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Gash Import are preparing for their final show (at Blood Club @ The Flying Duck, Glasgow, 02/09/09). Messrs are responsible for the Energy Gash remix. You can also grab Gash Import’s remix of Messrs’ I’m On Fire, right here:
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Messrs frontman Dirty Mac attended Bruce Springsteen’s recent Hampden concert and also played Splendid Dead’s Springsteen tribute night, so who better to post a review two weeks too late alongside another track from Messrs’s soon to be released BOSS-ANOVA EP? Here they are:
I am sitting at the very back of Hampden Park, site of some of the greatest and some of the worst moments in my short life. And Bon Jovi concerts. Lots of them. Anyways, so I’m in row Q at the arse end of the stadium watching a slew of ants dancing around a stage very…very….slowly and they appear to be playing Bruce Springsteen songs. They start off with Badlands which sounds a zillion times better live than on record cos Ant-Bruce doesn’t sing like he’s had a surprise anal intrusion.So, yeah the ants sound pretty good – even if the sound reverberates of the stadium walls creating a weird echo sound that makes some songs almost unrecognisable (as opposed to the songs which were unrecognisable due to me not knowing them, of which there were a few)
So the ants…actually, I’m giving up on this “ants” thing, it’s probably not that funny and I’ve got my point across – I was far away and stadiums suck. The set list was gargantuan, 3 bloody hours he played and he didn’t even do Glory Days. or I’m on Fire. Or Streets of Philadelphia. or Secret Garden. Or No Surrender (ok maybe not the best song to play in Glasgow but still) Instead we got Outlaw fucking Pete, one of the shiteous tracks on the new record but at least he didnt play that one about the supermarket woman, I’d have stormed out then and there £65 ticket or no £65 ticket. Speaking of which, the cheapest t-shirt was £22 – Bruce, buddy, you’re “the Boss” champion of the working man and we have to shell out ludicrous amounts for crappy merch with your face on it? £15 for a cd I can get for £7 in Tesco? Poor show sir, poor show.
Dancing in the Dark was amazing, Atlantic City was majestic and The River was possibly the best thing that ever happened in Hampden, even better than when we beat the French. However, playing a cover of Twist & Shout at the end might have made the drunk middle aged women all over the place happy but it was atrocious, cheesy and not what I expect a Bruce frickin’ Springsteen concert to finish on. In fact, most people were convinced it wasn’t the end – I must have heard a thousand people say “he didnae play Born in The USA, that’s pish” as I left the stadium surrounded by drunk baby boomers, curious teenagers and indifferent musos. Of course, he never plays that but this wasn’t a show for hardcore E Street fans, but for everyone who stopped listening in the 80s and those who thought it was cool to go.
I must also briefly say that, while it was cool to hear the crowd cheer every time Clarence played a note on sax there was hardly any love for Nils Lofgren who was far and away the best musician on display that night. I kinda wanted him to take centre stage and play Secrets in the Street (if you havent heard it please do yourself a favour and check it out it’s got everything you’d ever want in a song) but he didn’t. Little Stevie didnt get the crowd adulation I was expecting. Guess no one in Glasgow remembers The Sopranos. I still love you Silvio.
It’s great to say i’ve seen him but, to be honest, I actually enjoyed watching him on a big screen in my house more than watching him on a screen in a stadium full of twats. The sound was better and the beer was cheaper.
Meh. I’m done.
Dirty Mac is the singing half of Messrs. Their BOSS-ANOVA EP is forthcoming in 2009, as are their YKINOK and LIVE DUDITY EPs.
This is what you may have heard at Mutant Music last month (Fri 19/06/09). Clicking on red links is fucking awesome.
