A Call To Arms for Hippies

It's finally finished! And the video will be up very soon! We mastered it yesterday at Fluid studios with Lilly Allen's mastering engineer, who kindly donated his services to the cause. People been amazing thus far getting behind the cause. Bloody Awful Poetry PR and Jigsaw House PR have also donated their services, and on Sunday I had the incredible Tristram http://www.myspace.com/tristramsongs and Brigitte Aphrodite http://www.brigitteaphrodite.com in the studio to lend their larynx's to the cause with some lovely ooh's and ahhs and general backing harmony loveliness...

ooh listen to me... I'm getting all excited! Maybe we can knock Simon Cowell and this year's next year's forgotten pop star off the top spot this christmas and make squillions for Medical Aid for Palestinians.

ooh ooh that sounds fun, where can i get it? i hear you say!

well, on iTunes on the 14th December or better still you can Pre-order now and bypass
iTunes' cut. £1.50, all profits to MAP (medical aid for Palestines). Single
includes A Call To Arms for Hippies, acoustic track "What is Money Anyway?"
and bonus Bronze Medallists' ringtone. After purchase, an MP3 will be
emailed to you on Monday 14th December in time to fill your digital xmas
stocking!

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2 Girls 2 Cups

So some of you may know... I also help run and produce for a record label with Joel from eARmusic and Pete from Nika records. its called Voga Parochia (http://www.myspace.com/vogaparochia). Our first release is Lulu and the Lampshades 'Feet to the Sky' and is out on 26th October (itunes Amazone etc. , 7 inch and download). Come to the launch on 26th October at Passing Clouds in Dalston. Anyway, allow me to introduce you to the girls:

The campaign gathers pace!...

Thank you to this lovely person who has invigorated the campaign to release my megaphone

An introduction to The Megaphone Saga...

So a few weeks ago that pesky friend of mine CVeitch got arrested and had my megaphone confiscated by the police. All charges were dropped instantly and yet my megaphone was not returned!

What to do?

Why, go down to the Begravia Police Station in Victoria and begin hostage negotiations n'est pas?



To see how it got, er 'nicked' by the Police too, watch this little gem:

Monday was a wonderful evening, I played at my friend's Ep launch in the luminaire in Kilburn. It was a brilliant line up including Stars of Sunday League (of course), Broadcast 2000, Jeremy Walmsley, Semaphore, and I said Yes.



Stars of Sunday League

Moi

Jeremy Walmsley

broadcast 2000



There are some more pics of the night up here:

http://www.thefourohfive.com/reviews/927

and you should buy the EP too when it comes out on Jellyfish Records on 7th September because it is bloody wonderful.

x

Is it too early to be thinking about Christmas?

Fred Goodwin has volunteered to reduce his pension, lady's and gentlemen. I'd like to think I had something to do with that. Even if my anti-Goodwin song accounted for only 1 percent of the pressure on dear old Fred to pay back his exorbitant £16m pension, that means I saved the British tax payer £160,000. I should ask for a commission. UH OH: OCTOPUS MAKES CONCESSION TO CAPITALISM SHOCKER! Ye, whatever... You see, (waves hand in peace sign), I like, totally, like to bring the big corporations to account, man, but the truth is I have more things in common with them than I care to admit.

One of those things is that I start thinking about Christmas early. This year I will be releasing a Christmas single, proceeds of which will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. An Octopus christmas number one? Fred, I'm banking on it.

http://www.map-uk.org/
http://www.youtube.com/cveitch

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