Ace Bushy Raritease Week | 1. Topless Pushups
18th January 2010Good evening folks, today marks the beginning of a week of posts detailing some of the songs that very nearly made it onto our albums. They obviously didn’t in the end and that’s why we’re doing this, so yeah I thought you might like to hear them with a bit of talk about how they came to be and why they didn’t make the final cut. Maybe you’ll find it boring.
1.Topless Pushups
Topless Pushups was one of the earliest songs that we wrote on deciding that we needed to make a second album. We had a few new songs leading up to that point but had just dropped two (one called Gone Fishing and another untitled Sky Larkin aping tune) and so new songs were desperately needed to help populate the record. Topless Pushups (nee Paradiddle Reference, interesting fact #1: it was previously named that because Jeremy plays paradiddles for the duration; interesting fact #2: it was written on the same day as worldwide smash hit Whirlwind Regulations…) was scratched out in a single afternoon sitting before being fleshed out slightly somewhat by individual band members in solitude over the course of the next few weeks. This was probably the start of the end for the song as we do tend to favour songs that have been conceived and bought up by the lot of us but anyways we continued until we had what we believed to be a finished song before resting up hard.
We descended upon the studio with Topless Pushups in the middle of our arsenal, ready to lay down some steam. We discovered after recording it on the first day however that it defo needed something extra so during on our next assault we tried to shoehorn in a verse (which is included in the lyrics below but not in the record we’re putting up). It didn’t work really and so the song got left behind. It was sad as the drum part was really brill I thought. Never mind though. You can’t get too attached to songs or else!
Download Topless Pushups
“eye oh eye oh/go yr own/yr on yr own way/I had you covered up/go yr own/yr on yr own way/I had you covered up/it’s gone/go yr own/yr on yr own way/these words are not enough/go yr own/yr on yr own way/I had you covered up/it’s gone/you’ve got a face a boy’s mother would love/not too pretty/but pretty enough/as if he could do better/but he’s better playing safe/like a giant walrus/fighting a grass snake.”
- Simon
A Little More Suspicion In Our Fairytales Plz
14th January 2010
Hello!
We are going to be supporting Johnny Foreigner at the Hare and Hounds in Birmingham on Friday 5th February!
This was pretty much our ultimate goal when we started the band as they inspired us so much when we were starting out. We recorded our first songs with the same person that they did some of theirs with because they did and yeah. On band car journeys we only ever listen to the Johnny Foreigner albums (and the occasional pop punk mixx cd). We love Johnny Foreigner so hard so this is going to be the best moment of our lives probably. There is a Facebook event thing here so you can get all the details you need to secure yr attendance. You should come for sure.
THEN!
We’ve probably already told this, but the following Monday (8th February (day before my birthday fact fans)), we will be supporting Tap Tap and Air Waves at an Odd Box show at Brixton Windmill in London. If you live in London you should come to this one rather than the Birmingham show as it will likely be more convenient for you. More event deets here yeah?
We’re also preparing a special week of posts next week with downloads and essays on each of our unreleased studio recordings. You will either find it very interesting or very not interesting as we’ll go through each song that nearly made it onto one of our albums and then explain why they didn’t and the circumstances surrounding them. Hopefully you should be left with a nice little EP of offcuts and curiosities that you can listen to when yr feeling less mainstream. Ace Bushy Raritease (you see what we’ve done there lol) week will begin with ‘Topless Pushups’ on Monday.
Also! We are going recording on Sunday to start on our new album. We have 14 songs ready to go and I think it’s going to be amazing, if slight emo.
- Simon
Getting Ready For Album Three | Free Demo Download
6th January 2010
We are just in the process of readying ourselves and the new songs we have before we go into the studio to record our third record. There are 11 songs that will defo be on the album and we have another 4 or so which could go either way. Are you excited? We’re excited! It’s quite hard to think of a title but we have a few ideas already and I am sure we shall let you know when we decide on one.
Anyways…
We thought you might have gotten a bit bored of it being winter and all that so here is a demo you can download of a new song which is going to be on the record. It has a tentative title of ‘It’s A Race’ at the moment. Have a lovely afternoon!
- Simon
How We’re Doing
4th January 2010Hey folks, thought you deserved a quick update about what we’re up to at the moment.
The physical ‘Daniel Ershov…’ cds are still on their way, we are still waiting on the art but hopefully one day we’ll get hold of them. In the meantime we have a couple of shows booked in London and Oxford over the next couple of months that you should defo come to if you mind yrself at a loose end one evening.
The main exciting news we have is that we have some time in the studio booked for later in the month and with about 13-14(ish) songs nearing completion we hope to emerge with our third album. It’s going to be released on Odd Box Records (who are putting us on at the London show, 8th February, Brixton Windmill – you should totally come along!) and yeah some of the songs are really brill we think so you should get that when it comes out. We are bound to talk at you about it while we are making it anyways! Emma left the band the other month but we’ve secured some pretty special guest vocalists to take her place so you shouldn’t be disappointed with the end result.
