the doyouinverts: March 2009

Thursday, 12 March 2009

New Track: "Fingers Turned Into Fists"

New Track: "Fingers Turned Into Fists"
Download: HERE
Played on One Life Left Season 4 - Episode 96
Co-written by Mathew Kumar (lyrics/vocals) and the doyouinverts (music)

Mathew, who has appeared on One Life Left this season with the excellent "Best Worst Game You've Never Played" feature joins forces with the doyouinverts for this dark look at the diminishing role video game arcades now play in our lives. Ste Curran called this "the best thing the doyouinverts have ever done" before playing it on OLL, and he's right.

Many thanks to Mathew for the lyrics, and perhaps at some future date we may collaborate again....

Lyrics available at the lyrics site HERE

the doyouinverts

Us. Europe's favourite satirical videogame-centric musical group, the doyouinverts sing vaguely amusing songs that only people with an unhealthly interest in modern videogames and videogame culture will enjoy. the doyouinverts are a product from the brain of cavalcade, exotically based in Scotland (Kinross) and France (near Le Mans). cavalcade that is, and not just his brain.

We are currently a semi-regular-ish feature on One Life Left, a podcast on Resonance FM. Which is only available in London. Wherever that is.

We are, of course, quite willing to whore ourselves to any podcast or website, and will write songs for free games/money or alcohol, or preferably all three.

The doyouinverts Fame Totaliser

Is it possible to quantify Internet fame? Of course! Which is why the doyouinverts ascent from the letters section on One Life Left to a globe straddling colossus has a number of very defined steps. As each of these steps is achieved, in a Blue Peter style we will trace the bone waving chimp doyouinverts, to the spacecraft approaching an anomaly on the moons of Jupiter doyouinverts.

Fame-O-Meter
Fame Rating 1: Get played on fairly well known UK podcast - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 2: Get played on fairly well known UK podcast more than once - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 3: Get played on another podcast without our permission - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 4 - get a comment on the blog that is partially positive, but with an implied caveat - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 5: Get a negative comment on the blog from a person you thought was a close friend from another forum trying to RUIN THE DREAM - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 6: Get a positive comment on the blog, with no caveats from someone who you used to know a long time ago off the Guardian Gamesblog - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 7: Use existing Guardian Gamesblog columnist relationship to pimp blog in shameless and entirely embarrassing fashion - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 8: Get a positive comment from someone who I don't already know/have forced to come to the blog with threats of violence - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 9: Get a positive comment from someone called Tim. A great name, filled with promise of a thoroughly nice bloke who you could trust with money, your car, or your girlfriend - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 10: Try to get poached by a rival podcast to On Life Left, but refuse loyally, while still hoping the other podcast can come up with some form of bribe - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 11: Shamelessly write a song to appeal to UK Resistance in an attempt to improve traffic to the blog - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
Fame Rating 12: Be part of a top 300 selling CD on amazon. Top 300 selling for an hour. - ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

Next targets.

Fame Rating 13: Get a spam comment on the blog. Hopefully about penis enlargement - STILL WAITING. COME ON SPAMMERS.
Fame Rating 14: Somehow use the improved hits to the blog to convince the PR division of a major publisher to send me some bloody games - STILL WORKING ON THIS.

Thursday, 12 March 2009

New Track: "Fingers Turned Into Fists"

the doyouinverts Song Library