Jazz Fusion Botanist and Bassist of To The Bones enjoying his time with nature ....Interviewed by John Kennedy of XFM Xposure.
http://www.mediafire.com/?yoamfwhmxab
Thursday 28 August 2008
Tuesday 26 August 2008
Manchester Evening News Live review - TO THE BONES @ Manchester Academy August 22nd 2008.
To The Bones @ Club AcademyMark Hesford 26/ 8/2008
THINGS don’t get much more surreal than walking into Club Academy and finding 200 13-year-olds souped up on Coca Cola.
…Not to mention lemonade, Vimto and possibly sherbert dip too, for tonight is the ‘Sonic Boom Under 18’s Rock Night’.Essentially, it’s a youth club straight from a Top Man marketing exec’s dream, and the audience - looking somewhere between the cast of ‘Skins’ and ‘Grange Hill’ – go ape to everything the DJ spins, from ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ to ‘Billie Jean’.
But it’s only when To The Bones take to the stage that things get really weird.
The Bolton four-piece launch into ‘Cay Augustina’, a snarling powerhouse of a song that hits like a ton of bricks and within minutes, these formerly innocent-looking youngsters are popping their ‘psycho-rock’ cherries and bouncing off each other in what could well be their first ever slam pit.Brutal one
It’s an understandable scene; the TTB musical experience is a brutal one. The drums pound you to the floor, the vocals and guitars slash wildly at your jugular while the bass rifles through your pocket for your car keys.Before you know it, you’re lying helplessly in the back seat as your assailants take you on a trip through '90s alt rock, '70s punk and even '80s thrash and hardcore in brief spurts.Images of everyone from Kurt Cobain and Johnny Rotten to Lemmy and Henry Rollins flash before your eyes.
From the dark sleaze of ‘Lips On Red’ to the barely controlled explosions of ‘Sharkies Bone Symphony’, the group pack a punch like a brass-knuckled fist and within half an hour, the kids are left well and truly pulverized.Tonight’s show is just further evidence that To The Bones could well be the most ferocious band in Britain, and if you miss how powerful Queens Of The Stone Age used to be before they lost it, they could well be the band you’ve been waiting for. Prepare to be eaten alive.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/live_reviews/s/1064133_to_the_bones__club_academy
THINGS don’t get much more surreal than walking into Club Academy and finding 200 13-year-olds souped up on Coca Cola.
…Not to mention lemonade, Vimto and possibly sherbert dip too, for tonight is the ‘Sonic Boom Under 18’s Rock Night’.Essentially, it’s a youth club straight from a Top Man marketing exec’s dream, and the audience - looking somewhere between the cast of ‘Skins’ and ‘Grange Hill’ – go ape to everything the DJ spins, from ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ to ‘Billie Jean’.
But it’s only when To The Bones take to the stage that things get really weird.
The Bolton four-piece launch into ‘Cay Augustina’, a snarling powerhouse of a song that hits like a ton of bricks and within minutes, these formerly innocent-looking youngsters are popping their ‘psycho-rock’ cherries and bouncing off each other in what could well be their first ever slam pit.Brutal one
It’s an understandable scene; the TTB musical experience is a brutal one. The drums pound you to the floor, the vocals and guitars slash wildly at your jugular while the bass rifles through your pocket for your car keys.Before you know it, you’re lying helplessly in the back seat as your assailants take you on a trip through '90s alt rock, '70s punk and even '80s thrash and hardcore in brief spurts.Images of everyone from Kurt Cobain and Johnny Rotten to Lemmy and Henry Rollins flash before your eyes.
From the dark sleaze of ‘Lips On Red’ to the barely controlled explosions of ‘Sharkies Bone Symphony’, the group pack a punch like a brass-knuckled fist and within half an hour, the kids are left well and truly pulverized.Tonight’s show is just further evidence that To The Bones could well be the most ferocious band in Britain, and if you miss how powerful Queens Of The Stone Age used to be before they lost it, they could well be the band you’ve been waiting for. Prepare to be eaten alive.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/music/live_reviews/s/1064133_to_the_bones__club_academy
Monday 25 August 2008
TO THE BONES at OFFSET FESTIVAL 2008. - ROCK STAGE.
