15% OFF Time for Panic Shopping at the Nasty Shop

  

We know you need our products at Christmas time. Everyone we know is getting 9 o'clock Nasty merch for Christmas. But today (29th November) to 1st of December there is a 15% off on our stuff. Fifteen percent is of course more than 10%.

While you are giddy with the available savings, what do you get the Nasty person in your life? Our first suggestion is this premier cookery apron, protecting genitals from hot oil and crisp white tee-shirts from explosive pasta sauce. It is a beautiful thing. EAT NASTY APRON

A tad more traditional but innovative nonetheless. We've all been in the position of wondering which band tee-shirt to get because which song do you pick? People do judge you for your choice. Well we do. So here is a fresh spin, get your loved one a tee shirt for a song that isn't even out yet!

Do Me Too is out next year. It could be a classic. It could be shit. But the gift recipient will not know. All they will see is a really hot looking Margaret Thatcher in her Raccoon phase and see a style icon that unites the world. Actually for the record "Do Me Too" is an absolute belter of a song. 

DO ME TOO TEE and other garments available

Of course, if you really do give a shit about them, you'll get them Catch Nasty, our LP - which is better and cheaper than both the other things. Maybe you should get that too! 16 songs. With free other stuff. £5. Get them two. If they are modern, buy them the digital download, if they are old school and still have a CD player, get them the disc, if they only play vinyl, well they're fucked because frankly we can't be arsed with that nonsense.

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Party EP Tackles Important Life-Questions whilst retaining that Festive Boost

 

Festive season records are tricky beasts. Do you go all in on true spiritual stuff or go on a hedonistic kick? Well we've just passed the masters for three new songs to the distributors and sent out our press release for Party, our sixth and final EP in 2021 with the aim of bridging that gap.

For anyone that has been paying attention, the first song choice will be no surprise. Yes, we will be answering that eternal question of whether Santa Claus is real or not. What Time Is Santa?  injects a slap happy drumloop and poptastic call and response party vocal and not only answers the great question, but also tells you the time of his arrival.

Play this to children who are at that awkward age where they don't really know for sure, but they have suspicions and that will be one less awkward conversation you'll have to have,

Any conversation in December should at some point touch upon the real meaning of Christmas. No, not that one, The other one. We've written a song that explores organised religion and sets out the arguments. Please don't confuse organised religion and faith. We don't. Preach Me Down is a slab of a song and you will love. It wears its Chunk extremely well, and is probably our favourite video for any song we've ever done. Before you ask, yes that is Cyril Smith, legendary bon-viveur dressed in ecumenical robes and standing behind a wall of human skulls. You're welcome.

Finally we have a dose of light and airy pop. But is it? As the Ship Goes Down may come across as lightweight. It was written and recorded in a single moment - we shit you not, the recording was intended as a rough demo after a bottle of fizz too many, and we just ended up weaving a few bits of pixie dust into the recording because it captured a moment. It might be frippery. It might be a haunting tale of lifeboat necrophilia. It might be a warning about getting a haircut right before you go to a party. In trurth it is about all that and none of it. Yes, there is a Chris Morris reference in there.

PARTY will stagger into the crisp. bright watery sunlight in the first few days of December and will be our signal to relax a little at Koala Studios. That said, we've got some true monsters of rock in store for you next year, all recorded and mixed, so do not expect to get off lightly in January.

The Other Side Upgrades Us From Tequila Punch to Vodka Punch

 

Ted takes research very very seriously. When Other Side Reviews described us back in September as being like a punch in the face after several Tequila shots he first beat the shit out of the studio teddy bear after drowning it in tequila and later drank the rest of the bottle and had Sydd and Pete smack him across the chops repeatedly. As Sydd and Pete had been waiting for a chance to repay him for the whole angle grinder incident they did not demur and Ted spent a week with black eyes and a good idea what OSR meant.

Pete is now very excited because they have now described us as like being punched after vodka shots. He has bought a 1L bottle of poundshop vodka and is flexing his punching-muscle.

The teddy bear is in hiding.

The new review for Cut is awesome. Please give it a read, we're only going to mention some tidbits here.

Never ones to shy away from controversial topics in their music, UK-based 9 o’clock Nasty bring serious messages to the fore in smile-inducing music.

