GIG 32 - Lolfa Binc / Teeth Crack / Spam Javelin - The North, Rhyl

Played a 'pop-up' gig at The North in Rhyl (7th time we've played there!). Thought it would be good to play soon after the European tour. So we jumped on board this line up.

Neil's first gig with Gwion and Tracey for a while. Very tight set, all songs introduced as 'classics' like Sweet Home Alabama, Dakota, Sex On Fire, Knocking On Heavens Door. 

Teeth Crack went on next and cleverly segued into Lolfa Binc's debut gig, which was something very special - incredible set.

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwion Griffiths - drms / Tracey Howarth - bass

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCKING JERK

FUCK OFF

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

GHETTO SCUM

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

LIFE'S A BASTARD THEN YOU'RE DEAD

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

BOYS WITH BEARDS

GIG 31 - 2 Sick Monkeys / Feral Existence / Emissaries Of Syn / Spam Javelin - Stö, Leipzig

Gatecrashed this gig as our Nuremburg dates had fallen through. Drove through the day from Podbor in the Czech Republic. Stö is a squat venue; the whole street is a squat. Great set-up and really nice people. Good to see Pete Butler of 2 Sick Monkeys again, and good to see him looking so well.

It was important that EOS had a good gig tonight to blow away their Czech blues, so I made sure SJ went on first. Due to us gatecrashing this gig, first band had to go on as the doors opened, so I knew there'd be a sparse crowd to begin with. Turned out to be a decent crowd anyway and Spam Javelin played a decent set with plenty of good humoured banter. Top Knot and Nazi Line Dancers went down a treat. The sound guys danced through the whole gig!

Emissaries Of Syn played a belter, probably the best I've ever seen them. Feral Existence were great fun and 2 Sick Monkeys simply took it to another level - excellent.
We drove overnight straight after this gig heading for Antwerp (unfortunately, that gig was cancelled)

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwyn Jones - drums / Mark Watson-Jones - bass

FUCKING JERKS

GHETTO SCUM

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

LIFE'S A BASTARD AND THEN YOU'RE DEAD (x2)

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

GIG 30 - More Noise For Life Festival, Podbor, Czech Republic

Having played last night, a band had pulled out of Saturday's line-up and Petr asked if we would fill the slot. Emissaries Of Syn had just played a disjointed set, it was OK but not their best and their tempers were frayed. With Mark and Gwyn from the band standing in for Spam Javelin I thought we'd be on a hiding for nothing. So I went onstage with a 'nothing to lose' attitude. 

Turned out to be a great set. Think we won over this grindcore crowd with our '80's Shit Punk' as the soundman described it! Good laugh and good to see people singing along to Nazi Line Dancers Fuck Off.

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwyn Jones - drms / Mark Watson-Jones - bass

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCK OFF

FUCKING JERKS

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

GHETTO SCUM

LIFE'S A BASTARD AND THEN YOU'RE DEAD (x2)

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

BOYS WITH BEARDS

GIG 29 - More Noise For Life Festival, Podbor, Czech Republic

Slept soundly til about 6am - quick shower on the campsite and then back on the road - 279km to Prague, where we are picking Lorraine at the airport.
We crossed the Czech border, listening to a new demo by Michael (our host last night), his band is called Lusca. it's a two-piece and really good stomp along, doom laden Godflesh-type stuff.
Gwyn has his headphones on, he's listening to my iPod and I thank myself for removing Toto's entire back catalogue prior to this trip. He's listening to Spam Javelin to familiarise himself with the songs before tonight's festival appearance. After four days of driving across the UK and Europe, we finally get to play..!

The countryside falls away; picturesque farms nestled among fields and forests. This part of the world is very green. Germany is huge; lots of space and Czech is a continuation of that landscape but with shitter roads and the odd Soviet style tower bloc blighting the horizon.

Lorraine joins us in Prague and injects conversation into the van... Someone new to talk to! We all share a common interest in music.
I lose myself for long portions of the journey in a Nirvana Tour Diary book that I picked up in Blackpool last week. It's well written by Andy Bollen (drummer of Captain America) who toured with Nirvana as 'Nevermind' impacted upon the world. It inspires me (as most books do) to get my diary out and write; something I find little time to do in this Buffer Age we live in.

