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| DATELINE : 19 JANUARY 2010
IN THIS ISSUE - (Scroll down to see full stories) THE ALIEN SEX FIEND SURVEY PRIZE
DRAW WINNERS FIENDISH STUDIO BLOG DEMON PREACHER SONG ON COMPILATION
CD MESSAGE FROM NIK FIEND HEE HAW DEPT BLUE CRUMB TRUCK ONLINE STORE GET CONNECTED SITE UPDATES |
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THE ALIEN SEX FIEND SURVEY
PRIZE DRAW WINNERS
The 2 prize winners are announced
| Mrs Fiend writes : Thank you to EVERYONE who answered our survey... as with previous competitions the entries came in from across the world. Some of you took extra time to explain how you felt about the different formats & gave your reasoning behind your choices, thank you for that extra input. The perception from some media, etc, is that everyone is only interested in downloads nowadays...& only listen to music on their ipods or mp3s on their computers.... etc, etc, your answers have shown us that - at least for Alien Sex Fiend fans - this is definitely NOT the case for the overwhelming majority of you. It is music (!) to our ears - like us, ASF fans are free thinkers - you make your own minds up, regardless of what "they" are telling you. Whilst there's nothing wrong with digital - after all some of you newer fans have initially discovered us thru downloads, & it makes deleted titles available, AND we all know that storing CDs / vinyl takes up way more space, so downloads are more "convenient" in that respect - it is great that you perceive ASF releases to be more valuable & more of an "art form" (for want of a better phrase) - both in terms of the music as well as the cover art. Some of you still do appreciate the finer sound qualities of vinyl... & those people aren't always the older fans either! Although there were a lot of votes for every format, in general CD came out on top & least-voted-for was downloads. Only a tiny percentage of respondees are into downloads ONLY, most of you do want to OWN a physical Alien Sex Fiend recording, whether vinyl or CD, cos it means more to you, thank you! - though one of those people admitted he was into downloads simply because he'd burnt his ears out by spending too much time in underground clubs (yes Marc in Berlin, it's you!) so that now he can't tell the difference any more! Ooops! Great to hear how much you love Nik's artwork on the covers / booklets.... & that you "will buy anything, regardless of format, just cos it's Alien Sex Fiend" - that's wonderful, it's so great that you think that way - you are THE BEST fans & we love YOU too! Special mentions go to - Jesse in Canada, who was brief, to the point & made us laugh with his statement "Vinyl is awesome. Fuck downloads. You guys rock." From Andrew in London - "Downloads for ASF? Somehow that's too disposable. ASF are too important..." & from Greg in the US with "You know what? I want Nik and Mrs. Fiend to release their album/s and single/s however they damn well please! I'll buy it no matter what, you can be certain of this." Of course we haven't been able to contact every single fiend fan around the world to get every person's opinion - but at least the survey gives us some indication of where your heads are at... The thing is, downloads can be done anyway - other than considerable form filling, they don't really cost us to set 'em up... yes it would be lovely to do every format that's going but this would cost too much in money & time with mastering, setting up different artworks, etc & we wouldn't get the album released - which is the main thing - for months and months if we attempt to do too many formats ...AND we want to get out there & play some LIVE SHOWS for you as soon as we possibly can... So! now we will go do some sums & work out what we CAN do.... we don't need to tell you that it's tough economically at the moment so we've gotta be careful cos we don't wanna become a defunkt record label! |
THE ALIEN SEX FIEND SURVEY
AND NOW THE BIT you have been waiting for! (trumpet fanfare)...... (build up tension)..... ( v e r y L O N G p a u s e ) ....... FIRST PRIZE
Image printed on photographic paper AND THE SECOND PRIZE
These are special prizes
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FIENDISH STUDIO BLOG Updated - 16 Jan 2010
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Nik adds to his humungous amount of tea consumption...
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UPDATE 16 January 2010 - Luckily once all the gear is on in
the studio it gets well warmed up! Helped along by us hopping about to
the songs o'course! Another track done - yaaaay!
