"I've been playing drums for most of my life, and playing live since I was ten or eleven. I wanted a way of bringing the drum kit back into the equation without compromising the music. So I came about the idea of using a midi drum kit in the same way as I was using my keyboard. I ended up getting a Yamaha because it had the most midi triggers, and it was older and therefore cheaper than the others. I started making versions of my tracks (and covers of other tracks that I thought might work well for one reason or another) to be converted into kits. I didn't want to have any backing tracks, using loops on various pads is as far as I will go. It wouldn't feel right to just play along to something. And I wouldn't have the same control and freedom to improvise. As I have it set up now, every sound you hear is triggered by my drum sticks hitting the pads. I've played many gigs this way now, and I feel it has been a successful solution (other than a few technical problems that can occur: I.e. bad monitoring). I intend to play more, to keep experimenting, exploring, and hopefully releasing music until it all evolves into some newer and better idea."

Miss Joan is a musical butterfly. She flitters and flaps her way around the sunny and wild field of musical styles and concepts. Starting her journey as a tiny little caterpilla nesting on the tree of sunday morning reggae, gospel and classical music. Miss Joan soon broke free from her subsequent boyband / pop cocoon (N*Sync and Britney are a part of her past and she is not ashamed of them!!) and her journey took her deeper into the land of pirate garage radio stations with stints of mcing and jingle making under her belt. Her journey has seen her pass fields of R&B plants. She hasnt really been back there since the deaths of the icons Aaliya and Left Eye, but plans to visit again once all the dead weeds are removed and it has sorted itself out - Miss Joan remembers better days.... Now a beautiful butterfly she is feasting on the nector of flowers that hold guitars in high esteem and likes her music loud and proud! NB: The above is just a metaphore of Miss Joan's musical whatdumacallit. Miss Joan doesnt really like butterflies because they remind her of moths who are evil and fly in her face! Check out Miss Joan in the studio recording the EP!!

 

Moshpit January 2005 :

This was the start of their heavily experimental ‘tribal'
period.
This essentially came down to them slapping each
others asses, a lot, and breaking coconuts
over their heads.
They promptly recorded their next demo with Vendredi,
a local sound engineer.

March 2005 :

Extremely satisfied with the results of the sessions,
they squeezed the recordings into a bottle of diet 7Up,
which was thrown to the North Sea.
5 minutes later, the bottle was picked up
by a crack head in Brooklyn, who mistook
the floating unidentified object for a Columbian treat.
Needless to say the coke fiend died of
a sudden heart attack.

2006:

The trio is still nowhere to be found….The evidences contradict each others.....
some people would have located them with the Astropolis Festival in Brest, others claim to have seen them in Printemps de Bourges, others still with the Exhibition venue of Le Mans city or in Toulouse at the time of immense rave-parties......
Some people ensure that they are holding a postcards shop in Loreza, in Sclerazie .....

2007:

Several European governments suspect the gang to have carried out experiments on their populations, without being able to prove it.
From Den Haag to Dublin, mysterious cases of devastating auditive hallucinations seem to be attributed to them.

2008:

Messages intercepted by the intelligence service of The Vatigone are now clear: the three most wanted impostors of the millennium seem ready to make the whole planet go deaf, thanks to a revolutionary bacteriological weapon. Columbo is already on the case…

The end of this story has not yet been put into writing, yet....

"I'm a big fan of a) dusty drums and b) creative speech, ya'll know, double entendres and such, so... just like the first time you squinted while walking into the sun, i bought some cheapo soundcard, got hooked up with a crack copy of Logic and borrowed a mic.

"Eventually i bought my own. Off eBay.

"Y'know, one of those crappy mics you see 36 year old homosexual wannabe house 'dee jays' using to introduce their warm up sets."

Twin this passion for percussion and lyricism with self taught guitar playing, uneducated keyboard skills, a bunch of my dad's wilting 12"s, a rc20 loop station and some of the flukiest sampling ever comitted to virtual tape and you'll kind of get the jist... ...maybe

A4 sheets, hundreds of fingernails, numerous Squeeb collaborations and a whole bunch of unfinished musical soliloquies later ya'll have this... a love for BIG drums, acoustic guitars, inane writing and a hell of a lot of static.

Live and Die by the ethos - "lo fi, lo fi, shitty mic..."