Be Your Own Pet
MOMMY
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True story time: Be Your Own Pet opened for my band the Dirtbombs back in May of 2005. I believe they only had an (essentially) self-released CD single out at that time. The hype was building, if they hadn't already signed a proper record deal they were just on the verge of doing so.
There was an excitement building, arguably as many people in the room to check them out as to see us, but you know, it was charming that they were all 15 or 16 years old.
I swear on everything that I hold holy, my thoughts at that time were "I think their third album is going to be amazing."
We'd play more shows with them, become friends, I moved to Nashville, put out a record by one of their side projects...our lives became more and more entwined.
I'd have half a thought thinking that the second Turbo Fruits album, coupled with the Jemina Pearl solo album and the second Jeff The Brotherhood album, in an odd way, kinda accomplished the expectations of that missing third album.
So imagine my absolute PRIDE first raised punching the air enthusiasm when "MOMMY" landed at Third Man and...it's absolutely amazing. Just like my prediction from 18 years earlier.
I'm giving away an autographed copy of "MOMMY" on LP and CD in addition to a BYOP tote bag all to the best comment here. The writing prompt is...tell me the best prediction you ever made. Extra points the longer it took to come to fruition. Can be real life or if your imagination is super good...totally make it up. Deadline to post is midnight central time Thursday August 31st.
I predicted (though I had my doubts) that I would one day get a song played on the BBC when I was a 14-year-old kid making mostly incompressible noise in my parents’ spare room. I went through sixth form college and university and never managed to find the right people to form a proper band with, had a lot of false starts and dealt with unfulfilled promises from people I probably shouldn’t have trusted in hindsight, became jaded and played live for the final time at an open mic night in Hull just before I graduated in 2013. I pretty much stopped making music, went into a dead-end middle-management retail job and just existed for several years. In 2016 I had an idea for a song, and in a “what the hell?!” spirit I recorded it really roughly and sent it to the punk musician Tom Robinson, who runs a site called Fresh On The Net and also presents BBC 6 Music’s new music show here in the UK. Not only did he feature it in his picks of the weeks on the site and wrote a very glowing review of it, but he also put it on the 6 Music’s Introducing mixtape and featured it in his main show. Hearing my track played after one by Brian Eno was one of the proudest and strangest moments of my life. It took 11 years but I finally did it. I haven’t gone on to make any kind of lasting career in music sadly, but that moment of validation that, after all those years of indifference and sometimes outright hostility even from other musicians, there genuinely WERE a few people out there who could like the stuff I created was a real moment for me.
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