http://www.tubesnake.co.uk No one here gets out alive Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:45:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tubesnake have just accepted an invitation to play at this year's Heart 'n' Soul Rally at Gosforth Racecourse at 8.15pm on Saturday 19th September 2009. This time we have been promoted from playing in the Silver Ring Bar as we did last September to doing a straight hour and a ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2009/01/06/news-heart-rally-2009/ Venus In Furs (1967) Written by Lou Reed and originally released on the 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico. Inspired by the book of the same name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The music features John Cale's cacophonous viola as well as Lou Reed's Ostrich guitar, that is, a guitar with ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2009/01/03/videoclip-venus-in-furs/ When it's closer to dawn than the midnight hour And your misty mind swims in a land locked haze When glimmering flames are stealing the shadows And needle like rhythms seem to pierce your brain When you twist and you turn like a meandering river When you're lost in the dance like a ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2009/01/02/lyrical-deep/ http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2009/01/01/happy-new-year-2009/ Thanks to Marshall and Graeme on the door, for continuing to man their posts while 'on the door' sales took the numbers attending to just over the 100 required to confirm this gig as a 'sell-out'. The Unnamed, put out a very strong 45 mins to kick the night off, ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/12/31/nye-at-crook-fc/ http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/12/28/videoclip-misirlou/ In the Blessed and Cold In the Crutch-hungry Dark Was where we flayed our Mark Oh, and we were Gone Kings of Oblivion We were so Turned On In the Mind-Warp Pavilion ... Bowie 1971 http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/12/15/lyrics-kings-of-oblivion/ "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." ... William Blake Music by Neil Young. http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/12/14/videoclip-dead-man/ The Lambton Hounds, Pity Me, Saturday 13th December 2008. http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/12/13/tubesnake-for-sale/ New venue for us on Sunday 30th November 2008 when we appear at Bar Luma in Sunderland. We've been told that the timing is strictly a 9pm start for the first set and 10.15pm for the second, which is gonna test our powers of observation 'cos we're usually much more ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/11/28/luma-looms/ Third break for 2008. Two weeks this time while Chris da Bass revisits his Jamaican cousins on his third cruise of the year. Meanwhile the rest of us might scrape together enough cash to get a return train fare for a night out in Newcastle. Heh! Heh! Back on the ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/11/16/snake-break-vol-iii/ People Are Strange (2008) TUBESNAKE recorded live at The Star Inn, Newcastle, on Saturday 21st June 2008. Thanks to 'Heedbanger' for this video clip http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/11/07/videoclip-people-are-strange/ ¡Ay, Caramba! We've got a weekend off due to other commitments, seasonal illness, christmas shopping and the "Will to be Weird" but not necessarily in that order. Looking forward to a first appearance at The Royalty in Sunderland on the 14th November (used to drink there when I was a ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/11/05/wassup/ This picture, sent from our friends in New Zealand, shows the "Boobs On Bikes" weekend which takes place in Wellington. Amazingly similar to our recent gig in Sunderland ... Heh! http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/11/03/wellington-boobs/ Sunday 26th October 2008. An explosive late afternoon return to much more than normality at the re-launch of gigs at The Clarendon in Sunderland. We had a full-house with loadza Clara peeps and rock/punk gods from 1977, The Diamond Dogs, The Creepers and The Glammed. Jeff, running the show from ... http://www.tubesnake.co.uk/2008/10/26/rise-of-clara/