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October 31st 07
whoa there, here's another one.
In other news, I'm Being Good play at brighton's OOOSH! FEST on november 24/25th at the Westhill Community Centre, Compton avenue. tickets are £15 for the whole weekend and selling fast.

October 14th 07
it's been a while, here's something new...

December 9th 06
Here's SCOTCH PINE finally. sorry i sat on it for so long.
in other news, PINE FOREST play as a trio at THE ALBERT in brighton on sunday afternoon, december 17th, 2pm. supporting BODUF SONGS.

September 26th 06
I've locked the old forum and set up a new one, this one'll hopefully be less spammy.

September 22nd 06
Hot damn. sorry, work got the better of me. okay, here's part 2 of i'm being good's SPARES OR REPAIRS. it's a little number called SCHINDLER'S LIST II. On the way soon is SCOTCH PINE virtual single; it's a collab between DJ SCOTCH EGG and PINE FOREST, if you can imagine that.

Not many shows coming up, although here's two...
PINE FOREST play at HOPE in brighton on october 25th with SIR RICHARD BISHOP.
I'M BEING GOOD play at AUDIOSCOPE in oxford on october 28th with CLINIC, TRENCHER, PARTS & LABOR, etc.

July 29th 06
Here's a PINE FOREST virtual single, recorded at the cube cinema after the i'm being good show. it's piano.

July 4th 06
Whew, okay, here's CGI WORMS. enjoy! i'm reaching my storage limit on this server so if anyone can offer mirror space i'd appreciate it. otherwise i'll have to start deleting things, maybe i can set up some kind of request system and rotate the releases or something. Anyway, ladies and gents, i give you CGI WORMS.

July 3rd 06
More I'm Being Good shows coming up...
Thursday, July 13th - Battersea Barge, London, with ack ack ack
Friday, July 14th - Labour Club, Northampton, with carl white, maybe pine forest.
Saturday, July 15th - Leeds, The Common Place, with bilge pump.
Sunday, July 16th - Derby, Summer Picnic, with twinkie, clearlake, etc

ALSO: PINE FOREST play at the Hanbury Ballroom in Brighton on July 12th, supporting Hamilton Yarns, Nalle, and Daniel Padden. Dave from i'm being good will be deejaying.

April 11th 2006
It's been a while. we've been working hard. There's a couple more releases almost ready to go but i won't get a chance to finish them off until june, so come back then. They'll be a new pine forest release, a CGI WORMS release and possibly a second installment of spares or repairs. Join the mailing list (above) and you'll get mailed when it finally happens. We don't mail out very often so don't worry about spam overload. you'll also get gig updates, usually, like, the day after the gigs are happening. great.
I'M BEING GOOD have a couple of shows lined up for the summer time (brighton, london, bristol) but mostly we'll be concentrating on finishing material for our next album and then recording it.

Tomorrow we visit iceland for a week where we'll be playing some shows....
13. apríl - Hellirinn + Lada Sport, The Ministry Foreign Affairs 700 kr. inn
14. apríl - Grand Rokk + Skátar, Gjöll & DJ Musician 800 kr. inn
15. apríl - Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafirði (Aldrei fór ég Suður)
17. apríl - Gamla Bókasafnið, Hafnarfirði + Skátar, Retron & Bertel! 600 kr. inn
18. apríl - Frumleikhúsið, Keflavík + Æla, Skátar & leynigestur 600 kr. inn

December 11th 2005
Here's SPARES OR REPAIRS finally, and some previews of FAMILY SNAPS ... i'm thinking about making family snaps available as a purchased download (about a fiver) so people have the MP3 option if they prefer it, but for now here's some free snippets.

the 'family snaps' CD is out now on jonson family records, or you can buy it RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

also, the donation buttons must've stopped working a while back. they're fixed now, just in case you're feeling generous.

November 11th 2005
one more show added... it's our album launch!

