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Hi from the US. You are all in league with Stan, you haven't aged a bit since I saw you play, what, 12 years ago? Bugger me, doesn't time fly when you're having, er, fun.

Please teach Richard LIFE- theme from an american sitcom - i am now getting withdrawal symptoms!!!! your version is much better than the one that gets in my head!!!! I meant to mention it on fri :)

I really enjoyed watching you gig at The Birthday Bash on Saturday (15.10.05). Excellent entertainment - as usual. The new guitar-man is good. Didn't get to meet him. :o(

Half way through your set, a friend said to me "Doesn't their drummer look like a tall man playing a small man's drum kit?" So true! I only wish I had taken a photo. All the best things come in small packages! No comment.

Thanks for staying to watch me and Col do our thing. I never thought that I would see anyone who looks as 'rock' as Andy singing Tiffany. Quality!He is a big fluffy bunny really. Who happens to look like our Lord. Colisa were as entertaining as ever. I could listen to Lisa singing for hours. Even if it is songs by Eighties one hit wonders.

Hope to see you soon,
Lisa.

PS - Ken is still cool.

The Chalkie birthday gig was great. Neil as Britney will be burnt into my retinas forever!!!

Uh oh...
I've found some more old Hormone Implant Lyrics! Oh yes, a little ditty by the name of "black box". We could put it up on the site as long as we don't mind advertising for FCUK. SIHT!
Zak

Just to mention, the bride didn't want the birdy song, it was the groom!!!!! I had to talk him out out of the locomotion too!
Come on lads get your act together and get a gig organised, it is the only time k takes me out and that is only to carry his kit for him!!!! Oh, and i have a list of songs i would like you to turn down (i know andy!!) will send them with k.

Just interested to find someone with exactly the same name as me !!!!!

Hi there whilst searching for unsigned bands I came across your site, I have recently started up a music news site the site is looking for bands to send in their CD's for reviews just wondering if you would like us to review you CD to see other reviews the site has done and for further iformation check out the site www.musicpress.co.uk or email info@musicpress.co.uk

Thanks for your time Matt

There is a new section on the site offering unsigned bands a profile page just follow this link and fill in the form

Send CD/pics and Biography too:

We would like to use the material on the Music Press website so please provide permmission.

Having seen Neil DJ'ing at Ken & Jayne's wedding I eagerly anticipate seeing the LC's new Toasting numbers. Particularly liked the way he conversed with a mate all the way through an audience participation song rather than direct the dancing.
Neil would like to add that he is happy not to have known anything at all about how the dance should have been directed as he grew out of the need to follow the latest foibles of pop music long before even Agadoo was a smash on the hit parade. What is more remarkable is that both Rammstein and Monster Magnet were played at a wedding. Now that is something that doesn't happen often. Just be thankful that he talked the bride out of using The Birdy Song.

Hello from sunny Melbourne. Good to see you're still going. When are you going to do a world tour? And no, five nights at the NEC doesn't count.
Sponsorship for World Tour gladly accepted. Nice to hear from old band members. Any chance of a walrus photo?

Nice site overhaul, good to see Richard's biography, though I must say he seems far too talented for you bunch of "hacks".... I wanted someone suitably talentless, to make me look good.....

Oh no, not the dodgy drum machine! Geez. Do we know what happened to Dave the Bass player?

Hi chaps, I thought it was about time I sent a reply to the kind words you left on the Anorakula message board. Thanks everso having us as your support act last Wednesday , it was a blast. Sorry I couldn't stay for the whole of your set (I think I might have sneaked out without being noticed), but what I heard was excellent. Good luck in finding a new guitarist. Andy, expect a call.

Dude, update the original material section, breed and barrel of a gun are deffinitely finished, but wtf is needle? think we all need a refresher on that one.

One for Ken - with the recent spate of 80's revivals, I think Nine While Nine should go back on the road!!!!!!


I think I might have located that dodgy drum machine.

