Tuesday, February 19, 2008
SXSW
Yes the rumors are true.. MDID will be at SXSW this year for the first time!. Hard to believe we've never done it before in the 24 yrs of being a band.. but there you go - there's a first time for everything. Joining the band this time around will be Billy Buckley on bass and Scott Pickering on Drums.. The show will be at Habana Calle 6 on Friday March 14th at 1 am (guess that's technically Saturday)... Hope to see you there! God knows it's way past our bedtimes..
A couple other shows on the horizon over the next few months.. pls check the MySpace page for updates...
A few new songs in the can and hopefully a new CD by the end of the year.. As we get decent demo versions I'll probably post a couple at MySpace too...
Other random thoughts:
Seems there are 2 types of people that go to the gym, those that go out of self loathing (that's me - surprised?), and those that go out of self admiration (that's why they have those big mirrors everywhere..).
The 30 yr old Samantha Morton was just not believable as 16 yr old Deborah Curtis in the movie Control, although Sam Riley was a dead ringer for Ian Curtis. Like most rock band movies, it focused disappointingly little on the creative process and more on the personalities. Quite a different view of Tony Wilson than you got with 24 Hour Party People though.
Many people have compared MDID to J.D. a lot over the years. And where I admit the obvious musical references in the single note guitar lines and simple drumming, (It was upon hearing JD that I realized "hey I could do that") I've always felt like MDID's influences were more midwestern US than northern UK. JD's music seemed strangely alien and distant in the world of late 70's punk. I think it's the production of Martin Hannett that gave Curtis' voice that horror-movie croon, and made an average band sound completely new with the odd EQ's on the drums, the up-front bass and the scratchy in the next building guitar sounds. JD would have been a completely different (and very likely much less well known) band without his production. I know he's passed on but anyone know of any film or books of Hannett describing how he got the sounds he got on JD records?
A couple other shows on the horizon over the next few months.. pls check the MySpace page for updates...
A few new songs in the can and hopefully a new CD by the end of the year.. As we get decent demo versions I'll probably post a couple at MySpace too...
Other random thoughts:
Seems there are 2 types of people that go to the gym, those that go out of self loathing (that's me - surprised?), and those that go out of self admiration (that's why they have those big mirrors everywhere..).
The 30 yr old Samantha Morton was just not believable as 16 yr old Deborah Curtis in the movie Control, although Sam Riley was a dead ringer for Ian Curtis. Like most rock band movies, it focused disappointingly little on the creative process and more on the personalities. Quite a different view of Tony Wilson than you got with 24 Hour Party People though.
Many people have compared MDID to J.D. a lot over the years. And where I admit the obvious musical references in the single note guitar lines and simple drumming, (It was upon hearing JD that I realized "hey I could do that") I've always felt like MDID's influences were more midwestern US than northern UK. JD's music seemed strangely alien and distant in the world of late 70's punk. I think it's the production of Martin Hannett that gave Curtis' voice that horror-movie croon, and made an average band sound completely new with the odd EQ's on the drums, the up-front bass and the scratchy in the next building guitar sounds. JD would have been a completely different (and very likely much less well known) band without his production. I know he's passed on but anyone know of any film or books of Hannett describing how he got the sounds he got on JD records?
