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The UM Archive for June, 2012

It’s all grist to “Mill Road’s original maverick”

Nice little mention of the Um turn in a Hot Chip review by Connor Browne here. I think this same piece might have appeared in The Ely Standard also. Standard.
The Um bit sez:
Support this time comes from Cambridge’s very own cult legend Pete Um. Mill Road’s original maverick shuffles onstage with his minidisc player in [...]

Everybody lies on the internet.

Dave says this isn’t him, and Felix says it isn’t him, and I have to say I’m totally foxed.

Toliet door handle, from british HST train

I’m browsing eBay :
Music >
Records >
Albums/ LPs >
Other Albums/ LPs
like you do and I spy:

Zep Tribute

Had a dream about my mate Sean, who died suddenly in 1998. I think the experience of my Dad’s partner’s recent passing conjured up an alternate version of his death where we got a chance to say goodbye. In the dream Sean was alive, but we were all trying to get him to lie down [...]

Filehogging

Pete Um Bandcamp

Dave was telling me I ought to sort one of these out, and he was right. Should have the vinyl for The New Album ready soon too.

More Meeuw press, for IMLER

Did another press thingie for Meeuw Muzak a while back. Next one I’m doing is for a Harry Merry 7″!
Meeuw Muzak 038
Chris Imler: Vorwärts
b/w Tanzen
7″ single
Chris Imler’s 7″ is a real hit!
(Felix Kubin)
Chris Imler returns here on a 7″ with a straightforward appellation to his new one-man bang-gang: IMLER. This new waxing on the Meeuw [...]

Libbe Matz Gang

John Eden sends me this, being a bit coy about details, but nothing to do with him personally, apparently. It seems vaguely Edenic in it’s vision tho, being all dystopic Industrial subversive occultic blackness with the samizdat typewriters & the PO Boxes etc, ha ha. Beyond that I’m still totally in WTF mode, to be [...]

Rave Bum

Woebot: Rave Bum from Matthew Ingram on Vimeo.
Good, innit? Some people saying brave move but apparently he’s got some previous with words and the great thing about this is that big, flat space the vocals sit in. Kind of ready-storyboarded stuff, unsurprisingly perhaps.
Are some of the songs too short? Uh… no, I don’t think [...]

R Stevie Moore/Les Adventures Sous La Mer/The Doozer