Hi,
I stumbled across your site from a link on another site and just want to say
I like it, it's really cool!
It would be great to come and see you play sometime im in the midlands so it's not too far to get to places.
Checkout this band they rock! 1 of the UK’s finest acts:
www.hubbonline.com

I saw you guys play at the Chainwire Club in Stourport on 24^th April 2004.
A really good set. I was particularly pleased to hear 'Gay Bar' again and the fantastic rendition of 'Twisted (Everyday hurts a little more)'!
Hope to see you chaps again soon - Always a great night.
Lisa. x
PS. I like the way the website matches Neil's T-Shirt... Nice touch!
PPS. Ken, Ken, you're cool as a hen! (Oh, happy days.)

I remember you lot from the Firkin... You were Firkin Rubbish!Oh the witty badinage. Did your mum say it was alright to leave messages on websites?

Congrats to Andy Norledge and his new wife Lynne, who were married this weekend! Thanks for the invite, it was woinderful(sic) to catch up with the old gang! Hope you all enjoy the photos in my biog section.

In reply to the last couple of postings, the piccies came from my photographic archive (there are many more in there from a certain "Worcestershire town on the Avon" of teenagers from the mid 80's. Perhaps they will see the light of day on www.zakalas.co.uk ;) As for Nina, well she came from said town, but I couldn't possible comment about any nicknames, real or imagined.

Just reading your older posts and wondering if the lyrics to "Nina be my girlfriend" as suggested by Richard 'TUFTY' White, might have been about a certain 'Nina, bury me in a Y shaped coffin' from a certain small Worcestershire town on the Avon??.
You might think that but we couldn't actually comment for fear of legal repercussions.

Where the hell did you dig those piccies up from? Nice one!!

Lyrics... Don't put them down? Well, maybe Anon is right, there are some cracking good lines in there. But it's all about the sound, not just the words, maybe if you guys got a few MP3's on the site we could all have a listen, whether we're next door or a hundred miles away, get on with it. :) Can't wait 'till 25th - should be a laugh.

I found your website because I was looking for something else. I will probably never see you perform, talk to you, or meet you, because I live about as far away from you as you can get. But I was scanning through in search of my original topic and felt compelled to write after I saw all your self-deprecating comments about your song lyrics. Okay, maybe i haven't heard the songs, and hell, maybe they DO suck! :) But frankly I liked a lot of the lyrics and felt more to feed on there than I have in most of the mainstream stuff that is usually la-la-la-la'ing on the radio. So I think you should post the lyrics and let them be. I mean, if you are going to post them at all, don't bloody apologize. Just let your audience make the decision. And believe me, someone will find something in there to move them. And if they find something in there that has meaning, and then you insult your own work, it pretty much insults the person absorbing it too. So, good luck, good work, (Westley...I'll most likely kill you in the morning :)...you're in a band - understand you're a part of the only real religious experience most Westerners have these days, and behave with respect for the gift you have.

Ello, peeps.
Just wasting my lunch hour at work looking for cr*p on the net.
Can we add a link to the Harpies web site?
www.harpies.co.uk
They do rock, and they are very good, if you like heavy industrial noise metal.
By the way, I've been told off for pulling faces on stage (or was that feces(sic)?)
I've been told I must be more "serious and cool".
I still reserve the right to extract the urine at every possible moment however :)

Anyway, we may not have won our battle of the bands round last night at the Hibernian, but hell it was fun, and good to only play for 20 mins so I wasn't completely knackered :)

Next gig on the way, I will try and organise something for end of september/beggining(sic) October.
which I'll probably have to cancel so I can move house.
Anyway, more gig news when I have it, hope to see more of our hard-core fans at the next one ;)
TTFN
AH

Found this off your last e-mail plug - I am now hysterical, or something.

Two things:

I remember the first farm gig, p*ssing about with the lights in the rain, watching the gig and then somehow surviving Wardies' Gulf War surplus fireworks - don't think I was at the second though!

How the f**k did you get Tony to do a happy song? I'm going to ask him if you did as it sounds a bit improbable at that period...

Keep on rockin', dudes (Ok, the Californian sun has got to me)

Chris

Wow - we're so popular that OTHER bands advertise on our web page !!!? Not that we mind, but an invite to support would be nice :)) The demo is finished (raw is the word) and I'll hack together some mp3s for the website. OMG they'll be able to hear us!!!!

