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Newspaper thingy.HT here - I just signed up to that paper.li site thing, which seems to aggregate stories that I've posted on facebook and twitter. Anyway, for those of you who are still resisting those black holes of timeless nothing, you can visit the webpage or read via the widget below. Keep scrolling; there are more stories than the ones you can see. Exciting aint it?  Dandelion Radio Festive 50 success for Seedhill and more!Not only that, Seedhill's album, described as Seedhill's masterpiece, came in at number eight in the Unwashed Territories blog's top 50 albums of 2011. "The songs on ‘Granite Fists’ offer threnodies in timeless forms such as ‘The Killing of Alan McKinnon’, the context the gaping vortex of eternity while the transient concerns of modern man are at play elsewhere." (Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio DJ and Unwashed Territories Blogger) We also got a much appreciated mention on the blog too, which was nice.... Seeing as Seedhill's star is currently on the ascendant, we have re-posted a previous blog about the album 'Granite Fists' below. For new fans this should provide you with everything you need to know about Seedhill Bruiser! If you want to know more you'll have to friend him on facebook. ********************* 40-something social recluse from Scotland, Seedhill Bruiser creates haunting hypnotic queer ballads and laments in between bouts of schizophrenia, hospitalisation, and mental coshing due to high doses of antipsychotic medication. Seedhill Bruiser's latest album, GRANITE FISTS is released today on the Nerve Echo label.  You can hear the album* on the mixpod video playlist below.    Create a MySpace Playlist at MixPod.com *For some reason some imprints of the mixpod player have taken exception to the first track on the album, 'Mr Stormalong' so here it is again just incase you missed it! Alternatively, you can hear the whole album, in all its glory, if you visit http://www.nerveecho.com/nerveechoseedhillbruiser.cfm where you will also find Seedhill Bruiser's previous albums, 'Ruins' and 'K-Hole'. All three albums are available to buy in CD or download format. Seedhill Bruiser aka Tim Wilson's Biography (from Seedhill Bruiser's facebook page) Born in Newcastle in 1967 Tim moved to Paisley in Scotland when he was less than a year old. With atheist intelligent professionals as parents, he did not learn about god till he was at school, and even then he was almost entirely sure jesus was a small yorkshire terrier. His childhood was idyllic although a severe speech impediment kept him selectively mute for many years. Proficient at the french-horn and good at his studies Tim's brief stint as a rent-boy was abruptly ended by the onset of schizophrenia in his mid teens, which saw him sectioned on a number of occasions until he learned not to tell anyone about what was happening in his head. He formed his first band POPPYKILLERS in 1987 with his best friend Lorna McIntyre. Influenced by Virginia Astley, Ivor Cutler and Dead Can Dance, their dreamy naive music garnered some interest from Awesome Records but nothing came of it and the band split up in 1991. Poppykillers: 'Dinosaur In 1997 he co-wrote and appeared as a giant frog in the independent Scottish film FROG (Roaring Fire productions, dir. Steven Morrison) After a gap of several years he returned to music in 1998 playing trumpet and keyboards in the notorious Glasgow band LUMMOX, whose aggressive and ramshackle punk-jazz thrilled and appalled audiences in equal measure for nearly 8 years. While in LUMMOX, in 2000/2001, Tim recorded 2 cds of filthy songs under the name of PUSBUNNY which many people found amusing. Also while in LUMMOX, in 2002, Tim and LUMMOX bassist Simon Murray formed the aggro-dance duo MY TURPS HELL, described once as being "like Sheep On Drugs, on drugs." MY TURPS HELL played several gigs, sometimes there was even an audience. The band folded in 2005 much to the dismay of some people, and the palpable relief of others. My Turps Hell: Razor City And in 2004 Tim played baritone horn in the riotous country-blues combo THE THREE DAY WEEKS which also featured LUMMOX stalwarts Simon Murray, Gaz Langford and Billy Munn. The Three Day Weeks: V8 Blues In 2005 Tim collaborated with Glasgow poet NIKKI in a collection of poem/songs called Dream The Inspiral, and he played trumpet for a Japanese Tayko Drum Band for 4 gigs, declining an invitation to join the band full time as he was far too busy taking ecstacy and dancing like an idiot at the Soundhaus and SubClub in Glasgow. NIKKI - Preacher Man from the 2005 collaboration of Seedhill Bruiser and Glasgow poet Nicola Ritchie cd "Dream The Inspiral" In 2006, having just discovered ketamine, Tim started recording under the name of SEEDHILL BRUISER. Initially employing just vocals, drum-machine, guitar, bass and piano his first cd K.HOLE was a dark, creepy and hypnotic descent into monotony. Seedhill Bruiser: Ketamine Delivery Man from the album K-Hole"Like the Cocteau Twins hit over the head by a gay sailor on ketamine." Scott Williamson Psychiatric Nurse. Having introduced a dx100, mandolin and descant recorder to the mix, his 2nd cd 2007s SEEDHILL FOLK SONGS was a deliberately more mainstream move into what can only be described as "queer scottish shoegaze indie-folk" and the album was taken up by North Carolina's POX WORLD EMPIRE record label, although not released till 2010. Seedhill Bruiser: Fisherman's Kiss from 'Seedhill Folk Songs'."Ethereal floating music, bleak and beautiful." Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6 "The songs get into a groove and go with it, letting guitar waves build and build. Very interesting and quite the strange applications of shoegaze." RYM Guide To Shoegaze"Sounds like Morrissey on downers, mesmerising." WHUS Reviews "Though the lyrics are fairly unintelligible in many of the tracks, they serve as an ethereal instrument that blends in with the layers of guitar and sparkling synths." WRUV Reviews "This is good stuff. He layers his folk music in shards of ethereal fuzz." Dagger Short Reviews A relapse of schizophrenia and the task of weaning himself off ecstacy and ketamine disrupted Tim's musical agenda for a while, but in 2009 he finished his 3rd cd RUINS which continued the drift into haunting melancholy, his instrumental additions including a tenor recorder and a violin. "Seedhill Bruiser specialises in beautiful, haunting and slightly disturbing shoegaze indie-folk. He's a total one-off and I bloody love him." Ste McCabe Dandelion Radio Seedhill Bruiser: Idumea (for Will) from the album 'Ruins'Passiondale by Seedhill Bruiser from the album 'Ruins' Best Wishes for 2012!We're a bit late wishing everyone 'Happy New Year' via this blog, but here it is anyway. We WILL be releasing our debut album in 2012, hopefully sooner rather than later. We have a few completed tracks under wraps and another couple which are works in progress. Obviously we will keep readers posted via this blog. We're also on facebook and twitter if any readers are on there too and want to add us: https://www.facebook.com/tingleinthenetherlands [Jon, we know that the Mayan prophecy will probably come true before you venture onto facebook so ignore the above link!] For twitter - please follow and we'll follow back - we're finding it a bit dull. https://twitter.com/TingleIn In the meantime, we hope you're liking this new year. We're hoping it will be a good one! HT & OJxx  Sarah Palin Pussy Juice and Kill for God....I can't wait to read the blog stats and see the referring sites for this one....(HT) Aaannnyway, a recent musical discovery that we have been enjoying is The Rudy Schwartz Project. Mrs Tingle became aware of the following video thanks to facebook / reverbnation pal Norwood Grimes. Thanks Norwood! This first one is a visual delight in the style of Beatles influenced psychedelia that you MUST WATCH right to the end... And seeing as it's Christmas, and we're both atheists, and it looks like the UK Christmas number one could be a choir of military WAGs, lamenting the absence of their rent a yob squaddie partners who are away tying up the loose ends of the Blair/Bush jihad, we thought this would be the perfect song for the festive season... Those are just two of our favourites, but you'll find lots more on youtube if you look for 'The Rudy Schwartz Project' - we would recommend that you do! Enjoy!  Free Re-mix EP by Ste McCabe with re-mixes by Owen J!Why not liven up your festive frolics with this free download from Ste McCabe which features two tracks remixed by Tingle In The Netherlands synth genius Owen J (yes, it's the woman one writing here and of course I'm biased - HT) If listening to the pope's Christmas message makes your blood boil then why not listen to this instead. Afterwhich, you could have a public debate... You can download the entire EP from http://stemccabe.bandcamp.com Or via the widget below. Enjoy!  Luis Drayton: I Wanna Slit My Enemies' ThroatsWe've all been there. Personally I find that a good old ugly faced weep and some vitamin B12 usually puts me back of track. (HT) This is from Luis Drayton's FREE album 'Pretty Sick' which is actually rather fabulous. You can download it for free from  Bourgeois & Maurice remake the John Lewis Christmas advertWe love this... For any overseas readers who haven't seen the original advert that this is parodying, here it is... Apparently, the agitated little boy concerned has since been put on ritalin...quite right too!  More Fun and Surprises in the Blogosphere...Disclaimer: If you're under the age of 18; easily shocked; are a puritanical, religious pain in the arse (Ann Widdecombe) it is suggested that you leave this blog NOW. Thanks to google alerts and the occasional 'self google' - it feels so wrong but sometimes it's SO right - we have discovered a recent rash of blog appearances. We're not sure what's caused this sudden spike in our blogoshere presence, but we're extremely flattered as we always get a tingly thrill when we find that we've been written about nicely in a blog. Oh, the fragile ego of the artiste... We copped an eye full (though thankfully not literally) when we stumbled across this latest blog which is for indie bears and we were very pleased to see that 'The Housewife's Lament' was featured. Unfortunately, there was no way to say thanks in the comments, so if the blogger concerned is reading, thanks for the mention - it's very much appreciated. http://indiebears.tumblr.com/post/13505695630/the-housewifes-lament-by-tingle-in-the We also clicked on the blog's title and archive and found a lovely array of manliness that may appeal to any bear appreciators and voyeuristic heterosexual women out there (sorry about that...Mrs. Tingle) http://indiebears.tumblr.com/archive Anyroad up, Mrs Tingle also saw fit to share the link with one or two facebook friends that she thought might appreciate the photos on offer and has now learned what NSFW means. Apologies to all concerned... but anyway, see if you can spot us in the November archive...(scroll down, no, further, go on.) http://indiebears.tumblr.com/archive Here's our track 'A Forest of Cocks'. xx A Forest Of Cocks by Tingle In The Netherlands  Dandelion Radio Festive 50Voting closes on November 30th so if you haven't voted get down to http://www.dandelionradio.com/festive50.htm and vote for your top three tunes that have been played on Dandelion Radio in 2011. To help you decide you can also find full track listings for the year. You may even find a couple of Tingle tracks on there but in the name of fairness, we possibly comment...  Another nice write from the blogoshere...Hopefully word is spreading....hello world...we are here...Check out number 7 on this start the week chart....http://thewildmagazine.com/blog/music-to-start-the-week-with-008/ 'Prostitute's Handbag' seems to be having a renaissance in the wonderweb....I do hope people will listen to our other tunes as well....www.nerveecho.com you know the drill.  
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