'ALL SUMMER LONG'

'ALL SUMMER LONG'
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HS TPS Report 5

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 DRAWINGSDRAWINGSDRAWINGS 

Went to see Faris Badwan (of The Horrors...) new exhibition. Really great. Particular favourites being a drawing of ‘The World In Colour’ (see it small below) - think thats what the name was (if you go you can check for us). He has lots of intricate drawings from his sketchbooks and some original paintings and drawings on 'German Paper'... Go and delve into his world, down at the Strand Gallery... http://www.farisbadwan.com/creaturesofcolour.swf

   



We are currently doing some work on some new songs which we may well play live at the London Birthdays show next month. A first taste of album 3! Also a new very special single coming up... HS




DON'T FORGET ALL OUR NEW SHOWS COMING UP!! 

BIRTHDAYS, DALSTON, LONDON. 6TH OCT 
ORAN MOR, GLASGOW. 14TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER. 15TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
DINGWALLS, LONDON. 16TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 

 And then on tour with TIM BURGESS... All details here... 
http://hatchamsocialofficial.co.uk/shows/

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 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?! 

A Short film is being made inspired by our last album "ABOUT GIRLS" by director Oliver Guy watkins. It will be premiered at our London show on the 6th of October, at Birthdays, Dalston.

DON'T FORGET ALL OUR NEW SHOWS COMING UP!! 

BIRTHDAYS, DALSTON, LONDON. 6TH OCT 
ORAN MOR, GLASGOW. 14TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER. 15TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 
DINGWALLS, LONDON. 16TH OCT - Supporting The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart 

 And then on tour with TIM BURGESS... All details here... 
http://hatchamsocialofficial.co.uk/shows/

The HS TPS Report 3

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Here is a remix we did of the song South Pacific by the band Is Tropical. You can download it. We used a bunch of Commadore 64 samples and some tape delays, it was fun.


On/Off Music

Have been thinking about how working on computers making music effects the outcomes, how it creates space in a different way from Tape or other more limited/enclosed recording mediums. Here are some thoughts:  

Computers work upon a binary system of 0’s and 1’s, on and off commands. Written into complex languages that enable multiples upon multiples of commands to build large levels and seemingly linear spaces. Although with the complexities and possibilities within modern computers, a fact that they seem as part of every process as a hand or a knife, the basis of using computers does seem to fall back into On or Off.

Let me explain what I mean and how it seems, to me, to effect the process and product of music. To start with think about when we listen to Brigette Fontaine ‘Coma a la Radio’. When we listen to a piece like this we know it was recorded onto a tape, tape uses a linear process of recording information and works pretty much by holding memory shapes in rust of voltages representing sounds, these are continuous and limited in the tape length. It is always recording something, or at least always has something on it, the tape exists whether you record or not, so you can be sitting with record on and then bring in your sounds and the sound of you not playing was also being recorded. It appears that with computer recording, although in essence this is possible (to work with computer DAWs -Digital Audio Workstations- as if ‘to tape’) it lends itself to work in a different manner - after all there is no track limit or start or end of the ‘tape’. So unless you strictly emulate the approach of tape based recording you end up recording (or editing) in and out of points of tracks. This is all fairly obvious to you I expect - yes its a computer, yes they are not linear in a ‘real’ sense.

It creates a music of On and Off points. Listen to Nicki Minaj for a perfect example of how this can be felt very audibly. It leads us to make music where things start and stop in very definite ways, where we know EXACTLY when something is starting and when the space it inhabits ‘disappears’ from the whole world of the song/track/whatever.

Obviously there are elements of the visual reliance that is very heavy, now that we can zoom in on any wave-form or bar-count and cut/edit/syncronise to our hearts content but I don’t want to go into that.

Little bubbles of non-existent realities emerge, composed out of numbers, into thin air and then, pop, pop, they are gone and the space never existed. 

I am not interested in whether this is better or worse, only that I find it worthy to think about when creating music, the way that the process can dictate so much and also how regimented you can become (which may be perfect for you) by sticking to a computer recording process. It is a very much On and Off soundscape.

Toby

The HS TPS Report 2

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Have been reading a little of Verlaine and wanted to share one with you, you may not know this:

The Innocents ‘Paul Verlaine’

(Fêtes Galants: Les Ingénus)

High heels fought with their long dresses,

So that, a question of slopes and breezes,

Ankles sometimes glimmered to please us,

Ah, intercepted! – Dear foolishnesses!

Sometimes a jealous insect’s sting

Troubled necks of beauties under the branches,

White napes revealed in sudden flashes

A feast for our young eyes’ wild gazing.

Evening fell, ambiguous autumn evening:

The beauties, dreamers who leaned on our arms,

Whispered soft words, so deceptive, such charms,

That our souls were left quivering and singing.

You love him too, right?

Look Sessions

A few months back we went to SXSW festival in Austin Texas (yes it was amazing in the Motel and the Frat Parties), while we were there we played an acoustic session for an Look Sessions (looksessions.com), here is us playing an acoustic version of Like An Animal for them:

For those of you who entered our competition for tickets for our autumn tour, playing with Tim Burgess, you will have received notification today if you won. Congratulations! Going to be fucking great  tour.

HS

Truth and Validity

What makes a lyric valid? What makes a song meaningful? To live your life so as to experience something less ordinary or to give us the space to understand the road less trodden and muddied? To live your life on the edge of knowing what you are doing. Letting the gods roll you around in fates gardens. Do these pills sharpen our pencils and sight? We dive into ourselves and those we know in a quest for something deeper than the surface rubble. In a need for more than the usual cheap tricks and alliterations. For some truth that sets the soul alight that burns the crystals of hope and deep sensitivity. Is it just a case of something to catch the eye, but then why bother? Stick by me we can mine the deepest mines, we can find the real precious metals down there, we leave the fools gold for the shiny happy people.