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Missing them already? Well, don't cry just yet, there's a whole new Trail of Dead gig organised for February 3rd at the Astoria in London as part of the NME Brats thing. Rumours that TOD were convinced to accept this gig by Break Stuff jumping up and down chanting 'but you'll get on TEEE VEEE!!' remain unconfirmed but are obviously true. Support comes, quite surprisingly, from Rocket From The Crypt. Also on the bill are The Strokes and Peaches. There still seems to be tickets left for this gig which is even more surprising. That NME backlash must be kicking in. We ourselves will be in attendance to give the Astoria a good seeing to in true Break Stuff style. If you see us then come over and say 'you're that SuperFang and GrislyWing and I claim my free carton of Um Bongo' and we'll give you a lollipop* |
Tour Gossip Well, so far we've heard tales of fruit-throwing, wrestling, fighting, abuse and ritual sacrifice. Nothing worth going into details about then. What we really want is a story about Neil 'Twinkletoes' Busch so we can call him that. Send 'em in. Thanks. |
Trail of Dead more popular than Ballboy! Listeners to John Peel's radio show voted Mistakes and Regrets into the number FOUR position in the annual Festive 50 chart. This placed them higher than such indie rock superstars as Ballboy and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, not to mention chancers like Shellac and Radiohead. Break Stuff would like to be quoted as being "shocked but not surprised". |
"Their conversation makes the likes of the Bloodhound Gang sound like politically aware intellectual heavyweights" Boring interviewer meets bored band. The result is printed in a major Scottish daily newspaper. Read all about it |
| Trail of Dead break more stuff yet again. European tour rescheduled
In honour of Break Stuff's three month anniversary Trail of Dead broke some stuff after a gig in San Antonio in Texas by using it to defend themselves from attackers. "We are not dead or injured. We're fine. We have no equipment", Conrad told us. Neil Busch explained further: "San Antonio is famous for its valiantly fought, though ultimately unsuccessful battles against incredible odds. Saturday night was a historical re-enactment of the Alamo. Our guitars were like flintlocks against the innumerable enemy. We had to make a choice, run or die trying to defend ourselves and honour. We made our decision, now it's up to the law to decide.' And you thought we made this stuff up.. |
NME jump on Break Stuff bandwagon In honour of Break Stuff's three month anniversary, the UK's first and best weekly music newspaper to feature Trail of Dead gave us a little mention after their on tour interview. "We don't want to be remembered for having broken a lot of stuff', Conrad told them. |
Trail of Dead hit the UK - UK hits back Our spies tell us that Trail of Dead are running a competition within the band as to who can be the first to hurt themselves on the current european tour. Before they left the US Jason 'Podgy' Reece spammed the TOD discussion list SEVENTEEN times with a rambling mail inciting violence against himself.
A spokeperson for the band sighed, 'they'll be trying to break their arms next'. The rest of the band then upped the stakes to see who could be the first to lose an arm in Ireland. |
Trail Of Dead in full on diss to Irish prime minister shocker! Top Indie rawk chancers and international playboys Trail of Dead have found that their forthcoming trip to Dublin, Ireland has landed them in hot water. Fake Irishman and software pirate, Conrad 'Cutesypie' Keely was believed to have turned his nose up at having to travel via a BOAT to get to this country, and this caused the following outburst which I was lucky enough to record on my trusty tape recorder 'Man, why couldn't those Irish guys lay on a huge fuckoff big Lear Jet like Bon Jovi's for me and if they don't I'm not playing so there'. He was then believed to have stuck his tongue out and called Irish Prime Minister and all round top banana Bertie Aherne a 'fat assed cowboy'. Aphex Twin was believed to be in the process of suing Conrad for use of this phrase which he claims to have coined….more when we get to make it up…. As we raced to press it was believed all Mr Keely's requests had been granted. However, a rock spokesman for Ireland said they hope Mr Keely learns from this experience and under no circumstances will they be ever making such allowances for shite rock star behaviour again. At least not till U2 want to make another record. In other news |
The London crowd took Jason up on his offer, storming the stage and causing the singer/drummer/guitarist/exhibitionist to hurt his hand a bit. Jason then cried like a girl and demanded stitches. Reece later appeared on the hospital steps, grinning bravely. "I won!", he drawled, "Where's the Met Bar?" 
