Christmastime 2010

Hi there. This is our 2010 contribution to the fuckload of Christmas songs waving 'cross the cyberspace this time of the year. The song is called "Left Alone For Chirstmastime". I was asked to do this song by Mike Leffe... right a year ago! It was Christmas 2009 when I wrote "XMARS TIME" - an insane song about Father Christmas and Wayne Coyne celebrating Christmas on Mars - and Mike asked me to write about his sad and mysterious story about him being secuced for Christmas eve by this unknown woman and being left the day after. A year passed (possibly to quickly)... and unfortunately our drummer hasn't forgot my promise!

So here you have this strange indie song, with Mike Leffe on drums, Manuel on Bass and me on keyboards and guitars. You'll find "Left Alone For Christmastime" on a festive compilation by KinGem Records, along with Pasley and Charlie, Stars in Coma, The Clever Square, The Brigadier, Cherry Berry and A Nice Person. Here's the lyrics as well :)

LEFT ALONE FOR CHRISTMASTIME

"Do I have to wait and cry
Till I'll find her by my side
I'll be good and I won't spy
Won't you give me one more try

Left alone
Left alone
left alone for xmas time
I was told
not to stalk
but I couldn't change my mind
Left alone
all alone
no sweets in the tree
Couldn't wait ubtill midnight
so I had to say goodbye


Met the girl outside the door
it was cold and she was hot
melting snow around
Satin bow and leather belt
Dressed in red and all the rest
too good to be true

(I said) I can't say that I've been bad
but I can't tell if I'll behave
step inside and celebrate

I've been said it can't be bad
But we could turn this place to hell
with no need of magic spell


And we had music
sweet music
we did jingled all the bells
making xmas eve a time to celebrate
guess I was wrong



Never met the girl again
Hunting traces anywhere
any crib and church
She was gone and disappeared
was she true or just a dream
guess I'll never found

I keep writing every year
Santa don't you let me"

The Tide Is Awake

"Il gruppo ha inciso due EP ed è ora al suo debutto per KinGem Records con un album chiamato “Moontalking”, inciso veramente in un tempo molto veloce. A Febbraio invece uscirà “Febrero”, un album più curato che è in fase di incisione più o meno da quando si è formata la band."

Mark replies (in Italian) to some stright questions to "Dance Like Shaquilleoneal" bloggetive.

Joyce and Rejoice

It was really stange goin' to The Charlatans show and meeting the drummer of The Smiths Mike Joyce. And abusing of my German sense of humor while he was eating the most horrible pizza ever! Mike was not only so kind to take a funny picture with a fake free entry for the supposed to be overbooked Charlatans concert, but also accepted our pink tiny CD with "The Smiths & The Cure". Everything makes perfect sense now.

Thanks Mike!

El sonido característico

"Tiny Tide son un grupo de Cesena, en Italia enamorado del C-86 y del sonido de Sarah Records. Si no es así no puede interpretarse de otra forma su gusto por la melodía sensible, el sonido característico de sus guitarras y los teclados de corte retro empleados en sus temas. Su primer álbum se titula Moon Talking, y para realizarlo, de manera un tanto pretenciosa, han querido realizar algo así como un disco conceptual. El intento está realizado. Sus temas tienen ese halo, en cualquier caso, de grupo novel mezclado con la inocencia del tipo de Pop al que hacíamos referencia al principio, y no tienen reparo en declarar cuáles son sus filias musicales (The Smiths and The Cure)."

We had a lovely review in Spanish! Check it out on "The Jangle Box" :)