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Jahresuberblick 07

I enjoyed the albums released by Björk, LCD Soundsystem, José Gonzales, Caribou, Fennesz and Feist this year. I was pleasently suprised by the works of a few artist I had never even heard of a year ago: tormented singer songwriter Phosphorescent; alternative hip hop outfit The Shape of Broad Minds and Norwegian trumpeteer Arve Henriksen. When push comes to shove though, these are my ten favourite ten albums of 2007, alphabetically ordered.

AMON TOBIN the foley room
JAMES BLACKSHAW the cloud of unknowing
BURIAL untrue
PANDA BEAR person pitch
PJ HARVEY white chalk
POLE steingarten
RADIOHEAD in rainbows
RICARDO VILLALOBOS fizheuer zieheuer
ROBERT WYATT comicopera
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE QUEEN same

Happy New Year to everyone!

up close

in retrospect

Was 2007 a good year for Spider James? Some of us have had their ups and downs, that’s for sure. As a band? I’m not so sure. We didn’t do any gigs, like bands are supposed to. Do we care? I can only speak for myself: ‘No. I don’t’. I’m pretty thrilled with most of the stuff we have recorded with Pieter Kloos in Eindhoven. But we’ve not finished, it’s not an album yet. I’m not gonna be satisfied with it if the music is just ‘okay’. It has to be exciting, class A stuff. Why bother releasing it, if it isn’t? Make no mistake: I’m optimistic.
For Spider James it will all come down to the next couple of months, starting next Thursday - January 3th. I’m eager to finish the job. I want us to be proud of the result so we can finally get back to actual playing and working on new, fresh material. There’s lots of it laying around.

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happy birthday!!!

JL Rouvroye, 'man van het betere gitaarwerk', celebrates his 31th birthday today. Cheers.
When I first met him back in 1993 (yes, 1993) he was skinny kid in a scary metal shirt, blowing me away with some of the loudest guitar work I had ever heard in my life. Apart from a six month hiatus in 1995, we've never stopped playing together; in Spider James, Merry Pierce and again Spider James. I've watched him develop his musical technique and style of playing and going through different phases: blues, psychedelia, lo-fi indie, surf, soul, dub, afrobeat. JL has a undeniable talent to bring little pieces of these influences into a style that's really his own. He never stops suprising me.

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araignée jacques mixtape # 6: MMVII

So it's almost Christmas, and what have we done? Well: here's a mixtape thing with songs from last year. Some novelties, a couple of guilty pleasures and a bongload of instant classics. At least, I think they are. You may think otherwise and skip the Bright Eyes track...

side a
side b

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covered up

No RJ today. Get well soon, man. Boyke was there though. For the first time in months. Yes. Our friend Mischa, the King Bee, dropped by for a few cups of coffee and watched us trying to make sence out of 'Lullaby'. Mischa left - head over heels - when we considered to play 'Trampled underfoot'. The man absolutely hates Led Zep. We've dropped the idea anyway. As for playing other peoples music: I would like to do 'Albatros' in a Peter Green meets Boards of Canada sort of way. See what the others come up with.

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peaches and cream

Could be there's a complete, six-piece Spider James get-together tomorrow in our practice room in Nimwegen. First time in who knows how long we all get together for a little jam. Don't get too excited though. RJ is ill and a band a is no band without its drummer. We'll keep our fingers crossed for a quick recovery.
If you DO want to get really excited: check out 'Peaches'. The legendary Portishead have finally returned.

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dirge

Just a short note to break the silence. No news from Spider James what so ever. No news is supposed to be good news, so that's okay. On a personal level there only seems to be bad news. Ongoing gall bladder pains have kept me up for a couple of nights. Been to Vlissingen to catch a cold. Been feeling shitty for days now. I was supposed to go to Londen coming weekend, but bad health forces me to stay at home. This does mean (to end this elegy sweetly) that there's time, perhaps, for some jamming with the spider men.

fuzzy

is this rock-'n-roll?

According to Pieter Kloos (who is currently touring in Norway with Motorpsycho) Spider James does not know how to rock. Pieter is a rock fanatic and he has recorded more than half a dozen Spider James songs. He knows what he's talking about and, yes, he is right. We don't use guitars in a rock-'n-roll manner. Not often anyway. No riffs, thank God. No boring solo's. We do have our moments of fuzz box glory though. Last Saturday Ted and JL did a guitar battle New York style, while Rob and me provided a 'Suzie Q'-like groove. Psychedelic, arty stuff (we are talking Spider James here) that could make a real fine piece of music.

