Lt Meat's Newsplort!!!!

New Low Album C'Mon - Exclusive Track

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:24:00 +0000

A track off the new Low Album C'Mon which is out on Subpop in a few weeks. This song is awesome! I've been a fan of Low for a long time and I'm really looking forward to the new album!! I hope they come to the UK for some live dates too!

Enjoy.

Lt Meat

New Album PLORT!

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:24:31 +0000

Hello friends!

As those greasy American rockers Staind once sang 'It's Been A While'. It has been a while since my last post, but I've been busy. I've currently got two singles in iTunes, Amazon Mp3 and Spotify to name a few sites and I've made $3.84 in three months!!! SWEET DEAL! I only need to make $19.98 in 12 months to break even, that's not going to happen! Thanks to the four people who bought my singles, that includes me, thanks me.............you're welcome.

New Lt Meat music is coming thick and fast, but is taking time to get properly finished and recorded. Here's a current demo from my Sound Cloud site (which has a load of old instrumental tracks and new demos on it). I've blatantly stolen the chorus from this song off someone else, if you know who it might be let me know and you'll win a prize!

I've also started my 'Hungover Radio' on the main Steak Records Website. I'll try and get about an hour a week done (whilst hungover or getting drunk). It's just me, and maybe some guests, chatting junk in my bedroom and playing music I'm currently enjoying for whatever reason.

They Are Bleeding (demo) by Lt Meat

It's also my brother's birthday today, so Happy Birthday from Newsplort!!!!

Over and out.

Lt Meat

New Lt Meat single 'Gee, That Feels Swell!' on iTunes now

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:05:24 +0000

Hello! just a quick update.
Link to new Lt Meat single here.
I’m getting into this Tunecore enabled iTunes music selling thing, here’s my new single recorded over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd of January. The current plan is to get my country album (featuring this first single) recorded by spring and to also get special solo releases out onto iTunes as I get them recorded. There’s more surftronica coming too!
Tunecore could become an important tool for amateur musicians as it means you can quickly get your homemade music up onto digital distributors that all of the worlds biggest artists and labels use. Competing with these artists is however going to be tough, marketing for my music is non-existent and to be honest I don’t really know where to start.
I guess magazines (in print and online), music blogs and websites like you tube and vimeo will also become very important marketing tools as they seem pretty much to be the only way to reach potential fans. I haven’t had much luck yet with getting magazines or websites to review my music so that seems to be a shut door for now.

I am in the process of getting some quirky videos recorded to upload to you tube and vimeo. Who knows maybe that’ll generate some online sales! I’ll report back when I get some more information on that. In the meantime enjoy the music!!!

Over and out

Lt Meat

No news is good news?

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:25:08 +0000

Here's an interlude for cold foggy winter's days when nothing seems worth doing. TheThaw.mp3

It's also one of the many old 'songs' I'm trying to get somewhat finished for Volume 1 of my Lt Meat (and possibly Beefcore) library music collection. I have no idea how many tracks there are going to be I've found an old hard drive full of half finished bits and pieces, so keep an eye out I'll post some up as I get them sort of finished.

Once I have a decent collection of supposedly useful instrumentals I'll chuck 'em up on the main site in a zip file. All the music will be free to use for whatever low budget production or internet video phenomenon you're currently working on (I'm looking into how to license music under creative commons agreements at the moment). Until then BON VOYAGE!!!!

Lt Meat

Zombie Wankers 2 'Bowl of the Dead'

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:04:00 +0000

Dear reader,

Not content with spending most of my evenings wandering around various supermarkets and sometimes recording new demos (and trying to record some proper songs to release) me and some friends decided to get together to shoot this rather off the cuff zombie movie. I think it turned out bloody well and I need to give a big thanks to everyone who helped out in any way!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

Check it out at the link below!

Over and out

Lt Meat

Zombie Wankers 2 'Bowl of the Dead' from Lt Meat on Vimeo.

PS I think I have the filming bug now so expect some new Lt Meat videos or mini movies in the near future.

Autumn Creative Outburst!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:34:04 +0000

No shit, I've recorded about 20 new demos of songs over the last week (mostly on my iphone using 4Track). Some have been knocking around for a few months (years) in my head and some are brand spanking new. The surf twang is temporarily off whilst I try and get as many of these new songs recorded before my creative mood buggers off back down the well from whence it came.

I do appear to 'get creative' every time autumn swings around. I think it's a mix of bad weather stopping the skateboards from rolling regular and S.A.D. Read about it here it sounds like bollocks and probably is, along with AIDS and drug addiction. Here's a track I made two years ago in the autumn, you decide...........................or maybe I'm just ripping off Band of Horses and Dan Sartain since I have recently got their newest albums. LMAO, LOL, BRB, BTW, SMC.

AutumnChords.mp3

The Ryder Cup 2010.

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:49:49 +0000

You may not know but I'm from Newport in South Wales.

The last few days at the Celtic Manor Resort (Vale of Usk) have been host to some sort of golf battle. See below, isn't it lovely.

