Way back in the day, before I got involved in all this interactive & graphical design I was a fine art student and spent my days making films and noise. I would make electric guitars and other electric noise making devices out of all sorts, old tape players with the reading heads removed and placed into hand units, guitars out of old speaker box’s and all sorts of joyous nonsense. Read the rest of this entry »
I had a bit of an odd time with this band, I used to love them when they where played on MTV’s 120 minutes back when I was 18 and even video’d them but it took me a good 20 years to get around to buying anything by them and when I did eventually order the George Best album from Amazon it turned out to be a misaddressing and the album actually contained a powerpoint presentation of the dangers of alcohol abuse by the drinks manufacturer Diageo, Ironic really considering what killed George Best. I read that this album was originally recorded under the name of David Gedge’s current band Cinerama but on listening to it he decided it was to dark and released it under the his old bands name instead, to be honest I don’t care its just sublime whatever the name on the cover.
There I was sitting at my desk waiting for a client to get back to me about a project I was working on and i decided to drop by the Young God Records web site as I do every now and again and I found a video on there of a live performance form the additional DVD that comes with the limited version of this CD.