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your cover's blown

Will we end up as we started? As a cover band? I don't think so. But we are making plans for Spider James all the time. Here's one plan. We will perform again live the coming year. Yes, we will. And we need some covers in the set aswell. Just for the fun of it. So if you have any suggestions: you're welcome.
To get you guys started: here's one of my favourite band cover some of my favourite songs. Jonny Greenwood pays his respect to Johnny Marr. Thom Yorke does a fine Morrissey impersonation and makes Bernard Sumner sound like Ian Curtis. Radiohead's secret weapon? The drummer. Nice!

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long was the year

Tomorrow it's one year ago I started this weblog. I'm glad I did and I'm even happier I'm keeping it going, with a little help from my friends that is. Reading back my first entry I must admit we still haven't written that particular track I was hoping for. The one to fill the gap between The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never knows' and Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'. That would be something. Psychedelic disco for the head and the booty. Maybe, just maybe, we will pull it off one day.

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giant steps

You don't measure succes in quantity. I'm pleased, nevertheless, that we did get a lot of good work done this Saturday. It was one of those days where everybody got to do their parts: guitars, bass, rhodes and various forms of percussion. And let's not forget the amazing m-tron violins and vibraphone Boyke and WJP did last Friday.
Meanwhile Ted has dropped some material from the Spider James vaults on our mail. I find myself dreaming of album two and we haven't even finished this one. Get real, man.

gimme moore

making moves

Yesterday was all about getting ready for our next visit to Pieter Kloos. We focused on the parts we're going to record when we hook up with Pieter next weekend. All went well. High lights: a harmonic ending to 'Try Harder', very Spiderish guitar work to add to 'The Charm' and an overall krauty feel to 'MKMV' thanks to WJP's synths and my own bass work. We hope to get most of the recording done this Friday and Saturday. Hopefully we'll only have vocals and percussion left for the January session. We're getting really really close now...

1975

age is but a number

Henny Vrienten was 32 years old when he had his first succes. 32 is how old James Murphy was when LCD Soundsystem released 'Losing my Edge' as their first single. JJ Cale was already 34 when 'Naturally' came out in 1972. Then again, George Harrison was barely 27 when The Beatles broke up...

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araignée jacques mixtape # 5: just some nice tunes

I just want to share some nice tunes with you guys.... I hope you like them!

caetano veloso - alfomega
hot chip - over and over
cansei de ser sexy - alala
stereolab - french disko
charlotte gainsbourg - just like a woman
the shins - australia (peter, bjorn and john remix)
jens lekman - if i could cry (it would feel like this)

animal collective - #1
broadcast - corporeal
radiohead - reckoner
sigur ros - vaka (heim version)
grizzly bear - alligator (choir version)
nathan fake - the sky was pink (james holden remix)
kylie minogue - 2 hearts (alan braxe remix)

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labour

We usually have to take a couple of months off between two studio sessions. Mostly because our bank account runs empty with every few days of studio labour. This time around we're going back within a few weeks. We'll return to The Void as soon as November 23th and 24th. There's a feeling of urgence in the group, that's never been there before. We're not gonna rush things, but we do want to finish our record. The boys from 's-Hertogenbosch our doing a lot of work in advance behind WJP's computer. Bits and pieces are coming through to Nijmegen and what I've heard sounds pretty.

no beatnik

reasonable men

Today was a good day. We all met up at Boyke's place. Didn't touch any instruments. Talked instead. There were some choices to make, some could-be-issues to solve. The way we handled this just proves we're intelligent and reasonable people. Your dictionary will tell you that the reasonable person is 'a hypothetical individual who is intended to represent a sort of average citizen'. I don't know just how average we are. I do know or music sounds less and less average every time we leave The Void. There goes reasonable.