Mark is back at the wheel today. His driving is like his manner - calm and polite. You feel at ease and put the seat into recline and enjoy the ride. We stop by at The Church of Skulls. A macabre place in Seldec Ossuary adorned with 60,000 skeletons, all arranged with decoration in mind by a mad priest a few hundred years ago. It's become a pilgramige for every death metal band that passes through Czech!

First gig of tour, although we've been on the road for 3 days..! A great DIY Grindcore festival. The soundman said the crowd were going to hate our shit punk and laughed at the size of my 100 Watt amp against all those huge Marshall stacks! It did take the crowd 2 or 3 songs to actually get what we were doing, but once they did, we had a good laugh.

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwyn Jones - drms / Mark Watson-Jones - bass

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCKING JERKS

FUCK OFF

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

LIFE'S A BASTARD AND THEN YOU'RE DEAD (x3)

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

GHETTO SCUM

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

BOYS WITH BEARDS

Neil Crud on TudnoFM – Show #70 – with Scapegoats in Session

Andy Bob Beaumont is one of the hardest working men in rock ‘n’ roll in North Wales. If he’s not on the circuit doing his solo stuff, then he’s out on the circuit doing The Beaumont Brothers or out on the circuit doing Scapegoats. There’s enough circuits to make mere mortals dizzy. 

Fellow Scapegoater Dave Andrews joins Andy in the TudnoFM studio for a great session. Check out their latest EP Helénè out now on Turquoise Coal Records.

Guests – Scapegoats
Gift – Selection of homegrown vegetables for Andy’s garden
Show Sponsor – Mudshark Records, Bangor

Valleum – Barrymore
Bogans – Murdoch
Hannah Willwood – He (*archive session)
Kardomah Gang – 12 Pound Pleasure Tour
Scapegoats – Wing Mirror (*live in session)
Skinflick – How Fucked Is Now
Chugga – Lego Brick
Delicasession – Soar [edit]
Art Of Burning Water – Prime Example Of A Lonely Child
Adwaith – Femme
Scotch Funeral – Young At Heart And Falling Apart (*archive session)
Scapegoats – Helénè (*live in session)
DELINQUENTS – Never Gonna Fit In
Mad Haven – What Ya Gonna
West Coast Sick Line – Literacy Gnome (Paul Hammond remix)
Peter118 – Wasted
The Bordellos – Tesco Chainstore Massacre
Wrongboy – Isyoufriendorfoebroidontknow
Griff Lynch -Tynnu Dant
Scapegoats – We’re On Our Way (*live in session)
Krimewatch – Cockroach Man
Chugga – Chugga 2
Get Greens – Bongwater
SPOONIDOLS – Unhinged & Somewhat Slightly Spaced
Y Cyrff – Trwy’r Cumylau
Ultrajungle – Onto You
Nicotine Pretty – Nicotine Pretty
Normal Shed Uses – Roundabout
Agathocles – More Patches Than Brains
Steve Crocker – This Town Burns Tonight
Sick Dastardlys – Train Wreck
Three Days Dark – The Wind In The Trees
Young Conservative – Shag Off
Thyrd Eye – Say Something

GIG 28 - Smackrats / Spam Javelin / '77 Rejects @ Rewind, Wrexham

Bassist Steve Brute told us at midnight on the eve of this gig that he was quitting the band. We knew it was coming due to his family ties, I feel for the guy (and ourselves) as he's such a great bassist. Thankfully we managed find as equally good a bassist in Tracey who said she'd play on the eleventh hour.

Good gig, good fun, good crowd. Smackrats were playing a one-off reunion after 5 years and it was a night of riotous fun and nudity!

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwion Griffiths - drms / Tracey Howarth - bass

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCKING JERK

FUCK OFF

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

GHETTO SCUM

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

LIFE'S A BASTARD THEN YOU'RE DEAD

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

BOYS WITH BEARDS

GIG CANCELLED

 

GIG 27 - Rabo De Toro, White Ether, Spam Javelin @ The Skerries, Bangor

Good fun this gig. Good size crowd. White Ether were good. Rabo De Toro were off the scale!

