I wish I was called…

The kind man on the phone told me everything was ok and sent me a new laptop charger! I am briefly happy, and now me and Mac are re-united once more for blog updates galore. 

Before I get typing about tapes I wanna write before I forget.. There’s a new failed rockstar website. For those that remember failed rockstar, it’s pretty exciting.. For those that don’t, it’s now an awesome shiny new website with loads of great features and interviews with artists and it’s a really good read it’s all laid out really well making it interesting and I just think it’s super as I think most of what the Phoenix brothers come out with is. www.failedrockstar.org go there! Infact I think I might start writing about other peoples websites and blogs more often because that would be good and also I would remember the addresses then.

So anyway, here’s 2 tapes I’ve been meaning to feature for ages. The first it turns out I lost the bit of paper I copied down the tracklisting, but you can see a few of them in the photo. I hope you agree that this packaging is AMAZING! I nearly weed myself when this one came in the post. Is someone sending me cigarettes in the post?? No! It’s neatly labeled “for the mixtape exchange” to save confusion. It was made by Lewis Irvine in Glasgow, look at the 1st row:

The 2nd row is the other one I am featuring more properly (in that I am going to alllll the effort of typing up the tracklisting.. I know, I know, the things I do..) is from a guy called David from London I think. I had time to listen to this tape myself and I loved it. It made me pretty excited mostly because it started with Say Anything and that was such a “get hyped” start. So i got hyped. Also it’s got pretty packaging.. Kinda like dunk le chunk’s tape I featured before. I guess cardboard it in at the moment?

“I wish I was called Sebastian (that would be cool)” By David, May ‘09.

A.
1. Say Anything – Admit it
2. Regina Spektor – Your Honor
3. Be Your Own Pet – Adventure
4. Yeah yeah yeahs – Bang!
5. Operator Please – Just a song about ping pong
6. The Strokes – New York City cops
7. Ryan Adams – Shakedown on 9th street
8. PJ Harvey – Good fortune
9. Radiohead – Just
10. The Thrills – Whatever happened to Corey Haim?
11. Brand New – Fork & knife
12. City and Colour – Save your scissors
13. Nirvana – Where did you sleep last night?

B.
1. The Flaming Lips – Race for the prize
2. Poppy and the Jezebels – The lips of Cleopatra
3. Spoon – The way we get by
4. Wilco – Jesus, etc.
5. Ben Folds Five – The luckiest
6. Iron and Wine – Such great heights
7. Bright Eyes – We are nowhere and it’s now
8. The Verve – History
9. Spiritualized – Stop your crying
10. Elbow – On a day like today

new news no news

Hellohello. I am an awful updater.

So the news is: Ive been a busy little bee driving around the country lots over the past month or so which has been lovely! I’ve been Driving my buddies in the band Peggy Sue to their shows aswell as a few of my own, and off to Glasgow again tomorrow for some more recording. It’s all been really good. But in the brief time I’ve been home I had to unpack all my possesions gradually because before I went off driving everywhere I moved house and just dumped all my boxes of stuff just in a few big piles.

It’s nice moving house and  discovering all the things you forgot you had and noticing the amount of junk you accustomed since last time you moved (which seems to be quite frequently for me).  I’m not sure how I ended up with 2 copies of the South Pacific soundtrack on vinyl when I don’t even own a copy of the film, but it’s a good’un. As I was putting all my records away noticing how many I have that I never listen to.. I thought it might be fun to make a mixtape of songs off records I have but never listen to.

But then came the bad news.. My whole sound system went to the graveyard. To be fair it is almost 30 years old so I suppose that’s about as long as CDs have been available and so that’ pretty good going. But it was the best machine, it was my dad’s and he gave it to me as a hand-me-down on my 15th birthday and I thought it was really cool having seperates of CD, vinyl, then the amp having a double tapedeck and radio in it! It really was a beautiful set of objects.. But the point is it’s dead and I had to get  new ones.. If anyone has tried to buy a double tapedeck/amp/tuner recently they will understand that it’s pretty hard to find all that in one. But I did get them as seperates and instead of a tuner a digital radio! Wow! This is going to make taping off the radio completely different.. I guess you don’t get static from a digital radio? So now I have a whole new sexy set up I’m really excited to explore it and get taping again!  

