Due to the football the gig s are a bit all over the place but should be back to regular by end of July

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Heatherweight = BIG FAT N HEAVY, and this mix is certainly that…recorded live @ 134c Feltham Road with a combination of Polish Vodka and Sailor Jerry’s, this aint for anyone with ticker probs or preggaz!!

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I often hear this… It makes me think Really? Don’t waste my vote?! Don’t waste your fucking breath!

Or MY time!

Or your energy!!

I have been registered to vote for 8 years now (yes I know, I’m getting old! Please don’t remind me… Trust me though, I’m not getting there gracefully… I have all the grace of a suffocating whale with none of the ‘awww’ factor!) and for the 2 general elections that have taken place during those 8 years, those voting cards have been nothing more than free government roach paper! (Thanks!)

I had always maintained that if you gave me someone worth voting for, I would vote, but over the years I’ve learned that government is nothing more than a puppet show, put on to make you believe that we DO live in a democracy (pah), that we DO get a say and that our vote actually matters!

It has never been any more evident than it is now that this is NOT the case! The policies of all of the top parties are so similar that you’ll probably find they all came from the same scrotes laptop (don’t worry, it’ll be left on a train soon enough and I’ll be proved right!)

Big business runs this country (and America and with that, the whole of the ‘free’ world) and they are doing everything in their power to prove to you that we’re free and that we matter! YOU WILL NEVER MATTER to them, your vote is important ONLY for the ACTUAL party involved (cos no. 10 is PRIME London real estate, a real feather in the cap of whoever lives there and THE social lift that even the most gormless of grey faced fuckwits can use to elevate themselves above the gutter temporarily!) The actual running of the country does not involve the 3 incompetent dickheads that are trying to gain access there, it’s ALL run by media moguls (who, let’s face it, can DESTROY political [and any other] careers in an instant, without any proof or even inkling of truth), oil barons, transport tycoons and other rich, power hungry, capitalist (in the worst sense of the word) cunts.

In short, the only wasted vote is a vote used… Especially if it’s in the hope that it will make ANY amount of difference… Could you imagine if, as a whole country, we boycotted the vote this year? A 0% turn out (or 100% vote of no confidence) would be sending a FAAAAR more powerful message than voting for the British Nazi Part of the Liberal Demi-twats!

No vote is a vote of no confidence in any of the money grabbing, whore shagging, auto asphyxiating, country destroying, banker loving, miserable fucking fraud monkeys… And if any newbie member of parliament stumbled across this blog (do some fucking work!) then you’ve gotta remember that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely… If you’re not corrupt, it’s because you’re nothing… Congratulations! That’s the BEST way to be!

My vote isn’t wasted! I’m saving it for a rainy day!

12 / 04 / 2010

Its been a pretty savage week in terms of bands splitting up.  2 of our most loved and respected local acts have stomped their last boards:

First into the fire was Brighton/Staines pop-punk rascals OVER AND OUT who’ve delighted the Buckle Up crowds on many occasions with their pitch perfect 4 part harmonies and crafty lyrics about modern society.  Over And Out enjoyed a level of notoriety for their inclusion on a Punktastic Records compilation and worked with Hidden Talent booking agency in 2009. Patrons of the early Rockgoblin festivals will surely remember their appearances fondly. Rabble Rabble!!

Secondly is Guildford’s hardcore champions WITHOUT THOUGHT.  Buckle Up have been close friends and followers of these lot since the early days and watched them develop into a technically brillant and sonically devastating outfit. Surely there will be more to come from these most talented of musicians but until then,The Claw is on ice!

1) Intro
2) ‘Domination’ Tommyknocker
3) ‘My Music World’ The Viper & Endymion
4) ‘Learn From The Pain’ Tommyknocker
5) ‘Pride & Pain’ Outblast
6) ‘Live A Lie’ G-Town Madness & The Viper
7) ‘System Collapse’ Triax & Mr Sinister
‘Inside Your Head’ Nitrogenics
9) ‘Somewhere Down The Lane’ Roland & Sherman
10) ‘Murder’ Chrono

Spread the word to all gabber/hardcore lovers in the world…

1) ‘Never Ever Scream’ (Intro)
2) ‘The Eyes Of The Demon’ Predator & Hellsystem
3) ‘Guess What’ Day-mar
4) ‘Pawns In The Game’ Chrono & The Demon Dwarf ft Da Mouth Of Masness
5) ‘Delusion’ Outblast & Angerfist
6) ‘Anticipate’ Angerfist
7) ‘Trashing My Scene’ Paul Elstak ft Beatstream & Radiate
‘2012′ Predator & Hellsystem
9) ‘Emerson’ (Part2) SikTh

Brighton town provides the perfect backdrop for the street pop sounds, melody soaked vibes and 4-way harmonies that Over And Out have become known for both on record and live.

After spending most of 2009 off the radar, finding their feet and sorting their sound, Over And Out are now back in 2010 fairly fresh faced and ready to bring their chaos to the music world. Awaiting the imminent release of their new CD ‘The Heat’, Over And Out are heading back out on the road throughout the year so expect them to roll through your town soon!