try harder

yesterdays news

JL and I arrived at The Void yesterday morning around 11.00 am to find RJ, Boyke, WJP already there. We had a good strong cup of coffee, listening to the stuff done on Friday. I can honestly say I liked most of it. 'Del. Kinki' and 'Umbrella' sound absolutely magnificent.
Mr. Kloos put us straight to work after a second cup. RJ took care of bongo's, cowbell and various shakers. Did some bass myself and JL left traces of his crazy pedal hopping just about everywhere. Most of the time was spent on various keyboard parts: piano ('The Charm'), synths ('Try me/try harder') and M-tron ('77', 'Sleepy Head')...
More M-tron than your average prog-rocker could handle actually. Let's just say we've enjoyed ourselves.

smoke quantity

word

Word from the Void. Ted and WJP have done a whole lotta recording today. Good work, I presume, as WJP sounded pretty content. Boyke got there in time for diner. The usual visit to a great Italian restaurant round the corner, I reckon. After a good meal they'll propably get some more stuff done tonight. JL and I will join the guys tomorrow morning.

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optimism

As we're getting ready to go back into the studio this Friday and Saturday, we seem to be more confident than ever about the music we've recorded so far and how to continue. That's a great feeling, I can asure you.
We're well aware that we've got loads of stuff to do before we've actually got an album to release. Recording is the fun part. When we've finished that, there's still editing, mixing and mastering to deal with. See if we can mess things up brilliantly in the process...

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doctor's orders

Being forced to stay at home is a drag. My doctor thinks I need the rest to solve the stomach aches that have been haunting me since late August. I've chosen to simply obey her and try to make to best out of it.
A positive side of having all this time on my hands: getting the chance to listen to lots and lots of music. In Rainbows, a selfmade Simon and Garfunkel compilation and Robert Wyatt's Ruth is stranger than Richard are among the current favorites.
I'm also deeply impressed by Wouter van Veldhoven's Ruststukken on Belgian Slaapwel Records, 'a small record label specialized in music to fall asleep to'. It's a charming concept for which WJP's brother has made an almost perfect soundtrack. Almost, there's too much happening to actually fall asleep listening. But beautiful it is.
You can get your own copy here.

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life isn't fair

'Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all'.

These are not my words.
I came across this line in a magazine, a little while back.
Thought I could maybe use it in a song, so I wrote it down on a little piece of paper.
With the sad news we received from Boyke, these words seem appropriate.

We wish Boyke, the Kooijmans' family, their relatives and friends,
all the strenght and love in the world.

memory man

holier than thou

If my latest blog entry wrongly gave you the impression we're getting lazy, I certainly owe some of my band mates an apology.
RJ has produced an amazing electro/ambient/minimal/whatever track. My cup of tea. Sure thing.
Meanwhile WJP is 'doing' On a breeze, mixing it himself on his computer. Seems he has borrowed a few of Ted's electro harmonix pedals to make our vocals sound a bit more out of the ordinary.
Now I wouldn't call that doing nothing.

fool for you

let us just be quiet

All quiet here. No action what so ever.
We'll be back in the studio, October 26th.
Hopefully we'll be together next Saturday.
And there is talk of a gig early next year.
Just talk so far, but who knows.
Love, SJ

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in rainbows

Radiohead are back and earlier than expected. That's a good thing, them being more than possibly the best band in the world. I'm really excited about them not having a record deal, not even wanting a record deal and just releasing their new album 'In Rainbows' themselves. Is this a *** up the corporate arse or what? You can download the album from october 10th (for a price determined by you, not them) and pre-order the record from the Radiohead website as of now, so it seems. I will.

unflugged

quote

They say the true measure of a great song is whether it still sounds as good when you strip the accompaniment down to a solo acoustic guitar. They, of course, are full of shit.
Marc Hogan (Pitchfork) reviewing José Gonzáles' (rather excellent) new album 'In our nature'.

kinky

a thousand hits

checking into http://www.myspace.com/spiderjamesspiderjames I discovered that we've reached a new mile stone: 'del. kinky' has been played more than a thousand times. Yes.
This may not be a big deal if yr in some major league band. We're Spider James. We're humble people.

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for what it's worth

Strange session Yesterday. As Ted, WJP and I continued the vocal studies we started last week - focusing mainly on the melodies of 'On a breeze', 'Umbrella' and 'King James' - our thoughts were really with Boyke. His mums illness makes one realise that there are things in life much more important than being in this band. Our love is with the Kooijmans family.

