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Chris Devotion / Mutant Music 17/07/09

Posted in Bootlegs / Free Downloads, Mutant Music, The Elvis Suicide on August 4, 2009 by Admin
Hello there, how are you? Oh well, I am sure it will clear up.  Anyway here is the set I played at the penultimate Mutant Music at The Flying Duck.
I hardly ever do acoustic gigs, mostly I spend my time owning stages with my rock and roll band The Elvis Suicide.  However, now and again duty calls (like my set at the Springsteen night for Splendid Dead) and when duty calls, Devotion answers. Or lets it go to voicemail, it all depends how I’m feeling.
Whenever I pull out old glory (that’s my acoustic guitar, not my penis, I call him “The Captain”) it’s usually because I feel inspired by the greats of country music (Williams, Cash, Cyrus).
Of course, when I wrote down the set list for this gig I realised that the above routine leads to a wrist-slashing smorgasbord of misery-guts songs, with a subject matter that ranges from death, woman troubles, getting stuck talking to annoying cunts at parties, woman troubles, economic woes, woman troubles and the process of writing songs (about woman troubles).
Basically the stuff that all the best songs are written about.
Enjoy.
When I’m Gone
Center Of Attention
Broken Man
This Must Be A Dream
Let Down
I Aint Got No Home
That Look In Your Eye
(Please) Dont Go!
Everybody Knows That I Like A Good Time
Song For A Girl
Going Back To Loneliness
You Shouldn’t Be With Him, You Should Be With Me
Don’t Worry Honey, We Can Still Be Friends
Slippin’ And Slidin’
Chris Devotion sings words and plays music in The Elvis Suicide, the finest Rock and Roll Band in the known universe.
www.myspace.com/theelvissuicide
Chri

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Chris Devotion of The Elvis Suicide played at Mutant Music @ The Flying Duck on Friday 17/07/09. We taped his set and blackmailed him into writing this for us:

Hello there, how are you? Oh well, I am sure it will clear up.  Anyway here is the set I played at the penultimate Mutant Music at The Flying Duck.

I hardly ever do acoustic gigs, mostly I spend my time owning stages with my rock and roll band The Elvis Suicide.  However, now and again duty calls (like my set at the Springsteen night for Splendid Dead) and when duty calls, Devotion answers. Or lets it go to voicemail, it all depends how I’m feeling.

Whenever I pull out old glory (that’s my acoustic guitar, not my penis, I call him “The Captain”) it’s usually because I feel inspired by the greats of country music (Williams, Cash, Cyrus).

Of course, when I wrote down the set list for this gig I realised that the above routine leads to a wrist-slashing smorgasbord of misery-guts songs, with a subject matter that ranges from death, woman troubles, getting stuck talking to annoying cunts at parties, woman troubles, economic woes, woman troubles and the process of writing songs (about woman troubles).

Basically the stuff that all the best songs are written about.

Enjoy.

When I’m Gone (mp3)

Center Of Attention (mp3)

Broken Man (mp3)

This Must Be A Dream (mp3)

Let Down (mp3)

I Ain’t Got No Home (mp3)

That Look In Your Eye (mp3)

(Please) Don’t Go! (mp3)

Everybody Knows That I Like A Good A Time (mp3)

Song For A Girl (mp3)

Going Back To Loneliness (mp3)

You Shouldn’t Be With Him, You Should Be With Me (mp3)

Don’t Worry Honey, We Can Still Be Friends (mp3)

Slippin’ And Slidin’ (mp3)

Chris Devotion sings words and plays music in The Elvis Suicide, the finest Rock and Roll Band in the known universe. You can see him solo at Dirty Martinis, Kilmarnock on 08/08/09 and with The Elvis Suicide at The Captain’s Rest, Glasgow on 20/08/09 and at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh on 21/08/09.

www.myspace.com/theelvissuicide

Mutant Music July: “Mi cabeza va a estallar”

Posted in Mutant Music, The Dirt, The Elvis Suicide on July 20, 2009 by Admin

Dementia13Music played at July’s Mutant Music at The Flying Duck (17/07/09). Click on anything red.

01) ‘Rhapsody In BlueGershon Kingsley & Leonid Hambro (Switched-on Gershwin)

02) ‘Air on a G StringWendy Carlos (Switched-On Bach)

03) ‘Midnight CowboyMartin Denny (Exotic Moog)

04) ‘La Resa Dei ContiEnnio Morricone (For A Few Dollars More OST)

05) ‘The Hardest Button to Button’ Aluminium (Aluminium)

06) ‘Tainted LoveGloria Jones

07) ‘Be My BabyThe Ronettes (Back To Mono (1958-1969))

08) ‘Deputy Of LoveDon Armando’s 2nd Ave Rhumba Band (Mutant Disco Volume #1)

09) ‘Baby Let’s Stick TogetherDion (Born To Be With You)

10) ‘I Think Of DemonsRoky Erickson (I Think Of Demons)

11) ‘Sketch 1_08La Dusseldorf (Brand Neu!)

