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Myspack 2008-03-07 04:58:10 I've always avoided using the generic Myspack "oh I'll say it flippantly as if to suggest I don't give a crap but really I spend most of my life on there" term for everyone's favourite Social Network website, but titling a blog post "Myspace" just seemed a little bit shit.I've been having this problem with my "Myspack" page over the past few weeks in that every now and again I go on there and my top friends - usually 16 BSM related bands and labels - have somehow changed to a selection of random people, artists and absolute prats. I'll sit there and painstakingly change them all back, which will be fine for a while, only to return a few hours later and see it's happened again! I changed my password, fearing I'd been 'phished' but that didn't help. I emailed Myspace and explained the proble
This Charm Is Christmas 2008-03-05 16:52:41 Turns out I'm an idiot. I approved the digital release of Data.Select.Party's 'This Charm Is Charmless' single, released on Alcopop Records last year, without properly reading what I was doing and as such, we have ended up with this:Data.Select.Party - This Charm Is Christmas
An accidentally festive cock-up. Purchase it now from itunes for just 79p before I make the call and correct my mistake first thing tomorrow morning!Lets just keep this little error between me and you, yeah?
100th post 2008-03-05 12:26:10 Seems as good a time as ever to have a partyI searched Google Images for the word 'party' and this was the 5th result. Honest! I don't know if you can see it but the filename is demon-schoolgirl-spanked-at-party.jpg. Says it all really, doesn't it?Well, the blog has been somewhat overtaken by 6 Machine band profiles but as this is the 100th post I figured it was only right to reclaim a little space and get back to basics. ie me. Talking crap. Posting inappropriate pictures. Blabbering on. I did think about having the Blog Scary Monsters 100th Post Awards. I was going to give myself prizes for Best Spelling Mistake, Stupidest Idea, Most Drunken Post and many others, but then I stopped and considered the point where self-indulgence becomes schizophrenia. 5 of my 7 personalities agreed it was
6 Machine shortlisted bands - Part 3 2008-03-04 17:35:02 Another day another dollar, as Yap from nu-metal giants One Minute Silence once sang. Whatever happened to him? Last I heard he was touring front rooms telling anyone who would listen about his political views. Maybe we should invite him down to speak between bands at the St Patrick's Day gig? That could be fun.I'm off to London later on. Going for a couple of meetings, the Truck launch party and then to check out a venue for what could potentially be the party of the year. Well, April, at least. Keep em peeled.Here are the next 2 profiles for the 6 Machine
. Keep those votes coming, we had 400 in the first day. Right now there are only 10 votes separating 1st and 4th place!Copy Haho1. Introduce yourselvesHello, we're a band called Copy Haho from Stonehaven in Scotland -we formed through a
6 Machine shortlist 2008-03-03 06:31:21 The shortlist for our 6 Machine
compilation has just been announced. Now it's down to you to choose which of the 12 bands make it onto the record.Listen through them all at Last.fmAnd then go to www.bsmrocks.com/the6machine to vote for your favouriteThe deadline is 12pm Monday 10th MarchProfiles on all 12 shortlisted bands will begin appearing right here as of this afternoon. Come back.
