hand punches air

I’ve put up the demo from the latest podcast on the website; you can stream it here, or

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or download it here:

http://www.thesoundoftheladies.com/wordpress/audio/demos/hand punches air demo.mp3

and I’ve created a page for any demos I add here.

<Hand punches air> is influenced by a recent John Carpenter season I’ve been having. The Thing is genuinely awesome, and Prince of Darkness is like a shit parody of Assault on Precinct 13 mashed up with the Exorcist, inadvertently crossed with a fucking incredible movie. The “this is not a dream” bits are so perfect… people from the future trying to send whatever tiny scraps of warning they can so an inevitable disaster of cosmic proportions can be avoided… wow. Also Richard Acton from Limn kind of got me into John Carpenter, and before I met him I had never really even imagined the phrase “hand punches air”… but after seeing him rock out to metallers The Capricorns, it’s been indelibly stained into my vocabulary, and I had to write a song about it.

I’ve also been reading a lot of H P Lovecraft (thankfully the less racist stories), but the John Carpenter films I’m talking about pretty much rip him off… but that’s a different story. Maybe next time.