Contaversial? Hmm well I suppose we chose the end of the world (literal or metaphorical), the nepotism of modern ultra-liberalism and jack-booted dance moves so there might be some edge. Mind you the next EP tackles whether Santa is real, the entire basis for organised religion and necrophilia on a liferaft so that might be even edgier.

We try to look side on and avoid preachery-nonsense. Try.

From the first second I heard 9 o’clock Nasty, I knew I was in for something special and Cut got my heart pumping in a wonderfully ear-bleeding way. Is ear-bleeding in a metaphorical sense wonderful? In this case, you’ll love it!

This whole being in a band is never about money and always about art, engagement and craving attention. To read something like this about our little garageband is the affirmation we need to keep on kicking out bundles of beats. Thank you Nicole, we salute you!

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But that's Crazy you may say. Why give free stuff and pay for postage to encourage people to sign up and what is the free song you may also enquire?

In reverse order. The free song this month is a remix of Monstruosa by Brynn Chipps. It's quite a major reworking of the song and we adore it.

Why?

Well: Facebook.

We've had a couple of "scares" this month where music we wrote and published and can prove we own the rights to was taken down with no right of appeal. We know of a band that we love, that had their account closed (and we know they hadn't done anything suspect to deserve it). Things like this make you want to be able to talk to your audience directly.

We've partially protected ourselves by diversifying over Instagram (yes we know...), YouTube, TikTok and Amazing Radio. Indeed we will have a go at making connections on as many routes as we have time for. Across all of them we are getting a lot of connections and daily plays. But there is always that slight sense of discomfort.

So help us feel good. Help us feel confident and connect direct with us. We will not take the piss, use your email for advertising or any other nonsense. We will give you exclusive early access to songs and try and make the email entertaining. We'll pop a badge in the post for you. They're nice badges. Sign Up.

Akbekent Spew the Same Dumb Error Strewn Crap

 

So, Akbekent literally copied and pasted Motion New's crappy and stupid review word for word. So we have copied and pasted our point by point response in the same spirit.

We love attention and we love good reviews, but by "good" we mean they make sense and are fun, rather than universally positive about the band. A salute to the talented ppl who have written about us.

This piece from Motion News has picqued us. If being picqued could be a thing. Ow! There, it did it again. Fucker.

Factual stuff:

• delivering a number one hit single, FALSE
• GRAMMY® nominated multiplatinum FALSE FALSE (we did once pretend to win a Leicester Tourism Award when in fact we didn't enter)
• powerhouse trio 9 o’clock TRUE
• Nasty have released their highly anticipated single, Sexy Back, on 5 November TRUE
• via Records DK London, the country’s leading music company. FALSE

Oh dear.

• single features the band’s history-making comeback single, “Sexy Back” HALF TRUE. Ted actually has a bit of sick in his mouth after reading that. If we ever go away. believe us there will never be a comeback. The single does feature Sexy Back.
• Upon release, “Sexy Back” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking the first #1 for the band and the first #1 debut from a group this century. Recently ranked #1 on Billboard’s critic’s picks list of the “50 Best Songs of 2019,” it has become a song of the summer anthem, rapidly ascending to #1 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart for the last 1 week – the most for any song this year TRUE but of course they are talking about..... the original/ Hang on do they think we ARE Justin Timberlake?

What could possibly have given them that idea?

• with the band’s follow up single “Terror Couple Kill Colonel” climbing closely behind. FALSE Oh my giddy twice deceased Uncle from Margate, where is this spewing from? Terror Couple follows very close behind. So close that it is in fact what is technically known as the OTHER SIDE of the SAME SINGLE. Also that is a Bauhaus song and we love it.
• Danzig is incorrect. EH? This is literally copied and pasted from our own website.  Danzig is always right, go read his reviews. But he was wrong when reviewing our song.
• Sexy Back was begging to be reimagined for the new era of garage rock sensibilities. TRUE TRUE TRUE. To use the colloquial expression "it was fucking gagging for it."
• 9 o’clock Nasty take it to a new level of darkness, where the ugliness of perverted lyricism takes on a whole new meaning. THANK YOU. We hope that is true. It is an ugly song as we just shone a spotlight on its dark, sexually twisted soul.
• With this glitterball disco deconstruction, there can be no compromises. TRUE
• “What the fuck?” says Justin Timberlake. TRUE. Well no actually but we so fucking wish it was.