TO THE BONES will be kicking rock n roll arsehole @ this years OFFSET FESTIVAL 2008 -
Sat 30th august - on the rock stage at 4pm. Be there.
Check the line up, probably one of the best festival line up out there.
WWW.OFFSETFESTIVAL.CO.UK for ticket, camping info and all that malarchy/
If you want a cheaper ticket go to www.offsetfestival.co.uk/secret and type in TO THE BONES.
Keep awn rockin vampires.
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Keep your T-shirts nice and clean.
Skinny Plastic-scene.
'unhappy'.
Been so long all of these years.
Taken so long.
.Keep your T-shirts nice and clean.
Tuesday 19 August 2008
A shout out for Art.
Its simple as this. You just have to check out this artist.
Our friend Jack has been busy over the past weeks creating the art work for the present and future To The Bones musical releases. This guy is sooooo slick its unreal and perfect person to work with who has the sheer creative ability to read our minds and transcribe it onto paper. For example, the current booklet art for 'Sonic Mammoth' Versus ' Sharkies Bone Symphony ' was started in this way.....
"I'd love a prehistoric mammoth going head to head with a Shark !"
- Anthropomorphism kicks into gear and the creatures are half man half beast in a titantic battle where buildings are being destroyed and debris is flying everywhere in a city scenario.
We have more coming over the coming weeks. - and A LOT of very cool stuff coming your way.
Monday 4 August 2008
A Trailer?
We have a trailer out thats been taken from some live footage captured during a recent video shoot for our new forthcoming single 'Rex.' It's live sound, live action and it looks fucking radical. The FINAL video itself ( which is now complete ) looks....well....wait and see. The song 'Rex' was re-recorded by the legendary ' Manic Street Preachers ' Producer Dave Eringa who we found a total blast to work with in early July 2008. The session was completed in 24 hours( Just as the NME.com headlines revealed ) and the track and music video will be available for your viewing/listening pleasures soon.
We believe rock music is very important, especially when its done the right way. Ballroom dancing 101 here we go......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WVTX9NY7A
We believe rock music is very important, especially when its done the right way. Ballroom dancing 101 here we go......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8WVTX9NY7A
Sunday 3 August 2008
SHARKIES BONE SYMPHONY Music Video on MTV2 - 120 Minutes
Hello this is Reppion here.
Check the music video for the current ' To The Bones' Single - SHARKIES BONE SYMPHONY which is effectively one side of our double A side single out now.
Explanation for this music video? A lot of people do ask the question are we quite "ok" mentally when they see this video, they ask if we are sadistic, they ask if we are masochistic, they ask if we like ' Saw ' movies, Tarrantino films and general "shit pant" factor cinema as a whole! Sure we like some of it but we don't live by it.
Well, a lot will find that we aren't exactly like that, the concept came from a rather strange source. I have a feeling as you all begin to get to know us all more you'll find us all having the mentallity of four school boys when together. The idea spiralled off into new worlds when Wayne ( who's wayne...?Do some research ) said ( when idea boucing ) he'd like to be tied up to a bed and mauled by attractive nurses and such. We all laughed.......and the ideas continued onwards.................." lets get things like meat thrown at us...", " lets get burt reynolds in it...." etc etc. - Just general banter.
From that the " treater " of the film who is worldwidely knows as ' Yarky ' came up with the concept of each of us having our own "weird" scenes where I would be watching on several TV's members of To The Bones being tortured or fucked around with. To this, Wayne got his "dreams" answered when he was tied to the ceiling with thick rope, surrounded with plastic where then two attractive females dressed in very small fitting nurses costumes pelted him violently with raw meat in red food colouring and effectively eaten alive by these insane Nurses for an hour. Wayne felt the pain.
