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YIS - Good King Wenceslas

Free Download: Live Mixtape #1

YIS - Live Mixtape #1
(.mp3 format, 224kbps, VBR)

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Recorded live at YIS Manor
Wednesday, 28th of October, 2009

01. New Race (Radio Birdman)
02. Sex Beat (The Gun Club)
03. Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More (Mudhoney)
04. Dirt (The Stooges)
05. Where Eagles Dare (Misfits)
06. 12XU (Wire)
07. Orgasm Addict (Buzzcocks)
08. Trash (New York Dolls)
09. The American Ruse (MC5)
10. The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (Husker Du)
11. Sex Bomb (Flipper)

Simon Fazio - Vocals, Guitar
Andre Fazio - Drums
Matthew Fazio - Guitar
Tim Taliana - Bass, Vocals (on Trash)

Special thanks to Roffy from The Tote (for booking us), Bek Duke for the requests, Mum and Dad for putting up with the noise, everyone who came down to The Tote in the heat (Stu, Block, Jess, Andrew, Fi, Russ, Michelle, Gary, Aiden, Eleanor, Matt's other friends, Emi, Ruth, Jemell, Carla, Marc, Kizz, Timmy, Josh, Kelly, Laura, Myles, The Talianas and everyone else I forgot), the Tote barstaff for the watermelon and A.H. Cayley for being awesome.

(You'll need Winrar to unrar this)

Cover Song - "Dirt" (Glenn Danzig stuck in a K-Hole Version)

YIS - Dirt (The Stooges) (Danzig tribute version)

The story behind this version: Ange and I started by tracking the bass and the drums together. On top of that we had a guitar, a couple of noise guitars during the bridge part, and then a Rhodes on top of that... Probably about an hour of messing around after the first run-through. I then had a crack at the vocal, I wondered "Why does this sound so out of tune... moreso than usual?", and realised I was singing the in tune... but to the wrong part of the song. I had mixed chords to the bridge and the chorus up... Fsdjhfjdsadfasdhfjashdfjashdfjahdsfd.

Anyway, we listened back to it a bit later in the recording program, and, by accident, I moved the speed slider down to 0.89 of the original speed... and it sounds awesome.

I'm gonna fix it all up tomorrow, but this will still probably end up as a hidden track on the Live Mixtape #1. Here it is in all it's goth glory.

Cover Song: "Sex Beat"

YIS - Sex Beat (The Gun Club)

Cover Song: "Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More"

(photo by Flick Smith)

YIS - Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More

As a special preview for our Live Mixtape gig on Saturday the 31st of October at the Tote Hotel Front Bar at Five O'Clock in the evening, here's our take on a Mudhoney favourite whipped up today in the dungeon. Of rock. Apologies for the clipping

We'll also be playing choice ('ey bro) tracks from The Stooges, The Gun Club, The Buzzcocks, and whoever else you want us to play. Just drop us a comment here, or email yis@aanet.com.au. You can pick up a whole CD of covers (mixed better than this) at the gig fo' free.