Indietracks memories

I got a Google alert this morning saying that some Moustache videos had been posted on youtube. It's the first footage I've seen of our performance and it made me smile. We had such an amazing time.

Both clips are from our second, quieter set on the train. The first video is of Imagine.



The next video is the rather shambolic end of I Like These Shoes.

Haha. Aww, the memories. A nicer version of I Like These Shoes will be on our next EP, which will hopefully come out before the end of the year. I've also recorded a bleepy laptop version of the song myself. This can be found on www.myspace.com/fulhast

If anyone has any more footage from either of our sets, I'd love to see it.

Also, I wonder what happened to clip 2 of 3. Hmmmm?

Trash Humpers!!

A brand-spanking new film by Harmony Korine is to be unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend. After three screenings it will travel to the New York Film Festival and then....then.....LONDON BABY!!! This is the most exciting movie news I've heard all year.

I've been a huge fan of Korine since Kids (which he wrote) in 1995 and his directorial debut Gummo (1997) is one of my all-time favorite films.

Gummo (1997)

Nostalgia trip

This post will only be of interest to very few people, but I was on a bit of a nostalgia trip during my walk home from work today, so here goes...

When I was in high school I was in a punk band called Tarmgniders. The name doesn't really mean anything, but roughly translates into 'intestine rubbers', as in the verb 'rub', not the noun 'rubber'. We made some insane songs about utterly random things and recorded a lot of them in our drummers bedroom, straight into the mic on his ghetto blaster. Unfortunately, all these recordings are probably lost forever, unless he finds them in a box somewhere in the future. This picture is probably the only picture of Tarmgniders in existence, at least the only one I know of. It was taken at a gig at some point in 1995 or early 1996. I printed it out on a crappy laser printer in high school and then kept it in a folder until today.

Dana on drums, me on vocals, Andreas on bass and Martin on guitar

Anyway, at some point in 1995 or 1996 we had the opportunity to record a song properly at the local youth club. This is the resulting song, Legosoldaten (The Mercenary)

Tarmgniders - Legosoldaten

There was only one other punk band in our year in school, Happy Piraya. They were completely awesome as well.

Happy Piraya live in 1995

Happy Piraya had an amazing song called Kaktus, which we occasionally cover live with Moustache of Insanity. The original is pretty much the best song ever recorded.

Happy Piraya - Kaktus

The sound on these mp3's is absolutely terrible, but it's the best I could come up with.