UT poster by Cali Thornhill Dewitt

UT return to Manchester for the first time since touring with The Fall and Sonic Youth.
Click above for tickets or else go to Piccadilly Records or Soup Kitchen to buy an actual ticket made of paper.
 

Muchos Gracias to Cali for the poster, you should check up the excellent WITCH HAT site that he and his wife (star of the poster above) maintain and his record label, Teenage Teardrops. Two of our favourites.

DUNEDIN MUSIC MAP

From our friend in New Zealand. If it just looks a mess of strange words and lines we recommend you watch this film: 

SCARS OF THE NINETEEN-NINETIES OR THERE IS NO US BUT THERE IS A VERY DEFINITE THEM

Is now available to buy from GOOD GRIEF! and MUSEUMS.  Muchos muchos gracias to JESS HIGGINS for publishing this! As well as lettering by Lucy Jones, the cover features a painting by Laetitia as do each of the remaining WAITERS tapes. The difference being that each of the tapes has, for its cover an ORIGINAL painting or else a part of an ORIGINAL painting, some of which are reproduced below. This means that, as well as the recorded music streaming below you get an ORIGINAL piece of art for £5! Still available HERE and soon at Rough Trade where you can also pick up the latest Former Bullies cassette 'SEASONED' which is, take heed, selling FAST.

WAITERS- YESTERDAY by BEATUNHAPPENING


WAITERS - ALL MY TROUBLES SEEMED SO FAR AWAY by BEATUNHAPPENING




WAITERS- ANYWAY by BEATUNHAPPENING


WAITERS - PALINDRONES by BEATUNHAPPENING

SATURDAY!

We're starting to get pretty excited about D.I.Y D A Y now.  As detailed on  the beautiful poster and in a previous post  PLEASE , GOLDEN GRRRLS , PRIZE PETS ,HUMAN HAIR & MAZES all play LIVE. 'The Shield Around the K: the story of K records'  gets its first Manchester airing and GOOD GRIEF!  will be selling their wares. Furthermore the Salford Zine Library comes out of cold storage for an afternoon. So whether you're a browser or a buyer we've got your back. As far as the BBQ goes- we've heard there're gonna be some to-die-for Halloumi-skewers as well as the usual meaty suspects (sorry morrissey). 


Here're some videos of the bands:






Golden Grrrls @ Glasgow Social Centre 18.12.09 from Winning Sperm Party on Vimeo.



  





Couldn't find a video of Prize Pets but rest assured they're amazing! 
Buy tickets here 

FRONT AND BACK COVER OF MUSEUMS COMPILATION

AVAILABLE FROM MONDAYS LAUNCH PARTY (as part of MUSEUMS), only when MUSEUMS 001 sells out will copies of the tape be sold separately.

Here are a few things to help

with the recent  passing of JD Salinger: 

firstly you can read all of his stories (even those which are uncollected) HERE (thanks to Jess Higgins for the tip-off) and tributes and ruminations on the great man and his legacy from AM HOMES and DAVE EGGERS.

secondly you can get excited about this poster and the amazing show that it was made to publicise. Thanks to Lucy Jones for this ray of light:

Thirdly there is this video, which gives rise to smiles for about a million reasons:

Fourthly is the news that MUSEUMS  number one is almost ready and is looking absolutely beautiful. Basically it consists of a giant (11 1/2" x 11 1/2 ") art book, 3 screen-printed posters, an exclusive new 30+ page comic by David Bailey  and a compilation tape that we made with some of our favourite bands in the whole world---- NISENNENMONDAI, LA LA VASQUEZ, PIECE WAR, GIRLS NAMES, SAD HORSE, TY SEGALL, VERONICA FALLS, YELLOW FEVER, FORMER BULLIES, IRMA VEP, SIC ALPS, ROLLIN HUNT, ASSASSINS 88, BEACHNIKS, GOLDEN GRRLS, READING RAINBOW, TIGHTSUCKS, WAITERS, PICASTRO and SILK FLOWERS. It is a serious and fun document detailing the music we care about. It will be C.O.A.T -005. We've been working on it for so long and we cannot wait to share it with the world. We are honoured and privileged to be able to make this and for it to accompany such a sweet and radical publication. Pre-sale and Launch Party/Exhibition details forthcoming.

C.O.A.T-006 will be the new NEIL BURRELL album  'YOU HAVE REACHED...OUTER SPACE' which offers a heavier and more twisted psychedelia than anything else around. Much more forthcoming, wish we could disclose it all now but that's enough for one day.

To play us out Tom Settle at Manchester Zap at islington mill- Thanks to Barry Dean for capturing this rare and special performance of a deep and heavy improvisation that would perfectly serve as a requiem for JD:

'CANNED MUSIC'

is the name of the first 'official' BEAT UNHAPPENING* mix.

It contains 18 songs and runs to 57 minutes.

There are threads and themes galore and but no overarching concept beyond 'we love this music and we would like you to hear it'.

You can download it for FREE here.

Or else email comfortableonatightrope@googlemail.com and we will send you a real physical copy on a CDR.

Also email for tracklisting or any questions that may arise from listening. Or if you would like us to play records at your wedding, clubnight, cafe, bar, festival etc.

* Beat Unhappening is the name of our new monthly club night which takes place at The Deaf Institute.