I’ve had a few REALLY good tapes through my letter box and although one of them has gone already i took some photos of it so next week I will make another feature tape on here. I know I’m bad at updating, but I will.. OK maybe give me 2 weeks, perhaps I’ll even feature 2 tapes!

Lovelove x

xxx sextapes

I have been SUPER excited at the mixtape headquarters recently. Had some really great ones pass through! I have also been making a couple of my own themed ones – one about colours – one about Aberdeen – one about my friend Kristy moving house –  and I’ve got a few in the pipeline including one about the second world war and one about boys that I think are dreamy.

Now being the massive stationery geek that I am, I lovelovelove a well packaged tape. A pretty sleeve note or drawing, doodles, handwriting really makes me smile. So when one landed on the doorstep from Dunk at Red Deer Club I nearly cried with excitement. A beautifully packaged tape with awesome songs:

(Look – I worked out show to make the images smaller so the page is easier to scroll down. You can click on them to see them enlarged)

 

RED DEER SEX TAPES…

A COMPILATION BY DUNK LE CHUNK  (MARCH ‘09)

SIDE ONE

radio intro
1. The Eels – Theme from bunking lights
2. Awesome Wells – Yellow tree
3. Quiet Village – Victoria’s Secret
4. Felt – Spectral morning
5. HMS Ginafore – Dandy and time is a killer
6. Down The Tiny Steps – Infinitea
7. Emmett Miller – The blues singer from alaban
8. The Boston Pops – Hot buttered popcorn
9. Magic Arm – Daft punk is playing at my house
10. Q Tip – Manwoman boogie
11. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – I love you creedence
12. City Centre – Summer school
13. Kitty Daisy & Lewis – Going up the country
14. Phosphorescent – I gotta get drunk

SIDE TWO

radio intro
1. Dr. Octagon – I got to tell you
2. The Pictish Trail – Secret Sound No.2
3. George Thomas & The Owls – Cakes, pastries & patisseries
4. The Great Park – Displacement song
5. Freschard – Me + depth = 2
6. Fire On Fire – Hangman
7. Paddy Steel – Bells of the horses
8. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Das regenecho
9. Unknown – Prison song
10. Spider And The Flies – Metallurge
11. Foo Fighters – This is a call
12. Dananananakroyd – Chrome rainbow
13. They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in your soul

 

It also really excited me that he put radio static/ tuning between stations at the beginning of each side because it brought back memories from when I was wee and taping off the radio, and also just because it’s a great intro. sound-wise.

If I’m honest I kept this tape for myself for a couple of weeks (I know, naughty me) but it’s in the box now! So get taping and this gem could be yours..

Also a quick note to those who have made tapes for this exchange before – please always e-mail before you send one at charlotwebstertapes@gmail.com to check it’s the same address because it does change! 

C x

dave tapes too.

Before we went on tour, Dave (who plays my songs with me) wanted to make  a tape for the exchange. Obviously Dave being Dave left it ’til right before we went. He doesn’t have a tape player of his own so I said he could use mine, so he brings in the blank 90 min TDK I gave him for his birthday and a whole stack of CDs to my room and starts and I give him my wise words of making a mixtape tips and left him to it. He spent all night dancing away in my room so I ended up sleeping on the sofa. Here is what he made:

“This tape is fast”

SIDE A

1. Architecture in Helsinki – Red Turned White
2. Saves The Day – See You
3. Stars – Set Yourself on Fire
4. Hot Chip – Out At The Pictures
5. Captain Everything! – The Bomb Song
6. Why? – The Vowels Part II
7. Pedro The Lion – Arizona
8. The Movielife – Once In A Row
9. Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky
10. New End Original – Lukewarm
11. Reggie and The Full Effect – Your Bleedin’ Heart
12. Scholars – Tornadoes
13. I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business – The Best Happiness Money Can Buy