Hugs & Kisses
Zak

Hey, sorry to crash your guestbook, but,,,

Immortal Alice | Junk Culture
Digbeth old Railway 2nd July
Birmingham

Should be a top night, it is the first proper night of the Immortal Alice/ Junk Culture uk tour all stops will be pulled out!

Immortal Alice are flying over from Boston for the tour dates. They have had three albums out in the states and will be recording tracks for their upcoming live album, so make some noise! Immortal Alice are a band not to miss, they have been tipped for very big things. They have been compared to the likes of NO FX, Operation Ivy and the Breeders.

Junk Culture are my band so I shan't say too much, we have influences ranging from the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Stone Roses and even Iron Maiden!

The tour is to promote a split album between LoveJunk, Immortal Alice and Junk Culture, but as is the way with these things it won't be coming out until after the tour, bah!

So, hope to see you all there. Come say hello, I'm the guy in Junk Culture wrestling with a bass!

Ta

Andrew Culture

As would any caring father - I'd just love to know what my son is up to. Actually, I am sure that Neil would also like to know from time to time.

Yo yo

Its Mark from Surplus here!

Just to tell you all that we have a re-invented website with a new message board (Get postin!!) and pics in the gallery so you can print em off and throw darts at our ugly mugs!

Surplus Official
http://www.surplusofficial.250x.com/

and also just a quick reminder of our gigs at Xl's Nightclub on february 15th and 22nd so get down and show support that u wish to be shown bak!

also if an orange wasnt orange, and it was purple then would it be named a purple.. mmm this is a lovely purple! just doesnt go does it!

Laterz

Mark (Surplus)

http://www.surplusofficial.250x.com/

P.S- GET DOWN TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT AT FEENEY FEST ON SUNDAY WHERE CHUMPSTATE ARE PLAYIN A BIG GIG IN THERE CAREER.

Top performance again at the Golden Lion last night, looking forward to seeing you guys again soon (early/mid November?). Requests from the Cage diehard included; anything by Alice In Chains, Inside by Stiltskin or Black by Pearl Jam. Loved the opening of Buffy, but could you please remember to invite Sarah Michelle Gellar to the next gig to fulfil my fantasy (no, dressing Ken up will not do!).

Cage now have a Fanclub through Yahoo clubs please make link to clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/cageuk we have already made a link going the other way.

CU on the 4th August at about 7pm-7:30pm

You may just possibly be the only group in Britain to play a cover of the Stone Temple Pilots. Most other bands would go 'huh? eh? what? they a bit like Pearl Jam?' Nice gig at Harborne carnival, by the way - even if you did become more sweaty than even Matt from Cage (and that's saying something.....)
Actually, I thought we were the only band to do Stone Temple Pilots covers until I saw an advert recently in Ritch Bitch Studios for a band that claimed to include their songs in the set. Shame.

Good to see you guys in Harborne, great set (but I missed the first 5 mins). The set list that you left on the stage listed the Buffy theme as an opener, excellent!
Looking forward to the Golden Lion on August 4th (I guess that's confirmed as you announced it).

CU soon,
Scoobs

Wow, how do you guys do it, look at that Solihull set list I mean how do you play all those heavy tracks back to back!
Damn set list - Hate it!
Too fast too long too hot too much
Need water
Let me stop
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
And why no photo's? Where are the photo's, bring on the photo's give me visual stimulation!
Ooops, gotta go, private accident.

I was just reading my earlier comment about your unfavourable mention of the Aori track "Owlbear". I just wanted to say I've recently unearthed a copy of it and your description is 100% correct.

Please add "The Necromancer" by Rush to your set list.

Avariciously impose structure upon your leanings into the void. Scrape wind-blast from your gelatinous pissoles. And forthwith anoint thyselves with rock-gel. A-Booga-Rooga!

