My radio mixtapes

Hi everyone. I'm back after doing some projects around the world and would like to ask again for anyone who's got my 'OTs John Peel mixtapes' to seed them again. Why? Well, my external hard disk that had all my music on has now died and I don't think I ever got the whole set again. My other request for this is a bit lower down the page so please, if you have them, I'd be very grateful.

A few links for you

This is my last post for a while as I'll be off doing some voluntary projects around the world.
These haven't been uploaded by me but are ones that I was glad to find.

The Jackofficers - Digital Dump is a weird album from Gibby Haines (Butthole Surfers and Al Jourgensen (Ministry, etc.). It's more electronic/ industrial that the BS's stuff but I think it's weirdness makes it an interesting listen.

The Becketts' 'Lust' EP is a good selection of indie rock. I posted one of their songs before and if you like British indie from around 1990, this is for you.

Here are two Ultra Vivid Scene albums: Joy was their 2nd album and Rev their 3rd and last.

The Blake Babies' Earwig is Julianna Hatfield's band. This is from 1989 (indie pop).

And lastly, the Loveblobs' Prehistoric Extraction is a compilation of their two EPs (indie rock).

I would also like to inform you of my books (ebooks) that I have on sale on Amazon. There is a work of fiction, a Spanish for beginners book, a children's story and my biggest work which is a new system of government.
Here is the link to the list for the UK
And on Amazon.com

So, all the best, I might not post on here again.

The Would Be's

From Irishrock.org, "Wonderful indie pop band formed in early 1989 by the three Finnegan brothers, evolving from an their earlier band called The Nobody’s. Another brother James Finnegan managed them and footed the bill for the recording and the first pressing of 250 copies of their debut single, released through Danceline Records. This single was famously championed by John Peel. It is more easily found as the UK pressing on Decoy. 17 year old singer Jilie McDonnell left the band shortly afterwards, replaced by Eileen Gogan. The band reformed in 2000 with a new singer Karen Cunningham."

I took notice of them as I thought it was amazing that a band that sounded this good could have such a young singer. I was only a couple of years older myself, at the time. Their stuff is hard to get now but I've got their singles compilation (Silly Songs for Cynical People) and Peel session (4 songs) which altogether make for a great 12 track album.

Download it here

I'm Hardly Ever Wrong:

The Stone Roses live in 1995

Hi. Just a note to say I've put a concert on one of my other blogs, which I have posted on for ages. Click here to see it.
I don't know if any of you responded to my last post, but if you did, thanks for seeding part 2 of my mixtapes. I still don't have part 1, so please seed if you have it. Thanks a lot.

A request :(

You may have seen that I deleted my disc with all my music on. I have now realised that I didn't back up my OT's John Peel mixtapes - volumes 1 and 2. If any of you have them, can you please seed them again as I put so much time into making those files and it is very sad to feel that I've lost them all again.
If you can help me with this, thanks a lot.

Tiger - the singles part 1

This was a band, that, in my opinion, were very underrated. I have loved them since the first day I heard them but they only lasted two albums. Fortunately, for those of us who liked them, they released many other songs on their singles but they are impossible to buy now.
But, I've made a compilation of all the singles from the We Are Puppets album, which totals 15 songs. They have all the A and B sides of Shining in the Wood, Race, On the Rose and My Puppet Pal. So, it's like an extra album.
If anyone wants, I can upload the singles from the second album, too.
Download part 1 here
and here's the band performing My Puppet Pal live on TV.

The Family Cat - Peel sessions

I feel like posting stuff on here again. Mainly because I have some stuff that isn't on sale anywhere or otherwise available and I feel it is my responsibility to share it.
So, following my Family Cat post recently, I told you I'd lost some of my music. I got some of it back from the link I gave you put their Peel sessions are very hard to find now. I have two of the three that they recorded (the first two) and a couple of extra tracks.
I'll leave it you you to find out what they are but there 10 songs altogether, including one song that was never released. There is an info text in the zip file, too.
So, click here to get it.
If anyone has their third Peel session, it would be great if you could upload it or send it to me and I can post it here as well. Thanks.

A link (non-music)

Even though I added the link to this site in the links panel, I would like to put it here to be more noticeable.
It is for the site "The Hypothetical Government", which is about a new system of government. I think we can all agree that in the current times, we need something different than the 'old politics' and this offers something not far short of a revolution. There is also an ebook of it on Amazon, so I hope you are interested in taking a look.
Click to visit the site

Just so there is some music for you, here is a folder I put together for a friend a while back with a selection of Rare Indie Classics' songs. I can't remember what's on there now so I hope you enjoy the surprise!