12) ‘See-SawDon Covay (See-Saw)

13) ‘HakkoutaiYura Yura Teikoku (3X3X3)

14) ‘No AguantoIndómitos (Indómitos)

CHRIS DEVOTION SET

15) ‘Brown RiceDon Cherry (Brown Rice)

16) ‘Time Of The SeasonThe Zombies (Odessey & Oracle)

HAIGHT-ASHBURY SET

17) ‘Fire Down BelowNick Cave (Rogue’s Gallery)

18) ‘Devil SongSparrow and The Workshop (Sleight Of Hand)

19) ‘Shoot the WorksDavid Jaurequi (Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute to Dave Jaurequi)

20) ‘Cannibal Cowgirl’ Eva Tone (She’s-A-Wild)

21) ‘Merry HellJacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers

THE DIRT SET

22) ‘My Other VoiceSparks (No.1 In Heaven)

23) ‘Star Trek ThemeUtopia (Disco Jets)

24) ‘Moon SongThey Came From The Stars, I Saw Them (Ten Tracks: Optimo, October 2008)

25) ‘The Prettiest StarDavid Bowie (Aladdin Sane)

26) ‘Feelin’ Reelin’ Squeelin’The Soft Machine

27) ‘UnwindJulian Plenti (Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper)

THE PARAFFINS SET


Mutant Music returns on Friday 21/08/09 at The Flying Duck, Glasgow with Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lock Pickers, The Wildhouse and El Mentiroso.

July Mutant Music 17/07/09

Posted in Mutant Music, Posters, The Dirt, The Elvis Suicide on July 4, 2009 by Admin


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Poster by Lynn Wray (lynn.wray@network.rca.ac.uk)

Chris Devotion / Mutant Music : Bossanova

Posted in Bad Bad Men, Bootlegs / Free Downloads, Mutant Music, The Dirt, The Elvis Suicide on January 6, 2009 by Admin

The one and only Chris “Big Chris” Devotion helped us out at our Springsteen tribute night in December, taking on compere duties and playing a short set of Springsteen covers and Devotion originals.  He was ably assisted by Bad Bad Craig and The Dirt on a couple of numbers and he’s given us the following play by play analysis of his set. Click on (some of) the titles for free downloads of selected tunes, recorded live at Mutant Music: Bossanova…

Dancing In The Dark

I ended up singing this in a less gentle style than I had in rehearsals, but sometimes when faced with an audience of (mostly) living, breathing punters the adrenaline kicks in. Anyway possibly my favourite “Boss” song, on first listen to the original you are hit with the upbeat hook on the synthesiser, the big drums, it makes you feel on top of the world, then you listen to the lyrics and it hits you: frustration, loneliness, “I want to change my hair, my clothes, my face” and the possibility of redemption, although it may be just out of reach. Did I mention that I am gay for Springsteen?

You’re Missing

From The Rising, the E-Street band got together after god knows how long (if only there was a giant connected “web” of information that I could search to find this out, oh well) with Bruce for a post 9-11 rumination on mortality and for me, this was it’s undoubted highlight, the way he builds up a heartbreaking picture of loss by listing the things that have not changed after a death, how life goes on, but it’s not ever going to be the same.  Jeez, I’m tearing up here, so err..anyone watch the game?

Don’t Worry Honey We Can Still Be Friends

This is one of my own songs (hey, go me!) did I mention how hard it is to memorise Bruce Springsteen Songs? The guy packs a lot of words in. I mention this because I was feeling pretty good about myself by this point as I had not fecked it all up.  Of course the very moment I feel good about myself I forget the chords to ONE OF MY OWN SONGS.  Sheesh. It only lasts for about a second (ahem) but see if you can pinpoint the second that my bandmate McGarvey will never let me forget.

Everybody Knows That I Like A Good Time

I wrote this song two days before.  Graeme from The Dirt starts handclapping on this song, he did not do that any of the other times we rehearsed. I promptly start laughing, putting off me and everyone else playing on the song. But that’s just the kind of wacky adventures that surround you when you are a rock and roll dude like myself.

Prove It All Night (With The Dirt and Craig from Bad Bad Man)

Back to the Boss, a great job by Jen, G and Craig on backing and mandolin, I have had this arrangement for a while and I was just waiting for the right Boss tribute night to come along.  Thanks Splendid Dead for making my dreams come true! Now can you make my other dream come true, regarding the painful death of Derek Acorah (seriously check out this cunt).

I’m On Fire 

A song about lust, I bet Springsteen would be tender, but also make you feel safe in those big old arms of his. Am I right? Errr, anyone watch the game? 

 

Chris Devotion is the Singer/Guitar Slinger in The Greatest Rock and Roll Band In The Known Universe - The Elvis Suicide. Buy their critically acclaimed single “Surveying The Young Professionals/If I Don’t Run” at all major download sites, some record stores and at their gigs.

www.myspace.com/theelvissuicide