Fact Check on Motion News Error Strewn Review of Sexy Back

We don't know what to make of this from Motion News. Go LOOK!

We love attention and we love good reviews, but by "good" we mean they make sense and are fun, rather than universally positive about the band. A salute to the talented ppl who have written about us.

This piece from Motion News has picqued us. If being picqued could be a thing. Ow! There, it did it again. Fucker.

Factual stuff:

• delivering a number one hit single, FALSE
• GRAMMY® nominated multiplatinum FALSE FALSE (we did once pretend to win a Leicester Tourism Award when in fact we didn't enter)
• powerhouse trio 9 o’clock TRUE
• Nasty have released their highly anticipated single, Sexy Back, on 5 November TRUE
• via Records DK London, the country’s leading music company. FALSE

Oh dear.

• single features the band’s history-making comeback single, “Sexy Back” HALF TRUE. Ted actually has a bit of sick in his mouth after reading that. If we ever go away. believe us there will never be a comeback. The single does feature Sexy Back.
• Upon release, “Sexy Back” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, marking the first #1 for the band and the first #1 debut from a group this century. Recently ranked #1 on Billboard’s critic’s picks list of the “50 Best Songs of 2019,” it has become a song of the summer anthem, rapidly ascending to #1 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart for the last 1 week – the most for any song this year TRUE but of course they are talking about..... the original/ Hang on do they think we ARE Justin Timberlake?

What could possibly have given them that idea?

• with the band’s follow up single “Terror Couple Kill Colonel” climbing closely behind. FALSE Oh my giddy twice deceased Uncle from Margate, where is this spewing from? Terror Couple follows very close behind. So close that it is in fact what is technically known as the OTHER SIDE of the SAME SINGLE. Also that is a Bauhaus song and we love it.
• Danzig is incorrect. EH? This is literally copied and pasted from our own website.  Danzig is always right, go read his reviews. But he was wrong when reviewing our song.
• Sexy Back was begging to be reimagined for the new era of garage rock sensibilities. TRUE TRUE TRUE. To use the colloquial expression "it was fucking gagging for it."
• 9 o’clock Nasty take it to a new level of darkness, where the ugliness of perverted lyricism takes on a whole new meaning. THANK YOU. We hope that is true. It is an ugly song as we just shone a spotlight on its dark, sexually twisted soul.
• With this glitterball disco deconstruction, there can be no compromises. TRUE
• “What the fuck?” says Justin Timberlake. TRUE. Well no actually but we so fucking wish it was.

MangoWave: Let's Get Nasty Like It's 9 o'clock!

 

We have a huge soft spot for MangoWave because we've read around their site a bit and they are the real deal - not just genuine music fans but people that care. So a good review from them is special.

Please see the original and give them the clicks.

Catch Nasty seems so long ago now, which is stupid as it's only been about for about 6 weeks, but the music on it is from the summer and we've written new stuff that we're excited about. The decision to make it two honking long mp3 files or a physical product probably wasn't commercial genius but we love it and we're super-proud of it. We still have copies for sale if you want one.

We do like a label, and MangoWave give the best ones out like medals that we shall wear with pride.

Avantgardist, nihilist, and artistic Punk, Post-Punk, Art Rock, Garage Rock, Funk, Wave

Wave is a new one and we thank them for it.

As they say, let's party like it's 9 o'clock. 

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You sign up, we send you a newsletter by email. Never more than one a month, we are not Spam Assassins. You give us your address and pick pink or black and we send you the relevant badge and doll's shoes.

But that's Crazy you may say. Why give free stuff and pay for postage to encourage people to sign up and what is the free song you may also enquire?

In reverse order. The free song this month is a remix of Monstruosa by Brynn Chipps. It's quite a major reworking of the song and we adore it.

Why?

Well: Facebook.

We've had a couple of "scares" this month where music we wrote and published and can prove we own the rights to was taken down with no right of appeal. We know of a band that we love, that had their account closed (and we know they hadn't done anything suspect to deserve it). Things like this make you want to be able to talk to your audience directly.

We've partially protected ourselves by diversifying over Instagram (yes we know...), YouTube, TikTok and Amazing Radio. Indeed we will have a go at making connections on as many routes as we have time for. Across all of them we are getting a lot of connections and daily plays. But there is always that slight sense of discomfort.