UPDATE 15 January 2010 - Mrs Fiend writes : UPDATE 13 January 2010 - We know we wished you all a "Cool Yule" but not a f-f-f-freezing one! & not continuing into the New Year! Aaargh!... greetings from a very cold n snowy UK UPDATE 07 January 2010 - Gaps in this blog don't mean we're not doing something, we're so busy doing wot we're doing we keep forgetting about it! UPDATE 05 January 2010 - Took a break for a while over Christmas/New Year - time to re-energise brains & ear'oles was much needed! UPDATE 18 December 2009 - Nik Fiend writes : UPDATE 14 December 2009 - Taking a break from recording - ears & brains are fried - but in a good way !! Catching up with other stuff that's been building up for the last week or so... UPDATE 07 December 2009 - Started recording another track yesterday..... finishing that off today / tomorrow.. UPDATE 03 December 2009 - Actually we don't need to be totally off our bongos on "substance of choice" - the music does that for us anyway! It IS indeedy usually a cup of tea that fuels the fiendish wheels. But for clearing the ol' vocal chords n throat JD is the best we've found - for us anyway - so it really was "medicinal" type purpose! (honest guv!) UPDATE 02 December 2009 - Note! The JD was for vocal lubrication ONLY - we are doing the engineering ourselves n playing, singing & everything else - we wouldn't get very far by getting TOO wrecked! UPDATE 01 December 2009 - In the studio recording some backing vocals with vocal lubrication courtesy of Mr Jack Daniels - yum! UPDATE 25 November 2009 - Nik Fiend writes : UPDATE 11 November 2009 - Mrs Fiend writes : UPDATE 26 October 2009 - Mrs Fiend writes : |
DEMON PREACHER SONG ON COMPILATION CD
| VARIOUS ARTISTS - MESSTHETICS
#107 - DIY ’78-’81 London III
Released by the Hyped To Death label, The Messthetics compilations concentrate on rare, DIY, independent , undiscovered punk & post-punk bands around the UK & US from 1977 to 1984 - "Music realised & released by any means necessary". The Messthetics #107 CD is a collection of 23 tracks (plus 7 bonus mp3s), focusing on London based bands between the years 1978 to 1981 & includes the track "Royal Northern" by Demon Preacher. As you may already know this was Nik Fiend's earlier band, (& later The Demons) which at one time included Razzle, later to drum for Hanoi Rocks. The 4 track "Royal Northern EP" released on the Illegal Pressings label was Demon Preacher's first single. Record Collector (May 2006) had it listed as selling for £80 a copy in their Top 100 Punk Rarities ! After spending all of his spare cash to record the tracks, Nik borrowed the money from his boss at work to get the records pressed, & - in true punk stylee - he photocopied, sellotaped & hand numbered all the sleeves himself . The record caught the late, great John Peel's ear and eye and sold out quickly enough for Nik to re-pay his boss & for Small Wonder to offer a record deal for a follow-up, the infamous 'Little Miss Perfect' which hit #3 in the indie charts back in 1978. Messthetics #107 has been receiving airplay on a number of radio stations worldwide, including in the UK the BBC6 "Freak Zone" show. It's #1 on the University of Michigan radio station in Ann Arbor (where Jimmy Osterberg, later known as Iggy Pop, formed his high-school band, the Iguanas). Reviews are already appearing - such as in the current issue of Record Collector (by Kris Needs), the next issue of Sound Projector ( by Ed Pinsent, proclaiming it "equally thrilling from start to finish". |
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Even in my early days with Demon Preacher, when everybody else walked out on me - for whatever reason - going out somewhere else / going down the pub / leaving the band entirely / couldn't be arsed / whatever... - the job isn't always limited to the "fun" part of twanging or banging something for 5 minutes, there's a LOT more to making a record or being in a band than that - IF you care about it - which I damn well do - so I still had to see it through - like a man possessed, I could not leave it part finished ... it obviously didn't matter as much to other people, but it fuckin' did to me. All these years later I ain't changed, & if I'd lstened to those people or given up because I'd been deserted that record would never have been made. That's why I'm pleased that this song (Royal Northern) has seen the light of day & Chuck - who's put this new compilation out - obviously cares about what he's doing too... it's a passion that comes way before making money.... the other reason I'm proud is that this CD got to #1 on Iggy's hometown college radio!! I would have shat meself on the spot if you'd told me back in '77 (when I recorded the song) that was gonna happen... so I was right to keep at IT .... "Punk rock" was just a name, the most important thing was that it made things free, with no rule book anymore & I was able to take part. It was a "DIY" movement , it didn't matter if you didn't know a lot - & that is still true now - you CAN do it, if you have a purpose & believe in yourself... yes people will try & put you down ALL the way along - fuck 'em, DON'T listen - if it makes you happy, what are you waiting for? Nik Fiend |
HEE HAW DEPT
| Thanks to Ihde in Germany for sending this amusing link - check out
"Nik Fiend,
The Hero Of The World". It takes a while to go through the initial
countdown (even on broadband) but have patience it is worth seeing. I believe
that the photograph of Nik was taken backstage at the Alien Sex Fiend show
in Berlin (Nov 07) while he was in the process of removing his stage make
up!
Nik is also mentioned in "The Better Man" (Episode 7, Season 4) of the Venture Brothers cartoon. This is an American animated action/comedy TV series which chronicles the advenures of 2 dopey yet well meaning teenage boys, Hank & Dean Venture. In this episode, amongst references to various films, Marvel comics characters, Batman & Doctor Strange, one character called "The Alchemist" says that he used to visit the Batcave while musician Nik Fiend was still the doorman there. Please note! Nik was never a doorman, he managed the Batcave club for some weeks in 1983. |
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