A special treat. This is all of the new album, but compressed into three and a half minutes. Just to give you a little taster of what’s in store on 24 May.
Like many fellow music groups, we frequently find ourselves in transit, in between cities, up in the air, down on the ground, across the sea. When in transit, one needs distraction. We, a tired crew of anti–Prousts, not searching for lost time, but wishing to lose track of it – know the horrors of being undistracted in a touring van.
We manage to avoid them: by creating fun and interesting “lists with a difference”. Please find one below. See what we did there? (sorry)
Dark Side Of The Rectum (by Pink Rectum)
Rectum For Nothing (by Dire Rectum)
Crooked Rectum, Crooked Rectum ( by Rectum)
Rectum Nation ( by Sonic Rectum)
Buffalo Rectum ( by Bob Rectum)
Sympathy For The Rectum ( by the Rolling Rectum)
See Rectum, Feel Rectum, Touch Rectum, Heal Rectum ( by The Rectum)
Smoke On The Rectum ( by Deep Rectum)
Safe From Rectum ( by Massive Rectum)
Fight The Rectum (by Public Rectum)
Once In A Rectum (by Talking Rectum)
Sexual Rectum ( by Rectum Gaye)
Ok Rectum (by Rectumhead)
Rectum in the UK ( by The Sex Rectum)
Rectum In America (by Superrectum)
The Number Of The Rectum (by Iron Rectum)
Iron Rectum ( by Black Rectum)
Black Magic Rectum ( by Rectum Mac)
Rectum Time Rectum Place ( by Rectum From Blechdom)
Actionist Rectum ( by Rectum On Mars)
I Just Can’t Get You Out Of My Rectum ( by Rectum Minogue)
All Along The Rectum ( by Rectum Dylan)
Rectum Deep Mountain High ( by Ike And Tina Rectum)
I’ve Got You Rectum ( by Rectum And Cher)
You Sexy Rectum ( by Rectum Chocolate)
One Life Rectum ( by Hot Rectum)
Rectum Ocra ( by Dirty Rectum)
Rectum Snacks ( by Fun Lovin’ Rectum)
Ricky Don’t Lose That Rectum ( by Steely Rectum)
Rectum Of The Holy ( by Led Rectum)
Virginia Rectum ( by Rectum Music)
Another Green Rectum ( by Brian Rectum)
Relight My Rectum ( by Take Rectum)
Let Rectum Entertain You ( by Robbie Rectum)
It Is A Man’s Rectum ( by Rectum Brown)
The Chap’s music has always been created with a nice piece of software called Logic. Many years ago, Logic stopped being developed and released for PCs. This was a bit of a nightmare for us. For about a year we struggled with the final PC version which we had a horrible problem with. We could only select Audio Plugins whose name started with a letter between D and S.
And another great problem was with Now Woel from Ham. There was a guitar part which played even if we deleted everything in the song. That was OK, we just structured the song around it.
Anyway, we eventually jumped into MacBook world, and now we all have a MacBook each. The MacBook even gets a lyric of it’s own on the new album. But after a year, mine was gasping for breath as soon as you switched it on. Perhaps something to do with blowing smoke over it whenever I’m awake, I dunno.
Being the official Chap nerd, I decided to investigate, and followed some friendly instructions on how to dismantle it. My heatsink was clogged up with dirt, but the amazing thing for me was how much thermal paste was on the chips. There should be a microscopic film of thermal paste to transfer the heat away from the chip to the heatsink, but Apple had decided to splodge it on like it’s ketchup.
Now my computer is cool and happy, and I have vowed that next time I buy a MacBook, I’ll immediately open it up and replace the thermal paste.
Oh, and here’s a great article about using Vegemite or toothpaste as thermal paste.