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sing this all together

Being in Spider James doesn't feel like being in a six-piece band at all. We never show up at the same time. Yesterday there were four of us. Rob injured his foot. Hope it's not too bad. Ted's in Glasgow. At a congres apparently, we fear he has joined Franz Ferdinand.
The rest of us had a good talk about the recorded vocals so far and our approach for work to come. We may not agree on The Charm, but we do seem to agree about the vocals in most of the other songs. Instead of talking too much, we sang and not so bad if I may say so. Lots of harmonies and effect driven madness. Told Pidah we're coming over to finish the vocals on October 26th and 27th. We would rather return to The Void as soon as tomorrow, but we simply can't afford it. We'll just have to be patient.

the charm

studio one

Last weeks trip to Pidah didn't turn out as I had expected. After recording new drum and bass for The Charm with Rob, and doing a pretty good job, I fell sick. Serious stomach ache. Had a terrible week. Approached positively: It makes one feel alive. Anyway, I missed out on the work Spider James did on Sunday. Happily JL brought me a cd, which I've listened to a lot. There's good stuff on it. WJP and Boyke recorded some great synth parts. The freaky intro of King James II is just awesome. MKMV already is an excellent piece of retro futuristic krautrock, and we've only recorded drums and guitars yet...

stilte

chord simple

Keep it loose. Just play. Yeah right. Does help to get the chords and song structure right though. The chords are usually not the problem. We don't use many. A blues band at heart, we are.

melodic-A

play time

We'll try to move mountains this Saturday and Sunday. There's still so much work that has to be done. Gonna record some drums and synths. Have to get MKMV right and spent whatever time is left recording vocals, percussions, additional guitars, bass and Rhodes... Some melodica perhaps. A little freak-out on zither could be cool. We'll see whatever comes to mind. Sure Pidah will make it all sound nice. Our job is easy. Just keep it loose and play.

never trust a hippie

dress rehearsal

Spider James wouldn't be Spider James if we weren't incomplete in our dress rehearsal, the final session before returning to the studio next weekend. JL had important work that had to be done. WJP was more than a few hours late, but - it must be said - in time to asure the rest of us that he has some great keyboard parts ready to be put on tape. Cymbals and bass kick give Morning Head (or whatever name we'll give this song) the psychedelic edge it needs. Strawberry jam, that is. MKMV sounds pretty damn good too as it moves from light to dark to weirdness. Yes, we're ready.

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we are your friends

You can spot Spider James almost everywhere on the internet these days. Like almost everybody we are now also part of the ever growing Dutch Hyves community… You can find us here. So don’t wait: be our friend and give us a ‘krabbel’. You will never be alone again!

john doe

the name of this band is...

The search of a new band name dominated Yesterday's rehearsal session. With an album coming up there's one last change for us to get rid of the old Spider James; the name of the band JL and I formed with Bob Claver somewhere in the mid 90's.
We tried to come up with a name four years ago without success. Daisy Glaze - the band Boyke, RJ, Ted and WJP were in before starting this one - was considered not cool enough. We also dismissed Daisy James, which would have made sence. Before we knew it, Spider James was back. For good?
Right now I can't think of anything else than band names. It's compulsive. I see band names everywhere. Reading the paper, listening to music, watching TV. I even dream of it.
Serious suggestions anyone?

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i.m.

It's hard to think of Elvis Presley and not see this fat All American, pompously overdressed Las Vegas clown he had turned into in the nineteen seventies. But did that man record some great music. That's all right mama, heartbreak hotel, one night (with you), hound dog, I can't help falling in love with you, guitar man, suspicious minds... I even dig some of his movies, but that could very well be a sentimental thing. I grew up watching that stuff on german television. I thought Elvis was from Nordrhein Westfahlen until I was about ten years old. The 1968 comeback special is brilliant. The man was already a monument back than. For the summer of love generation he was a ghost from the past and you can easily understand why, but it's impressing to see just how eager a 33 year old Presley was to prove to the world that he was still The King. Maybe he was.

