You Are Not Us! http://youarenotus.posterous.com Bristol based math rock four piece posterous.com Mon, 19 May 2008 19:58:00 -0700 Gig Poster http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/gig-poster.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/gig-poster.html

Gojtek Godzisz headling
Yanu and Vespertine supporting.

We're on at 9.

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Fri, 16 May 2008 12:23:00 -0700 Live version of 3over4 http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/live-version-of-3over4.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/live-version-of-3over4.html

We finally got our hands on the recording made of our Louisinana gig in December. I've done a rough mix of 3over4 and it is now uploaded to our myspace page. You can download it from there if you'd like to.

We'll get more mixed and uploaded soon.

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Wed, 07 May 2008 19:00:00 -0700 Pedal Fix http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/pedal-fix.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/pedal-fix.html You may recall that I bought a lovely new Dan Electro echo pedal last year. Tonally and effect-wise, it was great, but it kept cutting out on me in the middle of practices. I did a bit of background reading and discoveed that Dan Electro pedals have a bad reputation for the quality of jacks used in their otherwise brilliant pedals - the build quality of the unit is sturdy and reliable, the jacks are made of plastic and prone to failing.

Danelectro Dan-Echo

I couldn't return my pedal because I got it cheap and unboxed, so Simon and I set to work repairing it. My plan was to hard-wire some make your own George L patch leads directly onto the circuit board and lead them out of the jack holes in the pedal housing, then fasten replaceable George L jacks at the other end, so the pedal could be plugged directly into other pedals/units. Simon has the electronics skills so I let him figure out how to do it.

Inside the pedal the jacks are conveniently located on a small easily removable circuit board. A ombination of solder, four hands, and elbow grease saw the end of the retched plastic jacks.

Simon solders the joints of the plastic jacks


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After successful removal of the Jacks we then had to figure out which part of the George L lead was the signal and which was the ground - we guessed. After soldering the right bits to the output part of the circuit we discovered our guess was good.

Fixing George L to the circuit board


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The second lead was much harder to replace - trial and error saw us solder the signal and lead to various permutations of points. I think the complication was in the fact that jack triggered a power switch when a a connection was made - I'm sure Simon can explain better. We got there in the end though.

Impotent evil - the second jack pwned


Possibly the winning connection - I can't remember


Next we put it back together and shoved the exposed wire ends through the jack holes before screwing on the George L jacks.

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I've now filled in the holes with blutack to stop the leads getting wrenched off the board. The good thing with George L is that if the connection goes at the male end of the lead you can snip off some wire and re-make the connection.

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Tue, 06 May 2008 17:28:00 -0700 More kit http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/more-kit.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/more-kit.html Just had a shit day at work so cheered myself up by ordering this in the mail:

It's an all valve Fender Blues Junior combo amp with a modest, but punch-packing, 15Watts of output.

It should arrive in time for the next Yanu practice session and definitely in time for the May gig.

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Fri, 02 May 2008 14:10:00 -0700 Gig news http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/gig-news.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/05/gig-news.html

Two gigs coming up. Full details soon, but here's the main bits:

Thurs 22nd May @ Louisiana
Friday 11th July somewhere in Bath

Looking forward to going back to the Louie - enjoyed it enormously last time.

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:53:00 -0800 Still not us http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/03/still-not-us.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/03/still-not-us.html

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Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:46:00 -0800 Mum-Core, Moi? http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/02/mum-core-moi.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2008/02/mum-core-moi.html Jack Johnson might want to shoot his publicist for this own goal:

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Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:42:00 -0800 Gig report / New Year Plans http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/gig-report-new-year-plans.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/gig-report-new-year-plans.html Well, the gig went a lot better than the last. We weren't exactly note-perfect but that's not really the point. We sounded better thanks in no small part to the engineer at The Louisiana who did a great job, and we performed pretty well I think. We had a decent audience and loads of people I'd never seen before (who I imagine were there for the headliner). The other bands (The Exhibition, and The Corrections) were both really good and well worth staying for.

This time we can offer no photos, or video - WAG and official photographer Chloe was off sick and I forgot my video camera. However, at some stage we should be getting a recording of the gig and will no doubt post the results here and update our woeful Myspace.

This is most likely it for 2007. Plans for the new year include studio time, a charity gig (plus as many other gigs as we can get), and a video (I have a killer idea for a cheap pop-promo). Yanu has been great fun this year and incredibly rewarding to get on stage - thanks to everyone who's encouraged us to persevere and for letting us know that they think our music is good.

Have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year.

Love, Yanu

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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:16:00 -0800 Yanu is Broke / Gig Looming / New Song / Guitar Trivia http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/yanu-is-broke-gig-looming-new-song.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/12/yanu-is-broke-gig-looming-new-song.html Sadly the £50 that Yanu has so far earned in its vainglorious career has run out. We spent the last tenner yesterday at our regular practice room The Muse Rooms. We had an excellent practice in which we sounded tight, and ready for the Louisiana gig on Thursday. As mentioned before we will be supporting EMI-signed The Corrections.

It should be a good gig - we've always wanted to play the Louie as a band. The other band Ali drums in, Kabuki Mono, played there a week or two ago and he said that the sound-desk did a wonderful job - so we should be sounding good - for those of you who were dissapointed at the aural soup on offer at the Fleece gig.

We also worked up a new song yesterday, working title: "Ben's Pop." It's based around an arpeggiated A Minor with a traditional verse chorus structure and Yanu's trademark dynamic build. It then breaks down to an unexpected A Minor/F Major 'chill out room' before vamping out on an equally surprising A Minor / D7/11 curve-ball. As yet, no lyrics.

