Poet set to rock faith to its core - Patrick Jones

Evening freaks - you know i love ya!

It's been a crazy few weeks. Patrick Jones has become one of our closest allies in the fight to control our lives. No matter how broken and battered my body gets they will never control my mind.

I have rehearsed and rehearsed till my ***king fingers are dropping off. Steve Balsamo came round and we jammed in the room, sitting on my sofa! How ***king cool is that. When We become Mountains is extremely beautiful. Enjoy it people. listen and weep. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Playing Meat with Patrick Ranting over the top was an extremely rewarding experience. Here's a snap taken by yours truly at solar studios last saturday - the hottest day of the year. It was a great session the track is AWESOME . It's gonna take the ***king roof off chapter this Saturday. Come on down and provoke a thought riot. Christian Voice are bound to be there! OmG. ***king hell here come the police!

Martyn Joseph, Amy Wadge, Lethargy, Les Davies, Steve Balsamo - all rockin out to crazy pat's awesome words. What could be better.

Live it, love it or hate it. Whatever you want, just be there.

Steve Balsamo, Martyn Joseph and Defiance of god Live!

Hey Freaks/punks/all you good good people

This is it. We Defiance Of God are in a go-go live situation. The launch gig for the Patrick Jones CD - Tongues For a Stammering Time is this Saturday night at Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff. Preview the songs at

www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Also playing Live will be Amy Wadge, Lethargy, Stacey blythe and the great welsh ranting poet Patrick Jones. The album is out now, Pat launched it at Hay On Wye Literature Festival on Monday. Good article in the South Wales Echo yesterday. The album features contributions from Nicky Wire James Dean Bradfield and former squeezebox frontman Les Davies as producer - LSD Highs.

To purchase a copy go to http://www.patrick-jones.net/ also find details of the chapter gig - Tickets are 6/8 or 10 quid. I wonder if there's gonna be a big Christian Voice boycott/protest like the last couple of Patrick's gigs. Bring it on ***kers.

Defiance of God have two songs on the CD - T 9 - Meat and T 14 - When We Become Mountains. Both feature the haunting voice of close friend Steve Balsamo on vocals.

This is it Freaks - the conquest of your country has begun. No matter how broken and battered our bodies get they will never take our souls. Sometimes as the saying goes, 'defiance is the only way'. Two major rehearsals down - one acoustic with Steve Balsamo and the other a monsterous rock behemoth with the full band just go to show - Talent will OUT! ***k you!

See you on Saturday Night - 9 pm Chapter. 30th may 2009

Skateboard 1 D x Nil. Patrick Jones CD 2

Evening goths/emos/freaks/punks

It's been a week and then some. First life lesson - under no circumstances skateboard too fast down a hill outside Pontypridd if you've never been there before. I crashed and burned. Bailed out and landed in the mud/grass/bushes. ***k me it hurt. Couldn't breathe for about 30 seconds, thought I was gonna die! Sadly I didn't but I did spend 4 hours in Casualty. Not a pretty sight. Hair like a dead dog, clothes covered in mud and pride - let's just say left behind. Still have intense pains down the right side of my body. No bones broken, put my muscles so say the dr are in spasm. So the good news, 3 set of drugs in cluding Tamazipan - which make you as high as a kitE!!!

The good stuff. Seen the artwork for the patrick Jones CD - two tracks confirmed, Meat and When We become mountains. Guest slots from LSD highs - producer and Steve Balsamo - The Storys. Cd is out on 25th May. there's a gig at Chapter Arts centre on 30th may so that promisess to b be fun.

http://www.myspace.com/patrickjoneswriter for the link to the CD sleeve and all Pat's great words.

Couple more offers of gigs - No State Radio and Henrys Funeral Shoe - so with any luck the God will conquer the earth by November.

lol

D x

Kicked in doors, smashed up cars, knives hoodies, ugly scars!

Greetings goth/punks/emos/loners/creatives/cool types

I've been as they say busy. No more stoopid self pity wallowing in my ***s stains..... I'm doing what I need to do.

Craig - he can just ***k off. No more abuse from that ***ker. Claire - well her text's have gotten a bit milder. No more references to Nine Inch Nails and Joy division. So yeah. I'm happy on the personal level. And btw thanks for asking.

On the music front. Huge news. Slap My Face is Live! With Vocals! yeah! Honest. Also had some news on the collaboration front. Scottish Band Pure Dead Good have been in touch about doing a mix/mash up. They're great. Really angry punk rock engery.

