Tell Your Friends Tell Your Enemies

Recent visitors to this blog may or may not have noticed that the mp3s were not working. Well technical problems will probably be the death of us all but not this blog...not yet! Everything works again now, you will no doubt be pleased to hear.
More new music from aheM! will be posted soon included the long awaited Bill Posters album "2009" & maybe I'll get round to finishing some of those lost Gertrude's Storm classics. In the meantime I have added some new links below which I strongly recommend you check out.

BILL POSTERS VS. KAPUTT: ROUND 2

Kaputt's new single "Blow Up These Lights" was released last week & it really is excellent; I had so much fun remixing it that I ended up doing 3 remixes. It's a fantastic, flawless vocal performance from Silke & a real progression of the Kaputt sound. Buy the single now & be sure to go see Kaputt play live at 93 Feet East on 5th December.

KAPUTT: Blow Up These Lights (BILL POSTERS Remix)

KAPUTT: Blow Up These Lights (BILL POSTERS Remix No. 2)

KAPUTT: Blow Up These Lights (niGHt Remix)

As heard on John Kennedy's XFM show this week.

For all Kaputt info head over to their myspace...

No Bill Posters

BILL POSTERS: No Time To Hurry

BILL POSTERS: Undated Autograph

from the 2005 release: "No Bill Posters"

It's Jesus!

Here's an unreleased BILL POSTERS track from the voluminous aheM! archives. It's a noisy, abstract little thing created mostly using samples from the GERTRUDE'S STORM monster 'Jesus! Horses!'.

BILL POSTERS: It's Jesus (Again)

An Evening With MAX TUNDRA

About a half-dozen weeks ago I interviewed MAX TUNDRA, a literal wizard & a huge musical influence, for SLASH STROKE magazine. I asked him some simple questions & got some interesting answers...

SLASH STROKE: What’s good about the new?
MAX TUNDRA: It doesn’t have to rely on old ideas or things that have gone before…however, try telling that to the new album by The Killers!
BILL POSTERS: How do you come up with your tunes?
MAX: Quite often I wake up in the morning & there’s a musical idea in my head, like almost a fully formed song. It involves me quickly switching all the machines on, before I forget the idea & banging it out-listening to it a few times to check that I haven’t dreamt a song by Cliff Richard that already exists. Once I’ve confirmed that it is my own composition then I’ll take a few months planning the arrangement and what instruments to play & some words for it. But the last album took six years so the next one’s going to be a bit quicker, I think, so I better try & dream faster.
BILL: As far as I know you’ve always been a solo performer. Have you ever played in bands or wanted to play in bands?
MAX: The trouble is I don’t like being told what to play. When I left school I was in crappy bands that I really hated & I’d turn up at rehearsal with this proggy keyboard part that I’d worked out & they’d say, “Oh, it’s a bit weird mate, sorry can you just play” [sings melody] whatever & I just thought, well, that’s really annoying, so I just taught myself a load of instruments. So I would be in bands again so long as I can tell people what to play.
I did a Peel Session & that was me & seven of my friends playing twenty instruments; arrangements of songs from the first two albums. It was the third to last ever Peel Session. Unfortunately Mr. Peel died before it was broadcast so it was left to Rob da Bank to badly read out the press release he was sent & get loads of facts wrong about the session & my name & things like that. Unfortunately he wasn’t quite as into the music as John Peel perhaps was. I don’t even know if Rob da Bank particularly paid attention to the session or likes what he heard because I’ve never been asked to play Bestival.
BILL: How was touring the U.S.? Did you notice any difference between American & British audiences?
MAX: The difference between American gig-goers & British ones is that the Americans are less swayed by trends & good reviews in whatever magazines or blogs. Over here you get quite big bands with extremely erratic attendances at their shows. It can go wildly up & down depending on whoever else is in town that night, but mainly what Lily Allen’s into that week. Whereas in America it seems to be firstly: you can tour the U.S., then you can tour the U.S. again & there’ll be slightly more people at your shows each time because people are genuinely into the music & unpretentious & clearly want to spread the word if they really like it. Even if you’re not that cool & you wear clothes from H&M like I do they’ll still come to the show. Also you get a wider cross section of people from all backgrounds, ages, races, clothes-wearers & sexuality. You just find in America there’s no way of predicting who’s going to be in audience that night. People are genuinely into the music & they ask you really interesting questions at the end of the shows. It really feels like you’re building on something when you go to America, whereas over here you just forget about it. It’s very hard to develop as an artist in London & the U.K.
BILL: What’s next for Max Tundra?
MAX: This autumn I’m touring with a band called Passion Pit, who are a hot, trendy, new, young band who are actually quite good & I got the tour support because I sent them a myspace message saying, “Oi, I like your music can I support you please”. We’re playing Koko & all these big venues in the U.K. When I get the opportunity to play in front of loads of people, they’re quite into it. So I just feel there’s a breakthrough about to happen. 12 years slogging away. It took Animal Collective nine albums: I’ve only done three. We’ll see, ey. So I’m doing this tour & I’m working on the next album, which hopefully won’t take six years!

myspace.com/maxtundra for gigs & everything else

Hear Max Tundra on Resonance FM 104.4 every Saturday 14:30-15:30.

Max Tundra is playing at the Macbeth on September 14th. Buy tickets here.

