A collage flyer Dizzyrat Presents... (Solo) Eight Pictures Roan O'reilly Dylan Lester Sunday April 26 $10 doors 7pm music 8pm Hendershot's
New gig new flyer new gig new flyer
Solo acoustic thingy
So it seems like accidentally giving people early access to a song on Bandcamp (at least with unlimited streaming) 2 weeks early didn't lead to any sales. Learning much
A black cat on the inside of a window stares at a black cat on the outside of the window
Robert's stray doppelganger, Notbert, is here to tell you that it's already been on Bandcamp for about 2 weeks now
A black cat being given the middle finger. A CD showing a different image of the same cat being flipped off is next to him. He reaches inquisitively for the finger
A black cat being held by a person with a sweater, black glasses, and partially dyed hair. The cat's eyes are washed out by the cameraflash
Single art for "Do-Nothing" by Eight Pictures. A black cat is getting flipped off by the person behind the camera
My cat Robert and I are here to remind you that Eight Pictures' song "Do-Nothing" hits streaming at midnight. Jangly noisy pop Hüsker Dü Smiths Go-Betweens Lemonheads whatever man
Single should be out at midnight but it's already on Bandcamp because of my blunder the other week
Have we figured out where people who hate web design and don't want to paywall their long form posts go? I'm wanting to hop off of Substack
Production and arrangement-wise it's usually Number Girl driving all my decisions but Go-Betweens' melodies and lyrics are really hard to top. A lot of the time where people hear Smiths in my stuff it's actually them (love The Smiths, of course. Another high favorite)
I think most people generally see McLennan as the "better" writer and every time I start to think I'm comfortable agreeing I hear something like Clouds again and am put back in my place
Every time somebody asks me about my influences my #1 answer is The Go-Betweens. Good god, man
When I followed Tobin Sprout on Instagram he apparently visited my page, liked an old picture of my cat, and didn't follow back. Kind of beast mode tbh
Moonflower Plastic really is one of the most wonderful albums of all time and nobody talks about it
It's always shocking to me how little people expect others to buy their music. One time I bought a friend's EP on Bandcamp (I think it was name your price) and he DMed me on Instagram offering to Venmo me my $5 back
Found a copy of Secondhand Daylight I thought I gave to my dad. We are #up
The second single will be on everything other than Bandcamp on Friday btw
It's already on Bandcamp but you know
Yes I've been listening to Touch Girl Apple Blossom and Unrest recently if you couldn't tell
Intro-V1-chorus of the latest demo for those curious
Picked up Perfect Teeth this morning because it turns out you CAN get it on desktop. What a stellar record, man
How the hell did Ted Leo come up with these melodies
Just realized I can put audio in Substack posts... Big news
Talking about um Touch Girl Apple Blossom and Good Flying Birds and CDs and my favorite colors and John le Carré novels open.substack.com/pub/plasticm...
A screenshot of a Bandcamp library. Left to right, top to bottom: Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. Eight Pictures (my band) - Do-Nothing Your Ex's Pets - "No Imitation" ROWEN - Sumdumcharade Muzak - SLUG THE KITCHENETTES - Sunday Best Evey May - Mune The Falling Spikes - He's Still In Love With You 800 cherries - romantico Fugazi - Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity) Reed Winckler - Happy 9 Cannon Rogers - Puppies, Pretty Girls, and Cold Beer
Recent acquisitions. Ignore the fact that I bought my own band's single
Finally remembered Unrest and found out that they're on Bandcamp! Perfect Teeth, however, is not. Still picked up Imperial FFRR but it's a shame I couldn't get Six Layer Cake on to my mp3 player
I think William Goldsmith in Sunny Day Real Estate was one of the first gigs where I remember thinking, "Damn, this guy's good"
Souleymane Ibrahim from Mdou Moctar, though, probably takes the #1 spot
I'd forgotten that when you edit the "release date" field on Bandcamp it only edits the stuff shown on the page and not the "date" the thing "releases." Go figure
So I accidentally put out my band's second single way too early. Go listen to it.
eightpictures.bandcamp.com/track/do-not...
Going from this to Hatful of Hollow on the turntable and feeling like one of those middle aged dudes on Instagram reels who dances around to records with a cup of coffee
A copy of 16 Lovers Lane being held in a kind of cluttered apartment
My dad managed to find me The Go-Betweens' 16 Lovers Lane on LP and gave it to me at yesterday's gig! Crazy holy grail record of mine
A stack of 14 CDs. Eight Pictures - How's This? Each CD is in a paper sleeve with a sticker that has an 8P! design
We are out of stickers again
A GIMP editing window open to a turquoise-tinted photo of the person behind the camera flipping off a cat with the words "Eight Pictures - Do-Nothing" written above it.
Working on the album art for a new single
Just recorded a video of a cover and saw that it was 3:02 when I went to post it. Trimmed it down and suddenly it's not compatible. I'm being sabotaged when all I want to do is prove I can play Spring Rain ahead of this gig on Monday
