http://edwenn.com An archive of music from Ed Wenn\'s back catalogue. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en © ed.wenn@gmail.com () ed.wenn@gmail.com() 1440 An archive of music from Ed Wenn's back catalogue. ed.wenn@gmail.com No no http://edwenn.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://edwenn.com 144 144 http://edwenn.com/archives/125 http://edwenn.com/archives/125#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:14:54 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/125 http://edwenn.com/archives/125/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/124 http://edwenn.com/archives/124#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:38:41 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/124 http://edwenn.com/archives/124/feed 00:01:01 Sink did a big 9 week, joint-headline tour of Europe (including dates in the UK) with our bestest buddies from Washington DC, Shudder To Think. ... Sink did a big 9 week, joint-headline tour of Europe (including dates in the UK) with our bestest buddies from Washington DC, Shudder To Think. They had just released Tenspot on Dischord and would record Funeral At The Movies at Southern in London directly after the tour. Shudder were my favourite band at the time and I think I got to see them 53 times that summer. Wonderful stuff. The line-up of Craig Wedren, Chris Matthews, Stuart Hill #38; Mike Russell will always be my favourite version of Shudder and it was cool watching them every night and seeing them write and develop some of the Funeral songs as the tour progressed. As for Sink; we had just released Old Man Snake #38; The Fat, Black Pig on Decoy and were excited to be back in Europe and on tour. Outside of the UK you were expected to play longer sets and so we embraced this with our own fairly eclectic take on "life after hardcore". A few chuggy, Fugazi-inspred numbers, some poppy, Replacements nods, as few fast ones as we could get away with and some covers we couldn't really play. No two nights were the same and we had a lot of our own material and plenty of covers to choose from. This was probably the height of our embracing of The Blues and in that I hope you'll be indulgent with us. Everyone should spend a couple of years looking into where the whole ofnbsp; popular music came from and discovering the Blues greats. We did and we thoroughly enjoyed it...it was just unfortunate for our audience that we tended to play a lot of what we were listening to at the time. So on this tour we 'gifted' the crowd with dodgy, post-punk versions of white-boy blues that we loved, but which looking back, probably aren't even 10% as good as we thought at the time. Fuck it, we had a ball. We always enjoyed playing at the AJZ, a squat in Bielefeld, and Bobo, the booker there, was a great guy who seemed to like the band and helped us out a fair bit. Also on hand was our very good friend, Alfred Bradford, who took these great photos. Incidentally, Alfred had brought along US band The Dambuilders who were also touring at the time. We said hi to each other on the night, but didn't really hang out. Ironic then that 3 years later, Chocolate, would tour Europe supporting The Dambuildes on their Islington Porn Tapes tour and that their drummer, Kevin March, would end up playing for the final line-up of Shudder To Think. Small world. Anyway, what follows is the whole gig. It's very much warts and all. If you're a Sink fan then you'll probably enjoy it, if you've not heard Sink before then I wouldn't recommend this as your introdution to the band; there are bum notes aplenty and the mix isn't always great (the sound man seems to like his reverb and his delay effects). That said, the versions of Angel Turns Blue and Big Red Car are pretty damn good :-) Ed Wenn - Vocal #38; guitar John Ruscoe - Guitar #38; backing vocals Paul Duncan - Bass #38; backing vocals James Kermack - Drums #38; backing vocals Points of interest: * This was the only time we ever played The Letter (a huge 60's hit for The Box Tops). * Boogie Man and Ticket Office Blues were written by us, but were never released. * Amanush was recorded on a Peel session and came out on Aston's first Boss Tuneage compliation, Floor 81, but it really should have been on Vega-Tables. It was Paul's song in the main, but was 'a bit punk' for where I wanted the band to be at the time (and I was a Nazi) so it got left off the album. These days I like it a lot. * Craig from Shudder jumped up onstage and sang Whole Lotta Love with us...we should have got him to do it every night because he had the voice for it. It hadn't even occurred to me that he'd be interested and I hadn't made the connection at that point between his voice and the classic rock singers like Robert Plant. Sink ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/123 http://edwenn.com/archives/123#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:19:03 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/123 http://edwenn.com/archives/123/feed 00:01:01 Our good friend and former K-Line drummer, James Sherry, was on hand at the Bird's Nest gig last week to take some pictures and record ... Our good friend and former K-Line drummer, James Sherry, was on hand at the Bird's Nest gig last week to take some pictures and record a few minutes of video. Turns out the room was too dark for you to see anything on the video, but the sound quality was decent enough, so I cut that out and have uploaded the 2 songs as audio only. Squirrels cuts off a few seconds from the end, but you get the whole of Seams. I've also included a few of James' snaps from the gig too. Liquidman ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/122 http://edwenn.com/archives/122#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:44:16 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/122 http://edwenn.com/archives/122/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/121 http://edwenn.com/archives/121#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:06:31 