the spider james orchestra

6 - 3 = 3

No Boyke, WJP or Rob Yesterday. Didn't stop Ted, JL and me from picking up our instruments, combining good fun with hard work. New studio dates are getting near so there was lots of stuff to be done. We teamed up with Boyke in Den Bosch later that evening to celebrate his 29th birthday. With our Benjamin turning 29, we're defintely turning into old men. Great party though. Enjoyed Boyke and Lies' new apartment, Lies' funky new hairdo and a nice conversation (really) with some friend of Boyke who told me there are 3 musicians too many in our band ('Who needs keyboards anyway?'). That's yr 6 - 3 again... Told him I wouldn't mind having a percussionist and some hornplayers in our band and make it a little orchestra. Same guy told me the one good song on our myspace page is 'All in between', expect the freaky part at the end, which sucks as it doesn't rock. Enlightening.

spider men

beaucoup fish

Back on track after a summer break of several weeks, Spider James reunited Yesterday. Finding a very a real nasty, mouldy coffeemachine proved it had been a while.
We spent the afternoon doing some jams, going through our last recordings, working on some songs, discussing and argueing and making plans for new studio time. All a bit harsh, but good fun.
We missed JL nevertheless. Apparently the man is off somewhere on his own - fishing... Hope to see him next week.

the zombies

this will be our year

Odessey and Oracle was one of the flukiest (and best) albums of the 1960s, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom, mixing trippy melodies, ornate choruses, and lush Mellotron sounds with a solid hard rock base. But it was overlooked completely in England and barely got out in America ; and it was neglected in the U.S. until the single "Time of the Season," culled from the album, topped the charts nearly two years after it was recorded, by which time the group was long disbanded, for good.

All of the surviving members of the band have announced that they will tour in 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary of Odessey & Oracle.

freak(y) folk

free concerts

Land of crappy taste or not: the Affaire is a good festival by any standard. I'm not just saying that because Nijmegen is the city I live in. It just is a very fine festival. Missed out on old friend Merry Pierce last Saturday, seems his second album is really coming out this september. Didn't enjoy Zita Swoon that much but really loved a very psychedelic set by Animal Collective last night! Tonight brings The Rapture, oh yes, which is actually the last act I'll see on this year's Affaire. Tomorrow I'm off on holiday to France. Will be back in a few weeks, looking forward to a good jam with the Spiders. Cheerio!

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going dutch

"For some reason Blur have never managed to make the slightest impression on the Dutch. They didn't like baggy, weren't interested in Britpop, the 'woo-hoo' thing passed them by completely (...)".
As says Alex James - Blur's bassplayer - in his autobiography 'Bit of a Blur'.
Don't worry, Alex. It's not Blur's fault. The Dutch have bad taste. This is the land of mediocre rock and dumb ass techno. So Björk didn't sell out her show at the Westerpark last Sunday. Neither did Sir Paul of the Beatles a couple of years before her. People preferred to go and see the Stones for the 10th time in fifteen years. Check our album charts, or the Pinkpop line-up for that matter: The Dutch don't really like anything arty or out of the ordinary. We like things to be plain and normal.
Our record can turn out to be total crap, it might as well be awfully good. People won't care either way. I'd be happy to get another decent review at KindaMuzik and play at the Valkhof Affaire next year. On the other hand, it would be nice to really annoy people with our music! That musn't be too hard 'round here...

at the westerpark

a family affair

Born on the 7th of july of the year 2007: Juliette Suzanne, daughter of Maud Coppens and Pieter Kloos. The kind of news that brings a smile on your face, isn't it? We wish Pieter, Maud and little Juliette a wonderful life together. As for Pieter, we are really looking forward to another great weekend at The Void, september 1st.
We've sort of started our holidays. There's not too much going on musically speaking. Ted and Boyke are far and away; myself, I'm not doing much of anything really, except recovering from an exhausting '5 days off'. Which in my case were only three days... Really enjoyed Villalobos and Trentemöller, but not as much as I enjoyed a brilliant performance by Björk at the Westerpark. WJP loved the concert too as you can see on the photograph above.
By the way, behind him is Irma, his sister in law. Family business indeed.