In other news, I've reinstated a my blonde Telecaster as my guitar of choice, having replaced the unwieldy 11-gauge strings with some 10s.

Blonde Tele

I'm now putting the whole guitar and pedal board through my ART Tube pre-amp, which is giving it warmth, tonal fullness, and a little overdrive. It was sounding really good.

ART Tube Pre-Amp

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:16:00 -0700 Gig Video http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/gig-video.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/gig-video.html We've got a few videos of our debut gig to upload in the next few days - here is the first. It's an extract from '3over4' - the show openner. I beseech you to use earphones or decent speakers to watch and listen as the sound quality isn't great (recorded through handycam mic) and will sound awful on tinny computer speakers. Alas, Ali's drums, Ben's bass, and my guitar are barely audible in this clip - but you may get the idea.

A huge thanks to Jody for bringing his camera along and shooting it.

More to come very soon.

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Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:21:00 -0700 G-Day http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/g-day.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/g-day.html The day has come - the 10th of October 2007 will not just go down in history as the day Radiohead hammerred another nail to into the coffin of the record industry - in just over twelve hours Yanu will be taking to the stage for its inaugural gig.

We had one last, frantic, practice last night and sort of settled on a set list which has now been lost. With new amps, we played loud and hard - so much so that as Simon summoned a wall of feedback for the intro to what will be our set closer, I was forced to say "you just can't do that to people." He promises to be good tonight - but it may just have been me feeling grouchy and stuffy with a hideous cold. I'm going to have a box of man-size Kleenex at the end of my pedal-board this evening.

It turns out that our set may be a little shorter than the allocated 45 mins - but size isn't everything. Not only do we have fewer tunes, that the world is ready for, than we thought but we played them rather fast, such is our pre-gig excitement.

Whether it lasts 15 minutes or half an hour, it should be a lot of fun, so see you later!

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Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:16:00 -0700 Gig Time Announced / New Amps http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/gig-time-announced-new-amps.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/10/gig-time-announced-new-amps.html The details of our gig have now been made public and we can tell you that we will be going on stage at 2300. The place is Oppo on Park St and the day is tomorrow, Weds 10th Oct 2007 (but you already knew that last bit).

Simon and Ben have been busy buying amps and bass cabs, both of which will be on display at the show. Simon settled for a Laney LC30 MKII combi amp to replace his Marshall half stack:

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While Ben opted for the Hartke 115 cab for extra bass weight:

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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:31:00 -0700 Debut Gig - 10th Oct 2007 - Oppo http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/09/debut-gig-10th-oct-2007-oppo.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/09/debut-gig-10th-oct-2007-oppo.html The YANUs have been booked to play Oppo. This will be our first gig. Oppo doubles as a poetry venue and coffee shop, but apparently we can be as loud as we want.

Having spent the summer doing everything apart from jamming and practising we are making last minute efforts to get match fit. We got together for the first time in months last night at Muse Rooms and found that a summer of slacking had matured our sound and lent a certain tightness. Hopefully this will last until the 10th.

We are due to go on stage at 2300Hrs.

We are very excited.

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:36:00 -0700 Join Us http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/join-us.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/join-us.html We are now a Facebook group called 'Yanu'

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:10:00 -0700 Yanu Reviews http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/yanu-reviews.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/yanu-reviews.html I was asked to write a few reviews for the new Tuborg Music website. Browse the archive - articles are creditted to Boz Roberts and James Martin so far. Some of the gigs mentioned below are reviewed. You can also read regular previews and such like that I've written in Venue Magazine.

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:49:00 -0700 New pedal dilemma http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/new-pedal-dilema.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/new-pedal-dilema.html I am thinking of buying this:

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At £70 it is way cheaper than a Boss DD6, but being analogue it doesn't have the loop feature that it's digital counterparts do. It was also voted product of the year by Guitar and Bass magazine... I think. I had a go today at Jam Guitars and it was pretty nice. Incidently, if you are ever in Bristol and you visit only one shop, make it Jam - such a lovely place.

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:04:00 -0700 Thatcher's Children ROCK Timbuk2 http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/thatchers-children-rock-timbuk2.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/08/thatchers-children-rock-timbuk2.html Simon "had and hangover" and didn't come, Ben "had nightmares" and couldn't come - both at the last minute, leaving Jem and I, dressed as farmers, to fill a prime-time slot in the less than prime back room of T2 for Hijack's bank holiday party.

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Djing with no records... or hands

Having turned up in the wrong room, spending 15 minutes trying to kick people off the decks who had every right to be there, we eventually found our way to the pitch-black, back room. With no light, even less of a clue of how to use the mixer, and wondering how to make the transition from old-skool to rock/pop, things didn't start too well. Couple of clangs, couple of missed cues, and then we were back. Lots of friends were very nice and came and danced, and even some people we didn't know.

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Pooped

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Jem and Mr Tropical Hotdog

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Friend of Thatcher, Jack, laying down bare minimal

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Fans

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Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:51:00 -0700 You still Are Not Us http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/06/you-still-are-not-us.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/06/you-still-are-not-us.html
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Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:16:00 -0800 New guitar for Simon http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/01/new-guitar-for-simon.html http://youarenotus.posterous.com/2007/01/new-guitar-for-simon.html
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This blog is becoming an archive of guitar porn. Oh well, here is my shiny new red one.

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