As a sign of things to come from their/our forthcoming gig @ Slimelight, here's the title track from The Pain Machinery's 'Total Recall' EP which is out TODAY! Woo!
Ramp up the volume and go fuckin' apeshit...

To celebrate the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we'll be hosting a festive eve of industrial elektro terror at the Slimelight on Saturday 9th December. Headlined by those Swedish miscreants The Pain Machinery, who will also be celebrating the release of their 'Total Recall EP' (on Advoxya/First Aid Recordings), with support from DigiCore and Kommand+Kontrol. Tickets are a not unreasonable £8 in advance, which is a bit of a recession-buster when you consider we're throwing in a free night of Slimes post gig.
Want details? Here they be...

The Pain Machinery myspace.com/thepainmachinery
DigiCore myspace.com/digicoremusic
Kommand+Kontrol myspace.com/kommandkontrol
 
Live @ Electrowerkz/Slimelight

7.30PM, Saturday 19th December 2009

Tickets are available online at www.ticketweb.co.uk/user or for those that like to get out and about then ticket are available from those lovely folk at Resurrection Records, Camden.

Feel free to spread the word... here's a miniature flyer to keep you entertained ; )

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Here be the playlist from our Last Men Standing night at The Intrepid Fox. It was loud. It was heavy. It was sheer insanity ending with Backstreet Boys. Honestly, no-one has a sense of humour these days. Ah well, until the next time, feast your eyes (and ears) on this.
Thanks to January and the all the groovy Fox folk...


( Last Men Standing - 23.10.09 )

Apprently not, as Flag prmotions are throwing VNV on @ The Scala next Wednesday evening, not even a week after their headlining show @ The Islington Academy.
AFAIK the Islington show is yet to sell out, though I hear it's very close.
So, good idea? Bad idea? Would folk really want to pay to see the same band twice in one week when we're, apparently, in the grip of a recession and there's a load of awesome gigs (and Christmas) just around the corner??
Crazy times, but it'll be interesting to see how this turns out..

Existing on the lowest strata of the music industry doesn't exactly pay the bills, so the day job for Transport For London is somewhat of a godsend.
Was somewhat surprised earlier on to see, on the frontpage of the company's intranet site, the headline 'Launch of the Mayor's Daft Transport Policy'.
If only it had been a genuine typo as opposed to actually being the result of my cack-handed inability to read , but, in my defence, I had been rubbing my eyes a lot beforehand...

...And business is good.
Why is it that when I come out with possibly my smartest ever bon mot (that doesn't involve cocks or farting) that there's only one person to hear it. And he didn't get it.
Earlier in the week we attended Alex (editor of Metal Hammer) Milas's birthday bash. On stage, one host asked "What do you get the man of metal that has everything?"
To which, quick as a whip, I replied to the nearest mate: "A sacrificial anode?", to which he just stared dumbly back at me.
So, am I a satirical wit on par with Wilde? Or am I cursed to remain a mook who laughs at his own jokes. Oh, the agony...

Don't know how much attention it's been getting or how popular it will be, but the folks behind Reptile club appear to be putting on "A celebration of alternative London" this Saturday at Abbey Mills in South London.
A load of bands including Kommand + Kontrol, Maleficent, Global Citizen and more besides will be playing and entry to see the bands is free. I can't imagine though where on earth the bands are gonna play unless it's on the band stand in the middle of the market itself, in which case I can see chaos ensuing as the local gentle folks get a tad miffed at the incoming noisebombs and scary looking cyberfolks.
It kicks off at an ungodly 10AM - I won't be up then - and continues until 2AM, nearest tube is Colliers Wood on the Northern Line, though the location is easily accesible by any number of buses from Wimbledon (219, 200. 57, 131)
Good luck to all involved, here be the linky...
http://www.darkmillsfestival.com/

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Highly recommended, if only because we may, or may not, have contributed written blah in one way or another ; )