SoulBlog.

Kelly's quiver...

2009-07-08T05:10:00.000-07:00

From the CI Blog. We just sent three new boards down to South Africa as Kelly prepares for the Billabong Pro at Jefferies Bay.

Sour / Hibi no Neiro

2009-07-07T14:44:00.000-07:00

Genius! Via www.booooooom.com

Broadbench: the Gathering

2009-07-06T01:52:00.000-07:00

Mad as a snake v2.

2009-07-02T08:10:00.000-07:00

Brilliant, mad and beautiful. Check her out at glastonbury too.

Mad as a snake v1.

2009-07-02T08:03:00.000-07:00

Beautiful music. How cool is the guitarist!?

New Beasties....

2009-06-30T06:58:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to the album!

Nuala's first surf trip.

2009-06-29T03:33:00.000-07:00

She was heard to mutter... "I'm never surfing sutton again" as she left.

Three sloppy sessions in 3 days.

2009-06-29T03:28:00.000-07:00

Small windy waves... even when its crap if it makes you smile its worth getting in for. Sandilands golf club pay their respects on 'the day music died' as heard on BBC radio one... no one told Blur though! Blur live at Glastonbury.

Busy working...

2009-06-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

Busy working, looking at the sun though my window. New music from Dead Weather, White Denim and Lady Of The Sunshine are rocking the office stereo.

Jack White and The Kills' Alison Mosshart have formed a new band – The Dead Weather, which also features Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dean Fertita of Queens Of The Stone Age.

Brilliant.

Makes you wanna go surf but the tracks from Lady Of the Sunshine who is Angus from Angus & Julia Stone.

16th June.

2009-06-23T03:55:00.001-07:00

A trip to pick up a new board and 2-3ft at sandsend, result!

Hope.

2009-06-23T03:19:00.000-07:00

In the long term, there really isn’t much to report. The chart remains practically the same for at least another five or six days, with very slack or non-existent pressure gradients both on the surface and in the upper atmosphere. The good news is we’re now past the summer solstice, so the difference in solar input between the Equator and the North Pole – the driving force for all Atlantic storms – is already beginning to increase again.

Tony Butt.

Via Wetsand.

Yeehah!

2009-06-23T03:15:00.000-07:00

Bansky.

2009-06-13T00:43:00.001-07:00

New fins.

2009-06-12T11:08:00.000-07:00

Now all we need is waaaavesssssssssss!

Wieden + Kennedy creates music video.

2009-06-12T05:21:00.000-07:00

Via the CR Blog.

David Wilson has directed this impressive video for new band We Have Band. But what makes this promo particularly unusual is that it was conceived by an advertising agency.

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra.

2009-06-08T08:40:00.000-07:00

Beautiful, magical... check em out Myspace

VENACAVA.

2009-06-07T05:39:00.000-07:00

New work, logo for the band Venacava. Check em out on Myspace.

5th June.

2009-06-07T04:00:00.000-07:00

Desperation measures... it wasn't as bad as it looks honest!

15th May.

2009-06-07T03:56:00.000-07:00

Stolen logos and a shaky hand.

After work sess at sutton, tide pushed in and wind dropped as we surfed. Its not often its class at sutton, it was 10pm by the time we got out the water.

It wasn't meant to end like this.

2009-06-04T06:28:00.000-07:00

Brilliant... nicked from the CR blog.

The Glue Society has unveiled its latest installation at the Sculpture by the Sea festival in Aarhus in Denmark. The piece, entitled "It wasn't meant to end like this", is a huge mechanical digger that seems to have buried itself under 300 tonnes of rubble... The Glue Society

New Coke Cans.

2009-06-02T03:10:00.001-07:00

Nice... but I was first, and my fish has nicer lines!

White Rabbits.

2009-05-29T02:11:00.000-07:00

White Rabbits "Percussion Gun" Music Video from White Rabbits on Vimeo.

Pretty sick track and vid. Myspace link

Freshwater West.

2009-05-26T15:37:00.000-07:00

Good times in Pembrokeshire.

Eels - Fresh Blood

2009-05-26T15:05:00.001-07:00

Eels - Hombre Lobo

2009-05-26T14:58:00.000-07:00

Can't wait... 2nd June.

HOMBRE LOBO: 12 Songs of Desire

It's been four years since the double EELS album BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS. If that album was about the human spirit, the new EELS album HOMBRE LOBO is about animal instinct. "I wanted to write a set of songs about desire. That dreadful, intense want that gets you into all sorts of situations that can change your life in big ways," says EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E.

"I didn't want to write a bunch of blatantly autobiographical songs about a lonely old indie rocker, so I thought it would be more interesting if it came from this character," says Everett, who now sports a beard even mightier than the one grown during the release of the 2001 EELS album SOULJACKER. "Maybe the way people have been looking at me on the street colored who this character would be."

"I was thinking 'what happens when the young 'Dog Faced Boy' (of the SOULJACKER album) grows up?' -- He tries to function in society. But he can't get past the fact that he's still likened to an animal," Everett says. "I was thinking about where he goes from there as he gets older, and it occurred to me that the best a dog faced boy could hope for would be to grow into something that can just squeak by in society with some semblance of dignity. I figured the best he could do was to become a dignified old werewolf."

Alternately tender and terrifying, HOMBRE LOBO features twelve songs from the point of view of a hirsute man enraptured by the beauty of his muse, and frustrated by his desires. Sometimes our anti-hero is melancholic, wishing only for a look his way ("That Look You Give That Guy"). Other times his instincts overtake him with bloodcurdling howls ("Fresh Blood"). And sometimes he can only celebrate the infinite beauty he desires ("In My Dreams," "Tremendous Dynamite").

"It's about the beginning. About what kind of shape you're in when you're alone and you don't want to be alone. What steers you to want to not be alone. The desperate need to connect. And if you're isolated, that can be a real predicament," says Everett. "Sometimes your instincts become unbearable." As he sings in the song "My Timing Is Off":

Believe it or not
We Don't have a choice in matters of the heart
Just gotta be brave enough
To love and let yourself be loved