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The likes of Lostprophets, Mystery Jets and The Futureheads are set to feature on a free album featuring covers of The Cure that will be given away with next week’s issue of NME on February 25.

FULL TRACKLISTING:
01. Robert Smith spoken word intro
02. Mystery Jets & Esser – In Between Days
03. Lostprophets – Boys Don’t Cry
04. Marmaduke Duke – Friday I’m In Love
05. Dinosaur Jnr – Just Like Heaven
06. The Big Pink – Love Song
07. Editors – Lullaby
08. British Sea Power – A Forest
09. Dandy Warhols – Primary
10. The Get Up Kids – Close To Me
11. The Futureheads – Love Cats
12. Art Brut – Catch
13. Metronomy – Fascination Street
14. Alkaline Trio – Cut Here
15. Get Cape Where Cape Fly – In Between Days

Another one to watch…

Not for photo-sensitive epileptics!

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Edit: There’s a Myspace to go with this:
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If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

Always try to be modest. And be damn proud of it!

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Consciousness: That annoying time between sleeping.

made me chuckle…

Had better days, so needed a bit of a laugh. I’ve quite literally seen how experience is made up of swings and roundabouts the past few days. Highs and lows with nowt much in between, still, can’t complain….when things are just meh I usually moan that I’m bored. I think out of the petty things in life worth talking about being let down by someone or something is one of the more annoying. Because it kinda forces you to go into things with reservation and suspicion the next time around. It’s like catch 22, where you don’t let yourself get excited because fear of getting let down, and you kinda don’t ever get the chance to fully enjoy things because of precaution. bummer. Alternatively you throw yourself into things and when they go shitty you feel shitty. at least you tried eh? nah…I got no answers.
A bit like the dilemma of drinking a lot of booze to wallow. Seems like a good way to forget crappy things while your doing it but I reckon in the long run it makes things a bit worse – speaking from experience of course. I’ve never found any answers at the bottom of a brandy bottle, and believe you me, I’ve seen right through a few bottles in my time.
I remember going on under 16′s rugby tour with Cilfynydd rugby team to somewhere in North or Mid Wales (my lack of clarity on the specific location will soon become apparent). My dad bought me a crate…not a box..a crate of beer for the journey up there, which was only about 4 hours max. At 15 I would consider myself a veteran of the larger and beer variety, which is not a boast, simply a fact. Anyway, drank so much beer on the way up my bladder nearly exploded. Persisted in drinking all night. Come rugby day, the referee cancelled the game about 50 minutes in because our team players couldn’t get up off the ground after tackles and the amount of spew on the field had become a health hazard….good times.
This experience set me up nicely to win an NME award for a drinking contest which I single handed-ly triumphed over some reputable boozy performers back in 2003 or 2004 or 2005. The irony of it all was I was the smallest and I was the only one in our band who was able to enter since the rest of the band were straight edge. After about 5 hours and many, many, many pints later it came down to me and some big dude from Raging Speedhorn and I done him….obviously we were both pissed, but he weren’t too happy and contested the outcome with a verbal and a weak physical assault which came to nowt…tough shit…I won. later lads.
So, don’t drink. It’s not good for you! nobody like a drunk, and it solves nothing.
do as I say and not as I do. ha
By the way, the snow in Big Bear was nothing but epic yesterday and we got 3rd place on the lifts at 8am to get at least 5 runs in on complete fresh virgin powder…..wowzers wow wee lovely job. best feeling in the…..(alternative sports) world
byeeeee

Friday morning. cold..well as cold as it can get in Los Angeles. Looks like rain is over due, translated as snow in the mountains, which I’m destined to miss. The sun is struggling but losing, which is reflected in my own forecast for the foreseeable future. A constant balance of priority over and under importance and urgency. Poles apart but constantly pulling and stressing on each other. The things I have to do versus the things I should be doing. Sounds the same but it’s not. Yet one lays the path for the other and one wrong step one way tilts the balance of the whole thing. I know this is the way of everything, and everyone. Strangely though, I am starting to see it as neither a problem nor a gift, it just is. and as with many other aspect of my life, letting my mind rest upon the way things are without trying to change them nor even trying to not to try to change them, clears away all of the fog that once secretly yet permanently sat around my experience of life.
Now, if I could only believe all that crap and live it then maybe I would feel a morsel of wisdom in my bones instead of spitting out other peoples ideas like a parrot. hahah, just kidding. Only I’m not sure which part I am kidding about.
Today my feelings are mostly Postmodern with a splash of pretentiousness.
Thanks
See you later.

