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Naomi Hates Humans

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I've done it for the past two years so let's make this a tradition..

Welcome to the Naomi Hates Humans review of the year 2008!

This year has involved:

• Created a full band version of this thing, The Insufferable Fucks, featuring Sagar Patel on drums and Lewis Young on bass.

• Put out the debut album Pipe Dreams and Lullabies - sold quite a few but still have more than I'd like taking up space in my room so don't forget to get your copy from http://www.bwtd.co.uk ( or iTunes/eMusic/Amazon mp3 if you so wish ).

• 35 gigs, including 12 with the full band. The Water Rats gig in September was also my 100th gig as Naomi Hates Humans!

• Made my first video - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGRWCbnF2M

• Set up a youtube channel to collate all the live videos people had been nice enough to take for us - http://uk.youtube.com/user/naomihateshumans

• Went on my biggest tour to date, even making it up to Scotland. Learnt an important lesson in Bristol about illegal parking and how much towing costs.

• Put my songs from The Covers EP plus a random selection of other 4 track demos and covers up for free download from http://www.naomihateshumans.com (media section).

• Got merch! Unfortunately selling the T Shirts on ebay was proving quite expensive. I'll try to sort a decent shop feature for the site in the new year. In the meantime they are only available at gigs I'm afraid.

• Played a gig live on the internet from http://www.justin.tv/naomihh You can watch the whole gig here - http://www.justin.tv/naomihh/197253/Live_gig Some very nice individual has also put clips of the songs without all the wittering inbetween on youtube - http://uk.youtube.com/user/jotpol

• Did two special gigs of covers, one for our friend Aidan's birthday (featuring covers of Les Artistes by Santogold, Way Down In The Hole by Tom Waits, Walking On Broken Glass by Annie Lennox, As The World Falls Down by David Bowie, Why Don't You Do Right by Jessica Rabbit, Skinny Love by Bon Iver and Wanted Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi - all of which are on our youtube channel) and another one for the Shindig club night in Brighton. That one was 80s Wedding Reception themed and we did White Wedding by Billy Idol, You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi, Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper, The Power Of Love by Huey Lewis and the News, and I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston, the last two were accompanied by our friend Bill on saxaphone. Unfortunately there's only video of the Whitney song and it's only on facebook so I don't know if everyone can see it - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=85008060253

• Did a couple of interviews, one for The Urban Artist Group - http://theurbanartistgroup.blogspot.com/search/label/Article%20%2312%3A%20Naomi%20Hates%20Humans and one for Wears The Trousers - http://wearsthetrousers.com/2008/08/13/introducing-naomi-hates-humans/

• Heads Down was used as the soundtrack to a short film - http://vimeo.com/2395451



Coming next year:

• A new demo/EP type affair featuring better full band recordings of some of the post-album songs. Details coming soon...

• More out of London gigs for the band, maybe even some kind of tour. Want us to play near you? Know someone who puts on gigs? Give us a shout.



Confirmed gig for 2009:

21st Feb - Ryans Bar, Stoke Newington, London



As a nice little end to things, I recently stumbled upon a video featuring the edited highlights of our Ryan's Bar set in November (features clips of Half The Man, Way Down In The Hole (Tom Waits cover), and Heads Down) - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-1EXIV7iGF4 - Half The Man in particular features some lovely examples of my pursed lips guitar face. What a goon. I also enjoy how my white shirt has upset the camera's white balance, making it look like the boys are in the dark.


Happy New Year everyone, see you on the other side.


Naomi
posted 8 days ago
My friend Aidan just gave some video of a gig I did at The Old Queen's Head in Angel a couple of months ago. I've put them all on youtube.

Time To Go Home - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcgS40dYPiE
Small Town Kids - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSwHNE3TNM
Pipe Dreams And Lullabies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8gEuWO0riE
My Grandmother's Hands - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NNd2FjbxIs
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbGym3djVcg
posted 16 days ago
biography
As a child, Naomi Hates Humans didn't think she could sing. A childhood of being stood at the back of the school choir can do that to you. It wasn't until adolescence brought a new found 'fuck you' attitude and the discovery of punk that she decided it didn't matter, she had things to say.

She joined her first band at 15 and continued to sing in bands for the next 8 years (not getting round to picking up a guitar until she was 19). These included a two year stint in a school band with Sam Preston of The Ordinary Boys and three years in her last band, Morbo Hates Humans, a band named after a Futurama reference, which provided her with her unusual stage moniker. It was during this band that her distinctive gravelly voice started to emerge, blamed on being in a band so loud she had to shout to hear herself and a youthful insatiable appetite for Jack Daniels. It was also at this time that a part-time job in an independent record shop provided her with a musical education that went beyond punk into PJ Harvey, Bjork, Gang of Four and the general idea that a point could be made without shouting.

Skip forward to Spring 2006. Naomi found herself adrift in the big city with a job she lo... (+) expand
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Legionnaires (level 2) wrote:
at 05 Jan 09 05:01am
Ahhhhwicked!
zirconet (level 10) wrote:
at 28 Dec 08 11:36am
Great music .... genius

P.S.: very cool your video "Pipe Dreams And Lullabies"
faberex (level 9) wrote:
at 24 Dec 08 05:15am
your voice is a melodies.........very cool

bye faberex
Funiculy (level 11) wrote:
at 22 Dec 08 05:06pm
Beautiful Voice.
urbanartistgroup (level 1) wrote:
at 16 Nov 08 02:53pm
Naomi Scott, who writes and plays her songs under the moniker Naomi Hates Humans & the Insufferable Fucks, is an unbelievable UK songstress. She has something that is too often lacking in today's underground music. And to read a detailed article/interview on Naomi and her music, visit the Urban Artist Group's webzine by following this link:

http://www.theurbanartistgroup.com/
salvation (level 7) wrote:
at 14 Oct 08 12:45pm
You sound great, a little bit like Robin Romei similar I like it!
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at 04 Mar 08 04:32am
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at 13 Feb 08 01:51am
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puntspeedchunk (level 17) wrote:
at 13 Feb 08 12:23am
I was wondering if I could get your permission to play "Better Things" on an upcoming THESIXTYONE.COM Fan Podcast? A listener of both of ours requested it.


Thanks for your consideration and for the great music!

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skoop1 (level 12) wrote:
at 25 Jan 08 08:41am
"I don't hate all humans. Just the majority."