01) “The Lord’s Prayer” Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Fear, Power, God)
02) “Fire” Lizzy Mercier Descloux (Press Color)
03) “Bubblegum” Kim Fowley (Outrageous)
04) “Dirt (feat. Aesop Rock)” Tobacco (Fucked Up Friends)
05) “Skinny Kids & Bigger Bullies” Fast (The Best Of Fast: 1976-1984)
06) “Just For Your Sex” The Flys (Bunch Of Five EP)
07) “Made In Malaysia” Cave (Psychic Psummer)
08) “Die Slow” Health (Get Color)
09) “I Want It All” Trans Am (The Red Line)
10) “Spacious Thoughs (feat. Tom Waits)” N.A.S.A. (The Spirit Of Apollo)
11) “Is It My Name?” Todd Rundgren (A Wizard, A True Star)
Call Me Ishmael set
12) Buddy Holly” Moog Cookbook (The Moog Cookbook)
13) ““The Iron Dream” Hawkwind (Quark Strangeness & Charm)
14) “Tears” Giorgio Moroder (Son Of My Father)
15) “Bouncing Babies” The Teardrop Explodes (Kilimanjaro)
16) “Lay It Down” Peter Bjorn & John (Living Thing)
17) “The Trip” Kim Fowley (Impossible But True (The Kim Fowley Story))
Alkotron set
18) “Midlife Crisis” Faith No More (Angel Dust)
19) “The Model” Big Black (Songs About Fucking)
20) “Freddie Laker (Concorde and Airbus)” JJ Burnel (Euroman Cometh)
21) “Coitus Interruptus” Fad Gadget (Fireside Favourites)
22) “Shock & Shootout” Mike Patton (Crank: High Voltage OST)
23) “Mr Blue Sky” Electric Light Orchestra (Out Of The Blue)
Guanoman set
24) “Juggernauts” Enter Shikari (Common Dreads)
25) “Bounce (feat. NORE)” MSTRKRFT (Fist Of God)
26) “Lollipop (Nasty Ways remix)” Lil’ Wayne
27) “Discotech (Weird Science Remix)” Young Love
28) “The Hottest of The Hot” BG (Livin’ Legend)
29) “Pussy (Disco D Remix)” Lords of Acid (Our Little Secret)
30) “Fresh Blood” Eels (Hombre Lobo)
Messrs set
Kitchen bar tunes*
01) “Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy” Devo (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
02) “High, I Am” Cave (Psychic Psummer)
03) “The Frontist” The Emperor Machine (Space Beyond The Egg)
04) “Magic Fly” Space (Magic Fly)
05) “Smoke Machine” Welcome Stranger (Not Wave)
06) “Who Is It (Vitalic Mix)” Bjork
07) “Heartbeat” Chris & Cosey (Heartbeat)
08) “Death Tunnel” Black Meteoric Star
09) “Cisco” Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas (II)
10) “Theme From “The Warriors”" Barry De Vorzon (The Warriors OST)
11) “The End” Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers (June 1, 1974)
12) “Horror Business” Pajo (Scream With Me)
13) “Final Steps” Big Ned (Big Ned)
14) “I Saw Jesus” Devo (Recombo DNA)
15) “Devil Song” Sparrow And The Workshop (Sleight of Hand EP)
16) “Red Travellin’ Socks” Malcolm Middleton (Waxing Gibbous)
17) “Make The Woman Love Me” Dion (Born To Be With You)
18) “Jailhouse Rock” Judy Nylon (New York Noise 3 compilation)
19) “Pardon Me (I’ve Got Someone To Kill)” Andre Wiliams (Red Dirt)
20) “Not Fade Away” Arthur Brown & Leon Craig (The Complete Tapes Of Atoya)
21) “Built This Church” The Dirt (EP)
22) “Sycamore Trees” Jimmy Scott (Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me OST)
23) “Don’t Stop Believin’” Journey (Escape)
24) “The Power Of Love” Huey Lewis & The News (Back To The Future OST)
*The gentlemanly Leon McDermott, who came up to request Chris & Cosey and then never left, also hosted occasional forays onto his mp3 player. The ones I can remember him playing are an unreleased Mount Florida tune, “The Intro And The Outro” by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Julee Cruise’s cover of REM’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”. (I’m also going to make him take full responsibility for the Back To The Future-related coda).
Mutant Music returns on Fri 17/07/09 at The Flying Duck, Glasgow with The Dirt, Haight-Ashbury, The Paraffins & Chris Devotion.
Gash Import photographed by Shaun Murawski
Later that night after much jubilation at the return of the village’s lost son, Dos Caras lays on the floor of the crude hut he was born in. His mother sits cross legged beside him, cradling his head. In the dim light she can see his body covered in scars. “Tell me son, what has happened to you? Who has done these awful things?”
“On that night 12 years ago I was stolen from you. The bandits rode all day and night with me in a saddle bag. We crossed the desert, the mountains and finally arrived at the ocean.” Outside, fireworks exploded in the sky and the sound punctuated his terrible story.
“One of the bandits wives took me and raised me as her own.” At this his mother bursts into tears.
“When I was five years old the bandits took me with them on another raid, this time into the big city. They wreaked havoc wherever they rode, until they reached a mansion on a hill. They knew the owner must be rich. They waited for night to fall and broke in.”
The celebrations had finished and now the night was deadly still. The mother could hear her sons every breathe under his mask.
“What the bandits found inside shocked them. The house belonged to the famous luchador, Dos Caras. His trophies adorned the walls, gold trophies. They set about looting. As sunrise approached the bandits doubled their efforts and in the rush they woke Dos Caras from his bed. He found them and was merciful in his beating, leaving all alive, barely. They fled, leaving me behind.”
Meanwhile on the edge of the desert, vultures circled overhead, around the full moon, as a vile beast feasted on a herd of goats. In the shadows, what could neither be described as man or animal, stalked quietly passed the beast and headed across the desert.
“Dos Caras took me and trained me as a luchador. He taught me everything he knew. He was like the father I never had. He raised me, but I knew I had to find my true family, my real home.”
“You are home now son.” She cupped his still masked face in her hand. “Let me see your face, let me look at my son.” She moved her hands to untie the laces but he stopped her.
“No mother, this is my face now. Dos Caras taught me the way of the mask, the honour.”
“But you are Dos Caras.”
“And I will be until the day I die, like the Dos Caras before me.”
His mother could not bear to think of her newly returned son’s death.
“Why must you? Why?”
