Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

that bloody tQ interview ;-)

(for a few weeks me and jim proper fell out over a question i asked prior to the end result ..)

in fact, if you listen to "tesla girls" by OMD you'll had a few of the same fairlight library sounds as used on "calamity crush".

mark I did not realize that was you! nice work.

also, not done any interviews since.
felt like i had peaked with jim.
he was the top of the tree (other than bowie of course!) for me.

xp.

Not Jeff Lynne? haha. I just reread that interview. Cool.

haha.
well, yeah.
but the ELO thing only kicks in when i am drunk.

(for a few weeks me and jim proper fell out over a question i asked prior to the end result ..)

Curious about this, if you wouldn't mind expanding on the story...

(I went to his apartment to do an Invisible Jukebox with him for The Wire some years ago. Tremendously nice guy—at least, he is now that he's clean.)

ok, here goes, bear with me, as it was a crap idea.

basically, if you go to pantomime in the UK with kids the opening section is meant to scare the kids to death.
then as the pantomime progresses, good overcomes the evil, and all is well with the world.
hence the opening section of a decent panto is often full of kids screaming and being scared.
well, in my naivety, i put it to jim that the FOETUS groove was akin to panto.
i.e. its full on and rather scary to start with, but as you get in deeper then you realise the truth etc etc.
however, jim took offence to the use of the word pantomime.
he just thought it was all crap second rate slapstick (which most of it is !).
then after i explained my thought process, he pointed me in the direction of a tradition of french theatre thats seriously dark ..
and clearly a cousin of the original ideas behind the uk panto.

and yes, once we cleared the air, it became very apparent that jim is now one of the most warm, intelligent music makers out there.
just that my crappy inane shyte did not sit well with this deep thought groove.

Could've guessed he had a dim view of pantos:
"Look at all the ugly people
Diggin holes to pass the time
Semi spastic weak and feeble
Never ending pantomime"

ahh.
that's not a lyric i am aware of !
pre-HOLE material ?

Horrible/funny image in my head of Hot Horse being used as an end of panto singalong.

hang on .. its on FLOW.

(not that its easy to tell !)

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/798_10156693747130597_6189724996768498576_n.jpg?oh=9d1d2d24186c153da4d345d9b97de9d2&oe=57953072

"Today is the first of Septembah!"

the tradition continues.

:D

Best annual thread bump.

jim posted this onto his facebook earlier :

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/art/14138064_10155097818838682_8953044966084377601_o.jpg

i was travelling all day yesterday but was optimistic mark e would post. that facebook post is awesome.

Guys

ha !

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/art/foetus.jpg

i slept, in but concede eternal defeat in the wake of mark e's greatness :-)

^a mutual non-aggression pact

<3 to all revivers

Tradition!

so soon?! as he has excelled at this in recent years i'm gonna let mark e take it from here.......

TEMBA-TEMBA-TEMBA

Hole never gets old. What a record.

― onimo, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:41 (ten years ago) Permalink

onimo otm

*feedback squeal*

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/art/sept2018.jpg

bloody hell.
no idea why that didn't work.
here is this years image courtesy of jim :

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/art/sept2018.jpg

and ta for the nudge stirmonster.
you are more than welcome to step in at the midnight hour as there is never going to be a year when I am ready and waiting at that time.

ha. ok. i can't imagine i'll stop being a night owl any year soon.

I wish he'd reissue a collection of all his earliest singles and non-lp material.

agreed

do you mean SINK or is there a lot of other stuff that's not on there?

yeah there's a lot that isn't on Sink, and most of what is there is truncated

indeed.
a compilation of all the 12" singles unedited would be rather wonderful.
given that he has released compilations of his recent(ish) material, I suspect its cos Stevo has the rights to the old stuff and aint handing the rights over, or does someone here know the real reason why ?

not sure, but the 1st 3 7" singles and the Custom Built For Capitalism EP were self-released

yeah, wasn't sure when the SB deal kicked it as I only came in at the time of HOLE.

I'd assume that by now even the SB releases would be releaseable. The last SB release was 32 years ago so I find it hard to imagine Stevo has much of a leg to stand on legally. As for the earlier releases (all of which i love), maybe Jim would rather his earlier music was just quietly forgotten?

According to the forum on the foetus website, he has been working on a complete-unedited-12-singles-comp for years, but new music projects are always causing delay.

i hope that happens. i'd love to know when they were all actually recorded as Finely Honed Machine and Wash / Slog have always sounded to me like they were recorded earlier, around the time of Ache.

.......Drum roll................

tember tember tember tember

and what a fine day for it!

I'm painting my new house, revive makes me wish I'd brought SFOTW for the boombox..

bloody hell, this annual gathering has come around quickly.
so far, no image from Jim today.
maybe he has forgotten !

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDYO5tHXYAU-9F8.jpg