Monday 25 June 2012

Do You Wanna (go to the movies)

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Do You Wanna (go to the movies) at Glastonbury 2013...

I've been asked to play at the Cine-East fringe festival this coming weekend so I though a movie tinted song was in order, I remember watching Evil Dead 2 at a friends house in school, we spent the whole film laughing and screaming as I hadn't ever seen anything like it before! Many horror B-movies later, I still love them...Do You Wanna (go to the movies)

Tuesday 19 June 2012

Fishing for Takeaway

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Fishing for Takeaway at Glastonbury 2013...

Been all carried away with the Euros and England and what not (go team 11!) so uploaded this to Facebook last night but forgot to do the actual bloody blog post...anyway a song about getting a takeaway whilst being stranded at sea...Fishing for takeaway

Tuesday 12 June 2012

Short Music

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Short Music at Glastonbury 2013...

This is inspired by Short Music for Short People which has 101 bands playing 30 second songs (The Mr.T Experience and Descendants being particularly brilliant) this was a great introduction to some amazing punk bands and opened a world away from the 3 minute single! It also always came in useful when trying to make a compilation tape hit exactly 45 minutes (C90) or 30 minutes (C60)...Short Music

Monday 4 June 2012

Your Phone is Their CCTV

Dear Emily Eavis, perhaps you'd like The Pencil Sharks to perform Your Phone is Their CCTV at Glastonbury 2013...

After spending some time in a cove, living off freshly caught fish in view of nobody but the sun, the birds and the saltwater inhabitants, I returned to find my dusty phone wanting to update lots of apps. I soon clocked that 100million people have updated their Facebook Android app signing the T's & C's that allow Facebook to read their text messages, access and record audio from their handset and take photo's at any timefrom their camera phone.

I've reconciled myself with the fact that we are watched by CCTV in public places and that Facebook and other apps sell our data to 3rd parties but for a company to have access to the camera on my phone and the audio that accompanies this is nothing more than the Owellian World detailed in 1984. You'll know which one is my phone, it'll be the one with the microphone picked out, gaffa tape over the lens and no Facebook application installed...Your Phone is Their CCTV