So I live in California right now and am still madly into rugby where Wales are concerned. Unfortunately, because of the time difference I can’t always watch the games live, for instance Wales/ Scotland game was 7am in the pub my time and I couldn’t make it because I need to get to the studio bla bla. Sooooo Mike taped the game for me and I was gonna watch it today……until someone just commented with the bloody results!!!! why people why? At least say “Spoiler alert!” or “do you want to know the result? I’ve tried my damnedest to avoid any Internet sites that would reveal the scores….Please please please please please don’t go spoiling it for me. especially in a comment because of course I am bound to read them.
Nice one.
you owe me a beer for that!

“nvrgrwoldnvrdie said…well ive got news for you! thats if you like rugby, but Wales won 26-13 over Scotland at Murray Field yesterday(sunday) “

good one! (tut, roll of the eyes, shake of the head)
I’m not really mad.

Trying to exhaust my mind so that it will shut the hell up!
got and idea. Perfect day verses actual day…nah, that’s not very Zen. um….
What it is yeah, since I said I’d write down some stuff in me last blog I am a little at a loss as to what should be said. My days have recently been the same process of :wake up, car or bike to studio an hour away. Grab some lunch on the way. plug in, switch on and tidy, edit, create until I’m hungry. Then have a beer, maybe discuss a few things, then Ian turns up and we argue, play and sometimes agree on melodies and lyrics, and rack all our brains to find the right bits for the right places and times, then I get back in the car/bike come home go to bed and repeat. Stu’s life have been this x 3 for 6 weeks almost every day…proper trooper that boy! So today I am tired, and i don’t really have much else to talk about that isn’t constant replays in my head of choruses or parts…which i might add, has a tremendous ability not to tire itself out, much to my emotional stress. A good smack in the face or a bloody big wave crashing on my head might bring me back into reality.
soooooo…mm, yeah
I think I’ll respond to some of the things some of you’s were wondering about stuff.

Annie- “do you have a cat? and if so, could you show me a picture?”
I do have a cat, she’s in the UK dossing at my parents house since I abandoned her and the rest of my family to move to the sunshine. I don’t have a picture right now but the painting i recently had posted up her was of her..she was in the middle, a tabby cat. She’s got the hump today so my dad tells me, she went out in the cold last night for a few hours and today shes in a bad mood. Maybe she’s planning her revenge on me or something for making her move. The Black one in the painting was a cat we had years ago who got run over…and lived just long enough for me to sit helplessly watching her die and the rabbit exploded….yeah, literally exploded. not even the vet believed me until she exploded all over him. messy business.

andreajane- “Oh and please tell Ian to please get his hair cut”
Nah. that’s just mean, who am i to judge or criticise what someone else is doing or wants to look like. even if I’m just the messager. Each to their own i say. That’s like going up to someone and saying “hey fatty go do some exercise”…have some restraint people! tether your judgements for a second and think how it would feel the other way round. now go do your homework!

Thanks for all the Christmas wishes and new years greetings, always blows my mind that so many people All around the world have been touched by our band and technology allows me to thank them for that. Thanks. Makes me feel really humbled.
Snowboarding was a bit meh, because it was so busy, also I wasn’t really letting go because there was a big group of us and beginners who I wanted to guide. So no big airs or anything this time around, although frustratingly my nearest mountain has had 10 inches of snow in the past two days and I am in the studio and unable to get some powder….booo, ah well, one enables the other… I must remember that.

