Bands & Labels

some of our favorite bands and music sites:

Old Basford another great Nottingham band

Urban Space Lab top stuff - hybrid of drum’n’bass, jazz and dub

Wholesomefish  Nottingham legends return !!

Bison B I S O N - top Ska band from Sheffield

Grain the bastard son of Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart

Jamie Lidell..check out some of the videos on his site!

Benzedrine Nightmare Benzedrine Nightmare are one of the strangest bands !

a top website with lots of high quality deep house MP3s

 a fantastic website with hundreds of mix tapes and radio sessions in MP3 and Real Audio format, Includes such greats as David Mancuso, Larry Heard, and other house/disco greats.

Afro-Beat Kokolo - from New York - for the Afro-Beat lover!!

Candidate Candidate... old friends of Idiot Joy and top band

BrownBrown are Nottingham based live outfit and record label...cool as

TranscargoTranscargo rock !! and they're jolly nice people too ...

Home of Fadeless SplendourCardiacs..... nuff said

PeteBodie.com - top techno from Pete Janitor

a wide variety of quality Blues from Martin and co.

The ButtholesThe Butthole Surfers

Jello Biafra's labellabel and home to many a great band

Sonic YouthSonic Youth been rockin' for almost a quarter century!

Beastie Boysch-ch-check it out!

undergroundhouse.netgood community site for House heads.

Other Stuff

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps. If you make music... this is a great resource.

 a massive database of peoples photos.

To see more of our pictures (some Idiot Joy related) -

Johnny's Flickr page

Nick's Flickr Page

Ians Flickr Page

a massive database of movies - lots of funny stuff here.

Johnny's Putfile page

Nick's Putfile page

The Mighty Boosh…come step into their very strange world…..

ZVEXZ.VEX handmade efects and amps.The best quality stompboxes I have ever used.

 One of my favorite blog sites for all things music tech. Lots of wierd and wonderfull stuff.

an independent guide to vintage technology

portfolio of Alex Morriss Smart Art by Alex Morriss!!

Alan "Tash" Lodge Alan "Tash" Lodge (photographer)

Check out Tash's extensive photo archives of festivals, raves, traveler's, demos etc.

SolaSola festival in Sherwood Forest !!

synth stuff the best resource on the net for synthesizers ...

 interesting axe ?

Darkstone top recording studio....Darkstone

 true random numbers generated using atmospheric noise.

Sound on Sound the best place for music technology reviews and info

The Onion the ultimate in satire

Framley Examiner Framley's traditional favorite since 1978

VIZ puerile? .. yes... funny?...er....yes !

 erm... go on..click...they need all the help they can get ! :-/