A good job is an Anti Job

Fresh from the DIY New York College Scene, The Anti Job have been entertaining all Jocks, Geeks, stoners, preppies, cheerleaders and even the janitor at a variety of venues close to their campus. Originally a pair, The Anti job have now required a drummer and on the back of this have released an excellent E.P self titled "We are the Anti Job"which is full of both lo-fi melodic charm and avante garde punk. It is refreshingly original and will no doubt be blaring out of the speakers of many a Students dorm and Professors office

Fresh from finishing thier summer exams, they very kindly dropped us a line to talk about their new EP and to put forward thier own version of Cockney Rhyming Slang!

So Anti Job, How are you all and what are you up to?

We are great! We are on summer break enjoying being away from the stress of school and what not. Right now all three of us are scattered all over the country with Amanda in Washington D.C, Martin in L.A, and Katie in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Would you like to introduce yourselves?
We are the Anti-Job, We are a band. And we REALLY enjoy making music. Katie Troy plays the drums, Martin lopez-iu plays electric guitar and Amanda Jones plays acoustic and sings.

If you could describe your sound in one sentence, how would you do it?

We are an indie-avant-punk-psychedelic-clepto-rock band from New York

Tell us about our excellent EP?
There are five songs on the EP. its a collection of songs written from 2007-2009. We recorded it by ourselves in a diy, unpolished spirit. We talk about war, crime, long distance relationships, mental health and pandas...yes pandas

How can we get hold of a copy?

You can download a copy of the entire EP "We are the Anti-Job" on our myspace page June 25th for free. In addition we will be passing them out at shows and if you want a hard copy you can email us your mailing address to: antijob@rocketmail.com
I hear you guys are from New York, which coincidently is where my girlfriend originates from (she moved to England when she was 7) She still dreams about eating Pizza at a place called Johns, somewhere in Greenwich Village. Do any of you know it? where is the best Place to get Pizza near you? Yea we know it we go there all the time. We know John personally...actually we don't eat pizza....only guacamole.

Am I right in thinking you guys are still at college? in England we associate American colleges with Geeks and Jocks, what category do you fall into and are you members of a fraternity?

Yes we are still in College Let's see I think we transcend all definitions And noo we are not in any fraternities there are none at our college....we can out drink those bastards anyways

Have you ever heard of cockney rhyming slang?

Yea....kinda. All we can say is an expression when someone is in trouble. Um rob a bank your in barney. Haha we try.

Is there anything else you would like to share with us?

Martin will share his body. And hopefully we'll be seeing you at your local venue! Check out the EP!!!! "We are the Anti-Job" online and at our shows!....they will not be in stores soon.

The Anti Job can be found here......Watch out!

June Club Ugly is so Hot right now

So The June Club Ugly left it's final Tuesday slot with a fair amount of gusto. It was indeed a cracker of an evening further embossing the haphazard Club Ugly brand into all those around to a level that even the likes of Sir Alan Sugar would have been impressed with. Whilst the whole of London roasted. The Club Ugly suprisingly remained cool.













Eddie Halliday opened proceedings playing records straight from his latest album "replaced by these colours", armed with no more than a few guitars and a Dr Rhythm he hand picked his way through an impressive opening set, showing us all why the good guys at naked tree recordings have yet again put faith in him. With a mix of old and new records, some loud and some sweet. Eddie Halliday left the Club Ugly entourage with both envy and admiration as he sang, strummed and daintily stepped between his line of guitar pedals, paving the way for a que of newfound admirers wantng a copy of his latest recordings.













Admittedly (due to a heavy work load), I hadn't done my homework on Off Ground Touch, and as a result hadn't even played them on Tuckshop Community Radio. "I think you'll like them" Tobias had told me as we sat outside the Social earlier that evening tucking into Chicken soup fresh from Itsu which was conveniently located round the corner. "The new stuff they're doing is cracking" he added imbetween slurps, and boy was he right as within the first few chords of thier set, I with everyone else fell into a trance and collectively hummed along to happy melodies accompanied by harmonica's, banjo, electric drum kits and soothing vocals. I will indeed be chasing them for a few recordings in the near future so keep your ears open.














Even though Jared, our compere for the evening kept the crowd in good humour, introducing to us all the new social networking game of Club Ugly Soul Mates (Come down on the 23rd to play the next installement) I'm not quite sure if anyone was fully prepared for the theatrics that surrounded the 8 instrument strong ensemble of Gabby Young and Other Animals. With the brass section standing in with the crowd, Club Ugly perhaps more than ever before became fully immersed with the performing band, the front row telepathically ducked every time the trombomist burst into solo, the second row and beyond swung to the swinging bass and ticking drums, whilst those on the side, shimmied up and down the aisle as Gabby sang strong.













It was indeed, yet again a fantastic evening and although we feel a little sad to be leaving our Tuesday slot, we look forward to seeing you on Thursday the 23rd July where we'll have some more fun and games