Bumper #shamblesiswatching Bonanza!

Hello folks! Hmm, your face doesn’t look the same colour as your neck. Well, that’s normal, judging by the photos you’re about to see. That’s right, it’s time for some ridiculous shoops of people off twitter in films I’ve watched. No idea what I’m talking about? Check out this post on what #shamblesiswatching is and what the rules are!

The first winner is Rachael! She correctly guessed that I was watching Captain America.

Rach looks a lot more pleased about whatever they're looking at than Cap is. I like to think that she's been distracted by a kitten on the floor, doing drawings of unicorns and eating tiramisu. What?

Our next winner is Keith! He correctly guessed (despite very sparse clues) that I was watching The Inbetweeners Movie! Here he is hanging out with the guys.

I think we can all agree this would have been a much better film.

Next up we have a very unorthodox situation. This is the first time that someone has won despite guessing the wrong answer. It’s also the first time I’ve shooped someone into a film I haven’t actually seen before. Basically, after giving the clue “So far there’s been a cringey noooooooooo bit and a genuine laugh out loud bit. That’s about it”, yer man Jamie guessed that I was watching Schindler’s List. That made me laugh so much, he won this:

Surprisingly one of my better photoshop efforts.

Up next we have ANOTHER unorthodox situation. Two in one blog post? In one year? In one LIFETIME? Michty me. I better explain. The other night I recommended to everyone following me on twitter that they watch the film 127 Hours. I recommend the same to you guys, it’s a brilliant film and a truly uplifting experience. However, well-known twitter smarty-pants Colin Bell (he does this thing, amongst other things) tweeted me guessing that I was watching 127 Hours and tagged it #shamblesiswatching. What does he win for his smarty-pants behaviour? Possibly my favourite shoop yet.

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I have one last shoop for you, folks. I thought that since technically auld Jampot and young Keith (all age-related adjectives are arbitrary) won the same game, I should give em a joint shoop.

A much, MUCH better film.

That’s all folks!

Til next time,

love Shambles

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The Last Copy

Hello folks! You’re looking lovely today, whatever day this is. If you’re reading this, it can only mean one thing. It means that I only have one copy of my EP left to sell. I’ve been selling these CDs at gigs and online for the past year or so and now it’s finally on the brink of selling out! Who will be the one to buy that last CD? Who will receive the last sent-out-in-the-post-with-a-hand-written-letter copy of Shambles Sails the Clockwork Sea? If you’d like to be that person, there’s only one way to do it (well, unless you’re sneaky that is) which is buying from my bandcamp.

I promise I’m working on new material and I’ll have new things for you to hear and possibly even buy (or steal) and hold before long, but right now I’m really excited that I’ve managed to sell nearly 100 copies of this EP to you lovely people. Whether you bought it because you really like my music, on a whim at a gig, or even just to support me in my musical endeavours, I’m really grateful. It means a lot to me that people take the time to give my music a chance. So, thank you!

Can’t wait to release the next thing!

Til next time,

love Shambles

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Start of the year….STUFF!

I could explain this, but you're better figuring it out for yourself.

 

Hello! I know it’s a little late, but, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I would’ve posted earlier, but my birthday is in early January, so I’ve been riding the crest of a boozy festive wave…and that’s me just sobered up. That’s alright isn’t it though? To effectively lose the first week of the year? Aye I’m sure it’s fine. Luckily though, much like the end of the year, things have been going on around me while I’ve been renewing my friendship with Mr. Jack Daniels.

I recently did a wee interview with a chap called Thor (you can see why I warmed to him immediately) for his blog GlasGOwest. We talk music, politics, booze, and there’s even a story featuring a man nearly FALLING off of a THING. Guess who saves the day? Time to find out! Just click here and read it with your eyes and enjoy it with your mind and smile at it with your face!

I also got a lovely surprise the other day in the form of the inclusion of one of my tracks on a great podcast from indundee.co.uk. It’s presented by a chap called Ed and I recommend giving it a listen, as it features some right braw music. Here’s the link! Also, if you like the song of mine that Ed plays, you can download it for free. Where? Oh right below this sentence? Bongo.

