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  • Location UK

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    Last Login: 4/5/2012

    Member Since 12/16/2008

    Record Label unsigned

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    "Don't be uneasy, Lizaveta Prokofyevna. I'm not in a fit, and I'm just going. I know that I am... afflicted. I've been ill for twenty-four years, from my birth till I was twenty-four years old. You must take what I say as from a sick man now. I'm going directly - directly. You may be sure of that. I'm not ashamed; for it would be strange to be ashamed of that, wouldn't it? But I'm out of place in society... I'm not speaking from wounded vanity... I've been reflecting during these three days and I've made up my mind that I ought to explain things sincerely and honourably to you at the first opportunity. There are ideas, very great ideas, of which I ought not to begin to speak, because I should be sure to make every one laugh. Prince S. has warned me of that very thing just now... My gestures are unsuitable. I've no right sense of proportion. My words are incongruous, not befitting the subject, and that's a degradation for those ideas. And so I have no right... Besides, I'm morbidly sensitive... I am certain that no one would hurt my feelings in this house, and that I am more loved here than I deserve. But I know (I know for certain) that twenty years' illness must leave traces, so that it's impossible not to laugh at me... sometimes... It is so, isn't it?"(Dostoevsky) ...... As reviewed at anewbandaday.com ! "The Hopeful Spaztiks round off an impressively diverse month on A New Band A Day in cranky style. They're a band who can maintain five different musical points of view at once, and flit between them all. Song Aquatic sounds like a toy racing car, and swerves like one too, veering over a number of electro cliffs in the process. Cup Of is deranged enough to summon up the spirit of Level 42, sneaking in the 80's most estate-agent-friendly instrument - the slap-bass - and make it work. Hail ping-pongs appropriate noises off your confused brain, resetting your innate sense of rhythm to synchronise with their warped vision. The Hopeful Spaztiks' sound like the prettily naive work of complete novices given shape, coherence and funk by a mysterious guiding hand. They straddle looseness and tightness like a before-and-after photograph of a hanging. Dangle with them, here!" ......

  • Members

    The Hopeful Spaztiks are Jimmie Flipper, Cranky Jack and Simpled Simon. We are Day-Glo coloured drooling Pranksters preparing for the rebirth of the Acid Tests. "You are either on the bus or off the bus" (Ken Kesey)

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    commented on Katyana De Campos's profile

    "
    You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

    EYE EAR BRAIN

    Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

    Come back and let me know what you found. "

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        You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

        EYE EAR BRAIN

        Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

        Come back and let me know what you found. 

        6 months ago
      • Erick Seban-meyer Photo…

        Bonjour !
        Un nouveau réseau social et site de casting à découvrir!
        Inscris-toi si tu veux! C'est bien entendu rapide et gratuit.
        Le lien est : www.affilior.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=30_14
        (le site s'appelle "modeles photo" mais ce réseau social de dernière génération est destiné à tout ce qui touche au casting : modèles, maquilleurs, coiffeurs et photographes)
        Tu me retrouveras sous le nom "Erick" tout simplement!
        A bientôt ?
        Erick

        1 year ago
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    commented on MonMon's profile

    "
    You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

    EYE EAR BRAIN

    Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

    Come back and let me know what you found. "

  3. thehopefulspaztiks

    commented on FLIPRON's profile

    "
    You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

    EYE EAR BRAIN

    Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

    Come back and let me know what you found. "

  4. thehopefulspaztiks

    commented on LOVE PINK PONY's profile

    "
    You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

    EYE EAR BRAIN

    Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

    Come back and let me know what you found. "

  5. thehopefulspaztiks

    commented on France Flory's profile

    "
    You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

    EYE EAR BRAIN

    Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

    Come back and let me know what you found. "

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        4 months ago
      • thehopefulspaztiks


        You are all welcome to visit my new website    http://eyeearbrain.webs.com/

        EYE EAR BRAIN

        Daily inspiration for spooky music, cult film and weird ideas...

        Come back and let me know what you found. 

        6 months ago
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Bio:

"Don't be uneasy, Lizaveta Prokofyevna. I'm not in a fit, and I'm just going. I know that I am... afflicted. I've been ill for twenty-four years, from my birth till I was twenty-four years old. You must take what I say as from a sick man now. I'm going directly - directly. You may be sure of that. I'm not ashamed; for it would be strange to be ashamed of that, wouldn't it? But I'm out of place in society... I'm not speaking from wounded vanity... I've been reflecting during these three days and I've made up my mind that I ought to explain things sincerely and honourably to you at the first opportunity. There are ideas, very great ideas, of which I ought not to begin to speak, because I should be sure to make every one laugh. Prince S. has warned me of that very thing just now... My gestures are unsuitable. I've no right sense of proportion. My words are incongruous, not befitting the subject, and that's a degradation for those ideas. And so I have no right... Besides, I'm morbidly sensitive... I am certain that no one would hurt my feelings in this house, and that I am more loved here than I deserve. But I know (I know for certain) that twenty years' illness must leave traces, so that it's impossible not to laugh at me... sometimes... It is so, isn't it?"(Dostoevsky) As reviewed at anewbandaday.com ! "The Hopeful Spaztiks round off an impressively diverse month on A New Band A Day in cranky style. They're a band who can maintain five different musical points of view at once, and flit between them all. Song Aquatic sounds like a toy racing car, and swerves like one too, veering over a number of electro cliffs in the process. Cup Of is deranged enough to summon up the spirit of Level 42, sneaking in the 80's most estate-agent-friendly instrument - the slap-bass - and make it work. Hail ping-pongs appropriate noises off your confused brain, resetting your innate sense of rhythm to synchronise with their warped vision. The Hopeful Spaztiks' sound like the prettily naive work of complete novices given shape, coherence and funk by a mysterious guiding hand. They straddle looseness and tightness like a before-and-after photograph of a hanging. Dangle with them, here!" BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson on 6music

Member Since:

December 16, 2008

Members:

The Hopeful Spaztiks are Jimmie Flipper, Cranky Jack and Simpled Simon. We are Day-Glo coloured drooling Pranksters preparing for the rebirth of the Acid Tests. "You are either on the bus or off the bus" (Ken Kesey)

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