Quite a few people have added me on here because of Modulate. This is my personal journal. I try to keep it fairly manageable and not end up with 450 'friends' who I don't actually know and skip most of the posts, so I do pretty much keep it to personal real life friends only (and no 'We met once at a pub/club/gig/party' does not count!). All the Modulate posts (at least those that have public info) are going to be posted to modulateinfo or www.myspace.com/modulate, www.modulateonline.com or www.vampirefreaks.com/modulate.

If you do want to be added to my personal journal drop me a comment and let me know who you are...otherwise I won't add you back. [edit - fixed...I had this set to 'Only friends can comment' which meant nobody new could actually comment]

Thanks

Geoff

An octopus-shaped UFO was reported flying through the air hours before a wind turbine was destroyed in mysterious circumstances.

One of the turbine’s huge blades is missing, another was left twisted and useless.

John Harrison, another witness, saw a “massive ball of light with tentacles going right down to the ground” over the wind farm.

“It was huge. With the tentacles it looked just like an octopus.”

UR TURBINE BLADE...



I HAS IT,

LUV CTHULU x

Apparently I can announce this now.  :D

Modulate have signed with Metropolis Records for North America, making us label mates with such luminaries as Front 242, Gary Numan, MSI, The Birthday Massacre, VNV Nation, Combichrist, Covenant, Peter Murphy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Die Krupps, KMFDM, and just about anybody who is anybody in the US goth/industrial scene.     

Detonation will be released on the 23rd Sept 2008 via Infacted Recordings (Europe and RoW) and Metropolis Records (North America). 

In yr club...kickin yr ass.

:)

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Click on "Don't share any data" and uncheck the "Allow applications to send me messages and comments" box.

Sorted. :)

One week and counting...

Someone asked me the other day could they see a photo of my studio...well, there you go. 

Hoping to head over to the Die Krupps/Faderhead/Uberbyte show at Sheffield Corp on Sat 2nd Feb.

Is anybody driving over that could drop me back in Manchester?

Trains back are even more appalling than usual that Sat with even the regular services not running.

Tim pointed me towards this the other day.  http://charts.trendcharts.de//jahrescharts2007/DAC/index.html

We are only at #55, but then I look at who is above us and how big name most of them are.  Then I look at how many other bands are above us with their first release and no fanbase and actually, #55 is pretty damn good!  These things always tend to bias towards the later releases, ours came out in March. Then I look at who is below us and we seem to be on the big playing field. It's a weird point where the artists who you looked up to as influences are now your peers.

Well, it's been a hell of a year for Modulate.  We announced our signing in late Dec last year.  In between then and now we released our first EP, we toured Europe with VNV Nation, the EP garnered a load of great reviews, reached #3 in the Greek Alt Charts, #6 in the German DAC chart, got club and radio play all over the globe, supported Grendel at a sold out show @ Sheffield Corp, then went off on the epic 7 week tour of America supporting Combichrist.  Had an amazing reaction over there, met so many amazing people too.  From March to Sept we played 50 shows in 8 countries to 30/40k people.  Came back home and have had my head down working on the album for the last 3 months.  It's nearly there.  Been looking towards 2008 now and putting plans in motion for that. 

Anybody interested or should I just not bother organising one?

[edit] Original plan still stands then, 6:30pm Sunday in the Waterhouse Wetherspoons on St Peters Sq/Princess St.

http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/forumwgt/viewtopic.php?t=6290

Not entirely sure how this process works as I don't speak German (Ozzy?) but apparently you can vote for us on the Official List to play WGT next year. :D

So if anybody could let me know what to tell people, I'll do a proper mailout.

[edit] Apparently voting isn't open yet, but we are on the list of people you can vote for when it does open...which is good. :)

Full of lurgy, tired, but I'm home. I think I may now sleep for a week. I think that is enough adventuring for this year. Need to get an album written now. :)

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Fun and games from Seattle to SLC

Hahaha. I'm mentioned in the Gruniad, but not for reasons you might think.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2154121,00.html

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=16517383

Description:  U.S. Representative Benjamin Sinclair (R-Ohio) has a plan to reduce skull fucking levels in America by 5 to 7%.

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Olympia Peninsula, Washington State. Seattle is actually a long way inland on an inlet from the Pacific down the straight of Juan de Fuca. Seperating it from the Pacific Ocean is the Olympia Peninsula and the Olympic Mountains, a national park with some outstanding scenary.

http://combitour.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2007-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=14

More stories from Gabe, the Combichrist backline tech and also now playing keyboards with Modulate for the rest of the tour.

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New hair, new backdrop, lots of things.