So after creating the yourcodenameis:milo wallpapers and iPhone/iPod screens, I decided to create some for some of the member’s new ventures. So below you will find Young Legionnaire (Paul) , We Are Knuckle Dragger (Shaun), Mammal Club (Adam), handheldcineclub (Justin), Tomahawks For Targets (Ross), Losers (PAUL) -
YCNI:M / Extra’s
Here are some YCNI:M wallpapers for your PC/MAC & also your iPhone/iPod I made and wish to share with you all. If you have any of your own you wish to share, email: ycnimblog@gmail.com and we will post them up. We will be adding more, and you will find them in the top menu so keep checking back! Thanks.
YCNI:M / Number One
A collaboration between yourcodenameis:milo, Name and Sasa Savic. It was performed for the first time at the ‘2020 Project’ in Newcastle in November 2003. The live work combines a taut instrumental post-rock soundtrack with animated photographs following a narrative order. It was also performed for the opening weekend of The Sage Gateshead.
This edit combines archive footage from The Sage Gateshead performance.
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Review
‘Number One’ is a collaborative audiovisual performance by Newcastle based designers/artists Name, UK band Yourcodenameis:milo and Bosnian photographer Sasa Savic. Performed at the 2020 event as part of the 2003 AV Festival, and then again at the opening weekend of The Sage Gateshead in February 2005, this rousing performance is a symphonic intermingling of music and image.
Name and Savic’s striking black and white visual work illustrates the city of Sarajevo. The vigour and optimism of life after the wars of the 1990′s is rendered lyrically in the simple streets scenes and stark faces of the residents of this distinctive cosmopolis.
Yourcodenameis:milo perfectly score these filmic scenes with well designed chord evolutions and warm guitar mechanics. The intelligent textures of their sound transport the performance into a deeper meditative realm. At once rangy, belligerent, and yet harmonious, Yourcodenameis:milo display genuine glimmers of brilliance in a taut well constructed performance.
Honor Harger (Previous Director AV Festival)
YCNI:M / Kats Karavan – John Peel
THE HISTORY OF JOHN PEEL / KATS KARAVAN
There’s been plenty released to celebrate DJ John Peel’s legacy and this expansive four-disc set tries to replicate the magic of the quintessential John Peel show. By that we mean throwing the tough techno of Dave Clarke up against the delicate melancholy of Tindersticks or the righteous roots of Linton Kwesi Johnston against the twee jangle of early Pulp. This 74 tracker covers the period from the late 60s through to Peel’s death in 2004 and is even inter-cut with some classic Peel patter. One hit wonders, cult classics and soon to be superstars are all here. It’s low on the prog, grindcore, African and ragged electronica he delighted in, but is still the best representation of an evening with Peel outside those dusty cassettes recorded off the radio at the time.
Non other than yourcodenameis:milo feature at Track 14 on the Kat’s Karavan Box Set with ‘I Am Connecting Flight‘ from there John Peel Session.
Buy Your Copy of Kat’s Karavn
Thanks to Victor Petrusha for supplying the Milo John Peel Sessions, we’ve uploaded and posted them below for your ear’s entertainment. Enjoy!
THE MILO JOHN PEEL SESSIONS
yourcodenameis:milo – I Am Connecting Flight (John Peel Session)
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yourcodenameis:milo – Team Radar (John Peel Session)
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yourcodenameis:milo – 2 Stone (John Peel Session)
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yourcodenameis:milo – 17 (John Peel Session)
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AH / Mammal Club – Au EP Release
Au EP – MAMMAL CLUB / 500 Limited Edition CD EP / £4.00
Mammal Club evolved into being in a Newcastle lock up, taking the shape of a four piece band centered around creating music from their own blend of unique inspirations, from Steve Reich to Sparks. Spending their early months of existence intensively developing their sound, as trains crossed above the railway arch they worked beneath, Mammal Club now emerge with their debut release.
The Au EP is the culmination of a great deal of creative development, during which the band’s sound has inspired an array of descriptions and countless attempts to pigeon hole them into genres ranging from avant-pop to math-rock. Such efforts by critics and fans alike demonstrate that Mammal Club’s output captures dizzying pop melodies and bouts of emphatic drums, before transforming them into a sound that is beautifully chaotic and truly the sum of all its parts.
Purchase your copy by clicking here, and support Mammal Club on Facebook by clicking here.
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MAMMAL CLUB TOUR DATES 2011
15 April 2011 / Newcastle (EP Launch) / Secret Location
22 April 2011 / Newcastle / The Cluny
1 May 2011 / Salford / Sounds From The Other City
8 May 2011 / Durham / Durham Live
14 May 2011 / Brighton / The Great Escape
19 May 2011 / London / Stag & Dagger
23 May 2011 / Newcastle / The Other Rooms
28 May 2011 / Newcastle / Evolution Festival
9 June 2011 / Leeds / Baby Jupiter
8 July 2011 / Richmond / Vanilla Fuzz Showcase
12 August 2011 / County Durham / Leave Me Here Festival
AH / Double Double
A live recording of “Double Double” from Mammal Club, a very atmospheric track!
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AH / Welcome Mammal Club
MAMMAL CLUB
Mammal Club formed in Newcastle in late 2009 with Wilson Astley, Colin Liddle, Calum Howard and Adam Hiles picking up the mantle of ‘people who do the things’. Boasting a highly original mix of pop vocals, weaving guitars, groove and electronica, along with very positive mentions on BBC6’s Tom Robinson, drownedinsound.com and Artrocker, Mammal Club are currently putting together the finishing touches to their forthcoming single ‘Four’ mixed by Dave Newfeld (producer/mixer credits include Broken Social Scene, Super Furry Animals and Holy F*ck) to be released through Manchester’s Everybody’s Stalking Records in late October 2010.