New bored fortress club - Year 3

I missed out on Year two of the bored fortress seven inch subscription club, but year one was pretty amazing....silevr daggers, robedoor, yellow swans, racoo-oo-oon, just amazing split after amazing split with informative inserts written by NNF, it was an education in noise. I somehow missed out on year 2 but tried to pick them up when I saw them listed individually at ss records.
This years is almost ready and I'll keep checking and announce it here as soon as I hear about it.
Thurston played the knitting factory last night and he made an acoustic guitar sound huge and would hold it against the amp and behind his head feedbacking everywhere. He's nearly 50 and I think even in high school I knew that they had been around forever and weren't something you should mess with unless you are prepared to take seriously. Hopefully he will have 50 more.

This email was sent Saturday from Not Not Fun:
5) BORED FORTRESS YEAR THREE IS CLOSE we should be putting our annual split 7" club up for sale in the next 72 hours or so. we're thrilled as heck about the artists and bands on board this year, so keep an eye out for it if yr into this sort of thing.

scout niblett

There is a very fine line when playing acoustic guitar and singing, the difference between good and horrible is very, very thin. It's a careful mix of sincerity, and talent, and originality. To stand out among others in this a capella/acoustic category is difficult.
It's like the internet or CB radio, it's very easy to do, or attempt to do in an afternoon and think 'well I can just sing with a guitar at the open mic', sometimes it's a talent to know you suck. Think about that before you sing about living in 'a woody allen town'.
Scout Niblett, (that name is crazy, it has to be made up, but I can let it slide) is very talented, she has a hell of a voice, and she does that Chan Marshall layering thing where they are just slightly different and really gets me. I'm not saying I am completely convinced yet...that pantheon is hard to get in, but she may well be on her way.
I'm glad I took a chance on a 7" I saw at Academy the other day. It made me relisten to her myspace page.
Myspace is so fucking ugly, it almost turns me off to everyone...if I could just strip everything out except the streaming music...I guess I should just close my eyes. It's like we've gone back in time to this weird tabled front page of a website from 1995. When is this going away. I can't wait.

New EP out now on too pure Available on CD, 7" and download: PURE 204 CDS/S/DL Dinosaur Egg * Just What I Needed ** Just Do It * Lyrics by David Shrigley taken from his "Worried Noodles" book (tomlab) ** Originally by The Cars

After the breathtaking beauty of her last album Kidnapped By Neptune, released Springtime 2005, Scout Niblett firmly marks her return with brand new EP Just Do It / Dinosaur Egg. The three tracks were recorded over two days at the legendary Sun Studios, Memphis. Lyrics from the lead track 'Dinosaur Egg' were taken from the notional album, Worried Noodles, by artist David Shrigley and brought to life as a song with Scout's vocal melodies and minimal finger-picked guitar.

This is import from toopure. Or more conveniently at Scratch records. She is the real deal.