[peel] Cowcube at Christmas

[Roger Carruthers]

Hi Thomas,
  I wasn’t  censuring your posting this, for exactly the reasons you state;
far from it, I really appreciate it. I’ve also followed the same wild goose
chase trying to locate somewhere to buy his work.
I think he really is, as Peely said, ‘a furtive sort of a chap’. I notice
his album is up on Last.fm, but you can’t actually listen to it until you’ve
created a playlist with 14 artists on it, or somesuch stupidity...
 I know I did have a recording of john reading out Cowcube’s address, but
now I need it, I can’t find it. Your post cleverly alerted me to an idea fro
an xmas present – someone I know who loves exactly this brand of
electro-silliness. Did you try mailing him via his Myspace page? I’ve just
sent a message, but it doesn’t exactly look like a very active page...
Festive greets,
Roger


On 22/12/2008 13:00, "Thomas Blatchford" <tabdrinkink74@...> wrote:

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> Hi Roger,
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> 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=8351
> 7557 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-ro
> cky/lessons-learned-from-rocky-1-3(cowcube-mix)/song_103194
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> 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
> 
> 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
> 
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> On 22/12/2008 10:58, "Mark Whitby" <mark.whitby2@ ntlworld. com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
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>>> From:  Thomas Blatchford <mailto:tabdrinkink7 4@.... uk
>>> <mailto:tabdrinkink74@...> >
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>>> To: peel@yahoogroups. com
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>>> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:54  PM
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>>> Subject: [peel] Cowcube at Christmas
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>>> Hi there
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>>> 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).
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>>> 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:
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>>> http://www.mediafir e.com/download. php?ey3mrmdnzoy
>>> <http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ey3mrmdnzoy>
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>>> 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?
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>>> Season's greetings,
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>>> thomas xx
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