Golden Silvers interview with a freeeeeeee-mix

The Golden Silvers have had a great year, dropping their album, playing Glastonbury and all whilst carrying on their fantastic club night at The Macbeth.
We caught up with Gwilym from the band on their European tour in Paris and this is what he had to say:-

Hey, so what have you been up to?

We've just played a few shows in New York and now we're playing a short European tour... Also we've started working on some new recordings


Highlights of the last year/ met anyone great recently?

Thursday night at the Queens Head at Glastonbury felt like a special moment.. probably our best show of the year.. the same night that Micheal Jackson died
Going to see Jerry Lee Lewis tonight in Amsterdam. It would be great to meet him...


You’ve been working with some pretty cool remixers? Any particular favourites?

I've really liked a lot of the remixes... i think a favouite might be Othello Woolf's autotuned version of Please Venus. You can hear it hear... http://www.transparentblog.com/blog/415/oh-please



Any particular gigs stand out in your mind (apart from the Macbeth of course)?

Our most memorable shows are always at The Macbeth!



Who is your favourite member of staff at the Macbeth (you have to answer this.no diplomacy allowed)?

It has to be Ben (Starr) as he always keeps the nutjuice on ice for me!



Whats your favourite song to play?

Although i'm getting a bit bored of playing it now, i can remember playing Arrows of Eros for the first time at the Bronze Club and feeling like the new band had really come together..






Who’s your favourite band member (you may include yourself)?

It has to go to Tommy (not an official band member as such but he's been touring with us doing extra harmonies and keys). He is the master of the pun..



Cheese preference?

Gorgonzola

Staff Profile

Hoey



Name- Hoey
Favourite Night- Nights off
Favourite Drink- Zubrowka and Apple
Favourite Macbeth Memory- The time I caught Justin and Benji having sex in the basement
Favourite Artist- Cheryl Cole
Favourite Song- Cobwebs and Strange By The Who

Is Tropical single release

Our boys Is Tropical are releasing their single on January the 18th, along with a mini tour.

‘When O’ When’, produced and Mixed by Al O'Connell (Klaxons/Big Pink) at Beethoven Street London, comes backed with ‘Seasick Mutiny’ and is released on limited edition seven inch vinyl and as a digital download. Uniquely varied and disjointed, 'When O’ When’ rattles through so many different rhythms and styles in a way unlike any other typical 3-and-a-half minute pop formula around right now.

LIVE DATES:

NOV 25TH THE MACBETH - LONDON

NOV 27TH GOLDSMITH UNIVERSITY- LONDON

DEC 12TH CARNIVALE (WHITECHAPEL) - LONDON

myspace.com/istropical

Micheal Jackson Mixtape by Chris Read

Our friend Chris Read (of The Diary Mixtape fame) wasn't happy with the amount of terrible Michael Jackson mixtapes that flooded the market, so he came up with this.
Here's what he had to say about it:-

"THE LEGACY: World's Greatest Jackson Tribute Mix! is a 60 minute mix comprising 45 tracks, featuring a selection of Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5's original works, edits, acapellas and demos accompanied by records that have sampled them, cover versions, tributes and remixes from the likes of Dwele, Dilla, DJ Spinna and Ian Brown amongst others. All that laced with original interviews and some heavy edits. It was a labour of love to compile, but certainly worth it. After the Diary Megamix, this has been my most popular mixtape to date."

http://rapidshare.com/files/252851839/Chris_Read_MICHAEL_JACKSON_THE_LEGACY_MIX.mp3

(For tracklist) http://www.zshare.net/download/68680749fd666fd0/


Cheers Chris!

Interview with James and Freddie from Underground Rebel Bingo!

Where did the idea of rebel bingo come from?
We used to run parties in a disused church hall... the after party was always in the basement, you know one of those basements where it's a bit under the pavement and you can see and hear people on the street. The old grannies had a bingo wheel down there and we started fucking around with it in the early hours of the morning with all these crazy people, like Luki and Anita and Ryan and Charlie. Soon people started to treat that as the main party and call it the underground rebel bingo club. because it was underground, because we somewhere we shouldn't be, because we were playing a new form of bingo, and because it is a secret club.


