SO THIS IS AN EMAIL THING THAT I SENT A DUDE WHO WANTED A 600-ODD WORD RAMBLE ABOUT WRITING LYRICS

I wrote most of the TF stuff really fast like a song a day kind of thing. Ever hear about MGMT just singing sounds over their music and then writing the lyrics to the sounds? I sometimes do that kind of thing. I think it’s important to have some kind of melodic idea. I wrote [...]

FIRST SHOW WENT TOTALLY AWESOME! THE SET WE PLAYED WAS ACTUALLY CHARLIE’S LEARNING ALTERNATE TRACKLISTING.

Last night Dove and I played the first ever Teen Fortress show with Tommy Ill and 47 Diamantes. It was super sick, there were heaps of people and I had heaps of fun. This is my favourite photo from the night (Thanks, T’Nealle): You can see the rest in

47 DIAMANTES RELEASE STILL FRIENDS AND A NEW VIDEO FEAT. TOMMY ILL

Yo – 47 Diamantes have just released Still Friends and a video for Armageddon Ready (feat. Tommy Ill)! Go buy their album for anything (even nothing!). Here it is: Here is the video: Brian made this video. He is the bestest. Remember: 47 Diamantes and Tommy Ill with Teen Fortress support at Goodbye Blue Monday [...]

WHEN I RECORDED VOCALS FOR THE BBE ALBUM THIS IS WHAT I USED TO “GET INTO THE ZONE”. THANKS, EMILY.

The emo bits are my lyrics.

A FEW PEOPLE HAVE COMMENTED THAT SOME OF MY SONGS COULD/SHOULD BE LONGER. HERE’S YOUR COLLECTIVE CHANCE.

I don’t think the uptake on this is going to be massive, but I’ve been asked for stems so people can do Teen Fortress remixes. I’ll just do them as they appear in my inbox(es). If you want stems you can either email me or tweet at me. I’ve got the vocal stems for It’s [...]

CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY LIVE WITH THIS OUTFIT I HOPE THE BACKING TRACKS I MASTERED TODAY SOUND GOOD THROUGH THE P.A.

Cool, so thanks to everyone who downloaded Learning (Everything Has To End For Some Reason I Don’t Believe It). Special thanks goes to those who paid for it. I know who you are (or at least, what your email addresses are) and you will be receiving a special treat… I will, or rather, we will [...]

TEEN FORTRESS – LEARNING (EVERYTHING HAS TO END FOR SOME REASON I DON’T BELIEVE IT)

I wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered a 10-track pop (power-pop?) album in a bit over a month and you can download it for free from Bandcamp or from the (hilarious) website I made.

HOME BREW – TUESDAY (NEVER REMIX) I’VE REMIXED AND REMASTERED A HOME BREW SONG FOR YOUR NEXT PARTY.

So Home Brew’s Last Week EP is alright but I felt like there could be some improvements so I made them and here they are. The HTML5 player version is 128kb/s and the download version is 320kb/s for you faux-audiophiles out there. You’ll need an HTML5-compatible browser for this one. Home Brew – Tuesday (Never [...]

QUAKE RAPE – IN THE CLUB. NO ONE ELSE HAS A FLAT SO FULL OF CRAZY AWESOME BUT INSTEAD OF JUST BRAGGING ABOUT IT WE ARE DELIVERING HARD.

Although he hasn’t been so up with the blogging game recently, Goss has been utterly killing in on the other creative front. He was a significant contributor to the SLEEP500 Ultimate Party Playlist and he’s followed that up with an absolute banger. I present to you, another SLEEP500 exclusive, Quake Rape’s In The Club: You’ll [...]

GO THERE AND DOWNLOAD IT AND PLAY IT NEXT TIME YOU’RE WITH YOUR FRIENDS GETTING ALL PROFOUND AND EXISTENTIAL.

OK, I sort of don’t know what to do with music that I write on my own so here goes: I’ve released a second Never mini-EP. This one isn’t chip, it’s mostly DAW-music with a bit of old synth (MS-10) and some funny out-of-tune steel drum that was at the pirate ship-come-pub in Cornwall. Anyway, [...]