So help us feel good. Help us feel confident and connect direct with us. We will not take the piss, use your email for advertising or any other nonsense. We will give you exclusive early access to songs and try and make the email entertaining. We'll pop a badge in the post for you. They're nice badges. Sign Up.

Catch Nasty: Creative Breakthrough

Indie Dock Music Blog have been showing us a tonne of love this week (or they had a lot of space to fill!), now they've reviewed the big Daddy: Catch Nasty. Please give 'em a click.

First thing to say is the sleeve artwork looks AMAZING that big - we're used to seeing it at CD size!

Ted just spent an hour looking at it and laughing and pointing to the people he found on it. This is slightly disturbing as the artwork was actually a product of his mind, Pritt Stick and endless love of the plucky underdog.

Well he calls them underdogs. But most of them are cunts.

charismatic rock n roll and punk full of fresh stories, humor, and extraordinary sound. 

Charisma is a strange thing, especially in a song. We always thought our four-chord thumping and shouting did have that certain je ne sais quoi but it's great to have affirmation. 

the album find imprints of our present with its problems and challenges, its irony and surprise. 

Most of the songs came as the world was slowly crumbling from that first emergence from lockdown back into the second series of fart-bangs, whilst the US went through its own very definite fartbang and dunderheads all over the world seem to find the courage to emerge as the true shitty drama-acts we always knew they were. So yes, that is woven into the songs. The new stuff, written this Autumn is very different - heavier and probably more charismatic, but let's see what thew world wove into them while we weren't paying attention.

Indie O'Clock give our version of Sexy Back the Up Thumbs!

We love dominating the o'clock media niche. Indie O'Clock had a listen to our version of Sexy Back and they liked it. 

Last time they wrote about us we got annoyed by the way they mangled our name, but this time they have delivered both typographically and journalistically. As it is in Portuguese, here is a translation:

The creative group is releasing the cover version of "Sexy Back".

The band was thinking of doing a cover, with some music, some artist, so they decided to choose "Sexy Back" from no one else but Justin Timberlake. What they did is very smart, they rescued a nostalgic pop, from someone who is already consecrated in the musical environment and with that, will attract a new audience. Great marketing action to increase the visuality of the band.

Sexy Back, as everyone knows, has a sexier style. I'm sure this version will be played in parties and that Justin Timberlake is listening and enjoying this cover too much, maybe he's having a party and this song is playing, because it was amazing the tone of their performance.

Artful Unusual (That's Us!)

 

Thank you Indie Dock for reviewing Cut! 

"Artful, Unusual."

Ted is walking around the kitchen again and again. Each time he weaves through Sydd's drumkit which currently blocks the kettle and fridge he pauses to enunciate in his best RADA trained accent. "Artful, Unusual."

Eventually Pete B-Rock will need to make his daily trip to the fridge to take out his trainers, ready for his dance lesson, and when that happens, the double block of drumkit and lanky obsessive bassplayer is likely to provoke serious trouble. For now he's just playing backgammon with Sydd and snorting at Roxy Music records.

It will be worth the trouble though. It is a nice review. Please click the link and read it.

"9 o'clock Nasty make us cry, laugh, think and break away."

We do that ourselves but not in that order. We would always start with a Breakaway.

Indie Dock have been kind to us a few times now and we do appreciate their words. It's a great blog.

Now we need to somehow stop Ted from causing a fridge collision incident. 

"Artful, Unusual."

"Art-fuuuuuul, Un-uuuuusual."

"ARTful, UnuSUual."

We're On Amazing Radio

 

To keep up with the multi-media-magical-nature of the modern uni-web, 9 o'clock Nasty need from time to time to further embrace change, give it a squeeze. Probably one of those hugs that goes on a bit too long and feels awkward after you let go.

Well we've given Amazing Radio a rather big squeeze and started to put out some songs there.

There isn't anything exclusive there just yet, but we might preview new material there for shits and giggles. But it does give another place we can share material both for free and for download if people want it (although if you want our stuff for download, free, it is actually already there for you on this website, so you can probably just fill your boots).

