#swampsnakes

[great-and-small]

A+ death acting from this little swampsnake I spotted! Walked away after shooting this video and he slithered right off.

[bite-sizedttrpg]

Bite-Sized! Monday Update 1

I have found all beasts that will fill the bestiary for the game.

Lizards in this world are called Drakes and there are quite a few to find, such as:

Broad-Headed Skinks

Coal Skinks

Common Five-Lined Skinks

Eastern Glass Lizards

Little Brown Skinks

Six-Lined Racerunner

Slender Glass Lizard

There is a single feline beast available to fight which is a bobcat.

Fish are another section in the bestiary. Consisting of:

Black Crappies

Bluegills

Bowfins

Common Carp

Red Swamp Crayfish

Warmouths

Different birds, which are referred to as Raptors, are some of the most difficult enemies. These birds are:

American Kestrels

Butcher Birds

Carolina Wrens

Crows

House Sparrows

Northern Cardinals

Red-winged Blackbirds

Song Sparrows

Rodents can also be found across the region. These rodents consist of:

Chipmunks

Common Muskrats

House Mice

Moles

Pocket Gophers

Shrews

Squirrels

Water Drakes, also known as amphibians, are there to defeat in combat. There are many to encounter, such as:

American Bullfrogs

American Green Treefrogs

Eastern Newts

Fowler’s Toads

Gray Treefrogs

Green Frogs

Marbled Salamanders

Spotted Salamanders

Spring Peepers

Woodhouse’s Toads

Snakes, also known as Wyrms, prowl the area. These deadly ambush predators are:

Dekay’s Brownsnakes

Eastern Garter Snakes

Eastern Hog-nosed Snakes

Glossy Swampsnakes

North American Racers

Plain Bellied Water Snakes

Red-bellied Snakes

Rough Greensnakes

Western Ribbon Snakes

Ending off the list of beasts are the Wyverns, which is the name for bats. These Wyverns include:

Big Brown Bats

Eastern Red Bats

Evening Bats

Hoary Bats

Mexican Free-tailed Bats

Silver-haired Bats

Southeastern Myotis

Tricolored Bats

There will also be insectoid enemies that you will be able to fight. Can you guess what area in the Americas this game's first setting takes place in?

[dstrachan]

'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 2nd September 2024

TJ Projekt ‘Mirror Mirror’

Oran ‘A Mirror’

Preacher & Daisy ‘Wyoming, Do You Dig Madonna?’

New Model Army ‘Stupid Questions’

Nico ‘Camera Obscura’

Sandwich Beats ‘Lettuce’

Vercetti Technicolor ‘Olympic Village Hotel 4.30 am’

The Kinks ‘Waterloo Sunset’

Culture Shore Clinic ‘Desertion’

John Turner, David Routledge, Manchester Sinfonia and Richard Howarth ‘Balmoral Suite: III. A Graceful Beauty’

Pigmeat Markham ‘Here Comes The Judge’

Ray Kez ‘Lawyer’

Sophie Lloyd, Theory of a Deadman and Tyler Connolly ‘Judge And Jury (feat. Tyler Connolly)’

Amp Fiddler + Tomas Doncker  'Change: The Afro AMP Remix'

Red Peril ‘Space Dogs’

Röyksopp ‘In Space’

Imogen Heap ‘Neglected Space’

David Bowie (with The Pet Shop Boys) ‘Hallo Spaceboy [Pet Shop Boys Remix]’

Pet Shop Boys ‘It’s A Sin’

Bronski Beat ‘Smalltown Boy – 12” mix’

Tomas Doncker ‘Do Or Die Part 2’

Marla Mase ‘All Fall Short’

Låpsley ‘Falling Short’

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band ‘Swampsnake’

Rush ‘Closer To The Heart’

Romeopathy ‘In Response’

Monday Creatures ‘Wild Swimming’

Shelagh MacDonald ‘Dowie Dens O’ Yarrow’

[rodandbarrel]

Goodness Snakes Alive - Water Moccasin Fight

There are just a few things in this world that creep me out and one of them is entwined snakes. These two male water moccasins are battling it out for the right to mate with a big fat female languishing on the shore who is waiting it out by her snake hole. Yeeesh! I’ve witnessed this kind of duel before and it never ceases to churn my stomach. 

