John Longbottom ϟ Journalist & Designer

Pro Green’s Remedy Beer just got real… I did the label...

Thu, 31 May 2012 11:05:00 +0100

Pro Green’s Remedy Beer just got real… I did the label design for this and it’s turned out lovely - if I may say so myself

Reviewed Your Demise’s Groezrock warmup show in this...

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:20:00 +0100

Reviewed Your Demise’s Groezrock warmup show in this week’s Kerrang.

How I spent my evening. Anyway, mus’ dash…

Tue, 08 May 2012 21:50:00 +0100

How I spent my evening. Anyway, mus’ dash…

What could ziiiis be?

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:21:00 +0100

What could ziiiis be?

My Kerrang review of Motion City Soundtrack’s awesome two...

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:22:00 +0100

My Kerrang review of Motion City Soundtrack’s awesome two nights/four albums at XOYO, London.

Beyond Deep Blue: Winston McCall of Parkway Drive

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:00 +0100

I had a chat with Winston McCall, frontman of Australia’s mighty Parkway Drive, and talked about hitting pots and pans on the new album, life after Deep Blue and exactly why he’s a son of a battlechief…

I heard you play one of the tracks of your new album live. It was pretty full-on…

Yeah it went down a treat huh? Just a little sneak peek for you there.

Have you guys been playing that every night on tour?

Yeah, it’s been going down really well. It’s pretty weird that you can have a new song that no one’s heard and it still be one of the best songs of the set. I’m feeling really good about the new record, it’s like “Hey heres something that you don’t know” and “Oh you’re moving more to this one than you do to anything else?!”, but yeah, that’s how we write our songs.

You regularly play 20-odd date tours and don’t have a day off…

Nah never have a day off, parkway doesn’t have days off. Even when we’re at home we’re doing loads of shit, sooo yeah man we tour hard!

How do you all keep so happy and chirpy?

We punch each other a lot! Nah, we don’t. We’re friends, we hang out - it’s what friends do. We’re just doing what we do and we love playing… when you play a show like you saw happened how the fuck can you be upset?! We get to do that 20-plus nights in a row. Who the fuck can complain about that?

Where’s the name Winston from?

Where do you think it’s from? …My dad’s English.

Winston Churchill?

Wrong! No, my dad’s from Brighton and everyone likes “Ahh Winston Churchill..!” Nope! A jamacian builder, “Winstonnnn!”, yeah that’s what I always thought and he was like “Nope, it’s one of my friends from a building site back in brighton who’s name was Winston”.

I googled McCall and apparently it’s from the west of Scotland. Did you know that it means ‘Son of the Battlechief?

No! Fuck yeah, how’s that for a name! I’ve only punched one guy in my life, but I’ve yelled a hell of a lot and I reckon I’d be pretty scary on the battle field with my roar!

You guys are going back in the studio soon, correct?

Yeah, this is our last tour and then we go home for a bit to write the record for like six or seven weeks. It’s the longest period we’ve spent in the studio.

So you’ve got some stuff together already?

We’ve got a lot of stuff together, but there’s still a lot of stuff to go. It’s not such a concept album this time although it’s a lot more detailed than the last one musically. There’s like horns and fucking orchestral parts and loads of random shit like pots and pans! It’s still Parkway but it’s more technical - more intricate. It’s gonna be the kind of record where if something works, we get to do it. There’s nothing that gets pulled out.

Sounds awesome, I look forward to hearing your best battle roar, and you beating the life out of some pots and pans, later this year.

Listen to the beastly Deep Blue below - a truly huge record:

The Signature Brew crew & the talented Mr Frank Turner. We...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:36:01 +0100

The Signature Brew crew & the talented Mr Frank Turner. We were all a bit tipsy by this point.

The Shape of Hardcore to Come: Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:17:39 +0100

I sat down with Jeremy Bolm, frontman of the very awesome Touché Amoré, to burst the bubble on The Wave, chat “exciting, new, honest, emotional, pissed off, REAL music” and define the shape of hardcore to come.

First off, how would you say Touché’s sound differs from more traditional hardcore bands?

When our band started we were just really influenced by throwback 90s screamo bands like Page 99. That was our influence but we’re hardcore kids an so when we were playing that stuff it just morphed into the rough Touché sound over time, we went through a number of changes and got much tighter as a band.

