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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!

65IF

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...

sexy

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.