[peel] Cowcube at Christmas

[Thomas Blatchford]

Hi Roger,

i do agree in cases of small independent artsists and would not do this if this was still available, but i get the impression this album just simply isn't on sale anymore. i bought the album off of him in 2002 via an email adress that John provided on the show (and also his superlative EP in 2003) but since then attempts to get hold of Cowcube have proved futile. i tried to get hold of him for an interview for my fanzine many moons ago with the email address on the cd but to no avail. His myspace page seems to just be a picture of, cleverly, a cow cube http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=83517557 and otherwise there seems very little chance of buying the album from him nowadays. If anyone can prove me wrong i'll remove the files straight away. 

i guess if you want to get money to the guy your best bet is to try and get the remix he did for Cornershop, to date his only commercially available work, but it doesn't appear to be available on iTunes (although for some reason the Osymyso version is...i've got both those EPs somewhere, i don't know why they've only put one of them up) and the only place i've found so far to buy it is places like this https://secure.legalsounds.com/download-mp3/cornershop/lessons-learned-from-rocky/lessons-learned-from-rocky-1-3(cowcube-mix)/song_103194 

Again, if there's an outlet to still buy the album, i'll remove the files post haste. Or if we can send him some Christmas cheer perhaps we should.

Thanks to Steve and Mark as well, glad you liked it!

Merry Chrimble,
thomas


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From: Roger Carruthers <roger.carruthers@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 22 December, 2008 11:42:58
Subject: Re: [peel] Cowcube at Christmas


My thanks too, though I must admit, I feel a little guilty at this one. Wasn’t/isn’t Cowcube one of those small independent artists who needs out support ? I remember Peel describing him as ‘furtive’, which I think may have been my inspiration when I named Thefurtivefifty. Iirc, you could only get his albums by contacting him directly, in which case, perhaps we should all chip in and send him a Christmas bonus...?
Cheers
Roger


On 22/12/2008 10:58, "Mark Whitby" <mark.whitby2@ ntlworld. com> wrote:



 

 
Must admit, I haven't had the time to check out a lot of the stuff made available by members of this group.  Thanks to all of you who are doing it though - extremely valuable work.

I made an exception in this case, though.  Many thanks, Thomas.  I doubt if anyone's going to top this as an xmas present this year.  Great stuff.

Mark W

 


----- Original Message ----- 
 
From:  Thomas Blatchford <mailto:tabdrinkink7 4@.... uk>  
 
To: peel@yahoogroups. com 
 
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:54  PM
 
Subject: [peel] Cowcube at Christmas
 

 
 

 

Hi there
 
 
 
Having spent the last few days listening to music from IWICBCE, including  some of the Peel show Christmas specials, one of them includes possibly my  favourite Christmas track, the song that Stowmarket-based beat merchant  Cowcube made especially for the show (i don't think it has a title, if it has  i've spent years wondering what it is).
 
 
 
However it reminded me that i have the original cowcube album including  the festive fifty-featuring The Popping Song, and thought it might be of some  interest to the group. It's zipped in .wma (sorry, i don't know how to convert  ripped files on vista...yeah i know) here:
 
http://www.mediafir e.com/download. php?ey3mrmdnzoy 
 
 
 
It's a few years old and i think it might be starting to deteriorate  slightly hence the slightly fuzzy noises in places but it's still pretty good.  Popping Song is the highlight but i've also got a spoft spot for  David & Mary and Do You Like Spiders?
 
 
 
Season's greetings,
 
 
 
thomas xx