Relate/Update/Fixate

24-JUN/07 @ Fighting Cocks, Kingston

2007-06-09T15:13:00.000+01:00

IT IS GO TIME...

07-JUN/07 @ The Boileroom, Guildford

2007-06-01T23:10:00.000+01:00

ARE YOU READY...

23-MAY/07 @ The Hope, Brighton

2007-06-01T23:08:00.000+01:00

SAETERN PRESENTS...

04-MAR/07 @ Redlion, Twickenham

2007-06-01T23:01:00.000+01:00

REDLION RUMBLE....

What I learnt this week (the hard way)...

2007-04-02T12:58:00.000+01:00

...never (ever ever ever) stop off at the pub, for a 'quick pint', on the way to the train station, when you're two hundred miles from home; it's a Sunday, there's only two more trains that will take you home and you have work at 9am the next day.

IN SUMMARY: Just don't do it ('the well-known sportswear company' got it aaaaaaaaall wrong, I tells ya).

A late review of mixed inglish...

2007-02-27T15:55:00.000Z

Just found this online. better late then never, right? This could be contender for worst review of us ever? read on -

Stasi

Mixed Inglish
CDEP-RIOT CLUB MUSIC
(Work Hard-PR)

It can’t be easy, knowing that your music is nothing but a half-decent regurgitation of another bands’ sound. Well, that’s exactly what Stasi have done. They’ve taken the sophistication and profound intensity of Radioheads’ “Kid A,” and merged it with the melancholic greatness of Radioheads’ “Amnesiac”. The overall result is not a good sound at all. This EP consists of 3 lengthy “songs” that are all strenuously repetitive and dull. The band lack originality and direction, which is evident throughout the EP. This is not to say, however, that they are not gifted musicians. The production, for example, is top-notch and the vocals are superb. But, they have enough musical ability to create their own sound instead of depending on Tom Yorke & co. to do it for them. A disappointing waste of talent.

Tom Watsom

Beat Motel Magazine

3rd Feb - Man Love Day ?

2007-02-20T10:17:00.000Z

Damn straight.

This is how we celebrated - Sam finishing the website for his Dad/Charlie starting his new job/Amit having a birthday.

Sadly Sam did not join in the festivities because he felt like cutting his hair would be the biggest mistake of his life. So from now on he must be called 'Samantha'.

-Visuals-

T-Shirt designs...

2007-01-26T12:38:00.000Z

A couple of T-shirt design ideas. very basic and simple (like us). Let us know what you think...

Idea 1:

Idea 2:

Logo

2006-12-04T22:09:00.000Z

so... what do you think?

'Rocklouder' Live review...

2006-11-07T20:33:00.000Z

Check it out. Don't kow where this crept up from but Mr. Tolley, if you're ever at another gig, drinks are on us. So to anyone else reading this, you want that kinda treatment from us, give a good review. Simple eh?

VENUE: GREY HORSE
DATE: 5-OCT/06
RATING: ****

From the outside the Grey Horse doesn’t look like much and the feeling is mutual upon entering. It's a standard pub with a few student types sporadically sitting around the room and a bored bar maid staring into space waiting for the next customer.

One step through a set of double doors, however, and you are transported to what seems like a million miles away from the dingy Grey Horse. The next room is small with candle lit tables positioned round a small stage in the far corner and there is an air of anticipation for what will be Stasi's final performance before entering the studio to record there first mini-album.

The room is busy but not packed and the loud murmuring of the punters quickly fades as three young men enter the stage and take their positions. A sound scape fills the room and from that moment no one takes their eyes off the stage for the next forty minutes.

They open with the fantastic ‘Cat Cage’, just one of two old tracks they play tonight, a sign perhaps of where Stasi's priorities lie. It’s a perfect start as the three piece burst with energy, making enough noise to cause a small earthquake. Nothing short of draw dropping.

Stasi then proceed to run through four new songs which nearly take the roof of the place, a fair achievement considering much of the audience have not heard the material. ‘How The West Won Its Suicide’ (working title) is particularly impressive on first listen. A progressive arrangement of sounds that drifts around the room taking the quiet/loud/quiet/loud song formula to another level. It’s a piece of music that will soon kill off the Muse comparisons this band have always been tagged with.

Another highlight is in the form of a song that “out dates the band”. Frontman Amit feels the band are “being lazy” for including it on the new album. However it’s a fantastic slice of Nirvana meets Winnebago Deal rock and roll and a sign that Stasi are not willing to type cast themselves as just a prog rock band.

Proceedings come to an end with space rock instrumental ‘That’s The Future’. The other old song they play tonight and an appropriate end to a fantastic performance. It packs in all of Stasi’s best traits – loud, melodic and almost overwhelmingly ambitious.

Stasi have worked hard to get to this far, but they're at a stage now where their efforts may well be widely recognised. No doubt there’s more hard work to come but what makes this band so satisfying to watch and listen to is the knowledge that they are determined to take this band as far as it can go. On the bases of tonight’s performance that could be a very long way indeed.

Sam Tolley

Link - http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/1089.html

Testing... testing...

2006-10-08T12:36:00.000+01:00

A test for future refrence, and a little shot of Amsterdam.

I found this in my inbox...

2006-08-15T01:00:00.000+01:00

The phenomenal power of the human mind

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

(sadly i do not know the origins of the text)

the arm sock...

2006-08-15T00:31:00.000+01:00

Like most bedroom musicians, i play guitar in a very un-orthodox way. Because of this retardted-ness, i injure the underside of my right arm. It rubs onto the body of the guitar in such a way that the friction, caused by my playing, pull out the hairs and cut away at my skin. This is quite painful afterwards - Imagine a 'chinese burn' that let blood.

To counter-act this problem, i started cutting off the closed ends of socks and using them as arm guards. Now when i play, the action is so smooth and it makes playing a lot easier on the (h)arm.

Currently i'm sporting a brown airplane sock. They're cool because they don't have heels to them. AND they come in different colours. I want a green one. anybody got a green airplane sock?

WTF? - Zadkiel

2006-08-13T00:08:00.000+01:00

Zadkiel - In Rabbinical angelolgy, the ANGEL of the planet JUPITER

2 P's and a N

2006-07-31T20:20:00.000+01:00

Ah, look... Its a really nice place for us to settle down for a while, though i have to ask why you're here? Are you lost? You look lost, if you don't mind my saying...

Well, now that you're here, why don't you sit for a while and let us tell you a few things...