Some of you may remember that I posted a video back in June 2022 of the drumtrack recording sessions for the forthcoming Howl in the Typewriter album 'Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind'. I'm finally working on completing those recordings, and so far have sequenced all the drumtracks and added basslines to all the songs (currently twelve). I've just spent a fortnight working on 'We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against', an 18-minute epic in three stages which is the last song on the album. Today I think I've finished that song, although I'm sure I'll be tweaking the mix when I return to it after finishing recording the instrumentation for all the others.
I thought you might be interested in hearing a few snippets of The Epic, so here's a short video (with appaling sound quality, sorry).
I had an e-mail from Tim Jones (who presents The Reverend Rabbit radio show) to say he's been featuring a lot of tracks from godspunk volume twenty-four compilation album. He sent me a link to the first of the shows that he's archived on Mixcloud, and I've just had a very enjoyable listen. He played two Howl in the Typewriter songs, 'Boris Blows his Bugle' and 'Angels', and the introduction he gave is the sort of thing that makes the last forty years of running Pumf all worthwhile. You can listen to that excerpt from the show by clicking the video link below. To hear the whole show (and loads more of his shows as well) visit www.mixcloud.com/tim-jones20/the-reverend-rabbit-show-216. To watch the OFFICIAL! video for 'Angels', go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoP-7uMUKY.
Shaun Robert sent me a snippet from a radio show broadcast by In-Tune on BCFM, in which the Pumf-Records-released album godspunk volume twenty-four was praised to the extreme, and the song '873741' by Food Fortunata was played. If you would like to hear the three-and-a-half minutes in question, look no further than the video accompanying this post . . !
Many thanks to BCFM for having impeccable taste.
I've been neglecting to post further instalments 'From The Daily Life Of Mr. Batcow', so let's rectify the situation. I know many of you will be intrigued, wondering just what it is that fills the time of a busy Record Company Executive on a daily basis, so here's a short video of me doing some weeding.
More food 'From The Daily Life Of Mr. Batcow' - Fruity Veggie Curry.
Onions, peppers, courgette, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, chickpeas, kidney beans, curry sauce, sultanas, apple, a few extra herbs & spices. Served with pitta bread. Quantities shown produced four extra portions to freeze. Sequence may have been shortened.
Here's another instalment of 'From The Daily Life Of Mr. Batcow'. Most days I go for some exercise on my rollerblades (that's e-x-e-r-c-i-s-e, I'm not just playing out), so today I thought you might like to join me. I drove to the promenade, left the van and skated about a mile and a half. That's not a huge amount, and Lawrence Burton's daily twenty mile cycle puts me to shame, but it's quite some exertion - especially against the wind on the first stretch. You'll not have felt the benefit of the exercise simply by watching the video, but I can almost guarantee you'll have felt nauseous from the camerawork.
Pops Morrow has just visited Pumf HQ in his capacity of guest drummer for a forthcoming Howl in the Typewriter album (hopefully to be released in 2023). He played, and I recorded, some of the best drumtracks in existence. Here you can see what they sounded like with your eyes - imagine how your ears will eventually react to the audio!
Today I used my towel; the one with the little blue whale embroidered on it. You may be looking for hidden meaning, something about 'washing my hands of the whole recording process', having just finished mixing and mastering the new Howl in the Typewriter album The Sound Of Musick - but it's nothing like that. I'd been to the toilet and thought washing my hands would be hygienic.
Sculpture by Dr. Steg
Dr. Steg has traded me one of his current sculptures for a copy of the latest godspunk CD album. This sculpture will be taking pride of place here at Pumf HQ as a psychic goad, until somebody assassinates the twat to whom it refers (and subsequently it can act as a monument to a dead arsehole).
Howl in the Typewriter live in session on Neil Crud's Louder Than War radio show, 13th Dec 2021
Many thanks to Neil Crud for featuring Howl in the Typewriter in session yesterday evening. He's featured many Pumf-released bands on his radio shows over the years, and is a true enthusiast - a champion of underground music. Let's hope he continues broadcasting for years to come.
I've done an edit of last night's show in case any of you missed it and want to catch the three Howl in the Typewriter songs (Blame the Walrus, Alt_F4, & The Blooming Flower of Crimson Rage). Facebook won't let me upload the audio, so I've made a video. This makes perfect sense on the part of Facebook because, of course, it takes less storage space and it's much quicker to upload a 627MB video than a 10.5MB mp3 . . . Hey! Hang on a minute . . !
Oh, no - yesterday I was doing so well at posting banalities, but today I've accidentally done something interesting! Sorry . . .
Here's a 13-second video, a rough-mix excerpt of a new Howl in the Typewriter song 'Mischief! Mischief!' which I've spent my day working on. I'm pleased to say that the sound quality is dreadful and the picture, filmed directly from the CRT computer monitor, is so flickery-awful that it will likely induce epileptic seizures in ALL of you, not just the epileptic folk. So hopefully that will make up for this post being interesting.
