December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
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Watch“Ever So Shy” by General Fiasco, live @ Southampton Joiners, 12-10-2009
September 2009
14 posts
An Open Letter to MySpace.
Dear MySpace customer care.
No, this regurgitation of your terms and policies does not in any way answer my question as to why my account has been indefinitely suspended. I can assure you that my account did not violate any of the issues which you have listed off. I am, or should say, was a very loyal and respectful user of MySpace. I used to upload photographs of my art, and photography, which...
Euros Childs new album 'Son Of Euro Child' free. →
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Maybe I'm Wrong.
So the prospect of everything getting done over summer somehow felt a lot more achievable this year. It doesn’t fall to me to tell anyone who once ever read anything on this page that it certainly wasn’t in my grasp. In fact, just by looking at that which I have posted in the last few months, it makes me a little annoyed to see just by how much I fell short of the mark. Indeed, with every passing...
August 2009
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May 2009
3 posts
Get Yourself Arrested →
There are more people out there willing to help you than you think.
Lasting Words.
Well, as today is the first of May, it seems proper that I have found the time to kick off a month as should be customery. April wasn’t a bad month. Not at all. In fact, I even posted a little more than I regularly do. The twitter got a good bashing, and I discovered New York at the expense of my height. I think I must have shaved a good few inches off the soles of my feet but NYC is a...
April 2009
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Feeling Slightly Wooden. →
Don’t call it a comeback….
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Last Saturday, Times Square
New Yorker: Give me all your fucking money!!
My Brother: Uh?
New Yorker: I'm just kidding.
My Mam: I'm glad you are.
New Yorker: Now you can go home and tell your family some n****r tried to rob you.
My Mam: Uh?
New Yorker: I'm just kidding. Bye.
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Bobbing for Big Apples. →
“Hand & Face goes adventuring. I am, as I type, sitting in the Travelodge T5, Heathrow waiting for 5:40am to roll around. I’ve spent a fiver for just an hour’s worth of connection, so I am damn sure trying to get the best of it. I wanted to set up my flickr or something similar to post automatically, but I’ve run out of time, so I’ll probably be quiet for a week,...
“Testing Tumblr…”
– handandface
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Feeling Homesic. →
With what feels like a little too long since a proper update, I do have at least some announcements to get Hand & Face back on track. Spring is at the door, and summer is at the end of the drive and will be here in a few moments. The weather is kinder, even if the wind is not, and with April comes practical jokes and a brand new artist to the Kaimana fold. Homesic, a IDM duo scattered on both...
March 2009
3 posts
The Good Fight Begins. →
“We’re a happy little unit when we’re listening to nice music.” The sentiment shared by the few of us that live and work to make Kaimana a little more popular. This month’s artist, The Good Fight really are no exception and they are certainly pushing our buttons this month. With a 3 part blend of catchy, emotive and engaging indie rock stamp, the bashful swagger of a...
Stay The Same.
So, sorry it’s been a while. Hopefully anyone interested enough to follow this has been getting their fix from my twitter feed (handandface). At the time of writing, it’s a beautiful sunny day, spring time has well and truly owned today. Ideally, I’d be posting this from the garden but the wi-fi won’t reach where I am. Last night was my girlfriend’s 21st and I got her...
February 2009
10 posts
Going stag. →
Well, I’ve had lots of things to get through lately, and so little time in which to do them. Been looking through podcasting laws, listening to lovely lovely demo tapes and CDs, Howies® catalogue arrived yesterday, got a new baby cousin, worked for my auntie, started window-cleaning, finally caught up with Loop, trying to read Watchmen before the movie drops, update my: bandcamp, ning,...
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Spring Sunshine with Summer Rain. →
What better way to usher in the birth of your new cousin than with a blog? I ask you. Welcome to the world Archie. So, nice news, deserves a nice link, and this week it’s been extremely nice getting to know David Holmes, who is the founder of thoughtful electro label Summer Rain Recordings, just a little bit better. And we’re talking some seriously do-gooding but in a positive and nice...
“We are not about greedy profits, unfair contracts, fame and fortune, we are...”
– Summer Rain Recordings
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I've been away from my desk. →
And it was all going so well. Then I took an early morning train journey to the south coast, where the snow eventually caught me up. Or vice versa. I intend to write a new blog in the next few days. For now, if you want to know what I’ve been up to, then you can read over this week’s ‘tweets’ on the above link. It basically involves snow, blue cider, and the odd arduous...
“Kids these days are lazy because they don’t show kiddies’ programs...”
– X. Onisiforou, to D. McCaffrey
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“Fuck Off. By 6:00am, Iggle Piggle’s already been fucking around in the...”
– D. McCaffrey, to X. Onisiforou
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It's all About '09. →
A ‘proper’ month has just started in terms of fullness over at Kaimana Worldwide dotcom, as About 9 takes over Artist of the Month duties. You can find his music at a range of different places as he is quite the flitterer of profiles. Last.fm, Twitter, ReverbNation, Myspace and of course, his label page, Summer Rain Recordings (The White Imprint). About 9 is an impressive package, using all kinds...
January 2009
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A scarf + a boy = →
…a shameless pieces of self-promotion. And as shameless pieces of advertising go, this has to be classed as a category 5 example. It’s also not really a quality link, as you get forwarded to a page that you may have seen before, but the idea was to promote the fact that the URL scarfboy.co.uk has now been purchased. When I have enough content and time, I will eventually create a nice...
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Watch“Kaimana Promo” by Hand & Face Productions © 2009, All Rights Reserved. Music by Ben Harper
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Acrylic.
This is more like it. It’s more like the way it should be. More posts, more productivity and most importantly, my first video post. No, not this one specificially, but unless you’ve stumbled upon this post in between the 2 minutes between me posting this and posting the next, then you will probably have scrolled past the new promo for Kaimana Surf Co. So, yes, not just the first video...
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Productive. →
I’ve talked to a lot of exciting bands and artists these last few months working on the Kaimana projects, but ironically, it’s an artist that I wasn’t pursuing that caught my attentions most and for one reason; he wrote me a very nice message about music. That’s right kids, no barrage of friend requests, spam mail or free demo CDs (though they are still much appriciated),...