Summer 2006...

Summer is here...and things are moving so quickly i thought i'd take stock a little and write something here.......(yeah, i know...it has been a while...) - I guess the big news in bauer world is that the debut ep is coming out in September....we (JUST ABOUT...) met the deadline for the release date (25/09/06)..in true bauer fashion!

The record is sounding FUCKING GREAT....and i'm not JUST SAYING THAT. Everybody that worked on it over the last few months has done a really good job..from Steve Power at Townhouse/TOP in London at the start of the year, through to Nelly Trip *AKA BAUER BASS PLAYING ENGINEER WIZARD* in our own little studio in Bolton. I can't wait for everyone to hear Gone on record. We have been playing it live 2nd at every gig for a good while now....the only way i can find of describing it is........The Smiths playing a classic abba single......whilst on a diet of classic northern soul and........80s synth pop.....ok...sounds weird i know, but you'll understand when you hear it.




Arctic Monkeys bands....


Fucking hell, please please stop...we have the arctic monkeys and they're they're annoying enough...the world doesn't need little man tate, milburn and bromheads wank-it. I wonder if that fat bass player that got sacked will start a band...

There, i've said it. Don't kill me.






My fave things at the moment..

The final mastered bauer e.p on cd. Yes...self indulgent, but i do listen to my own music.


Fab Cafe, Manchester - Oh it's ace....i love the people that go in there...a real mixed bunch. I particularly love the 38 year old manc guys that STILL somehow live in 1990 (Madchester) and 1995 (britpop) - kind of a mixture of Cain Dingle and Kev from Shameless. They can dance. It's unpretentious, chilled and plays good music. What more do you need?


Some blonde girl that looks like Debbie Harry circa Blondie in their prime. Pwhoaar.





I can't think of much more to say today..but i PROMISE i'll post more here a little more often...



MIKEY x

Music player set to random again....

808 State - Pacific State
Bob Marley - Could you be loved
The Beach Boys - Heroes and villians
Oasis - Must be the music
The Charlatans - Stir it up
Morrissey - Billy Budd
James - Come home
Elbow - Red
The Who - I`m free
Bob Marley - I shot the sheriff
Primal Scream - (I`m gonna) cry myself blind
The Charlatans - (No one) not even the rain
Ocean Colour Scene - Hundred mile high city
New Order - 1963
Ian Brown - Hear no see no
FPI Project - Everybody (all over the world)
Blondie - Picture this
The Verve - So it goes
Pulp - Sorted for E's and whizz
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall

2006 and beyond..

Culture.....

What culture will young people grow up with? I was born in the early 1980's...and although it was in the middle of Maggies reign and amidst all the miners strikes yadda yadda, i am glad that i grew up surrounded by art and cultural happenings of some substance.

I remember the magic of Italia 90..when Paul Gasciogne became a superstar. It somehow seemed like a magical time. Fast forward to 2006 and football is so commercial and money orientated. My favourite team are owned by a 78 year old millionaire american business man that has just suffered from 2 strokes. England's most successful team are owned by a Russian mafia man whose (business)affairs are about as straight as George Michael.....

Television.....Only fools and Horses was great...and there were a lot of great sitcom and comedy writers. There is probably a new generation of writers coming through now that are massively frustrated. Television is full of cheap trash. Reality television. X factor. Pop idol. Celebrity love island. Big brother. Celebrity big brother. Celebrities farting in a bottle.

I grew up with Madchester, Some really great pop music...through to Britpop....then in around 2000-2001 publications started to focus more on American music. The Strokes. The White Stripes. Now, England has produced perhaps every great band apart from The Beach Boys and REM. Why do we need to look to America? This has culminated in a whole generation of 14-18 year olds catching onto this EMO trend. Now EMO is possibly the most disgraceful genre of music i have ever heard. It is perhaps more aimed at a specific group of people than, say...busted. Or a boyband. Bland music. John Lennon and John Peel must be turning in their graves. These are people that pioneered great music...great British music.


Anyway...i'm such a moaning bastard and i should stop rabbiting on. All i'm trying to say is...i had The Stone Roses (just about..) i had Britpop i had Italia 90, I had Only fools and horses..i had the Royal Variety performance, i had the 1999 European cup final.

What does a 16 year old kid have? Big brother, EMO, Funky House, Pop Idol/X Factor............GORDON BROWN? Even The Arctic Monkeys (the saviours of British rock..i think not..) wore leather jackets on their 1st American tv performance because their record company told them to.


FUCK. There are going to be a lot of boring people around in ten years time.

my music player set to random play

Press Skip 20 times and see what comes up.


