Matt Cheap

Yeah we did a short first with Simon Russell Beale playing the man in the toll booth.  It was on in Chapter once - think maybe you saw it there.

I've written a few film scripts over the last 10 years but so far only one has actually been shot.  It's called THE TOLL and is black comedy crime thing set in Pembrokeshire.  With Covid happening, it's never had a theatrical release and has never been seen anywhere. but it's streaming online for 4 days only through the Glasgow Film Festival between 25th and 28th February.  If anyone wants to take a look, it's £9.99 to rent it.  

You can rent it here https://glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival/shows/toll-the-n-c-18

This is what the film festival said about it

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This Welsh thriller mixes the dark comedy of the Coen Brothers with the antihero of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns as the past catches up with a former criminal. Brendan (Michael Smiley) is content with his life as a lone toll booth operator in a small Welsh town. But when a familiar face from his previous life of crime resurfaces, it sets off a madcap chain of events that lead to a showdown of epic proportions. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s (Annes Elwy) investigation into a robbery has her unknowingly heading directly into the thick of the action.

On 4/21/2020 at 6:57 PM, stillagoth said:

State Run were the young lads from Penarth, right? 

Were they from Porthcawl?  I can't remember now.  One of them was called Jon, he posted on here.  Nice bloke.

Did anyone watch Dave, the Lil Dicky series on iPlayer? I thought it was great.

really hot

I had a car stolen and then found burnt out in Fairwater back in 2005.

I've been to some of the shows put on by these people

https://twitter.com/diycdf

If we're talking Eisenberg, I was stood a few feet away from him at a party last year.  We did not make eye contact and I did not speak to him.

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Doug didn't make the list but The New 1920 did.  That in itself feels like performance art.

It's as if LOSTPROPHETS never happened

Agreed on Westworld. Watched season one and that was it for me. I think I would have liked it more if it was just a straight Western like Deadwood.

12 hours ago, BlackHowl said:

OH YEAH??

Is this to do with me not coming to Turnstile

I don't think I've been to a gig in Cardiff in ages, think the last one may have been The Bronx.  Occasionally go to Le Pub for gigs, last few were Restorations, THiS, and also an acoustic set by Tom May from the Menzingers where he butchered a Clash song so badly I nearly got PTSD.

Head over to Bristol pretty regularly for touring bands from US/Canada who've been around a while - in the last couple of years I've seen both Pup and The Menzingers a few times, plus Propagandhi (one of the best gigs I've ever been to), Mighty Mighty Bosstones and more.  I'll go to London now and again as well and went to Slam Dunk last year.  

On 4/10/2020 at 7:31 PM, Rae said:

Fallen Hero.

He emerges occasionally and we have a brief chat, haven't spoken to him in a while now.

Just now, MonkDave666 said:

Face To Face are still fully "on fleek" too. Their last proper album Protection was killer, and we saw them open for The Bronx in Bristol a year and a half ago, and they were absolutely flawless.

Protection is full of bangers, I love that record.

19 hours ago, JayX said:

Only time I saw Good Riddance was at that Deconstruction gig in London in 2000 and they were fantastic, so psyched to see them on the bill. Plenty of time to catchup on the smaller bands I don't know at the moment. I will be truly gutted if normality isn't back by then, or knowing my luck a new wave will hit just before hand.

I think I've only seen Good Riddance once - Reading festival 1999.  I feel like they don't get mentioned that much but every single record is really good.  Love them.

5 minutes ago, Hooked Lung said:

Must have been the posh vegan custard creams I found, I've never bought bourbons that weren't the cheapo 'vegan by default' versions from corner shops. 

I feel like those white oreos are like a posh custard cream

Matt Cheap formerly of SHOOTIN GOON, THE CHEAPSKATES and GOOD CLEAN FUN RECORDS label & distro. Managed ADEQUATE SEVEN for a bit, spent a lot of time touring the toilet circuit around Europe before working in film and TV production for a while.  Played in a wedding band CAPITAL CITY SKA for 10 years and got paid more for the first gig than I ever did in the Goon.  Also formed THE BARRY HORNS brass band with other ex-Goons, Ad7 boys and a few others (Howl joined in as well) and did that for 7 years before knocking it on the head.

Living in Cardiff, still go to gigs though mostly in Bristol these days.  Scrape a living writing for film and TV and have a film called THE TOLL coming out at some point, but with Corona changing everything, I have no idea when.  Also I gave up drinking 8 years ago and 3 years later went vegan. 

It's good to be back.