Alcopop guest blog 2008-03-01 03:44:45 Big Scary Monsters' sibling label, Alcopop, has been running as a singles label since September 2006 but now, with the first album nigh on the horizon and plenty of exciting happenings happening, Jack, my indie-pop compadre, steps in for a little guest blog entry action:So – Kev’s asked me to write a guest blog post for the big brother (not in a shit reality TV way mind) label BSM – and so, to illustrate the kind of exceptionally productive work ethic we pride ourselves in at the good ship Alcopop, I thought I’d loosely base this entry around this weeks trip into London to go and see our newest chums, Hush the Many (Heed the Few) down at a lovely intimate show at the Wilmington Arms in Farringdon.After recently having such a lovely drunken time on the couple of dates we could manag
Want to win an iPod shuffle? 2008-02-29 04:10:29 'cos you can, if you want? Some friends of ours have just launched a new label and to celebrate we've decided to team up together like merry little pals round the dinner table on a Sunday and run a little competition to win an iPod
shuffle (perfect for listening to your favourite BSM tunes on), a £15 iTunes voucher (perfect for buying your friends copies of your favourite BSM tunes. You, of course, already own them all) and a pile of CDs (backup copies of your favourite BSM tunes, just incase something tragic should happen to your already-owned prized copies). Easy Tiger (that's the name of the label as well as a request for you to put your excitement back in your pants) have a Myspace page here, and you can enter the competition by clicking here.This bracked-fuelled blog post was brough
St Patrick's Day party 2008-02-28 10:04:17 Are you Irish? Do you hate it when everyone else pretends to be on St Patrick
's Day? Sickened by the idiots in Guinness hats? If so, you probably won't want to come to this......But then again, it is a freaking awesome lineup, isn't it?Click the flyer to buy tickets, to be sure.In other news: I went into Oxford city centre earlier for a BLT and a hangover battling powerful stroll when I encountered two bizarre, completely unrelated old men. The first looked about 50 and walked towards me with a real look of desire somewhere near to HMV. Fearing he was going to try and sell me something/mug me/talk my ear off about the power of our lord Jesus Christ, I smiled and said no thanks, slightly increasing my walking speed. Between my pounding hearbeats I heard him mutter "dude, you look like you n
Arsenal 2008-02-28 04:38:30 Another excellent night last night. Jack Alcopop and I made our way into London mid-afternoon, armed with a few drinks for the ride and no clue of where it was we were going to. Having spotted Arsenal
on the underground map we decided to head there and see what it's like. Mostly residential we found a road with a couple of pubs and a handful of brilliant greasy cafe's. In the first pub we felt like every person there was a potential stabber, and in the second pub the angry Irish barman was so annoyed by us putting 'Country House' by Blur on the jukebox he shouted "Jesus Christ" stormed across the room and switched it off. Very friendly. The thing which struck me most about Arsenal was the stunning array of sleepy old people. There was the woman who nodded off with a fork in her mouth in th
99% people of Sun readers want you dead 2008-02-26 04:00:07 It feels like years since I last wrote to you, dear blog, but it's only been a few days. I hope you've missed me like I've missed you.The Sun are currently running a promotion giving away European holidays for £19.50 per person, including ferry crossing and accomodation. With my last holiday now a whopping one month and two days gone-by it's time to plan another break-I-can't-afford-but-dearly-want-all-the-same. I have to collect 7 or 8 tokens printed in the paper over the next 10 days so have been making the short walk to the shop to pick it up each morning. Yesterdays front page was dominated with the words "99% of you want the death penalty back." Now I don't get involved in newspaper politics, or even opinions for that matter, but that's quite a stat. I'm yet to open the paper.Today w Read more:people
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Muscles 2008-02-15 10:19:22 It's not the size that matters... Mini-muscleman: Meet The World's Smallest Body Builder.Have a good weekend, y'all Read more:Muscles
No title 2008-03-14 12:24:46 Who would've thought that drinking loads of pear cider would give you a banging head the next morning? Weird.This week I've been keeping a close eye on the midweek charts as they're announced each morning to see where ex-BSM favourite Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and his new album are. It's been a running battle between him and Oxford's The Young Knives, with the Knives taking the lead for the first time this morning, edging ahead into 17th spot by just 5 sales. Five sales?! So I guess this is an appeal to all of you who read this - including you two from Peru, I've still got my eye on you! - who haven't yet purchased the album but have been thinking about it to make the right choice. I shouldn't think it costs all that much via itunes and is a good listen.In other 2nd album news, Secondsmile'
Weird timing / Good times 2008-03-16 13:08:07 I'm writing this whilst multi-taking my little head off. On this computer I'm busy emailing loads of bands about a very special release (details coming soon), listening through a Tubelord CD I just burnt to make sure it plays ok, watching the BBC Football page refresh as the Spurs v Man City game reaches its final minutes, designing a little animation for the aforementioned special release, and most importantly, downloading the brand new Secondsmile masters. All the while on the second computer, a couple of feet to my left, I am looking through some photos from our trip to New York back in January, downloading the latest episode of Lost (naughty) and burning a couple of episodes of Prison Break (more naughty). I'm also starting to get hungry, so might have to add some form of cooking into Read more:Weird
C'est la vie 2008-03-18 15:28:08 Party last night? Awesome.Party after the party last night? Excellent.Drunk til 1pm today? Nicely satisfying.Hangover setting in 24 hours later? Not so cool.Video? Hell yeah!