Whatever happened to The Family Cat?

Sounds like a Grandaddy reference but it's actually about the above-mentioned band.
It's very hard to find their stuff these days but after buying some stuff online and tracking down songs that other peole have uploaded, I've put together an almost-discography but I know there are many other people out there who'd like to hear their old stuff again.
EDIT - I accidentally deleted all my music off my hard disk when I reformatted the wrong one! Luckily, I had most of it backed up on CDs but not the Family Cat stuff! So, instead, here is the link so that you can download most of their releases yourselves. It's all on rap1dsh4re and medi4fir3 so it'll take a while to get it all (an hour or so) but at least you won't miss out.

PS. I know I'd quit this blog a while back but this is too much to keep to myself.

Zouch - However (new album)

This is the preview of my 2nd album which is now available on iTunes, Amazon and lots of other music sites. More indie-rock than the first, this is mostly made up of older songs of mine, including some studio recordings when we recorded 2 demos.

Zouch - Suddenly (album preview)

This is my first album release, which is available on iTunes right now. The images you see are various paintings of mine.



Visit the new Zouch blog, too!

Pink Fluffy Suicide - Tell Me

A song I wrote in 1990, recorded on a 4-track in 1993 with vocals and guitar and layered on bass and drums in 2009. Before now, I don't think anyone else has ever heard this song! (It never got used for the band.)

My latest blog

As this blog is finished but I see that many people are still finding it, I'll take this chance to promote my latest project.
Full Online Films is where you can watch complete films online. It's a place to aggregate films that are scattered all over the web. Just visit it and you'll find out all the info, of course.
If you'd like to link to it on your blog or site, great. Let me know and I'll do the same for you.

And here's my cover of Pixies' Wave of Mutilation

Morrissey interview 1985 part 2

This was requested when I posted the first part so this is the other side of the disc and it is the final recording that I will share with you.
Those of you who have followed this blog for a while will be aware that I have not enjoyed the fact that hardly anyone has thanked me for all the music I've transferred from cassettes, LPs and radio shows as well as having taken the time to upload them and find out information about the artists for you. Therefore, I've had enough and while I'm grateful to everyone who has left comments here, from the stat counter, I know this is a small minority of visitors. So if you want something for nothing in return from you, like a kind word of 'thanks', then go elsewhere; you don't deserve anything.
PS - If you can't download some of the songs from here anymore, it's because I've deleted them from the server.

Morrissey part 2

McCarthy (and me)

Here's a video (sort of) that I put together using the lyrics and cover from the cassette of this album. I'd posted some McCarthy songs before but thought I'd show you this too. It has lyrics that are very relevant to society today even though it was released in 1990.



And this is another of my songs, an instrumental, with a simple video to accompany it on YT.
I'd appreciate any comments and ratings to be left on the YouTube pages. Cheers.

Morrissey interview 1985

This is the first half of an interview recorded for Australian radio around the time of the release of "Meat Is Murder". It was released on a picture disc, which I bought ages ago. Whereas nowadays it would be easy to get hold of such things, back then it was quite a rarity to hear something from foreign radio.
Anyway, it's about 20 minutes long (this first part) and saved at 64kbps as it's only an interview. If enough people would like the other side posting, I'll record that, too.

Part 1 - download

Number One Cup

This is the name of a fairly short lived band from Chicago. They were active between 1993 and 1999. The only song I knew of theirs was Divebomb, which is a great indie-pop number that would go down well at any good indie disco. I'd recommend them if you're into The Breeders, Pavement or The Flaming Lips.
As my account with fileden has reached the limit again and the other site I use for individual songs is not loading, I can point you to another web page which has links to the song mentioned as well as a few other tracks by them.

So click this and you can check them out. It's actually a page from the singer's website, which has more music and art to look through.

Also, here's a film I made with my girlfriend doing the filming. It's based on a poem by Jacques Prévert which I wrote some music for and made into the song.

Pink Fluffy Suicide - Dream

A My Bloody Valentine-inspired song from 1990 that I still like, especially the guitar riff.
I only played this live once at our first gig (PFS was the band name).

Zouch - Tangled Up

An acoustic, bluesy type number from the "Suddenly" album, 2007.

Zouch - Snooze

A song I wrote in summer 2007. A little indie-pop number.