We’ve found our sound even more so recently… especially with the last record. I hate the term post-hardcore ‘cause I still think we’re a hardcore band… like Thursday. Thursday will tell you they’re a hardcore band even though they don’t sound like one, it’s difficult to just define something as ‘hardcore’ - it’s such a broad term.

So do you feel like you’re sounds still evolving?

We just wrote some new songs and it’s still the same sort of vibe but I think we’re just way more confident about what we’re doing. I definitely feel like we’ve come a long way from when we started let’s just say that!

Are you planning on going back into the studio any time?

We’re not going to be doing a new record in 2012, just because we’ve realised we’ve done a lot of stuff in the 4 years. We’ve been in a band through two full lengths, an eight song demo, two split seven inches, some live seven inches - and we’ve been on tour like nine months out of the year for the past couple years! So it’s just kind of like “why don’t we take a year and a half?”, most bands take 2 years between records so we’re thinking let’s just let this one sit, let it have legs for a little bit. Initially we were nervous of that because it’s a short record, its only 20 minutes, but it can still get a lot of attention.

I’ve read bits and pieces on something called ‘The Wave’, I believe it’s the new wave of hardcore that you guys are pushing - is that right?

Well, to define the wave… it’s an inside joke that got blown completely out of proportion. It’s what started as 5 bands (Touché Amoré, La Dispute, Defeater, Pianos Become The Teeth and Make Do And Mend)being like “Yo, we should name our ‘fake crew’ and we’ll come up with a logo and all get tattoos because we’re all best friends even though it has nothing to do with the music”.

Did you actually get the tattoos?

No, no, no because by the time we got around to it, it was all in the press and all of a sudden everyone was like “Oh you guys are ‘the wave’?”, it’s like no no no! That’s our group of friends, it’s not a genre! It’s never been a genre, but we get asked “So now you’re a part of the wave”, and it’s just like “Err, no we’re just friends”. If you asked any of the other bands about it they’d all say the same thing. We’re just friends playing music together because if it was a ‘genre’ it would include so many other bands by this point. That’s all it is. We’re just bands that are friends, that always end up touring together and we all know each other one way or another.

How does it feel to be involved with what’s happening in hardcore right now?

I think there’s something really special going on right now that I hope to continues. Not for our sake, if we broke up tonight I don’t care, I’m thrilled with our band and eveything we’ve done, I’m just saying there’s so many young bands right now that have been doing such incredible things and every band keeps getting better and better. New bands keep coming out, like from Pennsylvania alone has Tigers Jaw, Title Fight etc. There are so many great fucking bands that are growing and getting more attention and it’s thrilling and exciting because I don’t think theres been something like this in years. Literally years.

The overall excitement for me would be if this ‘world’ was able to push aside the super bands for a bit and just kind of let this be. I think a lot of the music that’s being made is like really genuinely honest music, something that hasn’t happened in so long. I feel like the last time there was something like this was when bands like Glassjaw and Thursday and bands like that were starting to pick up and get a lot more attention. It’s like this exciting, new, honest, emotional, pissed off, REAL music. It’s got so much integrity, everything has so much heart and the bands are just doing it - there’s no rock star attitudes.

All of our bands are not about goofy photo shoots, we’re just having fun and playing with our friends. We’re at the merch table, we’re hanging out - we’re not hidden in the back room trying to be cool. You can talk to any of us and I’m speaking for all of those bands. We’re just people doing what we love and playing with our friends and putting out stuff that we like to do. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and i’m so thankful to have these friends and be part of it ‘cause I know it’s something special.

Y’know I wish I could go back in time and hire someone, convince someone to document it all because it’s so exciting to me. Every month another band will put out another really great song, or one of us will get a tour that’s really exciting and it’s like “Yes! You’re going to hit a new audience and win some of these kids over and they’re gonna get into this” and that’s just so exciting. So to put a name on it, calling it ‘the wave’ feels like us five bands are segregating ourselves from other people and it’s just not like that. It’s just a fucking joke that got blown out of proportion.

The music seems very vocal-driven. When you’re writing lyrics do you have an idea about what you want to write about before you hit the studio?