[cargokult]

Shit's Getting Real down in the Swamp. Psykick Blu Waves and Red Fungi mixing it up. #glassart #swampqueen #silkscreenprinting #cobra #crocodile #swampsnake (at Morrison Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ-OEMRBd6_/?igshid=7xr3sz7rln3v

[hraquels]

“Even when the scene seems perfect, always be wary of the snake lurking in the grass” ~hs

[britrockaholic2]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (1973)

Side A1.  "Swampsnake" 0:002.  "Gang Bang" 5:00 3.  "The Faith Healer" 9:50Side B1.  "Giddy Up a Ding Dong"  Freddie Bell, Joey Lattanzi 17:06 2.  "Next"  Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman, Eric Blau  20:323.  "Vambo Marble Eye"  Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna, Zal Cleminson, Chris Glen, Ted McKenna 24:34 4.  "The Last of the Teenage Idols"  Harvey, H. McKenna, Cleminson 29:04  

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band    Alex Harvey – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar    Zal Cleminson – guitar, backing vocals    Chris Glen – bass guitar, backing vocals    Hugh McKenna – electric piano, organ, grand piano, backing vocals    Ted McKenna – drums, percussion, backing vocals

HBD Alex Harvey

[vinylfromthevault]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band “Next” 1973. Joe’s been in DC for work this past week but during some free time he’s been checking out area record stores and record shows so I’ve been getting random texts (and photos of him crate digging) asking if we have this or that album in our collection. 

I realized the collection had gotten a bit out of hand when he asked me to look for something I’ve never heard of only to discover we have three albums by the band. That would, in this case, be the glam/hard rock/cabaret mashup The Sensational Alex Harvey Band so I chose the oldest one we have - their second LP Next. From their Wiki entry: “The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was one of the most unconventional bands that were part of the 1970s glam rock era. Fronted by Alex Harvey accompanied by Zal Cleminson on guitar, bassist Chris Glen, keyboard player Hugh McKenna and drummer Ted McKennatheir music veered from progressive rock to experimental jazz, around a core of experimental and avant garde rock, dealing with themes from environmentalism to chinese take away food. While they achieved an almost legendary status in the UK, they struggled to make a huge impact in the USA.” Two of the singles from Next were released just in the UK, the 50′s-style rocker “Giddy Up A Ding Dong” and “The Faith Healer.” “The Faith Healer” became a hit in England; it’s a “creepy tale of a religious con artist that blends an intense vocal from Harvey with a thunderous, guitar-driven wall of sound production.” (Allmusic) It’s a fairly epic track, running over seven minutes, and at times reminded me a lot of current psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (who I’m much more familiar with). The single “Swampsnake” was a US-only release which Allmusic calls “a frenzied reading of a ribald Jacques Brel tune that effectively pits Harvey's anguished wail against lovely orchestrations.” 

[lostjohnny]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Swampsnake

[hobbesyerbouti]

Sensational guy, this Alex Harvey.

[13thfloornz]

English songstress Gemma Ray made her New Zealand debut in the intimate confines of Auckland’s Golden Dawn last night. She and her band were a bit road weary, but put on a stellar show, nonetheless.

Having touched down from Australia just hours before, Gemma Ray and co took the stage at The Golden Dawn bringing plenty of atmospheric noir to the Ponsonby venue. The trip across the Tasman was apparently not smooth, with the group being hassled by Australian customs officials who, according to Ray, savaged” her precious hollow-body electric guitar.

Fortunately, the guitar survived its ordeal and Gemma coaxed many thrilling sounds out of it during the hour-long set, added by an impressive band of effects pedals.

