First post in too long

Fuck, time to get back into the blogflow yo.

Last night we played a last minute show for Dance Magic Dance at the old blue, and I gotta say.... SHIT WENT OFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!
Was one of my favourite shows we've ever done; hot, sweaty and chaotic.

Everyone went wild and we all had a great time and enjoyed an awesome set from Up C Down C.
Here's some photos;







Me and barney did some drunken dj'ing after with 2 cd's and an ipod, and I gotta say.... SHIT WENT OFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!

Come to our next london show at club cog @ the lexington on 4th April.

Doran

Waahhthaafuuuuck?

This kicks the 2 headed cat in the balls.




In the balls.

Metal Poses in Inappropriate Places

Welcome to Issue 1 of "Metal Poses in Inappropriate Places".
Feel free to send us pictures of your 'poses in places' to tgfblog@gmail.com
There's a prize for the best ones sent in. It will be sick.

For Issue 1 Doran starts us off with a tour of Milan.........

Milan Made Me Wet.

Milan rules.
Its hot, the people there are nice, the crowds go off the hook, the coffee make my eyes hurt in the way that only good coffee can and the Paninis flow like the water of the Lambro River.

Apart from being one of the hottest gigs we have played in quite awhile (in terms of heat, and murphy's new moves....) the gig we played for "London Loves" is top of my list for fun. By half way through the second tune we had a healthy pit going (in a dance club!), this only got better as i witnessed for the first time someone crowd surfing using just 2 of his mates for support and the head of an unfortunate female bystander. Good work!
Thanks to all those who came, especially the 2 kids at the front with our t-shirts who sand our entire set back to us, and the briliant promoters that looked after us so well during our stay and showed us where to buy the best ice cream i have ever had the good fortune to drip down my front. Boom.



b..

There ain't no party like a TGF party.....

The look in his eyes says it all.

Classy.

Oh Snap!!

I think I might be in love.
Watch this space for news of an upcoming remix of a certain band you know well.......

But in the mean time, check out the genius that is Oh Snap!! on his myspace

Tell him we said Hi. Hi. Hi.

Insomniacs ball

Last night we played Insomniacs Ball and these are photos by the great Jeff "faster than a speeding bullet" Galasso.
Enjoy

cat cat double head

Don't fuck with Twisted Sister

This is Dee Snyder gettin heavy on some Douche who tried to fuck with him... just cos he has pink trousers and a blonde perm!

News Nu's Noo's Nhoes

Yes. We have been keeping a slightly low profile for a while due to writing the ultimate KICK ASS album. The kinda shit that keeps you awake at night like some kind of filthy pervert twitching the curtains in his string vest and soiled pants.
We WILL release another single in the foreseeable future, and definately have a few dance floor killers comin your way... and some sexy ballads.... slow jams???
We've also been busy remixing and have an awesome filthy re-jigg of Outcry Collectives - New Franchise Mess. Its gonna be off the scale.
In the meantime, check out our dates on our page and come see us play.... I hear the HOX TO DOT is gonna fucking hot!


Doran

The lady at Luton Pizza Express is a VERT crude woman

We played Club NME in Luton last week and had lots of big bastard fun. I bought a chicken a stick, had one bite and thought I was gonna hurl.... so, after the smell of it had almost made everyone else in the car hurl, should we have been surprised that when offering the remaining chicken on a stick to Barney that his eyes would light up like a small child reunited with its parents after being kidnapped, gagged, ***** (is that inappropriate?) and released ONLY when the ransom had been handed over? No, and thats why we love him.
Anywrrrr, check a review of our show by clicking the inside of barneys stoumach;



Doran

Nike Dunk Be True Exhibition

A couple of months ago Doran was asked by Carri Mundane (Cassette Playa) to be a part of the nike dunk be true exhibtion.
It was on show till the 27th of April at the Loading Bay Gallery in Brick Lane with a whole load of other portraits taken by Neil Bedford, and illustrated over by Kate Moross.

This is what the people in charge say about it;
"The exhibition brings to life the impact of the dunk and conveys London's current and increasing commitment to self expression through style, through colour and through collaboration," explains a spokesman for the label.
Here's a few of the other portraits featured in the exhibition;






Doran was also asked to design his own nike dunk..... but they didn't have a gold option so had to do his "kind of dream shoe".
Soon as he's aloud to go get it we'll post it!

Also, just found his picture is featured on the vogue website!

Death.... Classic thrash

Death were one of the first thrash / deathmetal bands. Enough said? Almost.
This clip is from 1987, live in Tampa, performing Scream Bloody Gore, from the album Scream Bloody Gore.
They were quite clearly a massive influence for bands like Slayer, and if you check the images of them from the inside cover of Scream Bloody Gore, you can see how much of an influence their awesome style was as well!

Enjoy



Doran x

Bby brwn b4 da crck

Here's one of my childhood heroes lookin pretty fucking sick in his black rims and high top fade.



