Monday, August 25, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
article for something
wrote this for something. might as well put it up here...
Hello there, lonesome pair of wandering eyes! We are the acid test. All five of us combined our collective intelligence to construct this article, not because there's not enough brains to go around, oh quite the opposite by gum, but rather because we thought all those skills we worked on developing to do the essays in the leaving cert English paper couldn't be dead and buried so if we all put our fingers on the tumbler of the Ouija board of effort something worthwhile will emerge...so here goes.
We have been together as a five piece for nearly a year and a half now. Three members of the band have known each other since they were small children in the 80's and the other two of us have fallen into association through being in the right place at the right time with a few spare cans of Dutch Gold. When not making music we spend a lot of time collecting and listening to other people's music, we don't particularly care where it comes from as long as it's interesting. We would like to think we write good tunes but I guess you'd be the best judge of that so we have a website at www.theacidtest.ie with all sorts of dooflabbery to keep you amused. Check it out next time you're using your computron.
Last April, when it was nice and sunny, we packed all our things that have keys, pads and strings and drove down to a recording studio in Kerry to record an EP. We enjoyed it far too much and are really proud of the result which we called Martyr.
It's for sale at our gigs for a very reasonable price considering its fancy packaging so pick up a copy if you come and see us. On the subject of gigging, we've played a few since the recording at fantastic locations all across the land. Our favourites so far were one at Radio City in Dublin early in June and another that we played a couple of weeks ago in Kilkenny.
We are really looking forward to the gig we have in Bakers Place on ***INSERT DATE ANSEO*** because Limerick is a great spot and the last time we played there in ***HONK HONK SAID DONKEY MAMMA*** we had to breath into paper bags for a while afterwards it was so much fun. Better yet there was a record fair on the next morning in the hotel down the road so we were there for many hours nursing hangovers. Notable purchases included John Lennon's Mind Games album, which you only really enjoy if you listen to it from start to finish and another really nice album by Krautrock legends Faust. We got the Faust LP from a guy called Nigel who had a leather waistcoat with cigarette burns on it and a grey ponytail. If you see him the next time the fair is in town, talk to him, he does good deals and once met Cliff Richard! So the moral of the story is that you should come down to Bakers and hear us play our wonderful music or drink until it all makes sense, either way we humbly guarantee a gig you wont forget. And if that doesn't sell it, we bring a horse on stage during the set as well. No kiddin' man.
Hello there, lonesome pair of wandering eyes! We are the acid test. All five of us combined our collective intelligence to construct this article, not because there's not enough brains to go around, oh quite the opposite by gum, but rather because we thought all those skills we worked on developing to do the essays in the leaving cert English paper couldn't be dead and buried so if we all put our fingers on the tumbler of the Ouija board of effort something worthwhile will emerge...so here goes.
We have been together as a five piece for nearly a year and a half now. Three members of the band have known each other since they were small children in the 80's and the other two of us have fallen into association through being in the right place at the right time with a few spare cans of Dutch Gold. When not making music we spend a lot of time collecting and listening to other people's music, we don't particularly care where it comes from as long as it's interesting. We would like to think we write good tunes but I guess you'd be the best judge of that so we have a website at www.theacidtest.ie with all sorts of dooflabbery to keep you amused. Check it out next time you're using your computron.
Last April, when it was nice and sunny, we packed all our things that have keys, pads and strings and drove down to a recording studio in Kerry to record an EP. We enjoyed it far too much and are really proud of the result which we called Martyr.
It's for sale at our gigs for a very reasonable price considering its fancy packaging so pick up a copy if you come and see us. On the subject of gigging, we've played a few since the recording at fantastic locations all across the land. Our favourites so far were one at Radio City in Dublin early in June and another that we played a couple of weeks ago in Kilkenny.
We are really looking forward to the gig we have in Bakers Place on ***INSERT DATE ANSEO*** because Limerick is a great spot and the last time we played there in ***HONK HONK SAID DONKEY MAMMA*** we had to breath into paper bags for a while afterwards it was so much fun. Better yet there was a record fair on the next morning in the hotel down the road so we were there for many hours nursing hangovers. Notable purchases included John Lennon's Mind Games album, which you only really enjoy if you listen to it from start to finish and another really nice album by Krautrock legends Faust. We got the Faust LP from a guy called Nigel who had a leather waistcoat with cigarette burns on it and a grey ponytail. If you see him the next time the fair is in town, talk to him, he does good deals and once met Cliff Richard! So the moral of the story is that you should come down to Bakers and hear us play our wonderful music or drink until it all makes sense, either way we humbly guarantee a gig you wont forget. And if that doesn't sell it, we bring a horse on stage during the set as well. No kiddin' man.