Festive Gifts Nasty Style

 

What do you get the Nasty person in your life? Our first suggestion is this premier cookery apron, protecting genitals from hot oil and crisp white tee-shirts from explosive pasta sauce. It is a beautiful thing. EAT NASTY APRON

A tad more traditional but innovative nonetheless. We've all been in the position of wondering which band tee-shirt to get because which song do you pick? People do judge you for your choice. Well we do. So here is a fresh spin, get your loved one a tee shirt for a song that isn't even out yet!

Do Me Too is out next year. It could be a classic. It could be shit. But the gift recipient will not know. All they will see is a really hot looking Margaret Thatcher in her Raccoon phase and see a style icon that unites the world. Actually for the record "Do Me Too" is an absolute belter of a song. 

DO ME TOO TEE and other garments available

Of course, if you really do give a shit about them, you'll get them Catch Nasty, our LP - which is better and cheaper than both the other things. Maybe you should get that too! 16 songs. With free other stuff. £5. Get them two. If they are modern, buy them the digital download, if they are old school and still have a CD player, get them the disc, if they only play vinyl, well they're fucked because frankly we can't be arsed with that nonsense.

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GRUNGE FRUIT

 

So there is this new internet search thing. It is called You.com and it seems to be ad free. Anyhoo we did an extensive consumer test and searched for ourselves. Consider it search engine optimisation rather than pure vanity.

It was alright, and we found an article about us we hadn't noticed. We put quite a lot of effort into noticing. Attention Seekers do.

So it's late but here is not only a new snippet of Web Nasty, but also the best headline so far.

Delicious grunge fruit Made in Leicester give us the good vibration

They captured it all in that headline. Sublime.

The last part we will paste here, because it is literally our press release word for word!

This will blow your socks off. If you are wearing socks. Born on a night with no moon at the end of the world. We’re immensely proud of this cover version, we hope Mr Timberlake will like it too, but your opinion matters more. Be honest. 

Hope you have a good sock day. Nasty, out. 

Meanwhile on the Indie Dock we ascend to "Aristocratic Punks"

 

OK we will cut to the chase here. This is a great review and we want you to read it. But the takeaway, they used the term aristocratic punks and we love it so bad that Ted is having tee-shirts made. Well one. He will be wearing it at the Studio Christmas Party (yes it is a thing, yes you can come but you have to bring cake, drop us a line for an invite).

Anyhoo, please read this. Click the fuck out of the link.

There. Feels good doesn't it. Aristocratic Punk. Ha!

Subverting glamour is totally what we're into so thank you to the reviewer for the words. The video, we were going for two things....

A severely deluded home invasion. (Yes that is tasteless and no we wouldn't do it)/

A post apocalypse, Mad Max style idiots invade the untouched home.

So their take on it as "three unknown people break into a night house and throw a party there" kind of hit the spot!

EAT NAStY! Punk Cookery Show Launches

 

Modern life is a minefield. How can you learn how to cook tasty meals with fresh ingredients whilst also enjoying cutting edge music? What do 9 o'clock Nasty actually eat?

We have you covered. Welcome to Eat Nasty.

Every now and then we will share with you a music video that includes all the steps needed to make something tasty that we would eat ourselves. Just watch, groove, cook and eat!

Episode 1 is Nasty Sauce, the recipe for which we did include in the Nasty Pack - the super-value CD pack that is still on sale for £5.

This recipe is slightly different, but we did make it, and we did eat it and we can confirm it was very tasty.

We will continue to make the odd cookery video as and when we feel like it. We welcome suggested recipes top challenge us, the messier the better. The rules are:

• It has to be actually edible after we make it.
• It has to be possible to make it in the length of one song, single take. So Beef Wellington would be tough to do.
• It cannot involve Ted using anything sharper than scissors.

Roadie Music calls Sexy Back Seductive-Bizarre and that brings us Joy

 

Yet again Pete is packing his flight case and heading for Brazil! Thank you to Roadie Music for their kind words.

We wouldn't normally reproduce the text of a review in full here because we want readers to go read the original - it helps maintain a healthy eco-system of independent reviewers for indie bands (or as we now call ourselves "Aristocrats of Punk") - but as it is in Portuguese (and Ted's sharpening his skills with every review!) we thought we'd help out - please do give them a click, they're a great site.