New Order - 60 Miles an hour
Pink Floyd - Bring the boys back home
Morrissey - Alsatian cousin
Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll star
The Smiths - Heaven Knows i'm miserable now
Pink Floyd - Time
Delays - Hey girl
Echo and the bunnymen - Bring on the dancing horses
Mark Hollis - a new Jerusalem
Miles Davis - Flamenco sketches
The Jam - Going underground
Oasis - Roll with it
Oasis - Underneath the sky
Oasis - Hey hey my my (neil young cover)
Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle emptiness
Morrissey -I know it's gonna happen someday
Richard Ashcroft - Cry til the morning
New Order - True faith
Primal Scream - Big jet plane
Stone Roses - Ten storey love song

BAUER 2006

Mikey Bauer Web Diary # 1


So here we are, already 1/3 into 2006 and what an eventful last few months
it has been........the year began with a busy spurt of gigs, most of them
really well recieved performances in London (especially the one at the
borderline - you'll know if you were there!) plus a particularly memorable
show at the Academy in Manchester. It was really cool to see a whole new set
of faces turning up to see us (myspace whores ahoy!) and even cooler to look
up during Unbreakable to see a load of people mouthing the words!


We have also been doing our fair share of recording both in London
(Townhouse Studio and Battery) with Steve Power at the helm and in our own
little demo studio in Bolton, NellyTreppas towers. I know a lot of you are
itching to hear some new material after the same few tracks being on the
websites for a fair while, and i can't wait for you to all hear the results,
especially the Steve Power tracks....they're sounding awesome and he has
been a real pleasure to work with (along with his trusty surf addict Glasgow
Celtic loving sidekick Dave).


New Tracks.....

Connected (formerly known as Lose all memory) - New version recorded with
Steve Power.


Unbreakable - New version produced by Steve Power.


Gone - A lot of you will have heard this live in the past few gigs....sounds
like Abba. Honestly.


Signs - Ditto....erm...doesn't sound like Abba though..


Isn't it a perfect world - We've been recording this in Bolton with our
manager Mark Compton producing....we have played it live a few
times...sounds like The Chameleons...if they had a more tuneful singer...


Keep an eye out on here for gig announcements. Would also be ace to have a
bit of a bauer related shindig sometime this summer in the centre of
Manchester...you're all invited of course. Any ideas...anyone?


Cheese on toast,


Mikey Guitar, that dude from bauer. They had a different name a while ago
but it wasn't that good.


( www.myspace.com/mikeyguitar - send me bucketloads of abuse, Thank you
much )


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lost classics

Paris Angels - Perfume (Sounds like Joy Division in 1988 if Ian Curtis hadn't died....you can probably get it on soulseek)


Witness - Quarantine (Amazing song, like the verve with Michael Stipe on vocals....but better.....released as a single on vinyl in 1998, re-released on cd as a free giveaway when they supported the charlatans on tour in 1999. You can probably get it on Amazon.)


World of twist - The Storm (Classic Madchester...If this was a Kasabian track it'd get to number 1.....Probably amazon again...or a very good record shop...the album is called "Quality street")


Puressence - Make time (What more can i say about Puressence that i haven`t said already? from their 3rd album "Planet Helpless")


Pioneers - Slow down ( Top tune from unsigned Manchester band Pioneers....Fuck knows where you can get this....apart from me! add me to msn lol)


The Stone Roses - The sun still shines (get it on a lot of Stone Roses bootlegs, unreleased song, never featured on an album or b side)


Tim Burgess - We all need love (from his painfully under rated solo album "i Believe")


The Electric Crayons - Hip shake junkie (Search google for it!)


DJ Tiesto featuring Matt Hales - Ur (Amazing song featuring the lead singer from Aqualung)


Primal Scream - Velocity Girl - (on the orignial C86 cassette given away with nme...but soulseek is probably the place to get it - The Stone Roses nicked the melody from this song when they wrote made of stone!)


Haven - Give more (unreleased Haven tune...fantastic! get it....from me! haha!)


Echo and the bunnymen - Stormy weather (From their new album "siberia" no, not the nightclub in bury...the album....it did fuck all in the charts so i suppose it's destined to become a lost classic)


Go Home Productions - Essex Doves (A mash up of Doves and David Essex, fucking amazing! get it from the go home productions website...)


The La's - Every other song apart from there she goes! there's so much more to this band than that one song!!!! The rest of their album is ace...and their b sides fucking rule!!!!


I`m such a music nerd.

studio and eggs.

well, yet another weekend in a recording studio...but this time it was in a new place (for barfly) in Bolton with a new producer dude called Mark....twas an interesting weekend, and really cool to see lots of new ideas and different ways of doing things in the studio....the best bit was when Lee drummer person was recording EGGS. Yes, that's right, lee RECORDED eggs...and i even have photographic evidence of it. Eggs sound ace. Oh yes.