Who wants to fall in Love with Schizo Fun Addict

i love spam and self promotion and i dont care what anyone says. good on you mate!

That's one of the worse band names I've heard in awhile. It sounds like somebody was fucking around with refrigerator magnets.

Jesus Christ, Burnweed, are you *still* at it? Hey Momus! You wanted to know what Oasis would inspire -- so is this outsider art or not? ;-)

somebody was fucking around with refrigerator magnets = BEST NAME FOR A BAND EVAH!!

Our name rocks. Like LOOKOUT RECORDS is rock and roll. Get the fuck out of here with that cheese. Put us on a stage with any band on that sorry ass commericalized faux punk rock label of yours and we'll show you what a real New York City lo fi tornado will due to that phony made of plastic sorry excuse for an undderground wanna happening.

Don't take my word for it though. Here is what THE NEW YORK CITY STREET REPORT said of our last gig:

"At 2:30 AM we headed over to a bar called 2A where THE STROKES were holding court with THE WHITE STRIPES. I had no idea they would be there, but such serendipity is a cornerstone element in serious scenbuilding. The place was buzzing. It just felt great to be in the right place at the right time. The DJ was spinning classic guitar rock from past and present. People are finally dancing again to music other than house and techno (which I also love). The only set back was the impossibility of getting into the bathroom.

At about 3:30AM I was handed a flyer for an after hours gig for a band called SCHIZO FUN ADDICT which boldly claimed, "the greatest clandestine venue in the history of rock and roll." Anybody who wanted to attend was told to be out front at 4AM when a white van would pick us up and bring us to the mysterious venue. Tony Zajkowski, front man from HONEYCOMB and satellite member of SCHIZO FUN ADDICT told me not to miss this so I headed outside to wait for the van. As I crammed into the back with a load of mad fuckers, I realized that nobody knew what this was all about. The van was making stops at various bars around the city and picking up freaks with invites.

The van deposited us downtown at the Brooklyn Bridge where we were escorted into an abandoned maintenance shed inside a column of the bridge. Stunning! This was totally illegal. The DJ was playing a mixture of British indie rock from the early 90s-- STONE ROSES, CHARLATANS, HAPPY MONDAYS, as well as big beat and hard house trance tracks. Many blunts were being passed around.

It was packed with approximately 100 people. The space was like a small cavern but with 20 foot high stone ceiling, dirt and gravel floor, and four walls filled with acidic visuals and strobes. Then a movie started to play using all four walls as four separate screens.

This was so unbelievably strange. The movie was about some person called BURNWEED and his belief that THE STONE ROSES are angels heralding in The Second Coming. The movie lasted about 40 minutes and then SCHIZO FUN ADDICT took the makeshift stage made of wooden pallets and a closed dumpster as drum riser. They killed! There is no possible way to describe the sheer uncontrived experimental quasar of sound this crew put out. There was full on white noise guitars that shook the concept of treble past anything MY BLOODY VALENTINE may have ever dreamed of. There was electric piano and sax too and a drummer that had eight arms when he wasn't triggering full on big break beats.

They have two front people, a manic guy and a more subdued girl (so hot) who sang some of the oddest harmonies I've ever heard. Try to picture early VELVET UNDERGROUND working with THE APHEX TWIN remixing SONIC YOUTH's first album or maybe DIONNE WARWICK fronting THE JESUS and MARY CHAIN. During one song all four walls were covered in video of full on hardcore lesbian sex which caused a chain reaction in the crowd. Two girls were having mad oral on right behind me. Total rock and roll insanity. If you ever get a flyer invite from this crew DO NOT miss it."

http://www.nycstreetreport.faithweb.com/

dude i have to admit that sounds pretty good. i loved that bit when the journo says "Many blunts were being passed around", it just makes me chuckle. but, no, you sound allright. i like it. where can i hear your stuff then?

Hey, Sterl! Hey, Mod! Lotion!

Gareth - there's an "MP3 Single" on their website.

There's a good bit at 2.10 where it sounds like it's going to turn into Axel F. Otherwise it's rub.

This is most humorous on his part, I think we should humor him in turn. I'll allow for the possibility the band might have suddenly improved, but it should be noted that Burnweed joined the Oasis list back in 1996, immediately made an ass of himself and was banned for being a fuck-up, and still whines about it, complaining I exhibit traits of 'facism.' What snippets I have heard of his/the band's music since then are pathetic garbage from where I sit, and he's desperately clinging to any straw he can find to justify his endless rants about the 'truth' of the Stone Roses, Oasis and REM. He isn't even fun to poke with sticks anymore, but if this is your first encounter with him, go right ahead and have some fun.

axel f was overrated. Shoot out was better. pagaapaapggaagaa!

We've got 4 things for yall at our web site.

1: a limited edition MP3 single JELLSTAR b side LEAVIN' ON a JET PLANE

NME was tricked into reviewing this and they said we sounded like "Kim Deal fronting a Stone Roses swansong." BUt every one of our tracks is totally different. With only two records out in the UK, "Just a Dimension Away" and "Diamond" (sudden bliss records via Koch Distribution, PR by www.workhardpr.com) the journos have used more than 40 bands to try to describe what we do.

