The past is a revenant: it’s come back to haunt me on this re-issued compilation album, courtesy God Is In The TV zine.
It dates from two decades ago, when I was in a band called Empty Vessels, and the track on here features the most out-of-tune lead guitar I’ve ever committed to record. (I don’t think I was ever meant to play a Stratocaster… The universe clearly agreed.)
Anyway, it’s cute to look back on now.
More info via the links, but here’s the froth of the blurb:
This November marks twenty years since the release of GOD IS IN THE CD (GIITCD), an Underground Compilation of UK music in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Today, we announce a reissue with a digital version featuring bonus tracks for £5 and a limited run of CDs available for £6. Funds raised from the digital reissue will go towards the hosting and redesign of GIITTV, with half of the funds raised from physical CD sales of the reissue going to Macmillan Cancer Charity.
It’s on Bandcamp for all you grave-robbers out there x
It’s a good one: “If these two avant-pop tracks are anything to go by then the album should be, at the least, intriguing.”
Read the article, listen to the tracks when they’re released at the end of this very month, and see if you agree. (In fact, Hard Science can be heard on the Bandcamp player at the top of this page. If you like, you can watch the video, too.)
Here’s part 2 of The UnExplorers, hosted by God Is In The TV. For anyone who came in late, it’s a film of a short story; sadly, there’s no sex or violence, as that’s quite tricky when you’re alone in front of a camera (well, a bit).
Speaking of movies and that, I’m doing a screen test in 4 days’ time for the lead role in the film I randomly auditioned for a while ago (see below) – obviously I’ll write about it afterward, however great or humiliating it turns out.
The second part will be up around Tue 24th May, and so on in fortnightly installments.
I might have described these vids briefly in an earlier entry, but anyway, they’re filmed versions of previously-published stories.
By saying “filmed”, I don’t want to write cheques I can’t cash (for younger readers, those are pieces of paper – paper – that the older generation used to transmit a sum of money. It sounds crazy, but it’s true)…*
They’re lo-fi, minimal – in the strictest sense of the term – but no less entertaining for that, hopefully. Have a look.
*Note to self: be more careful with the cheap sarcasm