applause

stage fright

Seeing !!! performing a brilliant set in Doornroosje last Tuesday was great. It made me want to get on stage as soon as possible and rock the house. I'm not the biggest fan of playing live, to be honest. Don't get me wrong: It can be magic. More often it's quite boring, which is what bands often are to me. It can also be frightening and nerve wrecking. I've found out throught the years (being in bands for fifteen years now) you have to be at ease with your music and yourself when you're standing in front of an audience. Being on stage can be pretty uncomfortable if you're insecure. Practice makes perfect and so we have to get on stage more. With the album coming up, I'm actually looking forward to krautrocking our way through a fifteen minutes rendition of 'King James', or making the people move on 'The Charm'. We've got the material, we'll have to work on the attitude now.

oscillations

reactable

I like Björk a lot. She comes from a cool country and I think she makes great music. Because I'm going to see her live coming weekend I watched some live footage on the internet last week.
I was completely blown away by her perfomance of the song Declare Independence on 'Later with Jools Holland'. Not only by the song itself, which is evil punk-rave or something, but also by a crazy instrument called a reactable. Sir Paul who's watching, is also impressed...

What the hell is that thing? Basically it's just a modular synthesizer. But instead of using knobs to change and build up your sound, you have to move objects on a round display which looks like a table. These objects are called tangibles and each represent different modules and functions of a synthesizer. By moving them you create animations on the display, so you can see what you're doing. You can touch these animations to change the sound. The reactable can even recognise wave forms that a player draws on the table.
In other words: you just have to move some cool looking jigsaw puzzle pieces randomly on a futuristic blue table to make these totally weird sounds. As a bonus a synthesizer player no longer looks like a Pet Shop Boy or Rick Wakeman. Instead you become a sexy wizard practicing witchcraft from outer space!
Well, I wish Spider James could acquire such a 'beestig machien', but it's not yet available for normal blokes from dull countries. But we can watch some demonstrations!

quiet drumming

we like surprises

Enjoyed yesterday's get-together with the Spiders. Sadly, Boyke wasn't there, but that didn't stop us from having a pretty good rehearsal. Starting off with something new (a wonderful line of chords that just might lead to a new song) and ending our afternoon with full-force jamming.
As always the real work was done in the middle. We tried some different approaches for the vocals in 'King James' ('King James II', that is) and added some spice to 'Beatnik', inspired by RJ's recently recorded heavy, trip-hop drummin'. Speaking of drums: 'Morning Head' may not end as gently as we thought, judging on yesterdays developments. 'Umbrella', on the other hand, has gone all laidback and dreamy. And, oh yeah: 'Cold Comfort' seems to be back. We rediscovered the opening drone. Life's full of suprises.

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lazing on a rainy afternoon

In the summertime the spider james people are all a bit like Mungo Jerry. Well, maybe not as scairy, but still enjoying the season, even though at the moment the summer feels more like an Interpol album than a Beach Boys song.
Although we get a bit lazy these days, we will have to get some things figured out before we go back to the studio in september. So the part of spider james not on holiday abroad or in Texel, will gather and make music as much as they can or are allowed to... And drink bongloads of coffee of course. We rock big time!

I kick your ass! LAP!

cripple crow

Last saturday me and the boys were on a roll! First we had some coffee, we smoked some cigarettes, listened to some Devendra Banhart and concluded he's pretty good, sometimes. After we checked our gear we had a good sitting on our asses. To conclude this day we talked a little politics. We rock! After a kick- ass recording weekend it was time for a sorry-ass rehursal. (Which was actually pretty synthnoising good!) Everything in it's right time.

brian may in disguise

purists are boring

Double guitarsolo's with a lot of chorus, Tyrannosaurus Rex-style bongo's, drumsolo's, long instrumental breaks, epic melotron endings. We are not afraid anymore. We will do anything to be over the top! Now all we need is some lyrics about castles, phantoms, queens and prophets. But seriously (to quote our favourite drummer), we think we will blow your (and our own) mind with the things we recorded last weekend...

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a nice pair

We achieved a lot more than expected today! An excellent wild space rock take on King James. A cinematic version of Kam. And a nice little jammie Kinki II. For now we think we never sounded better! Good news: Pidah and Spider James will go on sunday to record some more music. So set the controls for the heart of the sun......

back to pidah

odelay

Next saturday spider james will return to The Void in Eindhoven. We hope to do all the things we originally planned for the cancelled weekend in one day. Sort of. Well, we'll to the best we can! Willem will also show his bandmates some cool dance moves he learned from Iggy Pop last weekend. No fun!

heroes