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Sometimes we ask a lot from our popular music – it’s gotta make us laugh, make us cry, make us work, get us dancin’ on a Friday night – give us the impetus to make love  – and then stick it to the man on a Monday morning.  It must do all this while simultaneously unmelting the polar ice caps, feeding the world, fighting poverty and freeing the innocent from captivity. And all this must be accomplished by good-looking people who try hard, who know how to perform in front of a live audience, and who can be instant role-models. And it is expected that they  must  possess a  mysterious  thing  called the X-factor.  These ingredients must be packed tightly into a product that is expected to be both instantly hummable, and yet will also stand many repeated listens. Damn! Who can possibly supply all this? Not many, that’s for sure.  That’s why ultra-successful bands like our local boys Hard-Fi are so rare. And that is also why this band – fiN. is expected to take off .  ‘Cos they’re giving it all up for us. The Hob Staines was quite rightly packed – with squealing, excited punters – for the fiN. music event of Feb 14.  Screaming pop-tarts swayed amiably with the ‘more serious music lovers’  as  the band laid out their wares.  fiN music is vividly imaginative, suspended halfway between pop craftsmanship and consistent indie rock epics.  Agile harmonies between voice and guitar, and tumbling melodies dropping directly from the soul, are often harrowing poems of texture, colour and light. But crucially there is always a family-sized variety bucket of harmony and rhythm to be found in the fiN. sound, synchronised with a style and sense of grandeur all of their own….  and this adds up to a powerfully inspired concert pop act. Kicking off with “Everybody Dies Alone” with an intro consisting of lightly plucked almost harp-like guitars and cabaret-style singsong vocals from Luke, the bow-wave of rubber-band bass and heartbeat thumps from the drums soon kick in – like an adrenalin fix harpooned straight to the heart – as light spears of sound culminate gently into an easy to-live-with chorus -  meandering softly towards a satisfyingly undulating lead guitar conclusion. fiN.’s work is casual and unhurried, sincere and honest.  Eschewing flamboyant style or outrageous rock n roll excesses,  the band members appear to be professional artisans carrying out their activities. Not to say that this is stuff is staid or boring. More often than not the fiN. sounds can be sharp and intense – even dramatic. But there is a feeling that fiN. never actually throw caution to the wind. You cannot imagine this band gobbing on the front row, grabbing their crotches lewdly during a breakdown or chucking televisions out of hotel windows whilst on tour. Songs like the keening “Where Are You Now?” rely on sweet melodies and noble keyboards, carefully manipulated sounds presented unhurriedly and unpretentiously. But the songs  never feel overly gloomy or melancholy. In fact, as I looked around the audience,  I saw faces that were alight with pleasure, glowing  smiles  of appreciation, nodding heads of approval and new understanding. The set finished with “Life is Wasted [ on the living ]” with those guitars from Luke and Jonny delicately threaded through misty eyed vocals,  but always kept in check by a regular rhythm of pounding drums and bass.  This lot don’t play their music with hammers and swords – they play it with needles and thread. This band,  fiN,  are master  craftsmen  carefully preparing and almost ‘evoking’  every delicious moment of each perfectly pitched song. The tunes lift the hearts of crowd, who are soon gently moving in unison to the waves of sound – each song pushing that euphoria button a little harder.  Guitars vie and vault with each other as crisp and colourful percussion and fleet fingered bass provide momentum and solid rock foundations.  Tempos are sometimes deliberately energetic, but at other times have a dreamy translucent quality. This is poignant, yearning and lustrous popular music for the Echo Booming generation.

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Audio.Video.Disco is a pouting, sulking, smouldering almost vampiric looking band ( vampiric in a good ‘True Blood’ type way) with darkly handsome Rich Berkshire up front on his guitar and providing lead vocals, loyal henchman and gigster Matt alongside, twiddling his lead guitar and supporting with vocals and Tox on the bass giving it the third voice …. ( and they even have a Ryan Kwanten look-alike [Tommy] on the drums at the back.) This incredibly good-looking band played to a packed audience at the Valentines Day party at The Hob, Staines at the weekend. Full to the brim with the posh-totty fans of AVD, there was also enough room in the pub for a fair distribution of assorted divas, shakers, swingers, dilettantes and philanders – all clamoring for a piece of this exciting local band. And the enthusiastic audience got what they came for. This was music for the young and the famous, the warm blooded and those without shame – Audio Video Disco are synonymous with sex appeal and they ooze success in a world where most of us are merely gasping for air. Hit after enormously addictive hit was provided to the heaving crowd – each song carefully crafted and superbly presented by the three front-row singers; Songs like “Seeing is Believing” with a choppy almost ska-like Jam-ish quality or the reverberating ‘No Mans Land’ with its solid chunks of bass – this set was an Aladdin’s Cave of gold-standard compositions, sprightly rhythms and catchy choruses. And yet these lads are strangely bereft of ego – they keep their feet firmly on the ground and their minds on their work. The Audio Video Disco song-book is not only essential listening material but also joyful and zingy enough to get us all dancin’ along. At times the tunes deliver the power and the punch of a cage-fighter. And when this electric train of a sound whooshes towards us, the jolt of energy is enough to bust through our defences…. delivering smiles of wonder and surprise. Drums dazzle with exuberance on tracks like ‘Five Years Gone’ with its twinkling start flapping up into a headrush of verse. The tunes nag at you like a big sister on school-night and soar upwards like a kite fitted with an afterburner. The Audio Video Disco tunes are sewn together tighter than Dita Von Teese’s bodice and are twice as thrilling. Top drawer stuff from this hypnotic and high achieving young band.

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