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwion Griffiths - drms / Tracey Howarth - bass

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCKING JERK

FUCK OFF

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

SHIT ON MY SHOE

GHETTO SCUM

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

LIFE'S A BASTARD THEN YOU'RE DEAD

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

BOYS WITH BEARDS

Neil Crud on TudnoFM - Show #67 - Chow Mwng in session

Pulco is dead. long live Chow Mwng… Ash Cooke’s experimental nature is here for all to splendour as he launches a new chapter in his long and (ex)tinguished musical career.

The since withdrawn EP ‘Better Than Teletext’ was the first offering earlier this year and there’s an album ‘ULOT-CA’ due out on Bandcamp on 24.07.17. Hear the excellent live session and the entire radio show below…

Guest – Chow Mwng
Gift – Edinburgh Of The Seven Seas 10″ EP
Show Sponsor – Mudshark Records, Bangor

Seagull Kinevil – Black Lemons
John Lawrence – Turds!
Neanderthal – Built For Brutality
Racketears – Icicles
Yards – War Tourist
Chow Mwng – Meme Machine (*live in session)
Lolfa Binc – Penetrate & Ponder
Pizzatramp – Black Eyed Fridays
C.H.E.W – Voluntary Human Extinction
Warwick Hunt – Return To Nibiru
Brython Shag – Pobol Gorwellion (*archive session)
A Case For Horatio – Reluctant To Fall
Chow Mwng – We Stole Your Soul While You Slept (*live in session)
The Wobbly Hearts – Stayed On Jesus
Peter118 – Seven
Bob Temp – Fy Nghi, Fy Ngwad Beic A Fi
The Bordellos – Brief Taste
Dog Legs – Cobra Snake
BBR – VHS
Daniel Williamson – Rock
Nil By Nose & Noventa Nada – Indications Et Posologie
Chow Mwng – Pre-Boot (*live in session)
Lost Reality – Stone
Seize The Day – What Happened To Scott Sellers
Homespun – 8th Apology
Paraletics – My Own Girl
Jez Shea – Leave Now
Here Are The Young Men & Uncle Peanut – This Is What We Call Music
Lady President – Chalk Hill Blue
Salt the Snail – Coffee
Collosous – Vanarchy In The UK
Hack Job – That’s Not Distortion That’s Tinnitus
Noctophyle – Rock And Roll 2
Pys Melyn – Sigwr
Los Blancos – Mae’n Anodd Deffro Un
Idles – Well Done
Tuff Turf – My Dead Soul
87- – Flashbacks To Maths Class (*archive session)
Yr Eira – Gadael Am Yr Haf
The Immediate – Sodium (live)

ALBUM - Irma Vep - BBC 6 Sessions

 

This was released as a stream only from Irma Vep with the following 'sleeve notes' - you never quite know to believe anything you read (or hear) from Irma Vep - and that makes it all the more interesting.
Sessions are probably the ones performed on Marc Riley's show in Spring and also 04.08.2015.

Found this Unofficial Japanese Bootleg comp of my BBC 6 Marc Riley Sessions in a bargain bin in Woolies in Bangor last week. Released by 'Roppongi Vice' records in Tokyo apparently. I ripped the CD, nicked the art work and hey presto, we got ourselves a very lovely album I reckon.

Thanks to Michelle Choudry, Marc Riley, the recorders and interns for making us feel so welcome.

players:

Andrew Cheetham: Drums
Jonathan Lewis: Drums
Oliver Costello: Bass
Dave Rowe: Bass
dbh: Keys, Piano, Violin
Callum Plowright: Guitar/Vocals
Kiran Leonard: Guitar
Dominic Tanner: Guitar
Edwin Stevens: Vocals/Guitar

GIG 26 - Hooked On Christ / FilthxCollins / Habits / Spam Javelin / Depraved State @ Cross Foxes, Prestatyn

Tracey Howarth (ex-Bonzai Massacre) is playing bass for us for the gigs Steve can't do. She does an OK job considering she's only had one rehearsal with us.

Neil Crud - gtr,voc / Gwion Griffith - drms / Tracey Howarth - bass

SHIT ON MY SHOE

GHETTO SCUM

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

FUCK OFF

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCKING FERK

NAZI LINE LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

LIFE'S A BASTARD THEN YOU'RE DEAD

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

GIG 25 - Boycott The Baptist / Emissaries Of Syn / Spam Javelin / Teeth Crack @ Cross Foxes, Prestatyn

Our first gig of 2017 after Steve suggested he'd be up for gigging again. Turned out to be a great set.

