Category

FEATURES

  • 12.23.09
    The White (Christmas) Album COMRADES, FEATURES, FIG MINTS, JAMES REDMOND, JANE GILMORE, RELEASES, THE FALLING FLOORS, THE WHEELIES, UBERFUZZ | (0)
    Immediately after the Invisible Box-Set, Jolan from the Falling Floors joked with me that we should do a collective cover of the entire White Album, and I thought 'You know, that's not as funny as it sounds.' The two main stumbling blocks were that 1. I didn't know 30 folk who would be up for it, and 2. I was totally fucked from the behemoth invisible box. But for a laugh and out of curiosity I put out the feelers anyway, adding the 'Christmas' part with the idea that the project would be done in time for the 25th December. Thankfully ...
  • 07.24.09
    The Cardboard Box Set That (Nearly) Never Was COZY HOME, FEATURES | (2)
    The Cardboard Box Set That (Nearly) Never Was Has it really been over two years since I wrote this: PSYCHEDELIC CHRISTMAS... I'll try to make this as brief as possible. After a conversation with Bobby (Fig Mints) I was going to challenge Anton Newcombe (BJM) to an album writing competition - see who could write and record one from scratch in the fastest possible time. Fortunately I checked myself before hitting the send button on the message I tapped out, but I then got to thinking that maybe someone else in the Cozy Home would be up for the same challenge. After speaking ...
  • 05.23.08
    Feature: COZY HOME RECORDS COZY HOME, FEATURES | (3)
     Since the first ever Daydream Generation compilation was haphazardly shoved into existence in March 2007, the 3 questions I've been asked the most are: 1. Do you want to buy some Viagra? 2. Can we be on the next compilation? and 3. What is Cozy Home Records? The answers to 1 and 2 are quite simply "no" and "probably yes" (in that very specific order, before I start getting bombarded with performance spam and the song contributions all dry up). But the answer to question 3 is not so straightforward. Since I've been involved with the Cozy Home for the ...