Musk For Life.

Research has revealed that kids of today are screaming out for more bands consisting of 40 year old men homaging the uber fashionable sounds of Hush, Slade and The Ted Mulry Gang. And so the hard rocking, heavily scented musical stylings of Musk is born. Featuring a who's who of unsuccessful 90s punk rock has beens, Musk simply cannot fail. We're still in the embryonic stages but that hasn't stopped me busting out a website with a special orientation video to sizzle up the project. Keep your nose open for forthcoming Musk shows in your area.

The Cruelettes.

 

Part of the cast of thousands in the old graphic novel I'm currently tooling about with is an all-girl garage band called the Cruelettes. For a bigger version of the poster click hereski. I will explain how they fit in with the genetic scientist and his deformed sons all in good time. Later still,  the fictional Cruelettes band will be releasing a couple of very real songs on the Myspaces as an exciting cross promotional synergy boosting tie in with the graphic novel. My good lady wife Sniz will provide the vocals so fans of the studio version of Nancy Vandal's "Egg Sandwich" and "20th Century Romeo" will be stoked.

Recollections of the iNewsletter™ and the future of other things.

Back in the olden days when Nancy Vandal had just begun it's long and ultimately fruitless rock and roll journey we went to some lengths to disguise our inherent lack of ability with an array of smoke and mirrors publicity guff. The prime mover in our arsenal was a mailout newsletter called The Vandal's Voice which in time mutated into a zine/comic and more recently a DVD. In it's earliest incarnation it was a hand written labour of love, photocopied into mass existence, slotted into a pile of DL envelopes which were then carefully addressed by hand whilst referencing a list of names neatly written by JJ LaMoore in a small exercise book. People could also order NV cassettes which we would duplicate ourselves and mail out as well. Check out this blast from the past as a reminder of a time gone by.

Oh - What we would have given for some kind of automated database and a streamlined system that would easily enable publishing articles, news, comics and tour dates instantly and cheaply to the entire world. And imagine if those same people could access your music from the comfort of their own home without getting off their arse. These were but crazy dreams back in 1994 when coal powered guitar amps and moshpits consisting entirely of dinosaurs were the norm.

Props for our homies.

Nancy Vandal historians may well recall the time we collaborated with our State-side brothers in arms and fellow hair metal devotees Your Mother. It was back in the summer of 97/98 and led to a short, shambolic [and truth be known - shit] Australian tour that hit such iconic Aussie rock and roll land marks as some Mildura football oval and the Iron Duke Hotel in Alexandria. 

The YM guys were polite young fellas - and thought it rude to enter our fair country without lavishing us with gifts. Namely the gift of some fucked up 28 Days Later-strength flu which annihilated half the touring party - including my good self for several hallucination and vomit filled days.

But it wasn't all hallucinations and vomit. I still fondly recall them brazenly questioning the sexual orientation of Mildura's local football team, tearing through Judas Priest's Free Wheel Burning and generally being splendid company as we rather sheepishly hosted them on the sad and sorry "tour" we'd cooked up. We've kept in occasional touch with them since then however like Nancy Vandal, they succumbed to popular demand and stopped performing.

Which is not to say they haven't been busy little beavers. Frontman Craigums has focused on mundane shit like writing a book on his antarctic travels and winning an international air guitar competition.  Also - he and non-aging YM drummer Brad formed another band called The Love Songs who continues to rock as hard as a sackful of KK Downings which brings us to the point of this nostalgia laden post.

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More all new Xray Studios branded apparel and accessories can now be purchased at the Xray Zazzle Store - Including the above pictured Xray Zombie tie! Perfect for the high flying business man wishing to bring some undead flair to the office.

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