Who comes up with the prizes?
We are given stuff by a website. I don't know whey they give it to us... but we keep getting cheekier and seeing how far we can push our luck. The best prizes are things that you would never expect, like an umbrella that lights up in the dark, or a machine that shoots air across the room so it feels like a ghost is touching you... but we have given away motorbikes before, we get them all from www.iwantoneofthose.com - i think the people who run it just like being involved. They are nice guys and they give us free shit!



If i haven't been, what can i expect?
You can expect loud music, laughing and drawing on people's faces... and a lot of dancing, and the prospect of waking up with a bingover. A bingover is like a hangover but with the addition of pen on your face.

I want people to start using this word more! BINGOVER.


Have you had any trouble with the law?
We are always one step ahead of the law. I don't want to talk about it. Maybe.

You and Freddie are apparently long term friends. When the door shuts at the end of the night do you secretly hate each other?
We have known each other since we were in play school, less than a mile from the Macbeth, but we are very different people. We have the exact opposite views on everything and we are very sensitive... it is true that we have had some really aggressive fights, but they are usually over things like... well, types of bingo pens or whether you should put the prize of Patrick the Polar Bear before or after a horsey hopper, so we usually end up laughing. We laugh more than we fight. But we laugh a LOT.


It’s been a crazy year for you guys. Apart from the Macbeth obviously, what have been the highlights of 2009?
We have been offered to play venues in Los Angeles and New York to put rebel Bingo in. We all saved up and me and Luki and Anita all went to LA together to look at them... we hit up strip bars, Tattoo parlours, beach houses in Malibu, parties in the Hollywood Hills - it was rad... we will be going back for sure as we forgot to do any rebel bingo. Watch out LA. Watch out world.


















To win free tickets to Underground Rebel Bingo at a secret location (see blog title for clue) then just answer the easy question below:

What is a bingover?
a) A robot that can identify suicidal intent in pets and livestock
b) A gun-holster used by cowboys to represent the size of their nuts
c) A specialist type of hangover that is defined by the addition of pen drawings on your back, face and inner thigh
d) A sexual position involving 8 or more people

Answers to Ben.starr@themacbeth.co.uk

Good luck!!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

I took Fiction upstairs after their inaugural hosting of Macbeth's new Adults night last Wednesday to ask them some questions and clear up all the lies I've been spreading about them through shoddy research...

Fiction


Macbeth: I had to write something about you guys without having heard you live for the Macbeth promotion and it got edited down to absolute nonsense, can you make a better stab at it?

Fiction: Best phrase we've had was actually yesterday, 'perfect anarchic pop'.
- The nicest one was actually at Offset when someone walked past and said we were surprisingly good in passing. Didn't have enough time to check it out, but in passing - good walking music.
- Someone once said we sounded good through a wall.

M: Where did you build up your following? Where are you from?

F: Dan is a massive bum-licker. Basically anyone thats anyone, Dan will go up and talk to them. We invented a word for it as well, it's a butt-job, Dan invented the butt-job.
- We're all from Southeast / East London and Dan's from Germany. So South East/ East Germany, the New Cross of Germany, New Krauts.

M: How did you get involved in Adults?

F: We played the Macbeth a couple of months ago and someone suggested us to Simon (Is Tropical) and Simon got in touch.
- We played a night at the Macbeth that Simon was DJing at and he saw us and asked us to do the night.
- I thought we'd known Simon for ages?
- ... We'd known Simon for ages.
- It seemed like a good idea so we thought we'd do it.

M: What kind of criteria are you using to choose the bands who play your night?

F: From a lot of nights we've been to and been playing we want to get bands who fit really well together.
- So many times you play gigs with some promoter whose got no idea what they're doing and just book really random bands.
- For bands that haven't got a following yet it's very difficult to get on a night that's got any direction with a type of music.
- We also really want to support bands that we really like, and hope other people will like too.
- I really genuinely believe in these bands too, i really enjoy listening to them and watching them play.

M: Yeah, I think you can tell that by the different bands that are playing the different nights, that they're specifically, personally chosen.

F: Yeah, exactly.

M: When I was reading your reviews I got the impression it was all about the drum kit that you'd made yourself out of bits and pieces?

F: That's a lie, we haven't made anything.
- We bought everything.
- It was more about stripping back because we didn't have a drummer
- We can't really play the drums that well.
- If you put us in front of a drum kit and asked us to play it we wouldn't be that great

M: That's great that out of your inability this mythology has been invented!