I wish I was someone who was continuously writing and i had tons of stuff that I could just rework and make it work but unfortunately i have never been that way and I always end up writing after we’ve got the music for songs. Someones will bring something to practice and we’ll all work on it together and once that’s formulated, and we get an idea about what the tune is, I’ll just record it simply with a video or a camera phone or whatever and I’ll take that home and listen to it over and over and try to think of words to make it work. That’s always been the process so far at least.

‘Touché’ is French and ‘Amoré’ is Italian… what’s that all about?

I was just talking to Liam from Cancer Bats about that! Clearly it’s not the smartest name in the book, all I can say that it’s a name that I came up with so long ago. I just really liked because it provided me with a throwback European scremo band name and clearly I just didn’t consider the fact that it’s probably silly - if anything though, the name is just a name… at least it can’t be worse than Korn.

In your experience, how do the big venue shows compare to the smaller ones?

Clearly it goes without saying that we would always prefer to play intimate shows, but we would never say “We’re never gonna play bigger shows” because its nice to shake it up and try to experience new things and grow as a band - maybe not relying as much on the crowd participation, which is clearly what helps with the live shows, but there’s going to have to be some shows without crowd participation because, y’know I’m gonna be fifteen feet way with some big barrier and it’s probably going to be kids there for the headline band with maybe some kids who know us sprinkled in there. The whole thing is a challenge that we’re excited to accept and see how it goes. If we do bigger tours, we’ll still have days off and on those days we’re always going to play a headline show in a squat or somewhere so we can keep our heads too because we’ll be like ‘Oh tomorrow we’re gonna play a small intimate show and we know we’re gonna get some stagedives.

And finally, do you still play a lot of house parties?

Yeah, we’re still a band that if we get approached at the end of the show by somebody and they’re like “Hey do you want to play our house afterwards” we’ll be like “Yeah - if we can fuck yeah!”. We’ll still play house shows. We’ll still play basement shows.

Great. My place is just down the road. See you there!

You can listen to Touché’s latest record, the amazing Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me, below:

My review of the mighty Parkway Drive and interview with...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:20:00 +0100

My review of the mighty Parkway Drive and interview with frontman Winston. Such a lovely dude.

So this is happening…

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:26:00 +0100

So this is happening…

My Fucked Up Life: Damian Abraham

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:15:00 +0100

A few years ago had a sit down with Damian Abraham, frontman of the award winning punk band Fucked Up. We went over almost everything about his childhood, his record collection, and the origins of Fucked Up. Here is that interview in full.

Where and when were you born?

I was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 16^th 1979.

What was your upbringing like?

I was raised in a middle/upper-middle class family. My mum was a flight attendant and my dad worked in advertising, so both my parents were away a lot, but it was a very pleasant upbringing until I was about eight and then my parents got divorced, and then my mum remarried a pilot, and he was an asshole – definitely not a cool guy – and then my dad moved to England so I’d come spend time with my dad over here and then my dad moved to Australia and I’d go spend time with him in Australia. But it was a very, generally speaking, pleasant upbringing. My mom went to great lengths to ensure that my parents divorce didn’t affect my brother and I, but my stepfather was a really strict asshole, but you get the picture now… he fuels my punk rage I guess. I remember we went to see the Circle Jerks and he was like “You’re not allowed to go see some ‘cum-in-your-face-band’. We went anyway, we snuck out. In retrospect it wasn’t that bad, like certainly it’s all relative y’know, but he was an asshole.

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

I have one brother, he’s three years younger than I am, and he’s very tall and did some modeling a little bit, and smokes a lot of drugs, so he’s like my polar-opposite. He loves bands like Mineral and Dashboard Confessional.

So were you guys close then?

We were really close until about the age of 14 or 15, and I was going to parties a little bit and drinking, before I went straightedge, and my brother was militantly straightedge at 12. He found a bottle of vodka one time hidden in my room and he wrote “Edgebreaking sellout” on it. Then I went straightedge when I was 16, and then my brother started drinking and doing drugs when he was about 15.

You guys really are opposites then?

Yeah! We’re actually really close now, but for a long time it was really rough between he and I, in my late teenage years we were not close.

So what was the neighbourhood that you grew up in like?