9 o’clock Nasty continues its relentless and fantastic journey into the year 2021! We haven't even digested the SENSATIONAL album “Catch Nasty”, recently released, and the guys are already attacking me with another gun of irrepressible dimensions, the single “Sexy Back”! That's right, a FANTASTIC version of the banger designed by Justin Timberlake, Nate Hills and Tim Mosley. 

We choose not to try and tighten up on the translation of "gun of irrepressible dimensions" because we like the phrase! 

Only totally subverted into the absurdly particular style of the Leicester group.

A powerful riff loaded with the most involving “dirt”, incurring in smoky and lugubrious atmospheres, but simultaneously loaded with a very powerful groove, referring a lot to the crossover scene in the nineties, especially when the rap starts to “eat loose” by the three, in a vocal interaction extremely powerful! And take in distortions (the garage tradition holds!), experimentation, and a “seductive-bizarre” vibe of high hypnotic synergy, culminating in an incredible encore!

Truth: when we started thinking about covering the song, seductive, garage and bizarre were all on the PostIt. It is such an icon of "Straight Culture" (we don't heterosexual with that word) that it is so much more powerful to make it into something dreamlike and surreal. Remember those hot sexual fantasies when you[re half awake at 4am. Oh. Is it only us then? Well that's what we were aiming for. 

Along with the fantastic version (yes, Mr. Timberlake will be very proud, we have no doubts!), the trio enlists us a video clip conceived in a minimalist format, extremely successful in its proposal. The image + sound combo has never been so inseparable, the musical journey experience really becomes more complete, WE RECOMMEND! The bard's “sound blender” of yesteryear is absolutely sensory irresistible, and the “Sexy Back” version, along with the unmissable promotional video, has everything to take the 9 o'clock Nasty to even more stratospheric dimensions! After the incredible EPs, "Dust" and "Cut", and the album in digital format, "Catch Nasty", nothing to stop this "monstrous" version, as the band announced the work on a new EP. Unstoppable in artistic creation! 

Mass Mango Production

 

Pete has warned Ted to never disturb him again with a good review. This has caused friction at Koala Studio. Mostly for Sydd.

Mangowave reviewed Cut last weekend and it's worth a look.

A blog with a masthead that checks music, feminism, anti-fascism and punk is a sound place to start a journey or to end it and they liked the EP. It was also lovely to see Jimmy Carr with a handgrenade again.

Laughing at your own jokes is bad form but there is probably an exception for Jimmy Carr in a cuckoo clock gags.

So Sydd, for his day job, handles explosives powerful enough to lay waste to all of North West Leicestershire, and if the wind is blowing in the right direction (sorry, the wrong direction) a little of Derbyshire too. This means he has extremely steady hands and does not like to have someone walk silently up behind him and start screaming quotes from a review. Luckily he had nothing worse than two Newcastle Brown in his hands when Ted let rip, but nevertheless, the Artex ceiling will never be quite the same again.

Leicester's 9 o'clock nasty have proven to be a true mass producer of hits, bangers, and anthems

It isn't that we aim to be mass producers, it is just that we have a lot of ideas for songs and a studio to make them in. Hits, Bangers and Anthems though. That made us glow.

The opener 'Dead Planet' could easily become the soundtrack to an apocalyptic film or for your next FridaysForFuture protest action. A massively rolling guitar loop carries the message forward that our species is very good in destroying its environment and itself.

If we get enough warning for the end of the world we shall certainly play Dead Planet on full volume as we shake our fists at people passing on the mid track by our front door. Of course, there may not be many as we aren't on any of the best bug-out routes out of anywhere. For us it is more about the yourself part. Sad thing about self-destruction is people lose their sense of humour. Well probably not the most sad thing, but it still stands as a point.

Thank you Mango Wave, you're lovely and we won't keep you waiting too long for the next release. "Party." Well, December. It's kind of party season, right?

Nasty Nostalgia?

Ted gets very overexcited by a good review. It is a worry. We had an intercontinental (as opposed to incontinental) question and answer with the forbidding presence of Nishani Varma during the week (and trust us he is every bit as intimidating as his photo suggests).

Anyhoo, this is the review that Ted burst a blood vessel over. Please read it before delving further. It's a wonderful piece by a perceptive and funny writer.

So Ted had to tell someone about the review, Danzig is in the respite home that doesn't allow visitors on Sunday mornings. Sydd was at the allotment creating more inter-species monstrous carnivorous plants, so that left poor long suffering Pete. The Brock goes to the gym for two reasons. He goes to maintain his bull-like physical form. He goes to escape Ted's constant yabbering.