F: It's an important thing for us that we don't really like virtuosity, none of us are extremely technically good musicians. The thing is, I think if you have boundaries you find new ways of doing stuff, and if you're not technically proficient you find shortcuts and it's within those shortcuts that you find the good stuff.
- That's what music's all about, it's about your ideas.

A Fleetwood Mac song comes drifting up the stairs from the bar and the whole band stop talking.

F: This song! We're being followed by this song! At the last 6 gigs this Fleetwood Mac song has been played by the DJ...

M: It's obviously zeitgeist, do you believe in zeitgeist?

F: I used to work in a pub called Zeitgeist
- I think someone suggested Zeitgeist as a name for the night actually...

M: Yeah, weren't there some truly awful names suggested? Like 'Swamp'?

F: That was James' idea

M: Oh right, sorry... Apparently Dan (Fiction's bassist) has the best laugh ever, can i hear it?

Dan: Thankyou very much, yeah i do.

Some jokes are attempted but dan's uberlaugh remains silent.

F: This is the way to make dan laugh, Dan, look at me and try not to laugh...

Silence

Dan: I just feel sorry for you. I'm a diva, i don't laugh on demand.

Fiction's next slot hosting Adults is on the 9th of December, between now and then Is Tropical and The Saudis will be taking care of things. Come.

Staff Profiles

So, we have decided that maybe you would all like to get to know our staff abit better...
we will updating this weekly with a new member...

Cat



Name - Cat
Favourite Night - Adults
Favourite Drink- Grey Russian
Favourite Macbeth memory - doing a backflip off the stage into a heaving gallows crowd
Favourite Artist - Bowie
Favourite Song - All the young dudes

New Boys Toilets..

So, we now finally have boys toilets, which i am sure will come as much of a relief to you all.

Here's some pictures of it in progress...

An Interview with Adrian Storry..

An interview with Adrian Storry, the promoter of What ever Happened to P-Rock? and Eclectic Like Whoopi...



The Macbeth - Tell us about your new night?

Adrian Storry - The new night is basically a night where people can play whatever they want. I got sick of going to nights where the music policy is just one thing. My music taste has always been eclectic and I’ve kind of always liked every type of music and not stuck to one type and I thought other people might enjoy that too. Dunno if it will work or not but fingers crossed.

TM - Wanna tell us about the other stuff you do, P-rock etc?

AS - When I was growing up as a kid I really love punk rock music and all the stuff that’s coming out recently is based on fashion and they’ve kinda lost the whole punk rock imagery so I wanted to go back to how it used to be and kind of play the songs that everyone used to love. Everyone from my generation always had so much heart in it and it seems the kids these days don’t really understand the punk rock genre.


TM - What’s your favourite Whoopi move and why?

AS - I really want to say sister act cos it really is my favourite movie but jumping jack flash is another big favourite of mine, I think that’s amazing. Also really like ghost. She’s amazing in ghost.


TM - Favourite ice cream and why?

AS - I used to love tutti fruity ice cream. I don’t think they even make it anymore. Its just something I used to have as a kid in random sea side resorts. Absolutely amazing. They had those little sweets but they weren’t the same.

TM - Oh you mean the ones with the bubble gum inside. What did happen to them?

TM - If you were a member of blink 182 who would you be and why?

AS - Back in the day I would have said Tom and then he did the whole Angels and airwaves thing and it made me think he’s a bit of a cock, but I have to say mark now as he is the other coolest member.
Obviously Travis is cool but he’s not got the same wit as the others.

TM - Aaaand, you were thrown out of the Macbeth a few weeks ago. Why don’t u tell us a bit about that?

AS - Well, I have this problem with falling asleep in clubs. It’s when I get too drunk, I just end up falling asleep in the corner. As long as I stand up its fine, but as soon as I sit down it’s all over. The thing is that the minute I wake up I’m fine, which is why I had an argument with the bouncers.



TM - Well thankyou very much Adrian and we will see you this Saturday for ‘Eclectic Like Whoopi’

Loverman and Sharks at Gash this Friday

The ever-popular Gash returns with Loverman and Sharks live and a host of DJs to boot.

Here's some really beautiful artwork I found for Loverman's EP. Apparently Myspace took it down, philistines.



Also don't miss Sharks before they go on tour with The Gallows and remember to come down early for that all-important free vodka to kick things off.