It’s safe to say that the gig was a genuine success which to be honest I’m still a bit amazed about. All of the feedback so far has been incredibly positive and there was really a great atmosphere. In total the gig raised £416.57 for Oxfam which is just brilliant and Dan and I are just amazed with everyone’s generosity. I’ve been told that I’ve been saying thank you a little bit too much but we wanted to put together one last post to say Thank You to everyone that helped us out:

The Bands:
The Half Rabbits, Phantom Theory, The Prohibition Smokers Club, Helena, Swindlestock and Kt and Ky,

Sarah Mayhew (from The Oxford Castle for letting us do the gig at the castle in the first place) and Helen Statham (for letting us move the gig to The O3 Gallery with one day to go), and The Real China.

Mel Skinner, Sarah Kenway, Ashleigh Toll, Mez Flint for minding the bar and helping us tidy up afterwards (+ the rest of the Oxjam crew!)

Stu Smith, Mark Wilden, Neil Smith, for loaning us the audio equipment

And everyone that braved the rain to come along, listen to some great music and donate!

There are some pictures up on the pictures page and Dan Paxton has some up on his Flickr profile. There may even be some video soon too. Dan and I have already started talking about whether or not we’ll do it again. We shall see….

Please keep supporting Oxfam and Oxjam and good luck to anyone else that’s organising an Oxjam gig this year!

Ian and Dan

[Updated 02/09/10] Now with Video!

Lined up to play are:

• The Half Rabbits,
• Phantom Theory,
• The Prohibition Smokers Club
• Tiger Mendoza,
• Swindlestock,
• Kt and Ky

‘How much will this wondrous event cost?’ you ask. Well, nothing. That’s right entry will be FREE. But we will collecting money for Oxfam and our fund raising target is £100 so any and all donations will be very much appreciated. We’re also hoping to arrange some food and drink promos but that’s still tbc. We’ve just had confirmation that The Real China will be offering discounts on cocktails and food for everyone that donates. Isn’t that nice of them?

Here’s the Oxjam event page. See you there.

20100421 Mellotron by Tiger Mendoza

The thing is I don’t really know what to do with it so I’ve put the stems up on the net for people to do with as they wish.

So here you go. Stems are all 44kHz wavs with ableton info files and all files are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

If you do create anything, send it to me via my Soundcloud drop box:

Send me your track

Remixes:
The Missing on the Motorway mix I put together for the DJ Shadow remix comp has been selected to be a bonus track on the download version of the compilation that’s coming out to accompany the competition. Shame it didn’t get on the actual CD but still cool to be associated.

Oscar TG asked me if I wanted to do a remix of his track ‘Run with the flame’ which will be coming out on Red Robot records soon. A big thank you to Oscar, Will Scarlett and Flipt for letting me mess with their song!

There are a couple of other things that I’m working on as well but their not 100% confirmed yet but hopefully more news soon….

New tunes:
We are writing new stuff at the moment and hope to have some sort of release out probably in September. Dan O’Driscoll will be joining on guitar (along with Helena on vocals and Sally on bass) so that’s nice. Will definitely help when we do live gigs as well (which we’re also going to try and do later this year).

Anyway, that’s it for now. Cheers to anyone that’s shown an interest in this little project in any way. There will be some new tunes for you to listen to soon hopefully but due to some ‘personal commitments’, the tunes have had to be put on hold for a bit. Here’s small bootleg to tide you over in the mean time.

Cheers,
Ian

Tracklisting: The Black Keys – Tighten Up
David Holmes – I Heard Wonders
From Light To Sound – Heart And Electricity [download]
Breakage – Vial (Ft. Burial)
Madonna feat Snoop Dogg – Sorry (TM edit) [download]
65daysofstatic – Weak4
Cut Chemist – The Garden
Jamie Lidell – Little Bit Of Feel Good (NTEIBINT remix)
Gorillaz – Stylo (feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack) (Chiddy Bang Remix) [download]
TimG – Know Your Enemy (?)
American Head Charge – Just So You Know
Deftones – Rocket Skates
Toots & The Maytals – Pressure Drop
Rudy Greene – Juicy Fruit
(Taken from Keb Darge and Cut Chemist Present: Lost and Found Rockabilly and Jump Blues)
Peter Broderick – And It’s Alright (Nils Frahm RMX)
(Taken from ‘Erased Tapes Collection II, available from here)
M. Ward – Let’s Dance

Download available from here (95 MB)
(Right click, save target as)

The Half Rabbits – When The Rain Stops (Tiger Mendoza remix)

Downloads available from The Half Rabbits’ website.

In other exciting remix related news, Stately Homes of England have also done a great remix of Hope Sick:

Also a reminder that Helena, Sally and I are doing a ‘semi-acoustic’ live set at Café Tarifa on Cowley Road, Oxford on Tuesday 9th February. Also on the bill are Kat Gadsden and Nigel Brown & Friends. Doors are at 9pm and it’s free entry so come down, drink booze and watch the first PROPER TM gig. Info and stuff can be found here.