We've Got It Covered #50

It used to be that Saturday mornings were all about having a long lie in, since the arrival of Erin things have been somewhat turned on there head. My now routine on a Saturday now tends to involve getting up at 7am, feeding Erin, have a cup of tea and then write this post. Not that I complaining, as trying to write a post when you're hungover can sometimes feel like pulling teeth. Not today though as I am feeling rather sprightly, plus I am catching up on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle from a couple of weeks ago which in a round about kind of way brings me round to what I wanted to to talk about. In the show there was a sketch involving a giant moth attacking folk, and what do giant moths remind me of, Jim Ayetunes of course.
For those of you don't follow Jim on Twitter, there was a period last year when he went through a stage of nearly being killed by moths. Yes, fucking moths. Then again that boy seems to be able to injure himself in ways that only he knows.
So why do I want to talk about Mr Ayetunes you might be wondering, well kids, seeing as everyone thinks we've fallen out (we've not), it seemed like the right time to revive our series of Ayetunes vs Peenko gigs to show that we're still friends. So in August we will be returning with AvP4: The Revenge.
We are going to be announcing the full line up on Monday, I am really excited by the bands that we have lined up for you, so hopefully you will be too. So check back in on Monday and we'll let you know a bit more. Until then here's this weeks cover versions, which come courtesy of my blogger friend Kowalskiy. Here's Bis covering an array of artist including New Order, Joy Division and The Smiths...

Bis -Hurt (New Order cover)

Bis - Looking From A Hill Top (Section 25 cover)

Bis - The Boy With A Thorn In His Side (The Smiths cover)

Bis - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)

Weekly Round Up (28/03/10)

Here's a roundup of things that I had up this week, and yup there was still no return of Boabs reviews, tut fucking tut. I'll need to have a word with him about that...

Monday - I finally got that Sleigh Bells recording from SXSW that I'd fucked up posted, with a working link this time. Plus Julia and the Doogans were my Fresh Meat and we had even more Frabbit. Fuck it if they're going to record sessions I am going to keep posting em.
Tuesday - I posted heehaw, I was supposed to have a Teenage Fanclub recording up, but due to too much shit to deal with in work and general laziness not a lot happened.
Wednesday - We had Mitchell Museum's Marc Riley session, have we mentioned that they have a gig at the end of April?! Enough of that, more whoring will be done soon. The fabulous Miaoux Miaoux were my next installment in 'Scots Way-Hay'. Plus by special request Olo Worms session was posted for Mooki
Thursday - Saw the lovely Jenny Soep give one of the most interesting set of answers that I have ever had the good fortune to post on here. North Atlantic Oscillation's Marc Riley session went up too, blooming great it was too
Friday - Had 'the greatest' Friday Freebies ever, honestly at the start of the week I was shiting it that I wouldn't have anything. Then along came the National, Phoenix, et al.
Saturday - was all about sessions, RM Hubbert wowed me with his appearance on Celtic Music Radio, while Paul Carlin had me whooping like one of the morons oyu used to get in the crowd on early 90's tv show 'The Word', when he plugged our gig. Oh and he also had a session with the new to me, Okker, great find that man.


Things going on this week, news, other stuff that I have no idea where to put, but want to share

If you are free on Thursday night then you you be getting yourself down to the Liquid Ship on Great Western Road in Glasgow for the Fifth 'Elba Session Present'. The line up is a bit of a corker boasting 'beneath us the waves, The Scottish Enlightenment and John Rush, all playing and to top it all off it's free. Further details can be found here.

Our Edinburgh friends 17 Seconds have a new release out tomorrow, Aberfeldy's Chris Bradley's At the Outpost . This is the follow-up to his 2008 solo debut Voices and will be the first full album release on 17 Seconds Records. Chris is doing a wee instore at Avalanche in Glasgow at 5pm on the 7th, if you can't till then to buy a copy then head on over to 17 Seconds and splash your cash.

Bis announced their return with a one off UK show in Glasgow this week, having already confirmed that they will play at this years Primavera. They are due to play at Stereo on the 23rd of May, ticket details can be found here.

Belle and Sebastian have been announced as curators at this years ATP festival, an event that they helped to establish 11 years ago with their Bowlie Weekender. The festival is being billed as Bowlie Part 2, and it will see the band curating all three nights, from the 10th-12th of December, with the band also headline at least one evening. Pre-sale tickets can be found here.

Ed from 17 Seconds announced on his blog (he must be feeling very special at getting two mentions) yesterday that Tigerfest runs between the 5-14th of May this year. So far only the line-up for Edinburgh leg has been announced, Dunfermline should be announced fairly soon. Artiststs that have been announced so far include; Martin Stephenson, There Will be Fireworks, Jesus H. Foxx, Emily Scott, Midas Fall, The Gothenburg Address, TV21, Alex Cornish, Andi Neate, Andy Tucker, Casey, the Stantons, the Boycotts and Phoebe Kreutz, X-Lion Tamer, The Last Battle, Chris Bradley, The Dirty Cuts and The Wildhouse.

Bis - BBC Session (17/09/1995)

Track Listing
1. Kandy Pop
2. Super James
3. Teen C Power
4. Icky Poo Air Raid

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Bis to play Primavera Sound Festival

Bis have announced a one off re-union show at next years Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, alongside acts such as alongside Pavement, Pixies and the Fall (nice company to be keeping).
If you have considered a change to the the usual UK festival circuit then I'd highly recommend you check this event out, there's something much nicer about guaranteed sunshine, partying till the early hours of the morning and a lack of drunken neds. If this sounds like it'd be up your street then you can find out more about the festival here.

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Peenko's Nostalgic November #6 - Bis

In the UK, Sci-fi Steven, John Disco and Manda Rin, aka 'Bis', never really quite got over the massive backlash they faced after being the first unsigned band to play Top of the Pops. Performing "Kandy Pop" from their Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP seemed to end up doing the band more harm than good in these shores, which for me is a real shame as in my eyes they were dismissed far too quickly. Some of the early stuff was a bit silly, but it was a lot of fun too, and if you stuck with them then you would have been treated to some cracking tunes, I have gone with Eurodisco taken from their album 'Social Dancing', an album which I listened to repeatedly when I toured round Europe in the summer of 1999. That was until i was a total fucktard and left my rucksack with CD player and loads of other important stuff on a platform somewhere in France, it was only recently that I was able to go back and listen to said album without cringing about that moment.

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Manda Rin to play Free Gasgow Gig

"The next Glasgow gig I do is the Mill at Oran Mor (731 - 735 Great Western Rd) on 4th March. It will be with one other band Sugar Crisis and I’ll be on last (gigs are early in there though so please get there sharpo!). Tickets are free and can be sent to your mobile if you text Mill32 to 82500. You can also register on the Mill website for some which will be on there shortly! The night is 8pm - 10.30pm so please pop down for a boogie if you can! I’ll hopefully have some new live tune additions to the set too."



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