I'M BEING GOOD
+ ACK ACK ACK
+ YELP OF SORDS

FRIDAY 18th NOVEMBER
FREE BUTT, Phoenix Place, Brighton
Doors 8pm
ONLY £3!!!

we don't usually seem to get to play for more than 25 minutes these days but this night we're trying to work it so we can play for an hour at least, so bring a good book.

the album hits the streets on december 5th on jonson family records, or you can buy it RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW

October 23rd 2005
I'm Being Good have some shows coming up...
25/10 LONDON - LSE - w/ HEY COLOSSUS + SHIT AND SHINE
03/11 LONDON - vibe bar - w/ TRUMANS WATER
04/11 NOTTINGHAM - horn in hand - w/ TRUMANS WATER
05/11 LEEDS - brudenell social club - w/ TRUMANS WATER + BILGE PUMP
06/11 BRIGHTON - pavilion theatre with TRUMANS WATER + MELT BANANA
20/11 LONDON - the garage - w/ MELT BANANA

August 24th 2005
Pine Forest tonight!, at the Spitz, commercial street, london. It'll be a flute/guitar duo with a guest 2-headed dog. Pine Forest are on first, at 7.30pm. other bands are James Green, Soeza, and Alexander Tucker.

August 16th 2005
The Bugs virtual 7" is here! also... I'm Being Good's 'spares or repair' album will be up within the next week or so.

August 6th 2005
Pine Forest will play at the spitz in london, 24th of august. supporting james green and soeza.

July 14th 2005
i'm being good have some gigs coming up this month, full list here

June 29th 2005
the pine forest album is up! gasp in awe at its creepy tendrils. Also coming soon, that DJ scotch egg virtual single and an i'm being good thing. Not the new album we just finished, a different new album. Probably in, like, early august by the time i get around to it. also just added a forum. i'll get around to redesigning this page to incorporate all of these elements properly some time.

June 2nd 2005
new pine forest album will be up within the next week or so, i've got my head wrapped around finishing the i'm being good CD at the moment.. but SOON.

May 3rd 2005
i just stumbled on a vinyl copy of the small things LP on ebay. aaahh yes, number 91, I remember that one.
just finished out little mini-tour with Worlds Dirtiest Sport and BUGS. Expect virtual 7" singles from both right here in the near future.

April 18th 2005
i'm being good are playing a couple of live shows, with BUGS and WORLDS DIRTIEST SPORT (kevin from trumans water's other band) dates so far are...
Friday, April 29th Brighton THE VOID starts 10pm ish FREE (donations welcome)
Saturday April 30th Northampton somewhere. not sure about the venue. Tom knows.
Sunday May 1st EMPTY - wanna put them on? email tom at imbeinggood dot com
Monday May 2nd Bristol Mr Wolf's Noodle Bar, 7.30pm £4 in. with Sodding Wolf's Head.

April 9th 2005
i added some no-obligation donation buttons just in case you can't live with yourselves. i know it's lame but i'm being good need a new crash cymbal, gotta keep the bandwidth topped up, buy esoteric microphones, expensive trainers, and other bling shit.

April 8th 2005
yet another re-issue! I'm Being Good's seminal 2001 CD sub plot. Pretty much sold out over at i'mbeinggood.com, although there's a handful left if you're desperate to own a 'real' copy. Not fussed? then download it for free right here.
more stuff to follow soon: virtual singles by dj scotch egg, world's dirtiest sport and others, a full-length pine forest release and more re-issues from the vaults.

April 7th 2005
another re-issue... i've got a lot of stuff backed up, this is the now out-of-print small things first LP. Basically the line-up of i'm being good circa 1995 (andrew clare, david ewan campbell, jason williams) noodling around at home. If you told a bunch of casper hausers who'd never heard jazz before to go read a book about it and then go off and make some it might sound something like this. aomewhere between CAN and sun city girls. oddly reminiscent of current finnish outfits like the anaksimandros.

April 6th 2005
here's a re-issue. it's the bald mermaid LP from 1996. still sounds as ugly as ever. If the idea of downloading a 105MB zip file fills you with dread you can download some snippet previews to help you commit. alternately you can still buy this one on vinyl from the old site.

April 4th 2005
okay, bought the server space... here's the first internet-only free MP3 release. It's by Pine Forest. More stuff to follow real soon. In the meantime if you're still hung up on owning hard copies you can still buy stuff from the old site.