For the Would-be Woody Guthrie by ShamblesMiller

That’s all for now folks, anything else I’ve done recently was probably under the influence of alcohol and will probably start to ebb slowly back into my mind as it slowly sobers up for the year ahead. I’ll let you know when I do.

Til next time,

love Shambles

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End of the Year Roundup…Stuff!

Hello folks! Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas with some lovely presents from Santa and lots of food and drink in yer bellies! I’ve had a great Christmas, but have slightly neglected my blog in favour of almost relentlessly playing Skyrim. I do apologise if you’ve had to hear me ramble about it or if you’ve doubted my sanity on twitter as a result of my #toomuchskyrim tweeting. Y’know, I used to update my blog regularly but then I took an arrow to the knee.

Despite my Skyrim-induced sloth however, other stuff has been happening. And stuff happened BEFORE Skyrim, I just forgot to mention it as I was all caught up in the drinking joy of the festive period. Firstly, this Christmas I played a gig in George Square! I even got a nice festive jumper for the occasion. It was a really fun gig and it still feels pretty amazing as a Glaswegian to be able to say I’ve played in George Square. An actual gig, not just busking round the peripherims across from Greggs! The other acts were great and I particularly enjoyed Tragic O’Hara’s set. As someone who enjoys attempting acoustic covers of hip-hop songs, his version of Shimmy Shimmy Ya was especially braw. As for me, my trusty pal Neil caught a wee video of me singing Rapture, here it’s here.

So what’s been happening round about me while I’ve been busy slaying dragons? Well, I was really excited to find out that I’ve been included in Tom Robinson’s Christmas mixtape on BBC 6 Music! It’s a selection of Tom’s favourite songs of the year and I’m really honoured to have been picked for it. The song Tom picked was “Things That Make Me Angry” which of course is still available as a free download through Strummerville.

You can download the podcast or stream it from this lovely link/entire sentence.

As if that wasn’t flattering enough, I also made it to number 20 in the Edinburgh Man Podcast’s top 50 songs of the year! You can hear/download the podcast at this link right here. The track which had the most votes was Rapture. Yes, the one from that video up there! And this other one over here from when I played Cabaret Voltaire earlier this year! Oh aye and it’s also a free download! Michty me.

Last but not least, since my last post about it, I’ve sold another couple of copies of my EP, “Shambles Sails the Clockwork Sea” and now there are only 4 copies left! I know it’s a long shot but I’d love to sell them out by the end of the year so if you’ve been thinking of getting one, now’s the time! You can purchase from this link here.

A big massive thanks to everyone who has helped me out this year, supported me, bought/downloaded my stuff or come to gigs. It’s been a great year and I hope to make 2012 even better! At the very least, I’ll buy an outlandish hat and strut around wearing it like I’m a PURE SOMEBODY. Or something.

Til next time year!

love Shambles

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Simply Having a Shamblin’ Christmas Time #1

Hello folks! You’re looking very festive today, I especially like that jumper you’re wearing. I’ve been getting up to Christmas stuff of late and I’ve been a bit of a busy boy, so I’ve got a few festive-themed blog posts lined up. Which explains my ridiculous attempt to shoehorn my name into a Christmas title up above there. If you have any better ideas, let me know.

In the meantime however, I thought I’d put up a wee video. I was lucky enough to be asked to play the Words per Minute Christmas show at the Arches recently, where I shared the bill with fellow singer/songwriter Sophie Mackintosh. It only made sense then to perform a fairly ramshackle cover of Fairytale of New York, right? Big thanks to Helen from WPM for catching the performance on video, and of course to Sophie for making the duet sound braw and balancing out my shamblosity (it’s a word, alright?). Hope you enjoy it!

Further thanks go to Words per Minute for asking me to come and perform, I had a great time as always. It’s amazing to be a part of that type of event, especially as I got to see some great writers, including Jamie McIntyre and Sophie Cooke, and had such a lovely reception from the audience. It seems congratulations are in order too, as Words per Minute feature at number 46 on The List Magazine’s Hot 100! Well done folks :)

That’s all for now, more festive fun soon!

love Shambles

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