some webby things:

- faux pas got worded at some blogs 1 2 3
- ‘the old grey whistle test’ was this cool (well, perhaps alternately cool and daggy, or just mostly daggy, although only daggy in hindsight maybe)… bbc live music show that was on in the 70s and 80s. a friend of mine leant me these dvds that had all these great old performances from the show over the decades it aired: u2, the specials, blondie, sex pistols etc etc. but nothing topped edgar winter. i found it on youtube for your viewing pleasure: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8XLZ0f9XIDE
- out hud have disbanded. i was a huge huge fan of both of their albums but i never actually got the chance to see them live. the widely assumed reason for the breakup seems to be that the band shares so many members with !!! who are apparently more successful, despite being slightly less good. strangely enough, !!! played last night at the carling academy in islington, which is just down the road from where i’m living at the moment. if i’d known i would have gone down there and thrown things at them. or at least just cried at them. take my tears you sweaty funksters! at least now that out hud have broken up that leaves room for me to form an electro-indie-funk act and capitalise on the now lost, devastated out hud market… i have dibs on the bass
- feeling scatty

so you can’t really be in london and not go and see bands, because over here there are a ridiculous amount of good bands to see. what i learnt a couple of nights ago, however, is where not to go to see a band in london, and thats the astoria. i thought seeing animal collective could be a life-changing experience, it turned out just to be a noisy mess. but some songs were great, ‘purple bottle’ bring the absolute standout. i still wish i was in this band, i still love you, animal collective.
Animal Collective - Purple Bottle (Stevie Wonder version)

in other news, i’m obsessively listening to my brand new, updated, extended, gotye remix, which means either that i am completely self-obsessed, or that i am in love with myself, or that i have somehow created, through a complex process of alchemy, the worlds greatest motherfucker of a remix. or all of the above. or just the first one.

lastly, there is an interview with me over at the noise website, where you can see my hammy sense of humour in its full nakedness. there is an obligatory mention of scrabble, and at one point i attempt to use the phrase ‘relatively pedestrian’.

hi all. tim shiel aka faux pas aka ME is travelling through europe for the rest of 2006. in the meantime, his/my album is called “entropy begins at home” and is available to order from this website right here. it is also available via itunes, insound.com, norman records, and also fine melbourne record stores polyester and readings.

PS there are NEW mp3s in the downloads section.