Posts Tagged “swivel chair”
At least that’s what Nude Magazine thought, who printed this brief version of my ‘I Was a Swivel Chair’ story: Name: Swivel Chair. Town: Edinburgh, Scotland. Years: 1999-2004 Influences: KLF, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division. Career Highlight: Our third triumphantly drunken gig.. Lowpoint: Our fourth disastrously drunken gig. Line Up: Craig Low (bass, samples) Milo [...]
The Man Who Listened To Planes March 2000 Swivel Chair had started as a joke by Craig and a friend of his, Dave, 6 years before. On discovering the music software Acid, Craig had resurrected the project and recorded some bizarre tracks with another pal (also called Dave) including ‘My Dog Has a Cold’ [...]
One night after work and a couple of drinks in the pub Craig and I walked home along Fountainbridge. We passed a group of neds hanging around a car who shouted something at us but we ignored them and carried along the road. Craig lived on Viewforth whilst I lived further along on Bryson Road [...]
As mentioned in part one, the sheer misery of my experience working for HMV was to lead to my joining Swivel Chair, and was a major influence on the Swivel Chair anti-work ethos. Now for (probably) the first time, I can reveal some of the horrors involved in music retail. Slave LabourWe were hired before [...]