Opening the show was solo performer Gris-de-Lin, who also happens to be in Gemma’s band. Gris put on a very impressive show, sounding a bit like PJ Harvey and singing songs about Ghosts, Dead Wives and bloodthirsty 17th century women.  She told be after the show that she is working with Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos and Joe Gideon on a new project that sounds very cool. You can check out her single, Your Ghost, here:

Gemma Ray’s most recent album is 2016’s Exodus Suite, is something of a concept record based in a dystopian future, not far from now. The somewhat bleak subject matter…”here’s a few more songs about the end of the world”, she announce at one point…mesh strikingly with her trademark noir-pop…full of rich, guitar twang and plenty of atmosphere.

Not surprisingly, most of the 11-song set drew from the new album, although she did toss in an oldie from 2009’s Lights Out Zoltar! And a stunning, slinky cover of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s Swampsnake, which gets my vote for coolest cover of the year, so far.

In addition to Gris-de-Lin, who provided backing vocals and various keyboard-generated sounds, drummer and co-songwriter Andrew Zammit was there to pound out the beat.

Gemma, herself, looked resplendent in her 60-style mini-dress, quasi-beehive hairdo and Ronettes-inspired eyeliner.

The centrepiece of the set was the 8-minute Ifs & Buts, which gave Gemma ample opportunity to show off her guitar skills while singing about, “smoking fags only to watch them smoulder”.

Smoulder, she did, and the small, but enthusiastic crowd we clearly thrilled to have been wise enough to venture out on this Tuesday night to catch this rather special performer.

Marty Duda

Click on any image to view a photo gallery by Ivan Karczewski:

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Gemma Ray set list:

Come Caldera

There Must Be More Than This

We Do War

The Machine

If You Want To Rock And Roll

Swampsnake

Ifs & Buts

The Original One

We Are All Wandering

Hail Animal

Caldera, Caldera!

    Gemma Ray – Golden Dawn May 2, 2017 English songstress Gemma Ray made her New Zealand debut in the intimate confines of Auckland’s Golden Dawn last night.

[dstrachan]

‘VIEWS FROM THE EDGE’ - w/c 6th May 2019

T Rex 'Children Of The Revolution'

Brandon Flowers 'I Can Change'

Janelle Monae 'Make Me Feel'

Brockhampton 'New Orleans'

Mungo's Hi Fi feat. Solo Banton 'Dancehall School'

Truro Cathedral Choristers & Joseph Wicks & Christopher Gray 'Grenfell From Today'

Danny Elfmann 'Making Me Angry'  

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Swampsnake'

The Computers 'Group Identity'

Massive Attack 'Unfinished Sympathy (2012 Mix Master)'

Her 'Ogni Giorno e la Stressa Storia'

Rod Stewart 'Italian Girls'

Hall & Oates 'Italian Girls'

The Alpacas 'Have You Ever'

Billy Bragg 'Accident Waiting To Happen'

The Slits 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'

Kian Graham 'Anxiety'

Coby Turner Scott 'Someone New'

Charley Wiles 'Every Thought'

Inspired! 'Dear Someone'

Siights 'Dance'

Sarah Vaughan 'Honeysuckle Rose'

James Brown Is Annie 'Fast Eddie'

Gaptooth 'Plans & Friends & Records'

L Protector 'Life's A Trial'

Felicity Buirski 'Collision Of Desire'

Angela Paterson 'Something To Believe In'

[quandoquires]

Give him a Grammy

A+ death acting from this little swampsnake I spotted! Walked away after shooting this video and he slithered right off.

[cargokult]

February Art Show Canceled! Made this for Nothing. 24" square on Glass. DM me if interested. #glassart #glassartwork #silkscreenprinting #swamp #swampsnake #crocodile #cobra #spiral #metallicsilver (at Morrison Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKp5GrhBuqf/?igshid=1wog99blz3cu4

[jerboadrawz]

he’s so dramatic, we need to cast him in a movie <33

A+ death acting from this little swampsnake I spotted! Walked away after shooting this video and he slithered right off.