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/121 http://edwenn.com/archives/121/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/120 http://edwenn.com/archives/120#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:43:11 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/120 http://edwenn.com/archives/120/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/118 http://edwenn.com/archives/118#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:54:42 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/118 http://edwenn.com/archives/118/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/117 http://edwenn.com/archives/117#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:07:49 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/117 http://edwenn.com/archives/117/feed 00:01:01 I've spent 2 years waiting for the final 2 YDM songs to get mixed before posting the whole session here and to date there's not ... I've spent 2 years waiting for the final 2 YDM songs to get mixed before posting the whole session here and to date there's not been any progress, so I'm going to go ahead and post them all anyway. If we get round to mixing the last 2 at any point I'll update this entry at that point. Anyway, You Disgust Me was the band that Rich, Paul #38; I formed after K-Line split up at the very end of 2004. First we got our good friend, Marc 'Mates' Maitland from Blocko to plays drums, but he left after 6 months so James Sherry (also from K-Line) agreed to stand in for a while. Unfortunately, James also left after a few rehearsals for a variety of reasons and we essentially called it a day at that point. It's incredibly deflating working up a set of material with a drummer and then have him leave just as you're about to start looking for gigs. To have it happen twice in a row is a real kick in the teeth. Anyway, because time was tight for all of us we asked James if he'd at least record the songs that we'd been working on so that we'd have a document of what we'd got up to. After the recording we looked for a new drummer, but all leads dried up and we knocked it on the head. A great shame as I think some of the material is really strong and I'd have loved to have had the opportunity to play live. It's really frustrating that my fave song, End Time Gospel, remains unmixed because while the rough mix gives you a feel for the song, there's a lot missing from this version (especially a load of build-up guitars near the end). Bah! Maybe one day. The one song that didn't really work for us is Murder In Their Eyes; the verses are OK and so is the breakdown at the end, but we were never really happy with the choruses. All songs written by Ed, Rich #38; Paul with input from Mates #38; James. All lyrics by Ed. Warhead is a cover of the 1980 classic from the UK Subs #38; My Pal is a cover of the similarly classic song from Aussia band, God. Ed Wenn - Vocals, guitar #38; percussion Rich Matthews - Guitar Paul Duncan - Bass James Sherry - Drums Roop - Backing vocals #38; percussion John Ruscoe - Slide guitar on 'Warhead' The drums were recorded by Rich at 2KHz and the rest was recorded #38; mixed by Roop in a tiny attic room at Air Lyndhurst. Rich and I have decided to ressurect some of the songs in our new (as of Nov 2009) band, Liquidman, so if you come and see us play expect to hear Edison #38; Structure. You,Disgust,Me ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/116 http://edwenn.com/archives/116#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:48:45 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/116 http://edwenn.com/archives/116/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/115 http://edwenn.com/archives/115#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:57 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/115 http://edwenn.com/archives/115/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/114 http://edwenn.com/archives/114#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:05:23 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/114 http://edwenn.com/archives/114/feed http://edwenn.com/archives/112 http://edwenn.com/archives/112#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:26:55 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/112 http://edwenn.com/archives/112/feed 00:01:01 This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper's book, "Trapped ... This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasper's book, "Trapped In A Scene". Eventually I'll add some details about the recording and artwork, but for now here are the songs. Bad,Dress,Sense ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/113 http://edwenn.com/archives/113#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:20:32 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/113 http://edwenn.com/archives/113/feed 00:01:01 nbsp; This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasperrsquo;s book, ldquo;Trapped ... nbsp; This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasperrsquo;s book, ldquo;Trapped In A Scenerdquo;. Eventually Irsquo;ll add some details about the recording, but for now here is the track. [Photo of Nick by Paul May] Bad,Dress,Sense ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/111 http://edwenn.com/archives/111#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:45:25 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/111 http://edwenn.com/archives/111/feed 00:01:01 nbsp; This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasperrsquo;s book, ldquo;Trapped ... nbsp; This has been posted in case anyone swings by this site as a result of the Bad Dress Sense section of Ian Glasperrsquo;s book, ldquo;Trapped In A Scenerdquo;. Eventually Irsquo;ll add some details about the recording, but for now here are the songs. Bad,Dress,Sense ed.wenn@gmail.com no No http://edwenn.com/archives/110 http://edwenn.com/archives/110#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:36:36 +0000 Ed http://edwenn.com/archives/110 http://edwenn.com/archives/110/feed