I grew up in a part of Toronto called Riverdale. ‘Kids In The Hall’, the sketch comedy troop lived in that neighbourhood. A lot of Canadian musicians live in that neighbourhood, it’s kind of a leftist, middleclass area of downtown Toronto, it’s right downtown, generally there’s a health food co-op that’s been there for years. It used to be a Greek neighbourhood predominantly, but then the intellectual yuppies moved in and kinda took it over. So yeah, it was a really nice neighbourhood to grow up in, it was downtown, but it also had a nice suburban kinda safety to it. I remember I could go around my neighbourhood; I had a lot of friends in my neighbourhood… then all my friends actually moved away. Not because of me! A bunch of my friends all moved away at kinda the same time.

That must’ve been tough.

Well yeah, it was tough, but I also think that that was what drove me start doing drugs and being like a pothead for one summer when I was 13, but then I found punk and definitely you don’t want to change any steps that led you to where you are now, otherwise you have no idea how it’d turn out, so I’m glad they moved away because I found my punk friends that way.

How did you find going to school? Did you enjoy school?

I enjoyed school, yeah. I thought it was overbearing, homophobic, and racist, but that being said, it gave me the opportunity to find who I am and I kind of rejected everything about the values of my peers. It’s funny now because I still talk to three people that I went to high school with, and if I see the others I’m like, to varying degrees, either pretend I’m on my cell phone, or dodge into a store!

Do they guys that you went to school with know that you’re in a punk band?

Oh they absolutely do know. My wife does anti-homophobia workshops, she’s a social worker, and she actually did a workshop at my old high school and went into the staffroom and they had all these pictures cut out from various newspapers and magazines of me on the wall! I haven’t been back, and I kinda want to go back just so I can see that – it’s so funny. I think people’s perception of what it means to be a ‘rock star’, and I put that in quotes because I’m not a rock star, but these kinda people think that I am, so these people are like “So do you have a limo?”, “What hotels do you stay at?” and I’m like “Sometimes we still sleep on peoples floors”, but their perception is so different because they think “Oh, you play in a rock band? You must be U2!”, but it’s like “No, no, we tour in a van!”

Have you thought about going back to the school and giving a talk?

They wanted me to do careers day, and I’m like “OK, here’s the number one thing: don’t have any talent in music – I cannot stress that enough – drop out of music class right now if you want to be a good musician. Trust me; I’m proof that you don’t need it! Maybe I will go back and do it, but I kind of don’t want to be that guy that goes in like “Here’s my life now! Here’s what I’m doing! Here’s how you can do that too!”, I don’t want to be the guy that’s like “Oh yeah, you do this and this to become a band”, I want the kids who discovers this music to start their own bands.

Did you have any nicknames at school?

Big D – that’s always kinda plagued me. For a while kids would call me ‘Faggot’ because when people would say something homophobic I’d call them on it and they’d go “You’re a fucking faggot!” so I guess that would be a nickname… I was always a big guy though so I was never really bullied, and I was able to get away with that stuff. People would just feel so threatened, especially when you’re younger and you question why they’re doing something, and they’re trying to figure out their sexual identity themselves and were probably scare about it. I understand now, but at the time it was like “Alright well it’s on – let’s fight this!”

What do you think the child/teenage version of you would think about what you do now?

If I ever had a time machine and were to go back I’d be like “Dude, don’t worry”. I didn’t get a lot of ‘romantic attention’ in high school, and I didn’t care, it didn’t bother me… well maybe deep down it bothered me a bit, but I’d like to go back and tell myself “Don’t worry, you’re going to get married and have a kid. You’re going to be doing a split record with NOFX, and you’re going to be friends with all these people who’s records you like”. I think I would be very pleased with myself. I’d probably think that I was kind of a sellout about certain decisions that I’ve made – I was very dogmatic as a youth – I’d probably be really pissed off at myself for not being vegetarian anymore, but I think I’d be very proud of myself for musical accomplishments… and shocked… like SHOCKED!

You never saw it coming?

No, not in the slightest! You talk to bands and they’re like “Oh we had no idea that we’d be here”, but they were trying. I honestly don’t think we tried, it just happened. That would be the other thing about going back to high school to do a careers day; I don’t know how to tell someone how to do what we did because it doesn’t make sense. “Play in a band, and scream. Take your shirt off, and be bald and fat. Play aggressive music, and somehow you’re going to end up winning the Polaris Prize and you’re going to be doing a song with GZA from Wu-Tang?!” It just doesn’t make sense – none of this makes sense. Once in a while I catch myself like “How did this happen? What the hell happened?”

