Live with The Snails

sunday 25th october 2009 at after dark (31 didotou and ippokratous). doors open at 10pm. we’re up first so don’t be late….

soundly told off

our good friend (and lone reader of this blog) alex from the workaholics told me off yesterday. i have not been updating this blog and as he quite rightly said, if it’s not updated it’s not a blog! thanks alex, the diva needs a kick up the backside every now and then.

so what the hell have we been playing at. well, we had a rehearsal last sunday after two months of lazing about in the sun and swanning about in our brand new 4×4’s… oh behave… the truth is that most of the band didn’t really have a “holiday” holiday as such. michalis fought back the flames that threatened his house during the wildfires. me and vishy fought with the kid to get him through retakes at school (he passed!). only andreas really had a break but what can you expect from a guitarist?

vice from the velvoids has also been kicking our (very cute) backsides about getting a cd out on the market. he’s also right and we’re working on it. a live cd will be out very, very soon. it’ll be home-produced and we will be making it available at our gigs and online.

the velvoids begin their promotional tour on the 8th october. if you’re lucky enough to be in the same town as they are, go and see them. i will post info about how to get hold of their ep as soon as it’s available. (tour dates below)

8 Oct 2009 22:00	Fans w/ Mighty Shakers	Sofia, Bulgaria
9 Oct 2009 22:00	Club Lebowski w/ Mighty Shakers	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
10 Oct 2009 22:00	Stage Larissa w/ Mighty Shakers	Larissa, Greece
16 Oct 2009 20:00	Sin City	Katerini, Greece
17 Oct 2009 22:00	Intrepid Fox	Athens, Greece
22 Oct 2009 21:00	Mokum w/ The Happy Meat	Berlin, Germany
23 Oct 2009 21:00	Arcanoa w/ Grizzly and the Duck of Death	Berlin, Germany
24 Oct 2009 21:00	Subito w/ Kathy X	Berlin, Germany
26 Oct 2009 20:00	Acoustic Set @ KULTURKANTINE/RAW TEMPEL w/ Guttercat & The Milkmen (France)	Berlin, Germany

we will be setting up some live dates very soon. i’ll post dates here as soon as we know what the hell we’re doing. so, sorry for the lack of words here over the last few months. i’m excited again so expect more here on a regular basis. you have been warned…

another pointless post

i haven’t written anything here since march ! i can’t believe that all that time has past without this diva feeling the need to spout some more meaningless nonsense. we’ve had two or three gigs since then which vishy has written about on our main site.

i will try and write more here but really can’t promise…

tweeting and blipping

so what the hell is the band up to, you might ask ? well, we had a gig at tiki bar on the 22rd this month with dj ladydust which was pretty fabulous all round. great little venue, sweet crowd, wonderful sound engineer (girls rule !) and some of the friendliest bar staff around. thank you also to dimitris for offering us more spots there. we’ll definately be back.

next up we have a gig at an club with the spinalonga crowd. we’re just going to do a couple of tracks (not our own) with the velvoids, our partners in crime. that’s on the 16th of april.

after that it’s after dark on the 23rd of april. yes, you read that right. two gigs in a week. lucky beggers.

apart from that bad mathematics is now on twitter. follow us there if you want (sometimes) daily nonsense from us. we’re also on blip.fm if you want hear what we’re listening to.

that’s all for now folks. see you at the next gig.

and yes, i will try and update this blog more regularly…

bad diva

naughty diva

i think i’ve lost a little bit of enthusiasm for the blog here. i suppose it’s the extreme lack of interest from the outside world but it’s also the fact that we have so many other networks for the band that this seems a bit obsolete. anyway, i will try and keep it up because you never know…

we have two gigs lined up. the first is on the 22nd march 2009 with dj ladydust

it’s at tiki. next door to the acropolis tube station.ladydust doesn’t play athens very often (because no-one pays in this city!) so this is a not-to-be-missed opportunity. see you all there.

after that we have a gig at after dark on the 23rd of april. details will follow later…

sorry for being a crappy diva.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

i must try harder.

and so on….

gig canceled

dear everyone who is interested, the workaholics and bad mathematics are sorry to announce that  the gig planned for today at planet music was, by common consent, postponed. all the members agreed that given the circumstance of dead children and continued police attacks on our youth does not create an atmosphere of frivolity. thank you.

[words by vishy translated into lower case by the diva

next gig is on…

our next gig will be on the thirteenth of december at planet music. the address is arditou avenue 44, mets. the gig starts at 10pm. be there or be very very very sad… at having missed another bad mathematics gig. you never know what might happen.

carpet bombing

so our rather strange but ingenious bass player, webmaster, designer and all-round good egg type came up with the poster for our next gig entitled “carpet bombing”. for those who have seen us live and know the holy rug, this is a gem of title.

for those of you who have never seen us live, i have one question… why the hell not ? you have no excuse. unless you don’t live in athens, hate our music, are allergic to small venues, don’t have 5 euros, or spontaneously combust on leaving your house.

so be there at the next gig on thursday the 25th of september at after dark (31, didotou and ippokratous) or i will stop talking to you. or perhaps i will talk to you 24/7 for the next 50 years. now there’s a real threat.

see you on the 25th.