2: A home made video/movie for NEO THEME (this is also a trailer for the full length feature we've done)

3: An audio documentary that was done between Sept 11 and the 14th.

it's all free and it is totally sonic

Fuck Ned Ragget. Who in God's name would spend so much time moderating a freakin mailing list for Oasis and protecting it against the mean nasty Burnweed. Ned is a man so insecure in his own reality that my little posts made his knees buckle and he had to go through cyber curcles to keep my message away from his beloved oasis. Oh Ned, did you ever get to lick Noel's arse. I hope all your dreams came true.

You have never heard Schizo Fun Addict music, but since you raised the issue I'll just give our last **** review from UNCUT for the peeps

"...an album of astonishing diversity, white noise drone, bubblegum indie pop, rudimentary electronica, and percussive sound sculptures, all captured teetering on the knife edge between cohesion and collapse." Paul Johnson, UNCUT

stick it Ned

Like I said, not much has changed in six years. ;-) Go on, Burnweed, just talk to us about the angels again, you know you want to.

I think all bands should have to sign a bit of paper when they start out saying that their either believe what critics say about them or they don't. Cos something tells me that if UNCUT slated the next album suddenly it wouldn't be such a bible of good taste.

This isn't aimed at SFA (I think Ned deserves everything he got for running an Oasis mailing list, the crazy fule), it's just something that strikes me every time a band (as opposed to their marketing people) goes hey look what the critics say.

*puts on People's Poet hat*
Yes, but what about the KIDS?

hey Jet your illegal underground maintenance shed gig wouldn't have been at the publically-funded Brooklyn Anchorage would it?

Who wants to fall in love with Schizo Fun Addict? Could it be me? Could I fall in love with Schizo Fun Addict? Do I dare allow myself to fall in love with Schizo Fun Addict?

Well, are they cute?

...[looking at the Everett True article]...

They are SO NOT CUTE. They are UNCUTIES.

What's the goddamned point of listening to a contemporary guitar band that has NOT ONE SINGLE husky, slightly balding gentleman with ridiculous facial hair that I can feel unrequited lust over? ANSWER ME!

Mike Daddino = not a Strokes fan.

A boy has to have standards, Ned.

I was going to say that any band obsessed with The Stone Roses I would likely despise on principle. But then I applied the same logic to bands obsessed by The Beatles and didn't feel so confident (except in the case of Oasis).

rudimentary electronica

is this meant to be a compliment? does this mean you use a drum machine or what?

*Rudimentary electronica"...

Why it's the highest compliment one can pay a band down here in rural England, my son. Down here, it's all cobbles and tugged caps and that thar new-fangled starlight.

you people are truly mad you deserve me we will lead you to rock and roll glory this board is full of sin

listen to schizo fun addict and clean your souls of all the dull sounds that have been forced upon you we will redeem you can I get a witness amen

tracer Hand (tracerhand@yahoo.com) responded to a message you left hey Jet your illegal underground maintenance shed gig wouldn't have been at the publically-funded Brooklyn Anchorage would it? *******************************

No tracer. This was not a venue, it was an old maintenance shed inside the bridge support. I swear, when we come to London we are going to play at a Christopher Wren church.

new-fangled starlight

I have a band name.

listen to schizo fun addict and clean your souls of all the dull sounds that have been forced upon you

Look, Jet. You wanna free me of all the dull sounds currently oppressing me? Then use you and your band's Jesus-like powers and send a nice little cold front through New York City, cause that'll silence the soul-sucking white noise chorus of my neighborhood's air- conditioners. Going to bed each night with the "natural" ambient sounds of the Upper East Side would make me infinitely happier than any band claiming they were the resurrection.

can I get a witness

Is it right to be treated so bad when you've given everything you had?

"Look, Jet. You wanna free me of all the dull sounds currently oppressing me? Then use you and your band's Jesus-like powers and send a nice little cold front through New York City, cause that'll silence the soul-sucking white noise chorus of my neighborhood's air- conditioners. Going to bed each night with the "natural" ambient sounds of the Upper East Side would make me infinitely happier than any band claiming they were the resurrection. "

A: Our powers are distinctly John the Baptist like, dig. Your mixing me up with my brother.

B:White noise is bliss.

can I get a witness

Is it right to be treated so bad when you've given everything you had?

So I mentioned Burnweed in passing here - http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1944 - the other week and now I've had a barrage of emails off the dude complaining that I didn't write enough about him, or something, basically. Fucking madhead.

Hahahahaha! The man never changes.

He is absolutely deranged, but entertainingly so. I intend to use the email correspondence in a column.

Here it comes, onelovestory roses and schizo

http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/477649

Why was Ian Brown front and center at the Schizo Fun Addict gig Feb 26, 2005? Ask journo Tony Fletcher.

http://www.ijamming.net/2005/Feb21-March6.html

The Whole Story?, ned.

It's going to be funny when you die.