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Little Bag of Gloom (Monster Magnet cover) A recent Monster...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:18:00 -0500

Little Bag of Gloom (Monster Magnet cover)

A recent Monster Magnet cover I did. FAWM is coming around again (Fawm,org), new FE stuff is being rehearsed, and me solo album is in the works, so shiteloads is happening again! At fookin’ last. 2011 is our year…

Nicholas Fine Excuse

Nick P - Fat Rap Back in 2007, I did this track for the RPM...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:17:00 -0500

Nick P - Fat Rap

Back in 2007, I did this track for the RPM Challenge. One of these days, I might do some more stuff like this. Or I may just eat cake instead.

Nicholas Fine Excuse

Answerphone (feat Linzi Ellen) Me and the venerable Linzi Ellen...

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:16:00 -0500

Answerphone (feat Linzi Ellen)

Me and the venerable Linzi Ellen done this. I took an acapella, and got Massive Attacks-ish on its posterior.

Nicholas Fine Excuse

Mother Would Rather - VUA and MFD

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:29:26 -0400

Wotcha you lot.

Well now! A bunch of things have happened since the last posting, but I’ll ration them out over a few new posts.

The most exciting thing happened during FAWM (February Album Writing Month) this year, for which I was enlisted by the venerable John LaSala, chief architect behind the loose collection of creative minds named The Very Us Artists, to take part in the making of a rather special album.

A ragtag bunch of us teamed up with the mighty talented illustrator, Ross Horsley, who runs My First Dictionary, the marvellously callous online children’s dictionary. Our task was to provide accompanying songs to an array of new dicionary entries Ross had cooked up.

Click to hear my contribution based on the image below… Mother Would Rather

The songs are being uncovered one-by-one on the My First Dictionary blog, so do follow…

Cheers,

Nicholas Fine Excuse

Where have we been? Well, we’ve been doing FAWM....

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:47:00 -0500

Where have we been?

Well, we’ve been doing FAWM. “What’s that?”, I don’t hear you cry. Tough shit, sit down and listen. It stand for February Album Writing Month. More? It’s a community of songwriters from all over the feckin’ globe that meet once a year, and attempt to write 14 songs within the 28 measly days that is February. This is Johnny’s second go, and my fourth, so some interesting bullshit should come out of this. Here’s where it is:

FAWM

And above is one of the tracks I’ve done so far. It has big guitars, and will punch you in the face.

Bye!

-Nick

"I wouldn’t trade one stupid decision For another five years of lies"

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:41 -0500

“I wouldn’t trade one stupid decision
For another five years of lies”

- All My Friends, LCD Soundsystem

A snippet of a new song from the forthcoming album, bookended by...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:41:00 -0500

A snippet of a new song from the forthcoming album, bookended by rambling shit. Nice.

"Although you are so loved It had to come to this You got shut off Because you always stink of piss"

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:01:15 -0400

“Although you are so loved
It had to come to this
You got shut off
Because you always stink of piss”

- Frank Black, Fitgerald

Goodbye To All That, Hello To All This! EP

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:52:00 -0400

Good grief. At last.

You can listen to the EP in the MP3 player on the right, and download it using the links below.

Right-click on links and choose ‘Save As…’

Download ‘Boadicea’

Download ‘My Fault, So It Is’

Download ‘Friends On The Wing’

Download ‘Guess What’

All at once, with art.

Download All (ZIP)

Or finally, torrent it!

Download Torrent

BOADICEA VIDEO

Considering how long this has taken to get out the door, I’m now thinking about how I can keep the momentum going and release things more quickly. Might do a live gig over a video streaming service, maybe a run of EPs over a month or so, perhaps finish off the album quick-smart. No more year-long EPs, oh no.

Watch this space. Or the Twitter feed. Cough.

Nicholas Fine Excuse

"You’re the one who had knives, Set aside for the throats of hunters, But they tricked you with a..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:13:56 -0400

“You’re the one who had knives,
Set aside for the throats of hunters,
But they tricked you with a trinket and a name”

- Sunset Rubdown, ‘Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End Of Your Feral Days’

Of videos and verisimilitude

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:17:48 -0400

I’m considering doing a live video version of ‘Guess What’. It’s evolved a bit since that drunken evening I sat amongst the detritus of my room and bawled the recorded version out in a single, ramshackle take. We’ll have to see.

Nicholas Fine Excuse

Download ‘Boadicea’ Video for the song ‘Boadicea’,...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:15:00 -0400

Download ‘Boadicea’

Video for the song ‘Boadicea’, taken from the recent ‘Goodbye To All That, Hello To All This!’ EP.

Once more thing - yes, the chord progression and melody for the middle-8 is mostly lifted from Bob Dylan’s ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright’, as a tribute to one of the greatest break-up songs all time (to which, this song doesn’t compare, I know).

Cheers,

Nicholas Fine Excuse

2009’s Goodbye To All That, Hello To All This!...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:02:43 -0400

2009’s Goodbye To All That, Hello To All This! EP.

Download for free from the right-hand column. Right there.

2007’s Mild Peril EP. Once again, download all tracks for...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:01:54 -0400

2007’s Mild Peril EP.

Once again, download all tracks for free from the right-hand column. Do it.

2006’s Hail To The Harmless Grudge EP. Download for free...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:01:13 -0400

2006’s Hail To The Harmless Grudge EP.

Download for free from the right-hand column. Go on.

"LYRIC OF THE DAY: “These people talk about impossible things”"

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:30:01 -0400

“

LYRIC OF THE DAY:

“These people talk about impossible things”

”

- Beck, Modern Guilt