RJP and Oliver Fisher (Cold Pumas) are TENSE MEN.
TENSE MEN by TENSE MEN
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
LISTS
A
1. BONE LAWN
B
2. DELTA CAPS
3. DEAL CASTLE
This record concerns itself with sex, death and the frustrations created by the practical necessities of banal life.
Side A is about desire and detachment. Desire to be detached from the world and detachment through desire. Frustration from being trapped by the weight of the physical self contrasted with the liberation and joy from the physical self. An escape from the tedium, distilling the chaos and confusion of life to a point, a purity and a place free from troublesome thought. The Void.
Side B is the contrast to the fleeting highs and lows; the middle ground, the broken grey. The necessity of dull interaction in everyday life, told through simple language. One song is about creating your importance and stake in the world to prove that your life isn't worthless, which is unfortunately typified by the boring and pointless arguments we are surrounded by constantly. The other song is about lists. We dream of a life that makes sense and so attempt to order and define the chaos, the infinite threads and strands of life. We are thrilled by an apparently inevitable sequence and our ability to create a visual progression to follow.
"Creating order is a survival impulse against the death drive of gravity and entropy - or, at the very least, a mode of making the daunting demands of existing in time and space more manageable. The parcelling of space is an attempt to wrangle the infinite, thereby gaining traction against one's inevitable union with it."
Or just excuses to let the OCD flow because of your complete inability to remember anything that you're meant to be doing.
We recorded these songs ourselves in 2010, Reza smashing his previous personal best and recording his drums in the last 8 minutes of a practice. Lindsay recorded his guitars in the 45 minutes he had in Brighton after arriving and before we had to be at our show with Ruidosa Inmundicia (which was great by the way). Murphy did his parts via Skype from a hotel in Berlin probably and I took about 6 months to finish it all off. I drew the cover and R.M. Phoenix has done the back. It's going to be an edition of 300 7" housed in a 3 colour photocopied/riso sleeve.
Pre-order here.
Distribution details coming real soon.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
WHAT A JOKE
We're releasing our second 7" on the 1st of April. It's called "LISTS" and has 3 songs on it. We recorded it ourselves and me and my brother did the artwork, i'll tell you all about it real soon I promise. The current pressing matter at the moment though is letting you know about what we've organised to celebrate our investment in 300 pieces of black polyvinyl chloride.
The first event is on the 1st of April and is the (not so) private view of an exhibition of screen-printed posters of drawings and illustrations which have been created in response (or lack of) to the concept of lists. Organised and curated by The Positive Press the exhibition will feature work by R.M. PHOENIX, WILLIAM EXLEY, DAN REEVES, JAMES HINES, WE THREE CLUB, LUCY JONES, CHRIS PELL, RICHARD ARDAGH & MARK PAVEY AND CHESKA HILL.
These prints will also form part of a series of a limited run of the LISTS 7" which will be available that night and the following night.
This is being held at the Magnum Opus Tattoo shop, 33 Upper North Street, Brighton, BN1 3FG
It's free entry, there will be stuff to drink and The Norwegian Pine Forest will be providing aural delights. The exhibition will then run for the next 2 weeks at the gallery space in the tattoo shop.
The second event is the following night on Saturday the 2nd of April & is an all-ages show. We're going back to the Hanover Community Centre again because we had so much fun there last time. Playing on the night will be -
SAUNA YOUTH - us, with our new record, duh.
Fair Ohs - Blissful world music from the grey streets of London
Atentado - Raging noisy hardcore from Barcelona (members of Destino Final. oh yes.)
Prize Pets - Uncomfortably great party jams from London
State Icons - 90's hardcore punk worship from Brighton
With projections by Pines and DJ's.
At The Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2 9UD
They're using one of their 12 alcohol licenses for this show so there will be a bar.
The doors will be at 7PM, first band on about 7:30PM.
It'll be £6, and i'll be dropping of some tickets to Resident Records in Brighton this week if you want to secure your place in the F.U.N.
ALSO, your ticket/stamp will get you into the club night 13 monsters that night for cheap.
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