We understand an 80kg squat lift is a nice warm up for some people and absolute torture for others, but after trying to hold position while Ted held his old Nokia screen close to his face for more than 2 minutes Pete well and truly lost his shit and is now barred from the gym.

But it is objectively a great piece about the band, and we mostly told the truth in the answers (about twice as much as usual). 

Nishant is right. Sexy Back has been overplayed. The world is utterly sick of the taut, sync-heavy construction without any visible flaw or edge as it twists and bounds across the disco-sphere. But when you're tanked and you've got a bass set to 11 and it is 3am, it is a bassline that will slip from your inner ear to your left wrist by way of your right nipple. We wanted to open it up a bit. Give it room to call out and scream.

This means musicianship at the peak and no experiments with colorful flowers and stuff before recording.

We certainly don't waste time on anything before recording. Typically we try to avoid even talking. A grunt can do a lot when you're working with 1/2" tape. Whether that qualifies as any kind of peak musicianship is debatable although Nish probabkly meant Tom Petty rather than us!

Formula Indie Plays Sexy Back

 

Thank you to Formula Indie for giving Sexy Back it's second to twenty sixth radio plays (that we know of). It's a long show each week featuring unsigned artists from all over the world. The show goes out over FM radio on stations worldwide which we didn't realise until about 54 minutes ago. We got excited for a moment thinking we might finally make some of our PRS money back but we now realise we probably just made Justin Timberlake $4. Hey Justin, you're welcome mate x

What delights us a bit more - and this is not to be snarky about any of the other people whose music was played, is that we totally jarred compared to the really smooth and well modulated tones of just about everyone else included (listed below). 

The idea that at 10pm last night a taxi driver in Viterbo was smoothly cruising the streets with their windows open to get rid of the scent of their lover's cologne when suddenly this monstrous beast of a version of Sexy Back just fucked out of the speakers and messed with his mind.

That, just that thought makes it worthwhile.

A pug howling in Athens. A chef dancing around the dead chickens in Costa Rica. Nasty. Even more amusing is we know Danzip, the most dangerous man in Western Music is an obsessive and will have listened to the show live because he knew we were on it. He loathes our version of Sexy Back, but he will have loathed almost everything else ten times more.

Nathan Trent – Underwater

Frannie B – Downfall

Jadamarie – Twilight Zone

9 o'clock Nasty – Sexy Back

Calista Del Toro Music– Urge

DoosC – La Plata

Bailey Jaxxon – Lies

Dino Archon Music– Black Moon

Teen Mortgage – Shangri-La

Allyours – Taste

Sean Keel – Soup Line

Kevin Keew – Br-Pop

Agne_B – le† mE GO

Giorgos Tabakis guitar – Attraction

King Uche – Drip Like Indomie

Elison Elison   – Meet Me Halfway

Wine Moms – Faces (Names) 

100 watt shine – Don’t That Beat All

Deranged the Insane Way Up

Osea Codega – Joke

Tha Faction – G.O.A.T.

Francy Lupi – Sorridere

Fadi Awad feat. Erisse - Heading Out To The Club

Executive Order Music- A to Z

Carlito Panama - OG CP 7154

The Ringflowers– The G-String Theory (Grøn Samba)

Gabriele Saro – Ring The Bell

Pragnya Wakhlu– Song of Hope

Jordan Downs  - Jordan Downs 

Sandro Gallina e Gabriele Saro – Ora sono con te

Pragnya Wakhlu – Fallin

Terror Couple Kill Colonel

Available at > YouTube | Amazon Music | Spotify | Apple Music

Terror Couple Kill Colonel is the AA side of the November 2021 double A side single by 9 o'clock Nasty. A crackle of sexual tension over a lament for the fallen.

Listening Notes

We usually have a little fun with this write up on the site but would rather say something serious this time. Firstly we adore the original Bauhaus version and we've rebuilt it from the ground up but with respect. We hope that comes across.

Secondly, when preparing this we looking into the backstory of the events behind the song. We don't know the motivation of Bauhaus or necessarily what they were trying to say, but we did find out about a German student-leader called Rudi Dutschke. We hope we can persuade you to look into his story too. It is a sad story and a heroic one. Whatever your views on the anti-war movement at the time, you will probably recognise an idealist being truly fucked over by bad people. The thing that disturbed us deeply was the absolutely shameful way the British press and eventually the government treated Rudi.

