141:"'Reasonable Ease...' is technically very variant with fast bits, slow bits, etc, but what we play within those parts is actually quite simple. On the other hand, a track like 'Better than Myself' is structurally very straightforward, but the parts we play that make up that structure are more technically difficult than a track that appears superficially to be pretty tricky. I guess it's safe to say that most of our songs are challenging in some way, even 'School' has a quirky time change throughout that means we can't fall asleep in the middle of it! In short, all our songs are fun to play. No-one ever complains that a part is boring for them to play, or if they do they get told to shut up and use their imagination to liven it up. I think that's what makes us a little bit better than a straightforward punk band."
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great scheme of things, it matters not; for one night only the gutter finds its voice and does its damnedest to spew dirty garage punk filth over as wide an area as possible... the next explosion is only ever seconds away and 'Nature
Creates Freaks' churns through a mess of scrag-end punk like a tractor ploughing a field of broken glass. Cay aren't going to save rock'n'roll but, like
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in the mid-1990s around the nucleus of Dutch singer/rhythm guitarist Anet Mook and
Swedish guitarist/pianist Nicky Olofsson, who were musical and romantic partners. The lineup solidified with the addition of London bass guitarist Tom Harrison and Northern Irish drummer Mark Bullock. The band name was
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founder Sean Organ announced on his
Organart site that he had been informed in an e-mail from Mark Bullock of Anet Mook's death. Mook had been struck by a moving vehicle in the Netherlands. On 16 June 2011, Mark Bullock confirmed in his blog, "Sink of Swirling Stars", that Mook had died the previous
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did in the early-'90s, Cay sink their teeth into the devil's own blues and spit it out in ragged chunks of molten grunge. Tonight's gig is an almost primordial rampage over a wasteground of tumbling, speed-crazed tribal drumming and jittery super-fuzzed guitars… If Cay add little that's new to the
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should have been. It's the most genuinely angry album you'll hear this year," as well as describing the band's sound as being "like the devil's own daughter gargling razor blades over the rawest hardcore." The album was followed by a third EastWest single, also called "Nature
Creates Freaks". On 3
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performance of the "Just A Day" single in late 2001). Despite ongoing curiosity about the whereabouts of Anet Mook and Nicky
Olofsson, or news of subsequent musical projects, further news on either was rare (or insubstantial) over the course of the following decade.
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week, adding that she had struggled with drug addiction for many years. Bullock later clarified the cause of Mook's death by stating that she was struck by a train and was sober and of sound mind at the time. Her funeral was held on the day of
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Netherlands, Sweden, England and Northern Ireland) who were active in the late 1990s. The band released one album and recorded several radio sessions for the
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Records, who signed the band. Two further singles followed on EastWest in early 1999 - "Neurons Like Brandy" and "Princes & Princesses" – with the band gaining further press attention.
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hastily improvised from the initials of one of their demo tracks ("Cool As You") when Mook was talking to a record company.
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