Wall of Mouths

viking_pooh wrote:

Well not a rant, but Andy was hilarious at This Is Menace last night, if it’s a Fight Club inspired band, he must a be a wise old Kung Fu master, coming out wearing his glasses with his words in his hand, too old for all that jumping about screaming shenanigans, hes just there to do his job.

FUCKING AMAZING GIG!!!!!!!!!

i just hope the do another album cos theres so many people the should work with, like Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke, Page Hamilton from Helmet, Tommy Victor from Prong, Benji from Skindred to name but a few suggestions fro TIM 2

The gig was great, and Jaz Coleman would be one of my picks for a second album. I think Benji might have done a song had Skindred not pulled out of the show. Barney from Napalm Death is rumoured to have worked on an unreleased menace track, and one of the rumours I heard is Nick Oliveri might be up for it come the second album (perhaps the album can be titled “The Second Coming” :p

Title: Andy Cairns@ This Is Menace live in London

Wasn’t sure how many people knew about this, but Andy Cairns will be one of many vocalists appearing at the This Is Menace live show in London Mean Fiddler, December 18th.

Andy wrote and sang the lyrics to the track “F8” on the album “No End In Sight” released earlier this year.

http://www.thisismenace.com for more details.

Title: Not In The Name Of Peace

This is a site I feel people need to check out in light of these times

http://www.notinthenameofpeace.com

Title: This Is Menace - LIVE! in London

from http://www.pitchshifter.com

Date : 23/06/2005
Topic : Menacelife

Yes folks you heard it here first This Is Menace go live! Menace mastermind Mark Clayden has this to say to all you deviants…

“This is Menace will play their first ever live show at the Mean Fiddler in London on September 5th. Please come along and have a blast, members of Pitchshifter will be present”.

Tickets aren’t available yet but we will keep you informed.

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A ticket site has got them for sale already, but the date says September 04th (a Sunday), so I want to confirm dates first before posting links for tickets.

Apart from their online store (at http://www.psirecords.com), it should be in most good music shops, particularly the independant type of shops (which I personally think should be supported above HMV, as HMC is a commercial business, and independant stores primarily operate out of a love for music … shocking concept!)

Well, put it this way. Amazon and Play make their money from selling mainstream pop CD’s, as well as DVD’s and videogames (and gadgets and books and so on). The This Is Menace album is bought and stocked as a loss leader beucase play and amazon can absorb the losses because of all the other stuff they sell. 50 Cent and Britney Spears are their ‘bread and butter’.

Psirecords only sell psirecords stuff (naturally). The distributor expects a return for filling up their vans and delivering stock to all over the country.

It sounds crazy but psirecords are having to compete for their own product. So although you’re paying £12.99 for the album, I like to think of it as paying £9.99 for the album, and a £3 donation to psirecords so as an independant (ie SMALL) label they can continue doing other projects that just wouldn’t happen on a major label. If the extra £3 means Andy Cairns can collaborate again with a side project, I’m all for it.

If the This Is Menace album sold millions of records, then selling at £9.99 wouldn’t be an issue just because of the volume. But I can’t see it out selling the likes of The Killers or other pop chart stuff.

Yeah, Play undercut like Amazon lol

Obviously up to you in the end, just I know if psirecords don’t get a return, a This Is Menace 2 wont happen, or the live london show that’s planned.

£12.99 is a good price for it, amazon pretty much sell it at cost + 10p because of the volume they’re able to ship, and the fact that they sell everything.

Because of that they undercut independant labels (who can only sell what’s available in their catalogue) with releases like this, because they can make all their money from the pop mainstream stuff they sell.

I’d rather pay £12.99 to an independant label and keep them afloat, then £9.99 to amazon and never hear another album produced by the label.

Also Kerrang does seem to focus largely on the American scene, especially their channel. It’s almost every month they have an American Rock theme. As a result British bands that could have done with the exposure get left out.

But good publicity is welcome all the same.

Price includes postage on psirecords

http://www.psirecords.com ship to everywhere in the world, plus you know the money gets invested back into the label for future projects, and not profiteering websites like 101cd

Prong were cited as an influence in a recent interview actually, so good ears :)

Title: F8

Extended teaser of Andy’s track from the This Is Menace album No End In Sight, just for you lucky people :D

F8-teaser MP3

Album is available now through http://www.psirecords.com and in most good music stores.

http://www.thisismenace.com

Yeah, was a great gig, I had to go out after Die Laughing, to do flyer duties, but yeah the bass sounded tight, and the drumming was immense, was all really good.

Title: Brighton Gig - How many from board going?

I’ll be one of two, pestering people waiting in line with This Is Menace flyers (featuring Andy) before going in to enjoy the music.

Who else is going?

It’s not out yet. But brief clips can be heard at http://www.thisismenace.com

Title: UK Gigs Setlist

What do you reckon their set might be for the UK shows? What would your dream set be? (and don’t say everything from Nurse onwards! :p)

The album is now available to pre-order at psirecords for £12.99 in UK / £14.99 rest of the world (inc. Shipping and Handling)

Also I’ll be at the Therapy? gig in Brighton coming up, handing out fliers, and enjoying the music :D

Click to pre-order This Is Menace - No End In Sight

There’s a full clip of the song “Deadman” on their myspace

http://www.myspace.com/thisismenace

For those who missed “Incite” on the Radio 1 rock Show a few weeks back, it made the tracklist again last night, 2nd to be played after Black Sabbath’s classic “Paranoid”.

Also closer to release of the album This Is Menace live in session on the Radio 1 Rock Show, stay tuned!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/tracklistings/rock_tracklistings2 … l?focuswin

Album’s due for release April 25th, although there might be a slight delay due to a mixing mishap! Working to get it out on time, but first week of May at the latest.

It has a clip of the song Andy features in on the site by the way … Just clik on the skull ;)

F8

http://www.thisismenace.com

(Before changing the message boards’ software in August 2007 this post had a file attachment, which may return in the future)

Title: Teethgrinder on CFR

Billy Morisson on Camp Fredy Radio Indie 103.1 closed the show with Teethgrinder, as he’s quite fond of “Therapy?”.

Anyone interested in the show can catch it here http://www.animalavengers.com/radio/index.html

Cheers

Kim

From http://www.pitchshifter.com

Date : 12/02/2005
Topic : Menacing Video

This Is Menace, the off-kilter consortium noise project hosted by Pitchshifter rhythm section Mark Clayden (Bass) and Jason Bowld (Drums) have a video!

We are happy to quell the rumours of the project’s very existence with a short clip of the upcoming video for the song ‘Dead Man’. This Is Menace’s album is slated for an April 25th release on none other than PSI Records - the label run by Pitchshifter’s very own J.S. Clayden.

This Is Menace is alleged to feature guests from as far a field as Funeral For A Friend to Carcass and SikTh to Therapy?

http://www.thisismenace.com/DeadManVidPeek.html

This Is Menace feat Casey Chaos of AMEN - Incite, (world premiere) played on radio 1 rock show last night. Tracklisted as number two after Motorhead, check out the Archive here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co. … r1rockshow

Thanks

Kim

The full version of “Dead Man” was played on the Radio1 Rock Show, number 3 in the track listing, and can be heard through this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_aod.shtml?radio1/r1rockshow

How can you say “Fuck God” when you say you’re an Athiest?

I’m just being pedantic :D

Title: Albums for 2005

Which albums are you looking forward to this year?

The one I’m most looking forward at the moment is Twin Zero’s “Monolith” album, which comes out at the end of the month in the UK.

I think Tool and Deftones are certainly worth looking into, not sure if I’d buy them, have to listen first.