May I con-join you?

Puff...pant...wheeze...sorry Im late everyone. Stopped off for sweets. Getting excited by the new album. Sam and I are doing a track together and have been researching conjoined twins, with the aim of singing a duet. We have settled for the classic Chang and Eng Bunker. Not only are they perhaps the most well known, but also they have quite a beautiful story behind them too. Two very different characters. It will most likely be a "Jimmy Binks " sounding affair. Stripped and accoustic. Will gentle harmonies.

Le Greek. C'EST FREAK!!

Getting really stuck into a couple of collaborations for this project now. A big freaks workout with Brainy Brown and his travelling circus of technology and a bit of work on Joe’s track about Hephaestus.

Hephaestus was the blacksmith to the gods and was a decent enough guy despite being thrown from a cliff as a baby and suffering subsequent lameness (He is often portrayed as having 2 backwards feet – I doubt he looked forward to his P.E lessons). Sadly his wife left him for the God of War. Typical.

It struck me that the bizarrely deformed Hephaestus and the snake-headed Medusa were basically ‘freaks’ of a sort (apologies to any snake-headed women reading this blog) and that our fantastic album title is now beginning to work with more coherence than we may have anticipated.

I wonder if anyone else has picked a freaky Greek (or a Greeky freak?).


Ancient Greg

I've finally found the sound I was after for my Prince Randian song. After struggling with Oompah and ragas, I've ended up going completely the other direction and give the Human Caterpillar some punk bollocks. Going to try playing some drums this time, as I was so impressed with The Incredible Flight Of Birdman's last 2 IML efforts. Its going to be a challenge, but that's what the IML's for, right? The big problem now is how to write a song about a limbless circus freak who's passtimes are (solely) building tabacco cases with his mouth, and lying dormant for hours in tiny crevices waiting for people to come into the room, then screaming to terrify them. That's about all I've got. Aw well. That's rock and role.