SIDE B

1. Death Cab For A Cutie – The New Year
2. Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood
3. Jimmy Eat World – A Praise Chorus
4. Vampire Weekend – M79
5. Head Automatica – At The Speed of a Yellow Bullet
6. The Shins – Caring Is Creepy
7. Kings of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From
8. The Get Up Kids – I’m a Loner Dotty, A Rebel!
9. Holy Fuck – Lovely Allen
10. RX Bandits – Crushing Destroyer
11. Sufjan Stevens – The Mistress Witch From McClure
12. Ben Folds Five – Boxing

He drew a pretty picture of a racing car & wrote the following in the sleeve:

“Dear Tape Recipient, Yo, wuzzurp, thanks for taking my tape! I hope you think it’s really cool because I do. There are 2 problems with it though; 1. The recording got a bit botched so after the first two songs everything is a little quicker than it should be 2. I didn’t put any Weezer on it.”

ALSO he found an old mixtape I made for his birthday 6 years ago! It is awesome, featuring mostly old rhythm and blues and including at least 3 songs from musicals, haha! I have always had good taste. I’ll try and nab it and post that up at some point, too.

 

Tour has been really great. Thank you to every one that has come to shows!

 

The mixtape exchange is slowly growing.. Had some really great tapes put in the box, especially in Aberdeen. I will make one of them a feature when I get back (we’re still in Leeds the noo) but here is a tape I meant to feature before I went, but I forgot. I’ts from Sophie in Brighton. It is no longer in the box, it is in a fair Scottish lady’s hands and I didn’t get to copy down the track listings before it went, so I suppose it’s a bit silly to feature it… But it had a pretty cover.

 

“Here Come The Serious Quirks” February 2009.

OK. So I am starting to get to grips with this. By the very fact that I run a TAPE exchange proves that I’m kinda slow on technology, but I’ma stick at this blog thing. Just made a page explaining the CFW Tape Exchange.. So if you want to make a tape, read that!

Thanks so much to everyone that’s made a tape or shown an interest so far.

I’m going to start picking tapes to feature, starting with one that was put in the tape box by an handsome man at a Brighton show in January. It had a shiny cat sticker on the case! I’m not into cats, but I’m into stickers so this won marks to be a feature tape. & because it’s really good. It’s left the box to someone elses hands, but I manage to sneakily make myself a copy first.

Huxley Boon No. 37 “Hard Work Works”

SIDE A
1. Ross Substance – Take A Fall
2. Career Suicide – Play The Part
3. Antelope – Flower
4. Hot Snakes – Plenty For All
5. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
6. No Age – Teen Creeps
7. Panoa Bear – Take Pills
8. The Beatles – Here come the sun
9. Dave House – Death + taxes
10. Kid Dynamite – Breaking a memory
11. Fugazi – Bed for the scraping
12. Broccoli – cracklesong
13. Les Savy Fav – pots+ pans
14. The Shitty Limits – Straight forward
15.Vivian Girls – I believe in nothing
16.Blitz – Razors in the night
17. Hard Skin – who’s that boy
18. Mogwai – Kids will be skeletons.

SIDE B
1. Slow Club – Let’s fall back in love
2.Nirvana – Son of a gun
3. Vampire Weekend – A punk
4. Circle jerks – Wasted
5. The Sonics – Do you love me?
6. Rites of Spring – Deeper than inside
7. Twofold – Breath is the weapon/rock the disjoint
8. Against me! – Joy
9.Why? – Good Friday
10. The Minutemen – tension
11. Double dagger – the psychic
12. Descendents – I’m the one
13. The Futureheads – Trying not to think about time
14. The Undertones – Get over you
15. Dartz! – once, twice, again
16. The Beastie Boys – Gratitude
17. Public Enemy – Welcome to the terrordome
18. Brutal Knights – Fake Youth
19. Fighting Shit – Girls Kick Ass

I am making a blog.

I am making a blog and I am a bit scared that it is going to turn into another teenage angst (yes, I still seem to have) outlet rather than what my original intention was.. which is posting news on my mixtape exchange, and other such music related topics. 

Before I can start either of those.. I need to work out how to use this fucking thing. It better not be as hard as Facebook. I gave up on that.