Matthew - well probably the most physically harmed of us all , was placed in a straight jacket on a cold, wet concrete floor in a deserted grey factory room where then three( again attractive females ) in military costumes came into the scene and beat him in the back with metal poles.
The first hits to matthew were soft like you would imagine " acting "to be.........to this the director said, " he's being tortured, stop hitting him like a puppy and hit him like you mean it !"
For an hour Matthew was beaten from different angles, and it wasn't warm at all, you could see the steam coming off Matthew's body. At the end of the long scene....Matt took off his straight jacket soaked to the bone and his back was ripped up, cut, bruised and red raw! NO kidding you -there's a photo knocking around somewhere.
Tommy T-Bone was dressed in his suit and shades, controlled by two robotic looking females where then they made him slice his chest with a knife and lick his blood. ( Not real ofcourse ).
Myself was given the scene of losing control in my Red room with my old style Televisions and dull coloured metal sculptures made from car parts and electrical goods. These, with the TV's where destroyed by myself at the end of the scene.!
To top all this off we mixed in a performance section to the video where i began lightly with lots of wind fans pushing blue card type material through the air as we jammed to then being sprayed with 50 litres of COLD COLD COLD COLD ( did i say COLD? ) Red Paint. It was VERY messy..............but admittidly very exhilerating to be sprayed in this paint. A video where we all pushed ourselves to the limit for our "art." Its our art never the less. Verdict? Mentally scarred and a lot of fun.
More photos can be found on the myspace and all you insomniacs, late night drinkers/smokers can catch the video on MTV2 120 Minutes. Here is the video of "Sharkies Bone Symphony"...Thanks.
RR.x
Check the music video for the current ' To The Bones' Single - SHARKIES BONE SYMPHONY which is effectively one side of our double A side single out now.
Explanation for this music video? A lot of people do ask the question are we quite "ok" mentally when they see this video, they ask if we are sadistic, they ask if we are masochistic, they ask if we like ' Saw ' movies, Tarrantino films and general "shit pant" factor cinema as a whole! Sure we like some of it but we don't live by it.
Well, a lot will find that we aren't exactly like that, the concept came from a rather strange source. I have a feeling as you all begin to get to know us all more you'll find us all having the mentallity of four school boys when together. The idea spiralled off into new worlds when Wayne ( who's wayne...?Do some research ) said ( when idea boucing ) he'd like to be tied up to a bed and mauled by attractive nurses and such. We all laughed.......and the ideas continued onwards.................." lets get things like meat thrown at us...", " lets get burt reynolds in it...." etc etc. - Just general banter.
From that the " treater " of the film who is worldwidely knows as ' Yarky ' came up with the concept of each of us having our own "weird" scenes where I would be watching on several TV's members of To The Bones being tortured or fucked around with. To this, Wayne got his "dreams" answered when he was tied to the ceiling with thick rope, surrounded with plastic where then two attractive females dressed in very small fitting nurses costumes pelted him violently with raw meat in red food colouring and effectively eaten alive by these insane Nurses for an hour. Wayne felt the pain.
Matthew - well probably the most physically harmed of us all , was placed in a straight jacket on a cold, wet concrete floor in a deserted grey factory room where then three( again attractive females ) in military costumes came into the scene and beat him in the back with metal poles.
The first hits to matthew were soft like you would imagine " acting "to be.........to this the director said, " he's being tortured, stop hitting him like a puppy and hit him like you mean it !"
For an hour Matthew was beaten from different angles, and it wasn't warm at all, you could see the steam coming off Matthew's body. At the end of the long scene....Matt took off his straight jacket soaked to the bone and his back was ripped up, cut, bruised and red raw! NO kidding you -there's a photo knocking around somewhere.
Tommy T-Bone was dressed in his suit and shades, controlled by two robotic looking females where then they made him slice his chest with a knife and lick his blood. ( Not real ofcourse ).
Myself was given the scene of losing control in my Red room with my old style Televisions and dull coloured metal sculptures made from car parts and electrical goods. These, with the TV's where destroyed by myself at the end of the scene.!
