ENORMOUS Set List 20th Nov Gig / November 9 2008
A few people have been asking me what songs ENORMOUS will be playing at the Town Mill gig with b-movie in Mansfield on Thursday 20th November, so I decided to post the full set list right here:
My Type
Here Comes That Girl Again
Let’s Run Away Together
The Way That It Should Be
Pretty Little Painkiller
Moaning Lisa
The Definite Article
Please [...]
Galaxy Casts Off In Podcast Blast-Off / September 12 2008
While Nelson was here, we finished work on his mini-album Half Nelson which Big Arena Records will be releasing shortly.
To say the songs on the album were recorded with just two acoustic guitars, they sound unexpectedly big and powerful, intense and full of passion; but at the same time the whole thing is sad and [...]
Cherry Outburst / August 22 2008
What is that constant ridiculous sound in the background of the Verve’s new single Love Is Noise? It sounds like a herd of geese. It makes Audrey bark like some kind of crazy female madman every time it is played on XFM. It ruins what is otherwise quite an average song.
Actually, I would rather like [...]
Bass Player Wanted / April 3 2008
Following on from yesterday’s post, it behoves me to tell you that Enormous are indeed looking for a new bass player.
If you fancy you might fit the bill – think Bruce Thomas or Nick Lowe, no Mark King wannabes, please – email me here at contact@napoleonfantastic.com, or hop on over to the Enormous website where [...]
Golden Handshake / October 10 2007
Once, after a meeting with our A+R man – the infamous punk rocker Gene October – we were whisked off to a busy London hostelry with drinking funds provided by our record company IRS Records. As I recall, I did not drink too much during that charming afternoon in Soho and neither did my fellow [...]
Taxi for Mr Fantastic / September 22 2007
Slaughterhouse 5 were playing a gig at Falmouth College of Art a few years ago when a man in the audience died.
Every night on tour, in the dressing room, just before we took to the stage, I would say to my fellow band members: ‘Gentlemen, guitars on stun.’ I do not think, however, that our [...]
Dye Another Day / August 21 2007
I was planning on paying a visit to the chemist’s in the village today and to take again the opportunity to tease the little old lady who works there. (In my view, they charge a ridiculous price for some of the hair-care products that they stock.)
I need to purchase hair dye for the weekend. Nelson [...]
The Cream Also Rises / July 26 2007
I have just been scanning some old publicity shots for the Slaughterhouse 5 website and was reminded of another boozy photographic session we did with top rock photographer Ed Sirrs.
We were very in awe of the famous snapper; but although he was so well-respected within the industry and had such a glowing reputation, he wasn;t [...]
More Lines / June 30 2007
Please allow me to indulgence myself again and present to you a further selection of more of my favourite lines taken from some of my own songs. I have also incorporated a verse from Nelson Galaxy’s song Between Us, which I think is worthy of inclusion in such a collection.
‘It really suits you wearing clothes like [...]
By Popular Demand / June 26 2007
I have been asked by several people after the Classic Lines post to include several examples of my own song lyrics. (Oh gosh darn it, I’m blushing now.) I do not like singing my own praises, as it were, but here are a few that I am particularly proud of:
‘Nice bloke, he’s the cheekiest chappie
He’s [...]