Read the whole magazine online here.

niGHt: Yr Backyard

A trip to the country!

niGHt: Yr Backyard Is Just Outside

acCOBRA in a dancing mood!

This is a perfect song for barbecues, picnics & car journeys to & from such events. A classic Cobra cut remastered for your listening pleasure. Check out his new blog where you can download exclusive mixes & unreleased tracks. Go on: do it NOW!


acCOBRA: John, I'm Only In A Dancing Mood

www.mraccobra.blogspot.com

BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN: HEADFIRST

For an unlimited time only & entirely devoid of any charge, here is the new single from BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN. Suck it up bitch!

BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN: Headfirst
BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN: Yrbangshavegotalifeoftheirown

EVERYTHING YOU'D EVER FEARED

Here's a little gem from occasional nature jam band Group Of Folk, that featured on the 2006 aheM! compilation "Everything You'd Ever Feared". "Calm Down, It's Only A Mask" was conceived on a sunny day on Hampstead Heath & recorded soon after. Bitchhair plays bazouki, bass & gorilla mask, whilst Bill Posters plays guitar, melodica & rabbit mask.

GROUP OF FOLK: Calm Down, It's Only A Mask



...& another track from the same album by the unbelievable & astonishing RANDOMWOMAN: a party anthem that keeps you coming back for more.

RANDOMWOMAN: It's Friday Night

SISTER PISS

SISTER PISS is a name BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN have used sporadically since the dark days of the late 90's. "Don't Be" is a silly mess recorded in 2006 with Bill on toy accordion & Random beating a child's drum kit.

SISTER PISS: Don't Be

JAMIE LIDELL REMIX

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Here's a remix Randomwoman & I did for a Jamie Lidell remix competition. I never heard anything back but I think it's amazing.

JAMIE LIDELL: Little Bit Of Feel Good (BILL POSTERS & RANDOMWOMAN Remix)

A.C. COBRA & BILL POSTERS

Way back in December 2005, acCOBRA & BILL POSTERS hosted an evening of musical extravagance at the Royal George to mark the dual release of their debut EPs for aheM!; "No Bill Posters" & "The Past, The Peasant & The Future". A.C. followed his explosive live set on the night with more microphone trickery at venues such as The Amersham Arms, The Spitz, MacBeth & others, while the reclusive sounds of Bill were broadcast nationally by Huw Stephens. The night itself was a triumphant affair & marked the proper launch of aheM! Here are the original versions of two tracks from those EPs.
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BILL POSTERS: He Wasn't Even Laughing
acCOBRA: Yoot Of Today

BILL POSTERS: Egyptian Flute

Here's an unreleased track made almost entirely from a cheap flute I bought in Luxor.

BILL POSTERS: Egyptian Flute

the dead of ... niGHt

Into the light flooded darkness, or something like that. everything looks beautiful in the dark, or so they say.

The sound of niGHt is hard to fathom at first, but becomes clear once your eyes adjust. Broken folk & warped lullabies beckon you to a land of misanthropic idealism, absolutely heaving with illusions of grandeur.

niGHt is so called after that which gave it life. It sounds like a mess kept at a safe distance. It's not really there, but you know it is. You can't ignore it forever.

At night all sounds are magnified. it's not real, but you think it is. Its imperfections are what makes it imperfect.

niGHt: wake up! wake up!
from ahem009 "the dead of..." buy it here

& here's a bonus track that didn't make the album for some reason...

niGHt: murderer at dawn

GERTRUDE'S STORM: Recycled Old Crap

In July 2006, aheM! put on a show at the Spitz, which featured the live debut of SHARING SHEATHS, plus breathtaking performances from acCOBRA, RANDOMWOMAN, & GERTRUDE'S STORM. A compilation called "Recycled Old Crap" was given away to all attending & then ceased to exist. That is how it happened. Here is the first track from it, a reworking of GERTRUDE'S STORM's "Drinking My Brain"...

GERTRUDE'S STORM: Drinking Your Brain

BILL POSTERS VS. KAPUTT

KAPUTT released a great 7" recently on Too Pure & I was lucky enough to offer to do a remix & have my offer accepted. Here are the results.

KAPUTT: Family Tree (BILL POSTERS remix)

buy the 7" here

BILL POSTERS: Remixes For Pleasure

This e.p. marks the return of aheM! (& the launch of this blog) & as such is being offered to you all free of charge.
BILL POSTERS has been working on this for some time & has given some old (& some new) friends a makeover, recreating them in his own image. The e.p. features the recorded debut of GEE-GAW, the latest addition to the aheM! roster, a multi million pound humour, an electro magnetic dream, an unknown quantity & quite possibly the most brilliant band you’ve never heard. There are also two rebodied tracks from south east london’s favourite nightmare pop duo SHARING SHEATHS, & two born again nuggets from the, now defunct, electro-jazz dance party that was GERTRUDE’S STORM, including live favourite, “badass”.
You can check out more of bill’s remixes (including remixes of KAPUTT & JAMIE LIDELL) & original tracks at www.myspace.com/nobillposters
Enjoy & keep forever.

Right click to download...

GEE-GAW: Hunting Ground Remix
SHARING SHEATHS: Wheelchair Remix
GERTRUDE'S STORM: Driving Me Crazy Remix
SHARING SHEATHS: Gulag Chic Remix
GERTRUDE'S STORM: Badass Remix

All remixes by BILL POSTERS