This is a shameless plug. The consistently fantastic Cassetteboy have released another album (”Carry on Breathing”) and one of them’s written a book. I’m plugging them because they’re fucking great and because I can.
If you already know any Cassetteboy, you’ll be eager to get the latest installment. If you don’t, then you better check out the stuff on YouTube then go buy “Parker Tapes” and “Dead Horse” to catch up. Imagine if someone built a sort of Twat-O-Tron but using snippets of audio recorded from daytime television and The Archers. If you ever saw “Don’t Watch That Watch This” on BBC4 and wondered why it wasn’t better, it’s because Cassetteboy didn’t make it.
Also, Mike Bollen (one half of Cassetteboy) has just published a book called “Earth Inc”. You can read some at the publisher’s site and listen to some on MySpace.
Listen to bits, read bits, buy it all:-
http://www.spymania.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bloodycassetteboy
http://www.myspace.com/earthincbook
http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk/earthinc/ (this site plays music as soon as you browse to it, presumably because they are trying to enrage prospective readers).
perspective readers? is that people who view it from an angle/distance?
“If you have a child handy, push it through a sieve”.
I didn’t know they were about to release a new one, thanks, and it seems that Parker Tapes has been reissued, thought I’d never get my hands on it!
“I’m a little bit wet, yeah?”
That’s really rather good…
Sorry, I corrected that within about a minute of publishing it, so now everybody will think you’re weird. Unless they scroll down this far.
We’re going to see them on the 13th!
Bangface?
Nice.
As an impressionable fellow, I’ve read some of the bits of the book, and like the son Babies, I’ll probabl look more into this…
Thanks to shameless advertisements, yay. Which is always good, unless it’s an advert for Shameless, boo
If you haven’t heard of Roger Species then he’s another gent that does this sort of thing (I’d say better than Cassetteboy, but that’s just me).
He has one of these: http://www.myspace.com/rogerspecies
His album just came out last month (”Bad Taste”):
http://www.wrongmusic.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=42
(no, I’m not him, but it’s a fucking brilliant album.)
Tis just shows us the Cassetteboys real agenda.. I read in the Sun that liberal hand-wringers are peddling their lies because f Gordon Brown. It’s time w bring back Hitler.
Not heard that Roger Species before. Sounds like “I can’t believe it’s not Cassetteboy - Only 10% of the calories!” to me.
S’good mind. But, without wishing to over-analyse a genre that is, ultimately, all about toilet humour, the Cassetteboy stuff has got some real meat in there (the toilet) and occasionally makes a worthwhile point in between talking about fox’s arses. And the music’s better. And they did it first. And I like them best. And I’m wise and huge. And so on.
Well if none of you fuckers are going to post any stupidity, I will:
This was excreted onto the Independent’s HYS section. The spelling is better than the BBC, but the people are still bat-shit crazy.
Here’s a history lesson for y’all. What a Bison’s bollock.
I would have e-mailed these, but they’re probably too shit for the front page.
Thanks for the heads up, Nelson. I love Cassetteboy but I didn’t even know they had a new album out. I actually found a copy in HMV! And I’ve spent all day listening to it over and over again, pissing myself laughing. Got some odd looks on the tube. Probably people thinking “He’s on the tube and he looks happy, he must be an immigrant. Or a terrorist, delighted about the imminent cessation of the living nightmare of tube commuting in a half of ball bearings.”
“a half of ball bearings” James?
Was that meant to be hail of ball bearings, or is it an exciting new alcopop?
Either way, I’m all for it.
It’s the new drink with the great taste and early-onset alzheimer’s of rola cola balls!