NEW FUCKING SINGLE

We're releasing Think Fast AND Can The Freedom Regulate The Volume on This Is Fake DIY Records [Bis song names, how cool is that...?] in October. Look at the artwork, by the fair hand of our own Mr D.J.B [T.C] Murtha...



Think Fast was recorded with STATIK a couple of months ago, and Can The Freedom re-recorded with James Bulley the other week. Snippets of BOTH tracks are up on the myspace page.

AND we've got another, extra special, release coming up too. But more about that next week..

This Is Fake DIY

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Recommended Listening

Run Hide Survive



Run Hide Survive are new, and I'm going to sound stupid describing them so just go listen to them at their myspace. They're doing a dj set at 333 (oh dear Lord the poor bastards) this Friday. Go have a look if you can bear the repulsive smear of city boys and chavs that inhabit the venue's dank interior.

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P.S. Kate is at number 1 now. They'll announce it on Friday, but we've jumped in joy already. nothing against Rihanna or Jay-Z, but take that fools.

BAF SHIRTS

Look - Puregroove have started stocking the BAF tees we got made the other week. This means that people more organised than us will be taking the orders and sending them to your doorsteps, so you'll actually get them. Score.

They come in yellow with a red BAF or green with a purple BAF.



BUY THEM HERE FOR £10

Also, be quick. There's 25 in total, which means roughly 2 in each size and color. Oh, and Youth L and Adult S are basically the same size.

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Recommended Listening

The Power Cosmic



The Power Cosmic is one guy. He's called Adam Harper and he sent my mate a copy of his E.P., which is free and really, really good. You can also download most of it off his myspace.

I hate using copious analagies, but his music IS like a casette of 70's library music; stock music for TV programs on a budget, usually composed by Eastern Europeans and/or French people. You'd find it in a box from the musty backrooms of the BBC, labeled 'This is the future' on a scrap of camera tape. It screams to be played alongside grainy documentary footage of conveyor belts in a new West German car plant, but simultaeously the garish black-on-yellow imagery on his site suits the music aptly.

Like Metronomy or About, he's making lo-fi electronic music with an ambiguous musical heritage. It's always so easy to compare this output to kraftwerk but there is clearly more than one band's influence at work here.

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BAF @ Bestival

BAF will feature in a limited capacity at Bestival. That is to say, Dan will be accompanying Sportsday Megaphone as a dancing tennis ball, with many beautiful lady tennis balls and Nic Nell too.

So just get that round your head: Dan The Carnivore, and Nic Nell, on the Isle of Wight, as tennis balls, dancing. Two of Londons' finest dancers on the same stage dancing to Sportsday Megaphone. I anticipate that it will be perceived as the culmination of 10,000 years of human progress. Plus, as I said, many beautiful lady tennis balls.


You can buy Sportsday's new record at Puregroove.co.uk

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R.I.P. Fopp

Just quickly, I know it happened a couple of weeks ago, but Fopp has died and there is a hollow place inside me. All that is left is the Music Video Exchange and then I am dead too.

Tin Pan Alley yesterday

We played the Tin Pan Alley festival yesterday, and it was GRATE. thank to everyone who came and cheered and scremed at us. Including SEDA who was INCREDIBLY DRUNKEN and quite funny...

Also, thanks to everyone who came cos it was ALL AGES. I KNOW, we don't play enough All Ages shows, but we'll do more, I promise. We got two lined up already, see, including the 1234 Festival in Shoreditch Park on the fifth.

We got to meet John Kennedy and Dan Le Sac, two people who've helped us out LOADS, but whom we've never actually met. And then we all went to the afterparty at Metros [urgh] and got a bit drunken and were happily surprised to see that The Ghost Frequency were playing.

Here's a horrible photo that Batteries In My Camera probably don't want me to show...



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Tin Pan Alley

Ah Denmark Street. The mem'ries. It felt like a return to hallowed ground to play yesterday in that pissed up thoroughfare. It was, ahem, instrumental (get it? no? ah whatEVER) in the formation of BAF, since it was through an ad taped to the wall on that very street that I met Tobias and Mark, and three boys began playing guitar to drum machines, and the first mewling sounds of a newborn BAF were created.
Denmark street is also where we still buy all the stuff we lose on tour, and we've bought at least a couple of guitars and a few synths there. We used to rehearse on Denmark Place, and so it was a rushed and drunken honour to grace the stage at the Tin Pan Alley fest.

The rain stopped and the clouds (pretty much) parted as we came on, which was nice, as we looked out on to a couple of thousand mostly confused looking people, did a set by and large unhindered by technical shit-ups and finally met Dan Le Sac. I know, we're terrible, he remixed us ages ago and we've only just actually met him.

Thanks to all the people who came up to us, and the promoters for putting us on. Tobias was pissed off about having to miss Latitude but i think he was okay with it in the end. The girls from We Start Fires were cute.

Mark made an acute remark to the effect that this was probably the only day in our lives that we would be able to say the sentence: "let's go to the job centre to get some free booze"


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Not much goes wrong SHOCK...//

IT'S INCREDIBLE. I CAN SCARCE BELIEVE MY EYES. We played Dollop on Thursday at the Old Blue Last and NOTHING WENT WRONG. AND, to top it all off the night was absolutely fantastic. It was

US. YES, US,
Neon Plastix &
Late Of The Pier

How much better could a lineup get? ANYWAY, here's a sample of the night for those who weren't there. This is the SPECIAL live extended version...

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Geek Corner 3 - 80s heaven

This is old Jen's replacement. It's an old DX21, the FIRST synth i ever bought. It was made in 1984, and it's like a little crappy version of the DX7, which was this classic 80s synth that everyone used.

The main reason we're gonna use it is that the case is made of steel, and could survive a nuclear war. So hopefully it'll be a bit more reliable than old JEN. Also, it's got that cool sound on it that Les Rhythmes Digitales use in "Jaques Your Body".

Bitchin

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PooooNaNa

Brighton is pretty, but nobody likes to come out. Thanks to the people who DID make it. And the lovely sound man and his synths.

My bass amp caught fire. I had to run outside with smoke coming out of it, and fire extinguish it to death. Bugger.

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CTF video shoot

We shot a video for Can The Freedom yesterday. Ian still has to stick it all together, but here's some photos from the shoot...

BE and Artrocker

New photos for you all - we played for Artrocker on Friday, at their birthday partay with Art Brut, and then headlined the BE night at the Proud Galleries on saturday. Pics by Rachel Boston and Abby Cattermole..

Barcelonaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

We went to Barcelone last week to play Razzmatazz, which is HUGE. Freeform Five were playing too and we played at 3am and I don't think we've ever been treated so well at a gig before. Everything was amazing. Look!

Here is Joseph, one of the hosts at Razzmatazz. He hung out with us all night and made sure we were having a good time, and had to stay sober all night, and considering the state of us that must have been quite agonising.


And here's us in our hotel. Dan and Tobias wanted to re-enact Sam Raimi's camera rush technique courtesy of a trolley.


And here's some sunshine, which, being English, we thought was a myth of yore that the elders would tell a dying man. But it exists in Barcelona.


And here are some Spanish people (sans moustaches). They were polite and did not vomit at any time.


And we saw Gaudi's Sagrada Familia (sic?) which someone clearly left in the sun too long. Fucking Spanish.


I think you'll agree that that's all quite AMAZING.

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