Steve Brute - voc,bass / Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwion Griffiths - drms

SHIT ON MY SHOE

FUCKING JERK

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCK OFF

GHETTO SCUM

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

ARSEHOLAGEDDON

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

NEVER TRUST A DENTIST

LIFE'S A BASTARD THEN YOU'RE DEAD

GIG 24 - Bad Mood / Spam Javelin @ Maguires, Liverpool

Second gig with Mark Watson-Jones on bass, although he has stipulated he has got a lot on with his primary band, Emissaries Of Syn.
Played to an indie crowd tonight in support of the infectious Bad Mood who were launching something or other. 

We won them round (as we do) - good fun. I much prefer playing to crowds like this as they seem to get it - whereas the hardcore types are stuck in their rules and regulations - and we're not hardcore enough I guess.

Neil Crud - voc,gtr / Gwion Griffiths - drms / Mark Watson-Jones - bass

TOP KNOT GO FUCK YOUR WIFE

GHETTO SCUM

YOU MAKE ME WANT TO HATE YOU

FUCK OFF

THE GREAT BRITISH WANK OFF

NAZI LINE DANCERS FUCK OFF

LIFE'S A BASTARD AND THEN YOU'RE DEAD

FUCKING JERK

HOW CAN YOU DIE WHEN YOU'RE ALREADY DEAD

GIG 23 - All-Dayer at Comrades Club, Conwy

Comrades Club, Conwy (with Emissaries Of Syn, Depraved State, Rabo De Toro + more)

*Mark Watson-Jones on bass

Neil Crud:It was a mistake to turn up at an all dayer with Garry Davies at 3pm and start drinking Pedigree Ale and no food. We were on at 8pm and by then I was seven sheets to the wind. Apparently, I fell backwards during the first song knocking my amp over but just carried on playing on my back until someone picked me up.

At the end of the short set I dived head first into the drumkit. The bruises of which I bore for a good couple of weeks later.

GIG 22 - Noise Annoys #3 @ The North, Rhyl

15.08.2016 - The North, Rhyl (with Carl Kavorkian, Sleep Beggar, Maines, Los Muchachos)

Headstock Llandudno

 

Headstock was the inaugural year of the festival, staged in Llandudno in July 2016.

Here's a pic of Deckchair Protest lounging about at the festival

GIG 21 - Of Legions / Depraved State / Spam Javelin @ The North, Rhyl

28.07.2016 - The North, Rhyl (with Of Legions / Depraved State)

GIG 20 - Noise Annoys #2 Tour @ Rascals, Bangor

14.07.2016 - Rascals, Bangor (with Death Of Youth, Depraved State, Los Muchachos, Sleep Beggar)


Review by Diane Evans - 
Last on the bill and another first for me was Spam Javelin. I’ve been chomping at the bit to get an opportunity to catch up with these guys for a while – I had a feeling I wouldn’t be disappointed and my feeling was spot on.
Spam Javelin deliver exactly what I was expecting; good, old school punk and I fucking loved it. Headed up by long time local noise maker Neil Crud (who I last saw playing in his first band 4Q way back in the 80s and subsequently through the walls of my boyfriend’s flat a little while later) this is as punk as safety pins and mohicans.
Quick-fire songs, rhythmic and shouty this is punk as I’ve always loved it. They set off with humour and brevity but didn’t give me time to get settled with that before they yanked me back down a tone or two to something darker, angrier and much more sinister.
To the band: thank you. You gave me everything my little spiky heart desired last night and you did it flawlessly. I will be awaiting your next appearance with impatience.
The night just wasn’t long enough, the sets over way too soon. Thanks for giving an old punky goth chick a great evening you’ll be seeing me again.

GIG 19 - Noise Annoys #2 Tour @ The North, Rhyl

13.07.2016 - The North, Rhyl (with Death Of Youth, Depraved State, Los Muchachos, Sleep Beggar)
*Tinman on drums

Customary dartboard in background

Tinman stood in on drums and wore a lampshade disguised as Gwion

Steve in a full Brutal assault

GIG 18 - Pentrefest @ Macleans, Queensferry

29.05.2016 - Pentrefest, Macleans, Queensferry