Clear-Minded Creative

  The latest song I’ve uploaded to myspace is a new version of I’ve Spent Too Long on the Computer Again (I’ve shortened the title to COMPU2LONG). It began life as this half-arsed video

If you’ve read this blog for a while you’ll remember my “I Was a Swivel Chair” story and the horrible final gig which we did as part of the Circus Fantasticus in Leith. (It ended in me throwing a drunken tantrum if you must know). Well on Sunday just past, I returned to the Circus […]

Tantrum Man is very pleased (for once in his life) to have the following mention on the website http://www.antifolkchameleon.com/antifolk_2007 Tantrum Man/Swivel ChairsOne of the big bonuses of starting this website has been meeting and hearing the songs of all the cool new artists that are on myspace like Midtown Dickens, Charles Latham, Red Clay River, […]

  A condensed version of the sorry Swivel Chair saga which I told on the original Gaseous Brain blogger site has been published in the winter issue of the excellent Nude magazine. It’s part of their ‘beautiful losers’ section about failed bands and it’s my final word on the subject. The magazine is available in […]

Tantrum Man hates being 30. So, he’s recorded 30 songs all of varying degrees of fucked-upness. He recorded them all on his mobile phone – some were done walking home from work – you can hear the cars in the background. Some were done walking home from the pub. You can hear him slur his […]

So I made my return to playing live for the first time in about 3 years by playing at the Out of The Bedroom/Out of Bounds Megamike during the festival. About 35 people all got up and played a song each. I played “I Ain’t Your Mailman” in characteristically shambolic fashion, which it turned out […]

So even though I’ve stopped writing for them, I’m in this month’s issue of the Skinny:

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Sometimes it seems like everyone is a wannabe DJ. However, despite a healthy dose of cynicism about people who want to force their “impeccable” music taste down other people’s throats, an opportunity to play a bunch of your favourite tunes and make people dance is, in my mind, a thoroughly worthwhile aspiration, as long as […]

It’s a double-edged sword for The Aliens- on the one hand they have a ready made audience with passionate fans of both the Beta Band and Lone Pigeon eager to hear their new material, especially given the abrupt discontinuation of Steve Mason’s King Biscuit Time project (although he is currently trading in under-the-counter electro under […]