Miss you xxxx
- Simon
The New Ace Bushy Striptease Record Is Out Now, Download It And All That
6th November 2009So we got a bit impatient and y’know if you want to buy our new record on cd then come back in a week or so. We’re still faffing around with the art at the moment but it WILL be ready soon and it will be a lovely package for sure probably.
Anyways if you’d like to download our new record, ‘Daniel Ershov Has Been Offered £100,000 By An Eccentric Millionaire To Step Naked From A Car Onto A Busy City Street, Walk 200 Meters And Climb Back Into The Car‘, then click the link below. You can also download individual tracks if you don’t have very much space to spare on yr hard drive between the Magnetic Fields bootlegs or if you only like one of the song titles. If I had to suggest only one song for you to listen to I’d probably choose ‘Brown Eyes Be Careful‘ as it’s my fave at the moment and it has loads going on in it and that’s what the kids are into these days, right?
- Whirlwind Regulations
- It’s Impossible 2 Keep The Love Strong When Yr Such Different Shapes (2.5D)
- Iluvya (Hate Version)
- Brown Eyes Be Careful
- Anna Log Is In Mild Peril (Because Of The Sea Etch)
- Iluvya Pts. Two & Three
- James and James and James and James
- Yrjustaflower
We really really hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it (it was a bit of a bitch to be honest) and yeah please say hello or something if you like it or have suggestions for future musical directions (please bare in mind that we’re already about half way through the writing of our next record so we may not pay that much attention).
Bye xxx
- Simon
Ace Bushy Record Number Two Coming Soon, Also; Tracklisting
28th October 2009Hello.
Are you Ok?
Last week we got the final mixes back for our new record, it’s going to be called ‘Daniel Ershov Has Been Offered £100,000 By An Eccentric Millionaire To Step Naked From A Car Onto A Busy City Street, Walk 200 Meters And Climb Back Into The Car‘ as I have probably already mentioned. At the moment we’re just waiting to finish off the artwork and then we’ll send it off to the printers. Hopefully this will all been done in the next week or so.
We’re going to put it all online as soon as we’ve got the art so you can download it and listen and all that. I’ll give you the tracklisting now just in case you give a shit.
- Whirlwind Regulations
- It’s Impossible 2 Keep The Love Strong When Yr Such Different Shapes (2.5D)
- Iluvya (Hate Version)
- Brown Eyes Be Careful
- Anna Log Is In Mild Peril (Because Of The Sea Etch)
- Iluvya Pts. Two & Three
- James and James and James and James
- Yrjustaflower
We’re really proud of it so I hope you like it as well.
We’re already five or so songs into the album after this so expect that shortly into the new year yeah?
- Simon
‘Say goodbye to glamorous, exotic Io – real estates dream world,’ said Curnow
8th October 2009I don’t know how it is possible to like a new band every day. I think I like a new band every so often, but definitely not every day, and usually I’ve just found God Bless Miss Black America again propped up on Deja Entendu at the bottom of the pile. It must take some enthusiasm and toil and a very positive outlook and things, and it might make you go slightly funny in the head, which is maybe what happened to Joe from A New Band A Day when he thought it would be a good idea to make us his A New Band A Day on his site, A New Band A Day. But we’re very thankful Joe! This is us saying thanks!
Quite often when I get my A New Band A Day email through every day I do not have the same drive Joe must have. But quite often I open it up and there’s a little gem in there, and it makes everything a bit better for a bit. Which is pretty swell.
Simon is watching the Pixies for the third night in succession, Basith is making new friends and I am going to finish practicing my new “hardcore” ending to Mervyn and Isaac in preparation for tommorow’s homecoming gig. It is 4X faster and 4X as loud.
- Jeremy
James and James and James and James
28th September 2009Hello!
We have made a video for you to watch of our new song James and James and James and James. It’s not a very good video. It took a whole evening and a half to make and made a quarter of Ace Bushy Striptease quite grumpy for a bit, but he’s OK now, rest assured. The song is going to be on the new album, ‘Daniel Ershov Has Been Offered £100,000 By An Eccentric Millionaire To Step Naked From A Car Onto A Busy City Street, Walk 200 Meters And Climb Back Into The Car,’ which we are currently tweaking until its very life is sucked out of it. ‘Cause that’s what you do, right? We’re still really exited about it though. Hopefully you can hear it EXTRA soon.
- Jeremy
Adam Jackson spreads like wildfire
20th September 2009On last weekend we finished the recording for our cd and it went alright y’know and we’ve finished it now so you should be hearing it in full soon. We’re gunna have some made up properly as well as having it up for download as with all the others. We’ve put one on the myspace if you want and yeah hopefully once all the others are mixed and stuff you can hear those too.
- Simon
Mrs Celery
8th September 2009Oh wow. We’re going recording on Sunday to finish off our second album. I think we’re going to call it ‘Daniel Ershov Has Been Offered £100,000 By An Eccentric Millionaire To Step Naked From A Car Onto A Busy City Street, Walk 200 Meters And Climb Back Into The Car’. It should be ten songs and about 20 minutes long. Prog rock!
We’ve also got a show planned at the very venue where we played out first concert. This isn’t a battle of the bands so we can’t lose this time.
- Simon