As part of our continuing civic responsibility to help musicians, we’ve put together this handy technical guide to what are oft-considered the more ‘exotic’ of instruments in a band’s set up. Keep a copy in your briefcase - you don’t when you’ll need it!
Those lovely chaps Olympians have lovingly bashed out a Christmas single in a fit of boredom, and you can find it on their page. It’s called ‘Leaving You At Christmas’ and is exactly the bundle of laughs it sounds like. Enjoy!
I decided that the logos we’ve been toying with aren’t quite horrible enough, so I sketched this the other day. I now have the following advice to give; if anyone out there is ever feeling a bit liney, please don’t be tempted to draw this many lines in one go. Space it out, and stretch your hands regularly in-between sessions. I didn’t and my hand comletely seized up. Honestly I haven’t been able to wank since.
…now all the social networking sites are working with each other rather than competing and one blog entry can be automatically spaffed all over the internet with the click of a button. Interesting.
Any colour you like…
…so long as it’s fucking horrible. These are the sample sleeves we’ve made. By doing them by hand, not only do they get that earthy\homemade\twee vibe, but they’re simple enough that even we can produce them fairly quickly. We’re disputing whether to do each release in a number of colours, but have a worry that we’ll just end up with cupboards full of the ones in shit colours. Thoughts, again, appreciated at fauxpasdiscs@gmail.com
We spent the afternoon slaving over a hot excel document this afternoon, and after many pieces of very pretty looking formatting, and some truly vicious IF( statements, we came crashing to the conclusion that everything still costs money, most of it ours.
That was sobering, to say the least. Anybody like to give us some money?
Okay, so we’ve started playing around with some ideas for logos. Given our SLAM-OUR-FISTS-ON-THE-TABLE-AFTER-A-COUPLE-OF-PINTS business ethic, it seem only appropriate that it be an ink-and-stamp-applied logo. Applied hard.