What was your first job?

My very first job was working for my stepfather refilling vending machines, and so, as you can tell I sampled some of the products, and that was my very first job. I guess my first real job was a community radio show that I started getting paid for because we moved to the internet in the early days of internet radio. Unfortunately it was before podcasting and no one listened to it on the internet, so the whole station went under – but I was getting paid for that for a bit and that was one of my first jobs. I was a DJ, the show was called ‘Mods n Rockers’ and it was like a punk/melodic-aggressive show. I was a co-host with Sandy who’s in Fucked Up, but she left. It was mainly hosted by this guy Jeff Cohen, JC, who did it for years. We just found our way into this paying gig doing it. But it was like a punk radio show in Toronto, it’s how I got into punk, it’s how everybody in Fucked Up found out about a lot of punk stuff. Before I was on the radio, obviously, we would all listen to it growing up and I ended up being on it.

What was the first gig that you remember going to?

My very first gig, in all seriousness, was Rod Stewart at the Skydome. My mom made me go. The first gig that I chose to go to was the next year and it was AC/DC on the Razor’s Edge tour. The first gig that I went to by myself was Dinosaur Jr with my brother – I took my little brother. I don’t really count the Rod Stewart one because I didn’t choose it… infact I would have chosen to stay at home because I didn’t really like any of Rod Stewart’s stuff. I was into the heaviest stuff I could find which was Guns n Roses and Poison, which is not heavy at all! Also Motorhead, but I was like “Oh fuck Rod Stewart, this shit sucks!”

Do you still listen to any of those bands nowadays?

I listen to Motorhead. I cannot say that I’ll ever listen to Poison ever again. I’ll still listen to Guns n Roses once in a while, they have some amazing songs, and AC/DC as well. Actually AC/DC I don’t think I could listen to now, I’ve heard that one record that they’ve done and I thought they did an excellent job doing it, but they’ve made it so many times, they just keep making it. Bon Scott era I could probably keep listening to, but the rest of the stuff all sounds the same to me.

Did you have any hobbies when you were younger?

Yo-yoing. I’m an excellent yo-yoer, and I can still do it. Once in a while on tour I’ll be really bored and we’ll stop at a mall to get food and I’ll just go and buy a yo-yo. I’m not unbelievable, like professional level or anything, but I can do a lot of tricks.

What’s your best trick?

I can do rock-the-cradle, around-the-world, I can do over-the-fence, three-leaf-clover… I don’t know where I even learned how to do it because I’m not good at anything - I can’t skateboard, I can’t do anything. The first time I got it to go up and go down was at my grandparent’s house. Just out of that I just kept doing it, it’s like a natural ability; I’m truly gifted! That and drawing, I still do illustration; I’m doing stuff for this clothing company called Altamont. I just don’t want to do it with Fucked Up; never shall the two meet. I still draw and do some stuff semi-professionally.

What kind of stuff do you draw?

It’s very cartoon-y in a comic book way, and a lot of stippling. The thing in hardcore is you draw like Pusshead - I don’t draw like Pusshead – but I guess I’d be in that kind of galaxy. It’s still something I do to vent, and that’s why I don’t want to do it very seriously; because I enjoy it too much. I’d never want it to become a job. I’ll do it once in a while for a clothing company, or someone will come to me and ask me to do something, and I’ll be like “Absolutely I need the money!”, I have a record addiction that sucks everything out of my account.

CDs or vinyl?

I have a horrible vinyl addiction.

What kind of stuff?

Old punk 7”, some newer stuff, but my kryptonite is old punk records, UK DIY records and American DIY records, and Japanese hardcore records.

How many records do you think you have?

Ten thousand, twelve thousand…? It’s basically two rooms of my house of just records. I have some CDs too, and tapes.

What does your wife think about that?

Well before we got married she was like “I collect records too, I love vinyl”… no. It’s like someone being like “Yeah, I have the odd drink” and then living with an alcoholic and realising that they’re not even close!

When did you get married?

