"South-Who?"

'The Saints' have some decent moments as a football club.

- The 3-1 defeat of Man U which lead to the burning of the 95/96 3rd strip.

- Le Tiss bewildering talent, even if he did look like a builder.

- Double D's 'Dodd and Delap!?'

It seems now that these moments seemingly, much to the delight of Pompey fans, have dried up. Not only is the club is now in the 3rd tier of football, after enjoying Premier League status for many a year, they have now seemingly been momentarily stripped of there precious team name. The team that was known as 'Southampton' or 'The Saints' are now being referred to by The Sun as 'South Coast Club'.

This recent change in title has been brought upon due to a ban being introduced on any newspaper photographers taking snaps within the ground. The Sun is obviously p*ssed off at this decision; see below for the Suns official statement.

'Once again, we apologise for not naming a once-proud club in this match report. This is entirely because the man running the club, Nicola Clotese, has decided to insult his sponsors and fans by banning all newspaper photographers from taking pictures inside St.Mary's.'

Bad times indeed.

Ey, I'm not gloating, I support Sheff U for my sins but at least we can retain our club name.

All the best.

Mr Rice x

...ML...

*Violens Tour Support*

No its not what you think or might want, we haven't yet managed to rope in Vanessa Mae, or any other Violinist for that matter, to join us on stage and go all Echo and the Bunnymen 'Ocean Rain' on you. Trust me we are working on it.

Instead as the header suggest we are announcing our first tour support with fellow Supervision Trust band, The Violens.

Brief info on the chaps...

The Violens claim influences as divergent as 60s psyche-pop, thrash, and Miami freestyle. Their music channels the stylish sophistication of Roxy Music, and the no wave roar of early Sonic Youth, synthesizing the surreal visuals of Stanley Kubrick and Nobuhiko Obayashi. The New York based 3-piece will release their highly anticipated debut album 'Amoral' November 2nd, on Friendly Fire Recordings and their own imprint Static Recital. Having just finished their tour with MGMT in the US, Violens are due to complete a small tour of the UK, with Mabel Love for company, and then join some band called 'The Drums' ;) as special guests in November.

For free tracks visit www.violens.net

Tour Dates:

Wednesday 29th September – The Lexington, London
Thursday 30th September – The Forum, Sheffield
Friday 1st October – Lost & Found @ Ruby Lounge,
Manchester Saturday 2nd October – Cockpit 3, Leeds

I hope you agree he above sounds very interesting and we are thoroughly looking forward to getting to know the Violens and get back on the road doing what we do best, making some noise.

Further more on the Mabel Love frontier, the Myspace has had a face lift and we are due to pop a few new pics on there for good measure. As mentioned previously the new tracks are getting closer to being finished and plans are being drawn up to get these recorded and posted for your aural pleasure.

Keep your eyes peeled for further ramblings, I have made a startling discovery involving 80's warblers, Hue and Cry.

Keep smiling.

Mr Rice x

...ML...

-Instruments a ready-

'Rexkwondo'



I am glad to announce we are going to be back on the road soon.

We have a couple of dates booked in and we are looking to hopefully announce more in the very near future with even talk of us venturing to the Capitol again.

..Gigs..

September 4th - Supporting 'The Like' @ The Plug, Sheffield.

The Like are an alternative 'rock' band from LA. They have recently completed a US tour with fellow Sheffielders, Artic Monkeys. Very 60's sheek and I'm sure if you check there website you can see why they have admirers, terwit-terwoo indeed.

September 17th - Playing with 'Dead Sons' @ Mad Ferrett, Preston.

Former Milburn guitarist, come Backhanded Compliments singer/guitarist and now Dead Sons singer/pianist. Very talented boy and thoroughly nice chap. Loud Bunch.

Shhtop....

Enough of the bands we are playing with, lets be honest we aren't here to promote them are we? I jest. We have recently completed four new tracks and we presume a couple will be sneaking into the soon to be re-jigged set, we have it on good authority that people are going to greet the new noise with a raise of the eyebrows(there words not ours). Rather interestingly for us there has been a slight change in song writing angle in one trace, a definate nod to the 'new york scene' (think Television/Talking Heads-ish) with a track with working title 'Appel Juice'.

Keeping with the New York scene I would urge you to check out Mr Lou Reeds performance of 'Perfect Day' on Jools Holland. It is complete with Antony Hegarty and a geezer doing what looks like Rexkwondo. An amazing rendition of a beautiful song.

See for yourselves - CLICK HERE

More gigs to be released soon.

All the best.

Mr Rice

...ML...

x

"Whats new?"

Hello strangers,

Sorry Ive been away been learning the above. Very time consuming activity.

Actually we have been rather busy over recent months. I went off on me Jolly's to Cancelada, Spain for a week to sample the local cuisine and chill out a little, I even got a bit of a tan. Then it was back into the frying pan with the Tramlines festival, bit of a rush as I landed in UK at 5pm, had to drive home, have a shower, practise and then gig. Its safe to say I was shattered and went straight home after gig thus missing our gaffer and event organiser 'Mr Ohara' dancing on The Bowery bar complete with bottle of champagne, I shudder at the thought. So unfortunately for the second year running I again missed the whole of the Tramlines Festival including my personal favourites Echo and the Bunnymen. The only silver lining was getting to meet Ian 'Mac the mouth' Mcculloch in person and having a good old natter with him, we struck up a bit of rapport over the extortionate price of beer in Port Banus and generally put the world to rights for a brief period. Nice to meet a hero of mine and him not disappoint. I have been well informed by the lads that the Festival was a success and a massive improvement on last year, the city had a great vibe in the few hours I was around. Our gig was packed out and I would like to offer my apologise and thanks for the people who stuck around to watch us even though we were over an hour late going on a Sunday night. We will re-pay your faith.

Since the gig our stick smith 'Dazzler' has sodded off on his holidays this time to Rhodes, Greece and there is rumour that he might even come back with a bit of colour. Surely not. So with Dave away the other three of us have been cracking on finishing a new song. Its been a different process for us as we have constructed the song from the beat upwards and we are definately lacking the special feel our drummer gives us but it sounds very promising, usually we jam out tracks in 'the room' but this new style of writing is a very interesting prospect for the band. We will be hopefully playing this new track out live in next few months when we are back on road, we have recently booked a gig in September with, good friends and fellow Sheffielders, The Dead Sons in Preston and more dates are to be confirmed shortly.

Keep an eye on the sites and an ear to the ground for updates, new tracks to be shown soon. There is exciting times afoot so be patient with us.

I'll be back in next couple of days with some of my usual useless tat.

Speak soon.

On behalf of Mabel Love.

Mr Rice x