Biff! Bang! Pow!

I've written my first Pow! To The People in ages.

It is about Scott Pilgrim it is HERE

It took longer than it should have too write. I think touring has broken my brain.

I think the cure for a broken brain is lots of tea as my brain is on the mend now.

Someone should make Anton Newcombe drink lots of tea.

Insider Outsider Art

I've been mad busy and neglected my art blog.

My friend Sian Pattenden has been busying away at hers though she has recently painted me with a Lion. Here it is.

And HERE is her blog. Insider Outsider Art.

HEY HIPPIES. WE MURDERED YOUR SONG.

Actually I think we improved it.

Keith Top Of The Pops and I have finally updated our Eddie And Keith Are Listening To myspace.

We Shouted Donovan's 'Atlantis' into a laptop in our front room.

If you want to hear it, it is HERE

DC COMICS.

I wrote about DC Comics for Under The Radar magazine. I hope they don't mind me posting it here. I don't think that issue of the magazine is out anymore though so it should be ok.

I had to write about why I love DC Comics. Although I had to stick to only a few hundred words. Which I clearly found quite hard.

here it is

I love DC Comics. I have loved them since I was given a pile of Batman comics when I was ten. My only experience of Batman previous to that had been with the very camp sixties TV show. These Batman stories I'd been given, though, were much darker and far more complex than Adam West's goofing about on the television. I was surprised that the characters were expressing political opinions and shocked that people were getting murdered. I'd enjoyed comics previously to reading Batman, but I think deep down I'd always thought comics were only for children and that I was going to have to give them up one day. Discovering Batman made me realise that perhaps comics were something I could take with me into adult life.

Of course, Batman was only the beginning. Soon other characters started popping up in his stories that I wanted to know more about, and before I knew it I was collecting more and more comics. I tried other companies, too. I briefly had a subscription to the Marvel comic Spiderman, but gave it up after a long and boring story about clones. I still read other comics now and then, but it's only DC comics I have a subscription with. Other comic publishers just don't have the same long-muddled history that DC does. Superman's first stories were written in 1938, and Batman's in 1939, and there are a whole host of other characters from the '40s and '50s too. I think this is the main thing I love about DC - the constant struggle of the writers to try and reconcile their characters' long-complicated pasts with current storylines, and also their always-futile attempts to create a definitive universe that all the characters can live in. I can't think of any other art form or even comic publisher that has that problem.

I genuinely love DC comics. It is brilliant to have another universe to immerse myself in, especially when things aren't going my way. I've lived in some crummy houses, had awful jobs and some bad break-ups. But as long as I've had a DC comic to read, I've always managed to be happy. They are brilliant.

GLAM CHOPS - THE MOVIE

Tom Randall is a documentary maker that has been following Glam Chops around for a year. It is the first screening of the film he has made tomorrow. I've not seen it yet so am pretty excited here is the trailer for it.

US SUPPORTS NEW YORK SHOWS

Here is a List of our New York shows and the bands that we're playing with.

June 1st Demander, The Picture

We met Demander when we did the American NME tour with The Hold Steady. They are ACE. I cant wait to see them live again.

The Picture sound a bit like James to me.

June 2nd Murder Mystery, Les Sans Culottes

I have been visiting Murder Mystery's Myspace everyday for weeks. I love them. They remind me a little bit of The Magnetic Fields. Even if you cant make it to the show go to their myspace have a listen and buy their record. Here is their AMAZING video to Love Astronaut

Les Sans Culottes are awesome. They sound like a Damaged Goods band. I just had to go and check that they haven't released a record on Damaged Goods that I'd missed. I dont know why I dont already own records by them. Fantastic french glam.

June 3rd Tiny Masters Of Today, U.S Royalty

I dont know much about U.S Royalty but just went to their myspace and like their song Raincoats.

We met Tiny Masters Of Today when we were on Mute. I saw them about a month ago they were punk as fuck. I love their song Pop Chart

June 4th Cymbals Eat Guitars, Phil And The Osophers

Phil and The Osophers are ace they remind me of The Wave Pictures and Jonathan Richman with bit of Ezra Furman thrown in (although I am notorious for hearing comparisons between bands that arent really there)

Cymbals Eat Guitars are brilliant. Jasper played them to me a while ago their songs sound massive. Cant wait to see them live. They are playing with us in Philidelphia too

June 5th Jeffery Lewis, Keith Top Of The Pops And His UK/US Indie Minor Celebrity All Star Backing Band.

Im a massive fan of Jeffery Lewis. I've been trying to play a show with him since we started playing shows. Slap Dash For No Cash on our new album is a little bit about him. He is great

I play Bass for Keith in his UK Indie Minor Celebrity Backing Band. I'm terrible and yet his amazing songs always shine through. My favourite at the moment is 'Two Of The Beatles Are Dead' HERE is an entire show he played recently in London.

I think someone made me draw a fantasy band line up poster once for a magazine both Jeffery Lewis and Keith were on that poster.

The last two nights have sold out. I'm just boasting by writing about them here.

Although there are a few tickets available for the first three nights you can get them HERE

and Philidelphia HERE

A Q&A WITH INTRO MAGAZINE

I know the Half Man Half Biscuit song is called 'Tending The Wrong Grave For TWENTY THREE Years' but I was full of painkillers and confused.