When I was about 10 years old, Ghostbusters 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the movie) blessed our screens, but even more still, blessed my ears with the sound of New Jack Swing. This was in about 1989.
New Jack Swing was a very commercial amalgamation of Hip-hop and R&B, and was pioneered by people like Teddy Ryley (who was famous for fronting Guy and Black Street), and Bobby Brown.
Bobby Brown (born Robert Barisford Brown, on February 5, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) began in his early days with boy band New Edition.... but I don't give shit about that... what I really care about is the album Don't Be Cruel released in 1988.
Co-written and produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface, as well as Teddy Riley, Don't Be Cruel spawned five Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles: "Don't Be Cruel" (#8), "Every Little Step" (#3), "Rock Wit' Cha" (#7), "My Prerogative" (#1, subsequently covered by Britney Spears in 2004), and "Roni" (#3). The album would eventually be certified 7x platinum (7,000,000 units sold)(Yeah I know how to copy and paste from wikipedia).

This is the video for my FAVOURITE bobby brown song On Our Own from Ghostbusters 2... WITNESS YO!

WATCH

Some stuff i found on youtube.. recommended!

Fantomas live:



Fantomas perform Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.. my favourite track from The Directors Cut album check out the size of the drum kit, this is Terry Bozzio and not Dave Lombardo though who was with Slayer at the time.


This is how takes should be layed down in the studio! Cannibal Corpse recording Frantic Disembowelment from 'The Wretched Spawn'


Ross

by 'eck luv.

So, loads has happened since we last posted. More studio days and nights (thank us for the sunshine again!), interviews, gigs, tours, getting our first number 1 (in the NME club chart) and our video of "Nightmare" being in MTV2's Top 100 Debut Videos.
This week we are back at RAK studios recording the next single. We are geeking out with the amount of synths that Dimitri has bought along for us to play on. Along with the ones that we bought, it's synth-city (the pic below is blurry because Ross couldn't hold back the shivers of excitment be so close to that many synthesisers).

Ross is shouting at me from across the room the give you a "left to right" of the synths above, so here it goes:
(starting bottom left going clockwise) Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Roland SH-201, Korg MS-10, (on the top tier in front of me) controller keyboard for an Arp2600, (bottom tier) Korg MS2000B, Roland SH-09, Minimoog Model D, Roland Juno 60. Theres an Access Virus TI just out of shot as well.
++I know that was really techy, but Ross was threatening me.++
And here's how delay should be done:

Check next weeks NME for a Radar special on us!

Watch this space for the new ESTORE! T-shirt and badge loving coming soon.

Things you should do:
}+Come to our show at the Deadly Rhythm Club @ the New Cross Inn on Saturday 29th Oct.
}+Buy This City's new single. Check it here.
}+Get yourselves down to a record store and purchase a copy of Cutting Pinks With Knives new album "Populuxxe". It's siiiiiiiick. Get a taste here.
}+Dance the Fandango.
}+Save up your money and buy our shit, so we can eat.

b..

Edinburgh is far from London.

Things we have learnt from our first mini tour:

Scotland is far from london. Very far.
Sound engineers like getting naked. (well, at least our soundman bars does).
Eating curry at 3am after having no food since breakfast = bad gut rot the next day.
Bad gut rot the next day = bad smells in the tour bus that won't go away.
Folk fans secretly like us.
Some people say "I really liked your show" by shouting "wankers".
Bottles of Vodka will smash if they fall out of the van, no matter how big they are.
Asda cafes are shiiiit.
Police don't like big white vans driving round London late at night.
You can't get DVT from sitting in a van for 10hrs.

b.x

INSTORES AND INSTUDIOS!!

YO.

YESTERDAY we played instore at the new Rough Trade store in Brick Lane and sold the first 50 copies of Nightmare!

TODAY we are in the studio again finishing the tracking for 'Money on the Fire', which is sounding sick!

TOMMOROW we start our first tour!


We will be playing here:

Aug 10 Year Zero Club @ Proud Galleries Camden, London
Aug 11 Leeds Faversham
Aug 12 Manchester Roadhouse (All Dayer)
Aug 13 Edinburgh Festival @ liquid rooms w\ Duke Special
Aug 16 Nottingham Social

We will have T-Shirts and Badges for sale at all dates so come down for some more of this!



Also, Look out for the Video for Nightmare on MTV2 now!

x

Blood, GUts, Zombies, Brains, Balls and Brawn.

buy it. just buy it.



seriously. buy it.

Sunny days inside. . .

We are over in St. John's wood at the fantastic RAK studio to record our second single "Money on the Fire" with Dimitri Tikovoi. Long days and loud noises, but I wouldn't have it any other way. (except the long days...)
It seems that everytime we venture into the studio to record some new stuff the sun decides to come out in full force, so thank us for this beautiful weather!!
Speaker Junk are co-producing the new track and are adding thier wonky wibbly bass as I type this. You have to hear it to believe how mad these sounds are! But you'll have to wait. (at least until november) Check out some of their stuff here.
Just for kicks, here are some pic's of what we are getting up to:






barney..