All booked up

The next edition of Hooked Up is a special one as the youngest foals from the Flower Shop stable - La Merika and Vito - will be both be playing live.
So if you're in London, get your chubby ass over there.

Thursday 6th October.
Push Bar, 93 Dean St. London
Tube: Tottenham Crt Rd
Doors open at 8:30pm
Doors closed by Robin (if things go as usual). ;-)

Aereogramme interview MP3

Just bumped into an MP3 of an Aereogramme interview from their 'Seclusion' promo tour. I think I've plugged the brilliant mini-album 'Seclusion' before.
Aereogramme are the rightful heirs to the God Machine throne, in as much that they're not clones but do their own thing. A lazy journalist could describe their sound as a mix between Mogwai and The God Machine. I'm even more lazy than a lazy journalist so I won't even try to describe it. (just check out this mp3 from their site)
Anyway I'm posting this interview as the God Machine is mentioned several times in it. BTW, Aereogramme are currently recording their third full-length album.

UPDATE: Blimey! I forgot to post the actual link to the interview. Without it this is a pretty pointless blog entry! So here we go: http://www.toazted.com/artistinfo.php?artist=525

Oh and don't forget to send me your MP3's for the Radio Blog fan edition!!

Best guitar lick: I've seen the man

This article comes from the March 2005 edition of the Guitar Techniques magazine.

FOCUS ON YOU "My Favorite Things"
Andi Allan of MonkeyFX reckons these are the best guitar things ever...

GUITARIST - Christian Hayes (Cardiacs, Levitation, Dark Star)
ALBUM - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
TRACK - Senseless Things - Too Much Kissing - best pop song ever!
SOLO - Stone Roses - 12 Storey Love Song (John Squire)
LICK - Robin Proper-Sheppard - I've Seen The Man, Scenes From The Second Storey
GUITAR - Ibanez Talman
AMP - Cornell Romany Plus
EFFECT - MonkeyFX - CheekyMonkey
GIG - My Bloody Valentine - Rollercoaster Tour, Brixton Academy (ears still ringing)
ROCK MOMENT - Lights go up for Curve, Brixton Academy (again), Cuckoo tour; Monty hits the bass drum and three people fall over from the impact. Magic!

Radio Blog: fan edition no. 1

The Radio Blog needs some serious updating. I'd like the next Radio Blog to be one with contributions from Sophia fans. So if you're in a band and you want one of your songs in the next Radio Blog send me an e-mail with:
- one or two mp3's
- band name and song title(s)
- website URL (if you have one, that is)
- a tagline to introduce your band ("Death metal marching band from Swindon, UK. Available for all your weddings and bar mitzvahs")

Send it all to: wouterberteloot [at] gmail [dot] com before the end of the month.