Sing Along

We didn't write these lyrics (but we did edit them a little to make the song better in our view) so here is a link to the Bauhaus set.

 

Sexy Back

 

Available at > YouTube | Amazon Music | Spotify | Apple Music

Sexy Back is the A side of the November 2021 double A side single by 9 o'clock Nasty. An uncompromising glitter-bomb relentless disco attack built on the skeleton of the Timberlake masterpiece.

Listening Notes

Stamp as you dance. Thrust. Twist. Throw your head back and laugh like a god. You may look like silken poetry. You may look like shit but it doesn't matter because you are dancing and fuck it feels good. That trickle of sweat down your back? Savour it. You could die tonight. Sorry, it is a distressing thought, but if this was your last dance, you need to make it a good one.

Sing Along

We didn't write the words to this song, we sang someone else's so rather than copy and paste them here, here is a link to the original. We may have altered a few words here and there. Art after all must seek to improve on Art.

The Edgar Allen Poets Interview

 

We've done some cracking interviews in recent weeks but this one with Chris from the Edgar Allen Poets is by far and away the most challenging, as we venture into pornography. nazism and the end of the world. And we get to reference Joe Orton.

Chris has reviewed our stuff before and never fails to find a genuine insight and some lovely turns of phrase.

Please have a read and click on all the adverts.

Sexy Back Video on YouTube

 

Sexy Back, our love-letter to the Justin Timberlake masterwork is due out this Friday. When we say love letter it could be another kind. Probably characters cut from magazines and glued to a thick piece of card. We've tried to take is above the level of pastiche and actually try and make it what we wished the original was rather than take the piss.

Anyhoo, turns out releasing a cover version online, in the right way where 9 cents in every dollar goes to the right person is harder than releasing your own material. So there may be a delay in the song hitting all the streaming services. We have however put it on YouTube and will put the free mp3 version up on release day.

We have several related Sexy Back Raccoon video projects under construction, watch this space.

Spotify Playlists

So we love Spotify. So we hate Spotify. It seems to be the one true place everyone meets for music (we actually use a different streaming service at our house, but needed to get into Spotify to promote the band.

The pay musicians literally fuck all. They offer a liberating service to open a world of music to people without all the hours crawling through record shops.

Oh wait, we used to LOVE crawling through record shops.

Anyway. we dismissed Spotify Playlists and rarely make a fuss about them. Then we actually checked the stats Shit! We get as lot more plays on Spotify than we expected and it must be a result of people playlisting us. So below is a list of the playlists we wanted to thank, just for the Cut EP. Before we do mention that though one other thing. If you care even remotely about a band making any kind of return on their work (and there is no reason why you should, pretty much all our songs are free to download as MP3s via this very website) bear this in mind:

• Spotify represents 75%+ of our streamed plays but it represents less than 30% of the income we've received.
• Apple Music represents about 20% of our online plays and more than half of our income.

So to support indie bands Fuck Spotify and use Apple Music! Truth is we're more interested in reaching people than making enough money to cover our make-up bill!

Anyway, that aside here is some Spotify love. We tend to listen to all of the playlist we are featured in out of interest, you may like some of these playlists too.

Sickest & Dopest 

By Jpgchief (Less Than 1,000 Followers)

The Mango 100: Post Punk / New Wave

By MangoWave (MangoWave)

BLOG LT1KF

By Jpgchief (Less Than 1,000 Followers)

🎸Rock 'n Roll isn't Dead 

By Chris Mariotti (Edgar Allan Poets)

Alterindie State Of Mind 

By Jpgchief (Less Than 1,000 Followers)

The Mango 100: Indie & Alternative 

By MangoWave (MangoWave)

Best of The NoirWeek 

By Chris Mariotti (Edgar Allan Poets)

All of Rock and Metal 

By Gleison Junior (Roadie Music, Roadie Metal)

Monthly Gems

By Pedro (Pigeon_opinon)

Less Than 1,000 Followers

By Jpgchief (Less Than 1,000 Followers)

The Mango 100: Punk / Hardcore

By MangoWave (MangoWave)