Been listening more to the mighty Rod Thomas - his music is sublime. Pop and paegentry in the same musical world. Love it. And he won best Ukele video of the year! What a guy!

And the mighty Patrick Jones called up - he says there's the chance of a Gig at Hay On Wye! Can you believe it!

Meanwhile it's all gone a bit quite with the UNI. They still have 'issue's' but for the time being at least no one is playing their cards. MMMM.mmmm.

Drop by the myspace for me - www.myspace.com/defianceofgod or of course the lovely Rod

www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic and while there hit the great scots

www.myspace.com/puredeadbrilliantuk you know it makes sense!

Love and yeah - I do bite for anyone who's enjoyed the track

D x

Fine white powder is uncool. It ***ks you up!

Afternoon snowbound goths/freaks/emos/punks..

Being a goth in the snow is not fun. My mascara has frozen and I can not for the life of **d get my crimpers to improve my hair. Fizzy, fuzzy mess in the frozen snow....straight or even remotely crimped waves of wonder - this girl does not possess. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Can't go out. Can't go shopping, can't get to a practise, can only sit here and wonder what the rest of the civilised world is up to. Claire has been in touch. Another one of her semi threatening txts. This one was a list of songs and bands. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia. Joy Division Dead souls. Dead or Alive - You spin me round......you gettit? Yeah. Like a hole in the f***king head!

Craig is snowbound in Brecon - apparently doing some yomp up Pen Y Fan in the minus twenty snowstorm.

Aaaagh. Can't do the remixes up at LSD High's in Abercynon - under two foot of snow! AAAAGGGh.

Like I said - snow is uncool. It's very very un-rock and roll - fine white powder that ***ks up your life.......just like well you know what....

D x

Best new act of the year - fact - Rod Thomas

Hey Goths - I'm gonna surprise you all....

I know it's not coool to brag about someone else on your own blog, but hey. Last night, I was feeling low. I mean real ***king low. I'd had a major bust up (again) with the UNI, they're so dead set on expelling me....so anyway - I'd drunk a quarter bottle Smirnoff and I was dozing on my bed....radio on low....

OMG - was I dreaming this or what. I heard the best Radio session ever - there was guy on called Rod Thomas - doing what I can only describe as one man band, New Folk Disco ....not exactly conventional, but the guy had the most heartfelt wonderous songs, I've ever heard. Went straight to his myspace site. www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic he's awesome, Welsh too, from Neath? And just back from LA working with Boom Bip (Neon Neon).

Dunnoh, his music just made me wanna cry and laugh at the same time. Just do yourself a favour and listen to his tracks. He's got a new album out, Until Something Fits. It's awesome.

My own life is ***t, but it's kinda Nice to know others are gonna be huge and successful - even if i don't ever make it. You know the URL. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod

Enjoy the find of hte year, Rod thomas.

D x

Blue Monday

Welcome aboard goths/loners/emos/punks and all

It's a good ship that knows the safe harbours, and a wise captain who knows when to run for home. I'm running and I'm running scared.

Life has become a little too unpleaseant. Not getting on at home, band fragmenting, stalker in the States - Claire and stalker here - Craig. What am I doing wrong? Am I just a magnet for weird sh** and ***ked up loons? Or as they say is there somehting else? Is it me? Am I the cause of this complete and utter weirdness? Dunnoh. Just being alive makes me paranoid? So what does that say about me? Maybe somehting happ3ened in the past, somehting bad just happened and I got caught up in it? Something sinister, someting nasty....maybe my imagination is running away with me? Dunnoh. All I know is my nan is ill and that's making me worried. She's been my surrogate parents since the divorce and hey, without Hilda nothing would be the way it is, She bought me my first guitar! I mean how cool is that! So yeah, I keep hearing on teh raido that today is Blue Monday - the most miserable day of the year. Andy you know what. I kinda agree. Yeah. I really do.

Lots of offers to collaborate through on www.myspace.com/defianceofgod so we'll see. I also had a note from Patrick Jones about collaborations on his new CD. I'm hearing some weird rumours about big stars. Honest. Being on the same record. Billy Bragg. Martyn Joseph. Amy Wadge. Henry Priestman and me - yeah, Defiance of God.

Let's just hope blue monday becomes sunny tuesday. Eh.

D x