Hey kids! Welcome one and all TO…. AkiraTheDon.com Version 5! The brand new website, from Akira The Don and The Wizard Of Zef!

Obviously (duh!), it is a work in progress. So your feedback and suggestions are most welcome.

To celebrate, I made you a new podcast. Check that shit out. Its got loads of awesome music on it, including that song from my second album that leaked, along with dope stuff from The Indelicates (who we’re playing with tonight in Cambridge, be there or be a goober), Prince, Pydos In Spydos, Warren Zevon, and MORE!

 

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Hey kids! A song from album number two has leaked. NOW. It is called I Am Not Dead (Yeah!). Maybe you have seen us do it live. The version that has leaked is not the final version. The final version will have a very special guest singing the chorus. Maybe you can guess who. maybe not.

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So, I went to Hastings yesterday, to do my first day of record for LP2 with Dr Stephen Hague. We recorded vocals for a song called I Am Not Dead (Yeah!), that a few of you might have caught live at the last few gigs.

Dr Hague lives in a gigantic white house up a hill overlooking the ocean with his fine woman, some cats, and a relatively well behaved greyhound. You can see France from his studio window on clear days. That is how to live! You know what can see out of my window right now? An old man stealing oranges from the Turkish shop over the road that has the rudest female staff I have ever encountered. Actually, it’s not so bad. I realised the other day I spend most of my days in a converted attic. Which is something I really wanted to do when I was about six.

Careful what you wish for, children…

Oh, if you get a sec, vote for my boy Marv The Marsh’s new single over at MTV Bass.

Big up all for last night, we played Cargo and we were great yes we were Mary Turner and Jeremy Allen and John Karborn and Me. Three new songs, two unrehearsed, smacked it. I like new songs. I have fucking tons. You watch.

I have a bad ass cold and a hangover today. I cycled from Shoreditch to Kentish town in the pissing rain. Wow that was some fucking experience. Boy oh boy. I was wet through. I’ve dried now. I am in a nice studio called Music Box. Part of the Moloko Empire. Mixing this song called I Am Not Dead (Yeah). I’m working with a safe Northern man called Joe. We have been discussing Bohemian Grove and Wiley. That’s what yiu do in studios, with engineers. In my experience anyway. Word to Matt Foster! Holla atcha boy!

So, Metal Hammer want me to do some writing for them. i like the idea of this. It will force me to listen to more metal records. Metal was my first love you know. I had a leather jacket with tassles on it for my tenth birthday. Or was it twelth? Anyway, my mam’ll know. That was a serious birthday present. My brothers were pissed off. The bank got broke on that thing. I wish it still fit me. I put studs in it and everything. Anyone remember HM Gear? I saved my paper round money for months to get a studded leather wristband and a choker with a skull on it. Word to Alice Cooper. POISON!

Serious.