one two weeks ago)

We think the single was reviewed then and we haven't got a copy.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

No-one then. Cheers.

Anyways, the gig is tommorow - any Manchester ILXor's fancy coming down, meeting myself and Jarlr'mai and having a general knees-up?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 12 February 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone must!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 February 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheers, Ned. Nah. Me and Jarl were saying we should've called this thread "Dizzee to record new track with Outkast" in an attempt to get all these concensus-circle-jerkers to pay some interest. I mean whaddaygottado?

Seeing as I'm probably going to be talking to myself on this thread I think I'll use its ignored nature to give my opinion on some ILM faves

Loveless - It's marvelous. Been with me for years.

Hey Ya - It's entertaining but i'm sick to death of hearing about it

Dave Matthews - Tosser. Evil.

Dizzee - Fair play lad, not my thing though. Nice attitude, shit clothes.

Emo - Fucking boring

Undie - Fucking boring

Basement Jaxx - I am utterly ambivalent towards them although they strike me the band a lot of early thirties blokes say they like to feel a bit younger than they are.

Junior Senior - Die you fucking novelty shitheads

Justin Timberlake / Nu-Pop in general - See my Basement Jaxx answer

Kelis "Milkshake" - I'm glad it exists but I'll never hear it out of the context of it being in the background whilst I'm shopping for cheese

Kompakt et al - See my Basement Jaxx answer

The Darkness - They're not worth hating. They're not worth anything.

Do we like the Scissor Sisters? - Do we fuck. What is wrong with you people?

Franz Ferdinand - Awful, awful, awful. They make me feel like time is slowing down

Are accusations of tokenism valid re: Pazz and Jop - DO YOU PEOPLE REALISE HOW SMALL YOUR FUCKING BUBBLEWORLD IS? GO OUTSIDE! GET SOME FRESH AIR!

Should Calum be banned? - Yes

Has ILM gone to shit? - No

Should Aja be allowed to post? - No

The Strokes - Yay or Nay? - Nay. Studied charmless bullshit that people like because its never occured to them not to like it

The Strokes backlash - Yay or Nay? - Nay. It's studied journo obviousness that people latch onto because its never occured to them not to

Timbaland - He's alright

Ryan Adams - an Andreas Johnsson for our times

Has the NME gone to shit? - Yes, but they gave props to the NEW SHIROKUMA SINGLE THAT IS OUT ON MONDAY AND IS THE BEST FUCKING RECORD YOU'VE HEARD IN MONTHS YOU GODDAMN NAVEL-GAZING WIERDOS

Is music in general going to shit? - No because there is this dude called LYNSKEY who is putting out a record in a few months that at least attempts to address the problems and sheer fucking helplessness of being just another digital non-entity in this sheer fucking sea of flesh and information rather than going "She-she-she-la-la-la" or having a rilly-rilly-grebt-spikejonzezes-vidyo featuring robotic cats or some other shite like that.

But you don't give a fuck do you. Back to your mindless revolving conversations about whatever you think makes you one-step-ahead of all the other identikit dregs that make up humanity.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

d/l'd those tracks and listened. "my second dream" is indeed ace. shall have to listen a bit more to give fuller-bodied opinions, however, am enjoying what i've downloaded so far! :)

am nowhere near the right continent to go see the show; alas. :P

― janni (janni), Thursday, 12 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheers! Who'd've thought a huge rant would've got a response?

Ace. "The extreme always seems to make an impression" as someone said once.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 12 February 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

huge rants getting responses is a tenet most of blogging culture is based upon, isn't it? ;)

i actually was going to respond BEFORE the rant, after i'd downloaded the tracks. you, however, beat me to it!

― janni (janni), Thursday, 12 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all kicking off in a few hours

MANCHESTER WHERE ARE YOU ?!!

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

They have so much to ans-- *is poked with sticks*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The car is nearly here. Nerves are setting in.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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