My Goodness, it's been a long time

We've been really slack with not updating this blog for ages. Well, good people of the world, we're back and we're going to update this damn blog more regularly even if it kills us. We hope that doesn't happen though. This really is just an excuse to spill our minds rather than flog our tees. We may attempt to flog a t-shirt too though. Every now and then. We've got children to feed and stuff. You know we have, we really have. x

Gordon Brown - Texture Like Sun

Gordon Brown - texture like sun. Oh the fun we have at Balcony Towers singing "Gordon" instead of "Golden" over this Stranglers classic. It's a song about herion. What is it about songs about herion? They always seem to be pretty good; Beetlebum by Blur, Perfect Day by Lou Reed, There She Goes by The Las, Dead Flowers by the Stones, Needle And The Damage Done by Neil Young ... ooooh, there's loads innit. Anyway, we've knocked up a T-shirt to celebrate the moorish world of smack-songs here: Gordon Brown - Texture Like Sun T-shirt

Todd Snider - Punktry & Western

OK, we made up "punktry & western" but if such a thing were to exist, Balcony's current new favourite find Todd Snider would be the embodiment of it. His drunken drawl and perfectly concise country songs are quite simply; the finest things to have graced the Balcony Shirts airspace for quite some time. Bucking the modern Nashville trend, Snider takes your slick production, airbrushed nonsence and country-by-numbers unit shifters and sticks them up your bum. He doesn't shift many units though. There's a moral in here somewhere but it's buried so deeply I can't be arsed to unearth it.

Tennis is for Posh Kids

Despite ritually taking the piss out of Tennis and it's fans/players. Balcony Shirts are made up of 50% tennis fans. There, we've said it. The other 50% like cricket, but we won't go into that. Anyway, at Balcony Shirts we're celebrating that fact that the second best British tennis player after "you know who" is ranked at 195th in the World. That's bad isn't it? I mean, I've never picked up a tennis racket in anger but I reckon I could give the 195th best player in the World a good game. Why not celebrate the glory of Wimbledon and have a butcher's hook at our ever-popular Tennis Is For Posh Kids T-shirt.

Cold-Blooded Chameleon Commandos

Whilst researching copy for our new product, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt we stumbled across mention of some Turtles spoofs that really caught our eye. If anyone has any details (or even better - copies) of some of these gems we'd love to hear from you. In no particular order, but all genius are: Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos and finally the Cold-Blooded Chameleon Commandos. Who are they? Where are they? We need to know...

The Alfonz

Balcony Towers have been bouncing this morning to the fine sounds of The Alfonz. Head over to their myspace page where our picks are "Sitting On Your Radiator" and new demo "Look Back".

There's something charming about The Alfonz, there's an (almost certainly unintentional) nod to Airhead on "...Radiator", a nod to Modern Life era Blur on "Look Back" and a brief but welcome glance to Pavement on the demo "Floating Away". Good things in store...

http://www.myspace.com/thealfonz

Doves are rubbish

Went to see Doves the other night, they were rubbish.