Adios 08/Hola 09

Monday, Dec 22nd, 2008 - by Michael McKeegan

Hey folks,
Here’s the last missive from us on what has been a deceptively quiet year. Thought we’d just keep a lid on it and beaver away like all good rockers should. Anyway’s the big news is that album number 12 is finally finished…in the bag as some might say…”Duuuuuuun!” in rockspeak…etcetc….

YupÂ….we have a tracklisting, we have an album title, we have a single, we have an album cover and we also have a schedule which is getting busier and busier each day.

I’m not going to start telling you what stuff sounds like just yet as we’re hoping to get a few sound snippets up soon enough so you can make up your own minds. We’re all totally buzzing from hearing the finished work and I can predicate that there will be something on there from everyone’s personal ‘favourite’ T? era plus a ton of different sounds/vibes we twisted and mangled in true Therapy? form.

So, 23rd March 2009…”Crooked Timber”…

1. The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself
2. Enjoy The Struggle
3. Clowns Galore
4. Exiles
5. Crooked Timber
6. I Told You I Was Ill
7. Somnambulist
8. Blacken The Page
9. Magic Mountain
10. Bad Excuse For Daylight

All the other stuff will be revealed as 2009 starts so get ready to hear (and hopefully see) a lot more of us in the next 12 months. WeÂ’d like to thank you all for your support the past year, we genuinely do appreciate it and hope youÂ’s all have a mellow/mental Xmas,

Andy/Michael/Neil
THERAPY?2008

Ps. See following some of the stuff we were digging in Â’08.


Andy Cairns-best of 2008

Albums of the year
Distance-Repercussions
Skream!-Watch the Ride
Various Artists-Steppas' Delight
Torche-Meanderthal (ta to Mr.McKeegan for the heads up on that one)
Grails-Take Refuge in Clean Living
Buraka Som Sistema-Black Diamond
Skull Disco-Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals
Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
Portishead-3rd
Benga-Diary of an Afro Warrior
The Bug-London Zoo
Fuck Buttons-Street Horrrsing
Mary-Anne Hobbs-Evangeline

Re-Issue of the year:
A Guy Called Gerald- Black Secret Technology

Gigs of the year
Africeden,Tap and Spile, Newcastle-Upon -Tyne
Rusko, Exodus, Funk Ethicsetc, The Other Room, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Films of the year
Hunger
Mum and Dad
Of Time and the City

Books of the year
Knockemstiff-Donald Ray Pollock
Greed-Elfriede Jelinek.(Hats off to the folks at Serpent's Tail for this one)
I Am a Strange Loop-Douglas Hofstadter
The Rest Is Noise-Alex Ross

Exhibition of the Year
Jack B. Yeats at Compton Verney

Michael has beenÂ….

Listening
Torche-Meanderthal (album of the year by a stretch)
Bison B.C.-Quiet Earth (Best riffs iÂ’ve heard in a while)
Book Of Black Earth-Horokopus (black metal with keyboards? So not over it!)
Venetian Snares-Detrimentalist (Puts me in a strangely good mood)
Rotten Sound-Circles (Ditto)
The Bug-London Zoo (Ta to Cairns for this one)
Protest The Hero-Fortress (Ludicrous and lovely)
Haust-Ride The Relapse (Jesus Lizard go black metal?)
Motorhead-Motorizer (Forget DM, CD and BI, the best ‘vintage’ of the year)
Squarepusher-Just A Souvenir (Big return to form)
Dax Riggs-We Sing Only Of Blood Or Love (Love dat voice)

Watching
The Orphanage
Summer Heights High
Atonement

Reading
Engleby-Sebastian Faulks
The God Delusion-Richard Dawkins
Explorers Of The New Century-Magnus Mills

Anticipating
New T? (hey, if you canÂ’t look forward to yer own stuffÂ….?)
New Mastodon
New Napalm Death


Neil-Enjoyable stuff from 08

Gigs:
Public Enemy
Cancer Bats
Johnny Truant
Pilgrim Fathers

Tunes:
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Torche - Meanderthal
Demos-
Diechihuahuadie.
Kidnapper Bell.

Books:
Yes Man - Danny Wallace
Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham
Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Damned United - David Peace
Justice For All - Joel McIver

Films:
Rec
Burn After Reading
Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
Everyone Stares - The Police inside out

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