lamia gig is canceled

what can I say? we are all bitterly disappointed that the “organiser” has canceled the gig we were due to play tomorrow. the guy obviously couldn’t organise a bacon butty but there you go. it’s not just that he wimped out at the last minute but that he has left us in a horrible situation with our rehearsal studio which we had booked for the whole week. it makes us look bad and that’s not the way we like to do things.

we had had odd feelings about this one but once we were into the final week, we thought it would be plain sailing. we should know by now that nothing here works like that.

sorry people of lamia, you’ll have to wait a good while longer before we can share the love with you.

if ever…

twitter

haven’t you always wanted to know what bad mathematics are up to when they are not slaving away on the music ? well, now you can follow us on twitter from our sidebar ! if you don’t know what twitter is, go here or ignore this post.

big bad blogger

what a naughty and neglectful diva i am, dearest reader. (hope you are still there !) i haven’t written here for weeks and while i don’t really feel bad about that, i wish i could find it in me to write more often. the truth is that nothing has happened with the band since i last wrote. two of the boys went on holiday. you’ll be able to tell which two when you see us next. they’ll be the tanned bottoms clad in thongs. i wish !

so what’s new that prompts me to write today. well, our incredibly creative bass god vishy has come up with a poster for the next live show (lamia on the 23rd august). and here it is…

to quote the artist himself…

mad as a bucket

our long lost drummer

so our drummer, michalis has been sunning himself on a beach in crete for the past two weeks, leaving the rest of the band to suffer in the concrete jungle. but we have just heard on the grapevine (he called) that he’s heading back next week. not that we want to cut short his island paradise holiday but hell, we miss playing ! get your tanned backside back here, you drummer person you.

(we’ve missed you too !)

we are playing in lamia next month as you already know, faithful reader (are you still here ?). by all accounts, the city is a bit like slough without the charm. although it does have a castle, which slough does not. but we’re not going as tourists are we ? we’ll be there to light up the city with our own brand of rock and roll mayhem. i hope all you lamites will be at the gig now that i have insulted your place of residence.

mims is a magician

this is unbelievable !

it could only happen in greece…

press release from emi

MIMS IMPOSTER DISCOVERED
PERFORMING IN GREECE!

Athens, Greece

Capitol Records hip-hop breakthrough artist MIMS can apparently do magic and appear in two countries at once, according to dedicated fans in Athens, Greece.

Loyal MIMS fans attended a concert on June 10th hosted by a promotions company entitled “Knockout Productions”. The production company promoted the concert heavily via the internet and with fliers around Athens. It was to be one of the most anticipated shows of the summer; however, there was just one problem. Shortly after the concert began, loyal fans quickly noticed that the man performing was not Capitol Recording artist MIMS – it was an IMPOSTER!!!

“We paid so much money at the door, and we feel we got cheated. The artist appeared on stage with a hood, sunglasses and a baseball hat” stated the US fan who was visiting Athens for the summer. “Everybody started shouting “fraud” & “cheater” and left the club. I live in the States, but I am here for a few months for work and I knew that the person performing was not MIMS”, stated the concert attendee.

Upon learning about the “MIMS” imposter, Capitol Recording artist MIMS issued this statement:

” My deep apologies to all my Grecian fans that came out and thought they were going to see a MIMS concert and instead saw someone that was pretending to be me. I was here in the United States working on my new album. My legal team is aggressively investigating the people and promoters responsible for doing this and plans on swiftly and severely initiating legal action to hold them accountable”, stated MIMS via phone.

MIMS debut album “Music Is My Savior” produced one of the biggest songs in 2007 and made airplay milestones with the #1 smash “This is Why I’m Hot” . The single also sold over 2 million ring tunes worldwide.

Washington Heights, New York-born MIMS began DJ-ing in his early teens, and at age 20, appeared in Baby Blue Sound crew’s Much Music Awards Best Video nominee “Love Em All.” Last year, his independent release of “This is Why I’m Hot” attracted local New York radio play, and a Capitol Records deal.

MIMS is currently in the studio working on his sophomore release which is schedule for release this fall.

the real mims

[thank you mixtape for the heads up]

fame at last

as you know (if you read here on a regular basis), we contributed one of our songs (sacrifice) to a film soundtrack. shoulder for hire is a futuristic film directed by the very wonderful and brilliant dimitris emmanouilidis and edited by the excessively talented kenan akkawi. it will have its stateside premiere on saturday 28th june 2008 at the spielberg theatre in los angeles as part of the greek film festival. the diva makes a brief appearance and vishy created some of the incidental music in the film. sacrifice plays in full at the very end and over the closing credits. the film has been winning awards around the place including the thessaloniki film festival (special prize for fiction), drama film festival (honorary distinction for the best sets to dimitris ziakas). as you know (again, if you read here on a regular basis), the film also won the prize for best soundtrack at the athens science fiction film festival earlier in the year (we have certificates to prove it).

how cool is that ?

if you happen to be in la on saturday, check it out.

[more details on the festival can be found here]

bass madness

so our bass player has lost the plot completely now. he has just bought an electric upright double bass thingy. it’s heavy and very tall and has a very swanky case.  it also looks really, really cool. i predict that we will need heavier security at the next gig to stop people swarming the stage.

we are getting together tonight to try out this newest addition to the empire that is bad mathematics. it’ll be loud, exciting and probably very silly. our drummer is going away for a month after that so we will be having a break from gigging over the summer.

i will try and remember to write some miscellaneous nonsense here from time to time. in the meantime, be good, be bad or be silly… just make sure you do it to music.