I got married two years ago last September. I was never really a wild party guy so all this stuff just seemed so natural to me, some friends of mine have struggled with it, but I couldn’t imagine my life turning out any other way; I’m married with a kid at 30. I was never a wild guy.

Did you have a good stag night?

Nope! My stag night was spent by myself listening to records at home!

Was that intentional?

Well the last time I went to a strip club I was 14, no actually, that’s a lie. The last time I went to a strip club I was 19 because my friend did a movie and it premiered at a strip club and it was at two in the afternoon and they had the ‘B-Team’ of the strippers stripping and you know that disease that Kid Rock’s little assistant Joey C had? They had a stripper with that. It looked like a little kid stripping and I was like “I never want to be in one of these places again!” I’ve never been one for strip clubs, I don’t drink, my ultimate stag night would probably be eating sushi and pizza at the same time, that’s fucking crazy. Or having a slurpy at McDonalds – that’d be my wild night. On my stag day, I bought some records for myself, and ordered pizza and drank three litres of Pepsi and watched a movie.

Didn’t you get any friends over?

Nope. All my fun things that I like to do are really solitary activities, like drawing or watching movies.

Do you think that’s because your actual job is pretty much being out partying every night?

Yep! That’s the thing, I think that probably has something to do with it, the fact that I have to go out every day - that’s basically what I do – so when I’m t home I love being at home. I’m a nester, I have friends that travel and stuff and really enjoy that. I never really enjoy that, my dream job is something that lets me sit at home and be on the internet.

Like an illustrator or something perhaps?

Well yeah, being an illustrator… but not having to draw what other people want you to draw! I’d love to be a famous artist and do whatever I want; or just independently wealthy. My stag night was perfect because I just sat at home and had a slurpy, watched Phantom of the Paradise, which I’ve seen like a hundred times because it’s my favorite movie, ate a pizza, listened to some records, drew – that was my stag night.

Did you go on honeymoon?

Yeah, we went to Europe. We went to Hamburg – one of the least romantic cities in the world – we were there for one day on a stop over, and then we went to Nice in the South of France, and then took the train to Venice and then went up to Rome.

How did you find Venice?

Gorgeous. It’s a very walk-able city. I don’t know how to drive a car, so I walk everywhere, that’s how I get around, and so I judge a city on how easy it is to walk around it. That’s why LA is my least favorite city in the world; because you can’t walk.

So you have a kid now?

Holden Ford Abraham. He’s gorgeous.

How old is he?

Seven months old. Thankfully he doesn’t look anything like me, he’s very handsome - he got scouted as a baby model.

Congratulations. Some people may say that you could be an amazing baby model - and on that note, I think we should call it a day.

Fucked Up’s latest record is called David Comes To Life. It’s brilliant:

Serious bizniz

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:04:00 +0100

Serious bizniz

Spotify x Hardcore

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:48:00 +0100

I made a little playlist to test out the new Spotify ‘play button’ web app. The list is called Hardcores: A New Hope (urgh, see what I did there?) and it’s made up of a few bands that I feel are pushing the boundaries of hardcore and helping to shape its future.

I’m working on a project with the awesome guys in Dry The...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:06:00 +0100

I’m working on a project with the awesome guys in Dry The River in the next few months. They’re blowing up worldwide at the moment and I’m really excited about it. Keep your eyes peeled - it’s going to be sweet.

The Craig Finn beer bottle design I did that made it onto...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:46:00 +0100

The Craig Finn beer bottle design I did that made it onto Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and NME.com.

A snap of Brighton Beach on Easter weekend.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:47:23 +0100

A snap of Brighton Beach on Easter weekend.

Spring has sprung in Brighton.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:39:56 +0100

Spring has sprung in Brighton.

I took this photo in Brighton over Easter weekend. I’m...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:41:00 +0100

I took this photo in Brighton over Easter weekend. I’m planning on writing a short story inspired by it as soon as I get a spare day.

The charming Mr Frank Turner, appreciating my beer label design...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:18:00 +0100

The charming Mr Frank Turner, appreciating my beer label design (I’m sure).

Check out The Smoking Hearts, they make dirty punk n roll. They...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:05:00 +0100

Check out The Smoking Hearts, they make dirty punk n roll. They invited me down to the studio and we recorded some gang vocals on a few tracks including this one. ROAR.