To top all this off we mixed in a performance section to the video where i began lightly with lots of wind fans pushing blue card type material through the air as we jammed to then being sprayed with 50 litres of COLD COLD COLD COLD ( did i say COLD? ) Red Paint. It was VERY messy..............but admittidly very exhilerating to be sprayed in this paint. A video where we all pushed ourselves to the limit for our "art." Its our art never the less. Verdict? Mentally scarred and a lot of fun.
More photos can be found on the myspace and all you insomniacs, late night drinkers/smokers can catch the video on MTV2 120 Minutes. Here is the video of "Sharkies Bone Symphony"...Thanks.
RR.x
Friday 1 August 2008
Welcome.
Welcome to the blog for the uk rock act TO THE BONES .
All the mysteries, the happenings, the colours, the language, the lyrics, the brain, the art, the everything.
TO THE BONES have just finished recording with manic street preachers producer Dave Eringa. The session was very inspiring. The session was set for 24 hours only from a story which made headlines at NME.com recently. Dave Eringa effortlessly captured the essence and rock sound of To The Bones. Three stacker amps set to 11 in a small room - the room shuddered like and earthquake. The track that was recorded was the track 'Rex' which is set to be the next single out in september following the current double-A side single 'Sharkies Bone SYmphony' Versus 'Sonic Mammoth' - Sonic Mammoth has enjoyed radio play by the likes of Zane Lowe on BBC radio 1's fresh meat and John Kennedy's Xposure + lots more, whilst the music video for 'Sharkies Bone SYmphony' is currently on the mTV2 120 minutes show playlist. To The Bones also performed an exclusive live session for XFM exposure's 'One night stand' which went out live on air on JUly 22nd 2008.
The band are also confirmed to perform this years OFFSET FESTIVAL 2008 sharing stages with larger acts such as My Vitriol, Future of the left, Blood red shoes, Fightstar, Ghost of a thousand and even larger current scene indie bands such as Young Knives and Maccabees.
The band will perform the ROCK STAGE.
In more news.....To The Bones have been invited to perform live on a brand new pilot TV show at AIR studios in London which was established by very influential Beatles producer back in the day. This will be taking place on Friday august 15th. If people would like to be part of a live studio audience........please mail - medicirecords@gmail.com
Other resources please frequently check the official To The Bones myspace -
www.myspace.com/tothebones
All the mysteries, the happenings, the colours, the language, the lyrics, the brain, the art, the everything.
TO THE BONES have just finished recording with manic street preachers producer Dave Eringa. The session was very inspiring. The session was set for 24 hours only from a story which made headlines at NME.com recently. Dave Eringa effortlessly captured the essence and rock sound of To The Bones. Three stacker amps set to 11 in a small room - the room shuddered like and earthquake. The track that was recorded was the track 'Rex' which is set to be the next single out in september following the current double-A side single 'Sharkies Bone SYmphony' Versus 'Sonic Mammoth' - Sonic Mammoth has enjoyed radio play by the likes of Zane Lowe on BBC radio 1's fresh meat and John Kennedy's Xposure + lots more, whilst the music video for 'Sharkies Bone SYmphony' is currently on the mTV2 120 minutes show playlist. To The Bones also performed an exclusive live session for XFM exposure's 'One night stand' which went out live on air on JUly 22nd 2008.
The band are also confirmed to perform this years OFFSET FESTIVAL 2008 sharing stages with larger acts such as My Vitriol, Future of the left, Blood red shoes, Fightstar, Ghost of a thousand and even larger current scene indie bands such as Young Knives and Maccabees.
The band will perform the ROCK STAGE.
In more news.....To The Bones have been invited to perform live on a brand new pilot TV show at AIR studios in London which was established by very influential Beatles producer back in the day. This will be taking place on Friday august 15th. If people would like to be part of a live studio audience........please mail - medicirecords@gmail.com
Other resources please frequently check the official To The Bones myspace -
www.myspace.com/tothebones
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