I just can't wait for the demo tape ;-)

For your enlightenment and edification, your favorite record store / recording studio / record label FINALLY has a website. (and my image map is snazzier than yours :p)

Hugs & Kisses

Z

I, the all powerful Time Lord, have succeeded in creating a Time Vortex on your "What's New" page. Beware, I shall soon have your souls (shrunk into tiny unconvincing dolls). Moo hah hah hah!
Please note, the Master has since been thwarted using only a sonic screwdriver and a bag of jelly babies.

Hmmm... Love Commandos in a CAGE??? Truly scary! What??? Oh it's another band. Pity ;) Oh and when did The LC's get a drummer? <<<snigger>>>

Cage now have a website! Not as professional as your's but when it comes to computing I'm a rank amateur! We have put in a link to your site from ours, perhaps you could reciprocate, cheers.Link added to home page.

P.S. Jen says "Hello, Ken, Ken, Cool as a hen! Have you seen Jim, Jim, hair like a qu.. recently?"

After seeing your reply I had a chat with Cage at a rehearsal. Cage would love to do a double header with you guys in the New Year, drop me a line or e-mail and we'll get it sorted.Sounds great! I will be in touch.

P.S. Cage are playing on Boxing Day at the Nag's Head, Henley-in-Arden, & on New Year's eve at the The Golden Lion, Solihull ƕ pounds admission, normal price beer!)

bye, Matt 'Scooby' King

Do you know any more ABBA songs? The one you played at the Hare and Hounds went down well.No we don't. We try to only cover one song per band.

p.s. this is Matt King of Cage and Zodiac if you were wondering, remember us from Chalkies B'days. 'Ken, Ken, Cool as a Hen' certainly knows Zodiac, and probably wakes up in a cold sweat at night remembering doin engineering work at ANEW with us !!! (Don't tell the taxman!!) We should consider a gig together some time.

Neil/Rob your web site is okay. I enjoyed reading the words of your songs especially the earlier songs. It seems to have certain innocence for me. (You will be laughing when you read this!!).
Lots of love and best wishes for your gigs.

I remember Pipkins. I'm not sure who should be who though. How about some mp3's or wav's of your music - you look like a cool band, but it would be nice to hear you! Great idea. MP3s coming as soon as we can. Probably sometime next year due to the number of lazy perfectionists in the band.

I'm glad I looked at this site otherwise I would have turned up at The Junction Harborne for the next gig, and that would just have been WRONG!!!!!

One of the new links on the site inspires the question...
"If The Love Commandos were in Pipkins, who would they be?"

Look, you can't just mention my hair and not tell them why! My public demands a full explanation! For those that care, I've had the locks hacked off to shoulder length and dyed the whole lot a subtle (well for me!) red. Hmmm... perhaps we could make my hair a feature, or even get some clever sort of Shockwave widget to apply different hair styles to us all. One for our programmers methinks...

The hair! The flairs! You let those photos see the light of day? Brave, brave man.
::::::Falls over laughing::::::

Hmmm... I think that charming Rob is more of the Colonel type whist that Ken has been seen to wear a dress in public! On reflection, I agree. Names swapped on news page.

After watching "I Love 1977" how about some punk? "Into the Valley" by The Skids perhaps - I bet you don't know the words!!! Response posted here.

The site's progressing well. I can't believe you described 'Owlbear' as "absolutely appalling".
Shame on you... :-)

Come and see us live! We're much more active than the photographs suggest!! Honest.... OK, maybe not, but it is a hell of a lot of fun for us to see a full house, so get on down to our next gig, and this time get up and dance or at least sing along! We're only here for the fun, we want you to have as much fun as possible during our short time on stage too.

Bonnie Bobby Shaftoe?

Actually i've seen one of the Love Commandos perform :) What an exceedingly handsome, talented lot you are!

love & light ***

I believe my contribution to Hormone Implant was enthusiasm (and definately no talent) . Didn't we call ourselves 'Courderoy Nightmare' for a while? I suggest the Love Commandos cover Whole Lotta Rosie by AC/DC which was one of Hormone Implants greatest covers. If you can remember it Ken, you could also do 'Nina be my Girlfriend!!!! I will happily supply the lyrics.