“It is the way. Dos Caras died defending me and I will live to honour his name and mask.”
“How did he die?”
“One night six months ago, we were training when we heard a noise. Someone was in the house. We thought it was the bandits seeking revenge. We were mistaken. It was El Hombre Lobo!”
His mother gasped. Everyone knew the legend of El Hombre Lobo, half man, half wolf, no heart. It was said that he was born in a wolves den at the foot of a volcano. His mother seeing what her child was, fled to the top of the volcano and threw herself in, cursing Satan as she fell. He was nursed by the animals of the surrounding forest and when he was old enough, ventured into the cruel world that rejected him to seek revenge.
“His vengeance that night was directed towards Dos Caras. We tried our best to fight him, but he was too strong for us and I was knocked unconscious in the brawl. When I awoke Dos Caras was lying in his own blood, breathing his last breaths slowly. He unlaced his mask and took it from his head. This is your face now, he said. This is the face that El Hombre Lobo will see before he dies.”
Outside a howl scattered bats from a near by cave and sent chills through the village.
“The wolf! He has found us!”
Gash Import – Luchador Noise BLAST DUO with A PAST Shrouded In MYSTERY!!! have remixed Messrs’ I’m On Fire. Download it for free:
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Dirty Dirty I-Mac of Messrs
Now, we all know that the Boss doesn’t mess around, but to mark the six months, two weeks and three days since our Boss-anova Springsteen tribute night, Dirty Dirty I-Mac (the better half of Messrs) tells his side of the story. Now with free download!
OK, so many months ago Splendid Dead put on Boss-anova! A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen and it was decided, rightly or wrongly, that we should play it. Now, those of you who have seen or heard us before know that our music bears as much resemblance to The Boss as Susan Boyle does to a woman (wow, that reference is gonna date quick). Anyways, me and my co-conspirator [Shriekin' Dub] got together and made a list of our favourite Bruce songs and tried to figure out a way that we could make it work.
We were aiming for Suicide (a little-known Springsteen favourite) but, Messrs by their very nature are always gonna make it a bit sexier so…a sexy suicide, you could call it (hmm…I smell an album title). When we played our set some of it sounded awesome, some of it a little bit bizarre. One thing’s for sure – the crowd hated us.
Many of them were older gentlemen looking for pub bands covering songs they got their first blowjob to – and that’s fine – but it ain’t what Splendid Dead’s all about, daddy. So, after our spoken word version of Secret Garden, most of them left to the safety of the bar and left us and our regular crowd.
But our regular lot were also thrown a curveball as there were no party jams, no shirts-off parties, no sex. If a regular Messrs show is hardcore bloody coitus this was an evening in with a delicate lady, sipping wine before making slow, beautiful love. Our fans do not wish to do this. Ever. So we managed to alienate potential new listeners and our own fans by being completely different to what they wanted or expected. Did I mention we were dressed like priests? Oops.
Still, one positive thing that came out of it is our version of
I’m On Fire (studio version) (mp3)
which everyone seemed to really like. So much so, that it’s now a part of our regular set. I’m personally really proud of it as it marks the first time I’ve sung ‘clean’ on a Messrs song and this may herald a new direction for our stuff.
Dirty Dirty I-Mac
Messrs will be performing at the next Mutant Music at The Flying Duck on Friday 19/06/09 with Call Me Ishmael and special special guests, TBA. www.splendiddead.com/messrs will shortly be full of treats for you too.
Splendid Dead presented Mutant Music: Bossanova on Thursday 11/12/08.
Paying tribute to Bruce Springsteen were Chris Devotion (The Elvis Suicide), The Dirt, Bad Bad Men, Messrs and The Baltimore Jacks (AKA The 18 Wheels RIP).
Feast yr eyes.
The Baltimore Jacks (w. Bad Bad Craig), l-r: BBC, Dochy, Jamie, Dunnie
The Dirt, l-r: Graeme, Jen
Bad Bad Craig
Bad Bad Stew
Bad Bad Gar
Messrs: Dirty I-Mac
Messrs: Shriekin’ Dub
The Baltimore Jacks
Baltimore Jack (aka Dunnie)
Messrs DJs: “Yes Boss, No Faint.”
* A real stretch of a Boss-related pun.
Our Springsteen tribute night is coming up, so to warm you up, here are a couple of free downloads:
Hungry Heart (Springsteen cover) by Messrs
Hungry Heart (Gashvegas mix) by Messrs
This month’s poster has been designed by Ben Christopherr, aged 8 from South Ayrshire. Well done, Ben!
Without going into too much detail, Messrs played at Mutant Music at The Flying Duck, Glasgow on Thursday 9th October, 2008. They were ably surrounded by Hyena and Gash Import, while Dirty Marc (Deathkill 4000/Club Olum/Hands In The Air) took good care of all the record playing. There was a lot of unscripted male nudity (“Dudity”, see below!), and some faulty wiring but it all happened, nonetheless.
Messrs played:
Messrs live at Mutant Music 09/10/08 (mp3)
Please enjoy yourselves.
Sean
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