This Town Needs Album 2008-03-21 05:47:47 As the grammatically-disappointing title hints at, This Town Needs
Guns begin recording their debut album today. Heading back to The Lodge studio in Northampton where their two previous releases were laid down, the guys will be working on 9 tracks over the next 7 days, before going back in next month to add some overdubs, tidy them up and record a couple more songs. It's going to be a fairly drawn-out process with the full record set for completition in early June, but with the increased studio time comes increased listening back and writing time, so you can rest assured that this record is going to sound every bit as incredible as you're sitting there hoping it will.Last night the guys had a final run-through of the tracks in their shed, with an audience of just two, not including the fle Read more:Album
Hush The Hollyoaks 2008-03-20 06:19:05 Less of a BSM post, more of an Alcopop treat here...If you're a Hollyoaks fan (and seriously, who isn't?), keep your ears peeled as the druggie kids walk into their 6th form common room tonight, around about 6:40pm, just before the ad break, and you'll notice the wonderful sounds of goFASTER pumping out of the stereo! If you like what you hear you're probably gonna want to get straight over to www.ilovealcopop.co.uk and pick up their new 7" single. Maybe even go and see them in May with The Wombats? Who knows.And if that wasn't enough adolescent booze inspired fun, watch this! It's the video for the new Hush The Many (Heed The Few) sinle, out in a couple of weeks on, you guessed it, AlcopopIt's all coming up Pop today
Of The Seven Seas 2008-03-19 12:00:20 So as I mentioned briefly earlier, I'm off to Scotland this weekend. The trip has now extended to take in stops in Gretna, Dumfries, Livingston and Edinburgh, plus many piss-breaks along the way, I'm sure. Upon making a quick search of Trip Advisor for a decent (read: cheap) hotel in Edinburgh I came across the name Edinburgh Of The Seven
Seas. Now if that's not the best darn tooting name I ever did hear I don't have a clue what is! I couldn't leave it at that, I had to ask everyones friend, Wikipedia, what they knew about it."Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is regarded as the most remote permanent settlement in the world, being over 1,500 miles (2400 kilometres) from the nearest human settlement, on Saint Helena"WowAnd that's it for this post, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. All the b
Stars Away 2008-03-19 07:29:28 I've just about recovered from Monday night, and what a night it was. People singing along to Tubelord, Data.Select.Party being as brilliant as ever, Capitals really impressing in their first show and Flash! Flash! Flash! Photography bringing the pop back to punk. The place was over capacity by 8.30, the floor covered in green balloons, Ben the leprechaun and his pot of chocolate gold, Jack's DJ set of hits and the drinks that flowed from start to finish. I'm going to book up our Pre-Summer Party for May this week and will be thinking of how to make it even bigger and better next time around, to be followed in July by the best party of your life. Believe that.3 days later and I still can't stop listening to the new Secondsmile record. We've decided which tracks will be singles, which will
This weekend 2008-03-21 18:21:52 Just finished series one of Prison Break, my Lost substitute and latest addiction. Bring on series two.I'm off to Scotland for two days. I've only been once before and it just so happened to coincide with the worst snowfall Glasgow has seen in 10 years. Surely thunder can't strike twice?Forget "the big four" playing one another on Sunday, it's all about Gretna v Celtic. I'll be there. So will this lad:See you on the other side. Happy Easter
Love is in the air 2008-03-25 08:42:23 As Jack and the rooster's eyes met for the first time across the gravelly surface, you knew it was love. The cartoon hearts fluttered around their heads and from that moment on, they were one.With an excellent bank holiday weekend behind me I'm sitting here looking, smelling and struggling like a shell of a human being. A heavy pub crawl through all three bars in the village of Gretna, winding up being hustled at pool, talked about as "those lads who ain't from round 'ere" by some old men in the toilets and crashing a 40th birthday party in the local Social club was the tale of Saturday. Sunday saw us enjoying a much-tighter-than-the-scoreline-suggests 3-0 victory for Celtic over Gretna, a home game for the latter, albeit 150 miles West due to many stadium and adminstration complications.
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