It’s raining here in Los Angeles today. it’s quite warm and the sun is out but it’s raining. Very reminiscent of Hawaiian tropical rain. Very rarely rains so when it does I really appreciate it. gotta go run 9 miles tonight which I’m not really super amped about. Marathon was postponed in LA so I’m having to change my prep training. Probably will not even be around when it happens but its always good to have a direction and something to motivate. In contrast to my puny marathon attempt, a friend of mine is climbing Africa’s tallest mountain for red nose day charity in the UK. pretty awesome feat if you ask me. Always an inspiration and one of the nicest most genuine people I have ever met, if you fancy giving her a little support or wanna sponsor her, you can at this site.
I was thinking of trying to raise some money if it looks likely that I can do this marathon, was hoping to raise money for the Golden Hearts animal sanctuary or something like it. I have adored golden retrievers ever since I read Dean Koontz book the Watchers, and one day hope to open a sanctuary to rescue animals.
Soooooo hippy eh? thats ok, I don’t mind being all hippy dippy.

Guess I should be writing more about trendy dark comic books and tattoos or getting wasted on sunset blvd, sex, drugs and rock and roll!! haha, sorry..you got Ian for all the partying and crazy shit….me, well I just love to play music and be happy and content. Way to go Mr. O, way to shatter the illusions.
You know what, I think it’s more of a simplification rather than anything else. I’m just not that into rushing around chasing things that I thought I needed, and I just stop and look around more often at whats already here. I don’t know if that’s part of growing up or anything but I suppose the bubbling spring stream has to slow down when it meets the river and the flater ground. maybe it comes with the knowledge that there’s only one place for that river can go, so why rush the be exhausted and wish today away in the race to grasp at tomorrow (which in reality doesn’t even exist)…I am just letting go of the all the things that are really not that important and in doing that I can see through the mess at what is.
See….hippy dippy.
I’m gonna try and get the rest of the band into flares on the new record…haha, joke.
Mind you Felicity Kendal was supa hot in the Good Life…(one for all you oldies from the UK)

Anywhoo, I’m off, I better get dressed, been sitting around in my PJ’s and slippers with my tea like a proper old fart playing xbox when i should be working…so back to the grind.
Speak to you later…

Aloha kãkou

Yeah, i know. I’m so shit at bloggin regular. Yikes, I even piss myself of with how slack i am.

Never mind.

We (surprisingly enough) are back or should I say still in the studio. On week 6 for us on the actual recording. For everyone else in the world I guess its week 103 or 117 or something. Baaa, what can you do eh?
Everyday is a new day. there’s no going back to change stuff so why let it bother you eh?
Eh, I sound Canadian eh?
Basically, since we started a new, we have been hammering into the songs, the tracking and shit is sounding massive. For us, we are steaming along, it’s probably the most efficiently we have worked ever. I know, I know, it doesn’t seem like it but it’s true. Not quite as quick (or rushed) as the very first record but certainly more thorough and focused.
So, just to clear up a few things. I read in an interview recently that supposedly our singer claims we blew like half a million pounds or something on a record that we ditched.
Fact…that just ain’t true. Very likely a mis-quote or misinterpretation, but it came across to me as though it was a boast, which I am pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be.
Well let me tell you. We ain’t pleased with ourselves or anything, in fact we are pretty gutted that what we spent and what seemed like a waste of money. And though it was alot of money we gambled with, we just were not prepared to cut any corners for our record, unfortunately hindsight is 20/20, smarter decisions could have been made.
Now to put aside the bollocks, it was much less than was quoted yet still stings like a bitch. And is no indication at all that we are big time millionaires that can afford to waste money. We didn’t throw it away irresponsibly, we just made some costly errors and put our trust in the wrong places. and only we have to have it bite us in the arse.

cool?

cool.

Ian’s just giving me shit right now for doing the blog when I should be in the other room focusing on vocal idea’s. Which in fairness he has a point. So let’s just end with me giving an empty promise that I will update very soon.
Sorry guys.
out