It hasn't seemed to have the major effect on the region that was predicted apart from some over detailed weather reports over the weekend. £50 millon has been spent. Some to improve the image of the city, some for god knows what purpose. Still this is good right? Golf is AWESOME and guaranteed to bring new business into the area? When people see how abandoned and run down the place is they'll surely see the need to open their wallets and drop their trousers?

Maybe not, there are very few jobs, litter coats the streets with civic shame and the general sense of apathy towards anything positive paradoxically runs as strongly as ever through the grey and battered people. It's not actually that bad or it wouldn't be if anyone bothered to do anything properly. I'm just being negative I've had a headache for most of the day and I'm skint and being charged daily by my bank for not having enough money. Plus I'm one of the many people to blame, I work for the Council and do bugger all outside work when I know I could. I'd buy TJs if I had the cash, or the inclination to try and raise the cash........less said the better.

Here's a demo of a song for all the rich americans (and rich British gits) that have spent the last few days probably not seeing any of our beloved but stinking little city. The golf has finished, now you might as well go home and leave us poor people to clean up. THANKS.

TalkLikeAnAmerican.mp3

Over and out

Lt Meat

New Demo ripping off Godspeed you black emperor!!!!

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:08:46 +0000

Musical interlude for the Ryder Cup. Did you know there's a golf course in Newport? I didn't, I might join............................GET bhent.

TheBlackEmperor.mp3

only joking, Ta very much. Now I'm off to watch Team America again.

Lt Meat

Obits!!!

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:06:15 +0000

Click for Obits video

Link to Obits video for 'Pine On'. I really dig Obits and this simple little video idea. Obits are from Brooklyn and feature one of my favourite ever punk rock dudes Rick Froberg (out of Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu and Hotsnakes he's also an all round nice guy and a bit of an influence along with his longtime band member John Reis).

Enjoy!!!! until next time.

Lt Meat

Musical musings.

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:18:35 +0000

Hi listeners,

I'm bored and slightly hungover as I played a rather sketchy one man band set at a friends 30th birthday party last night. The gig went well and I'm fired up to try and get my one man band set up to scratch for some autumn and new year gigs. Plus I've written a handful of new garage/folk songs that I'll be recording over the next few weeks! BONZA.

To pass the time until I begin the slow Sunday night hangover top up I thought I'd tell you about some of my favourite most influencial musicians. There are only a few musicians that I try and keep track of, in fact probably only the two or three. The two really unique musicians I probably check up on the most are Mugison (who's really good at updating his fans with little news trinkets and links to interviews and videos, he also has some free tracks up on his site) and Dan Sartain. Mugison is from Iceland, which is a prerequisite for being very musically talented and unique. He's currently working on a new solo album utilising a new instrument that he's designed and made with a friend of his. I have no idea what to expect but I'm waiting patiently with bated breath. Check out Mugi's site below.

Mugison's Website

I can't wait for Mugi's new music, every album he's made has been progressively different and very interesting, my favourite is 'Mugimama Is This Monkey Music?'. Check it out, it takes a few listens but once Mugi's music sets in to your mind you'll be hooked!!! I also have no idea how he creates his music, he says it's just him with a cheap microphone and a laptop, I think modest Mugi has some special little tricks up his sleeve when mixing his tracks (have a listen to a few of the songs off 'Monkey Music' and you'll hear what I'm talking about). Mugison also has a very nice beard.

Dan Sartain is younger than me and that makes him a git, because his music is awesome and he's more successful than I'll ever be. I don't know that Dan would agree with me though, he's not the world's best self advertiser. I actually thought a few months ago that he'd given up on music as I couldn't find anything new about him on the internet anywhere (unlike Mugi he rarely updates his MySpace profile and he has a limited official website).

If I was a more dedicated fan I'd have found out that he's been busy sorting out his new album and generally being a wandering troubadour over the last few months!!! 'Lives' released back in May 2010 is another cool set of songs from the 'Tiger Man' himself. A more up beat set of tracks than Dan's last album but very cool indeed. I've only just got 'Lives' and it's on repeat. I'm really annoyed with my lazy fan skills, I missed him touring the UK back in May AGAIN. I've also missed Mugison touring twice over the last couple of years. I'm a twat.

Dan's Website

I hope if you have time you'll check out both artists and hopefully delve deep into their unique musical worlds as I have. Both artists have influenced me quite a lot over the years (I pretty much get into recording frenzies shortly after getting one of these guys new albums, it's sometimes bad as I'm sure I've stolen loads of ideas from these guys and not really acknowledged it), still I hope they will continue to give me ideas to steal for many more years to come!

THANKS DAN AND MUGISON, I'm glad you guys are still working hard!!!

**I currently have a Dan Sartain cover in my one man band set, so come to my next gig and you can heckle me for not doing him the justice he deserves**

Thanks for listening!

Over and out.

Lt Meat

PS Mark Knopfler is also a genius.