I write viral bangers for depressed people. also illustrator. Sparky Deathcap &
@loscampesinos
🐎TEAR JERKY EP is out now on vinyl and streaming plaforms!
💿oh my it’s TEAR JERKY DAY💿
The long lost Tear Jerky EP is finally available to stream and own on vinyl for the first time ever!
🍂featuring the song September🍁
🎧stream and buy right now!
Also best thing to happen this decade was Ellie Goulding spraying tango on everything in the LC! dressing room whilst we were on stage at underage festival, because she thought we’d stolen her north face jacket.
In a fitting end to the 2010s, Jeff Bezos is responsible for the last Number 1 Single of the year, Ellie Goulding's "River" (by Joni Mitchell).
Here's how:
1. You can't find it on Spotify, Apple, Google.
2. That's because - aside from Youtube - it's Amazon exclusive.
and...
👑 Los Camp! album 7️⃣ is finished and ready to go.
We’ve been in and out of the studio since October 2023, and the album will be out worldwide this Summer.
More news soon, but let it be known we’re back for our crown.
Drawn a picture here of Football’s Dad setting up an air bed in the computer room, ready for when she comes home. And, yes, Football is a woman.
#ENGSWE
#OtD
20 Sep 2015 the
#piggate
scandal broke when claims from Tory donor, Lord Ashcroft, were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had had sex with a dead pig's head while at university
📣Out Now!🎬
The official lyric video for September, made entirely by me and featuring original super 8 footage and a million man hours worth of frame by frame animation. Sadly I am dead now but my work lives on.
The newly remixed, remastered and rejerked Tear Jerky EP will be released 1st Dec on vinyl for the first time ever.
Pre-order now and get the double-sided phenakistoscope picture disc!
But hurry because only the first 200 come with a signed print!
We sold out 1,801 tickets in no time.
London: 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣1️⃣
(1,499 tickets remain to go on sale Friday, 10am)
Leeds: 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
(100 tickets remain to go on sale Friday, 10am)
£5 low income tickets available as part of each.
Seriously, thank you 🙌🖤
Weird thing about Zac Goldsmith is he doesn't even appear to be that hungry for any of this. It's like someone put a bowtie on a roomba and then pointed it in the direction of westminster.
❄️Winter City Ghosts, from Tear Jerky EP, is out today!
📼🎧Watch the brand new video and stream now on all good platforms.
💿Tear Jerky EP (newly rejerked) is out on 1st Dec and available to pre-order right now!
🛒The Sparky Deathcap Merch Store is open for business!🛒
Want tees? We got ‘em! Want caps? We got ‘em! Oh, you want a tote bag now you big baby? Well guess what! We got ‘em!
Hey sorry to everyone who got excited about the Sparky Deathcap back-catalogue appearing on streaming platforms. It was uploaded without my consent, so had to be taken down for obvious reasons.
But the good news is that it’s all coming back, along with some unreleased stuff.
The chain of events, I discovered, went something like this: a popular Twitch streamer and Youtuber (hi Wilbur!) had briefly used the track on their channel and it had gained kind of a small cult status amongst Wilbur ultras.
The thing about going back in time to kill baby hitler is that you’d then become world famous as the time-travelling baby killer.
And then someone would travel back in time to kill baby you. And then someone would travel back in time to kill baby them. And so on. It’s a hassle.
.
@sparkydeathcap
's 'September' took the long route to viral stardom...
The inside track on how a decade-old break-up symphony became an online sensation -
Had an absolute blast! thanks so much to everyone who came out to see us. Means so much to us that even after all these years we still get to do this thing we love.
Album of the day (19)
Sparky deathcamp tear jerky.
All the songs are good, but some seem a bit much.
5/10 - 10/10 depending on the song.
#sparkyDeathcap
#music
#rock
A pleasure and an honour to work on the album art for the new record by
@treerivermusic
coming out on
@bsmrocks
. Go and pre-order that vinyl ya dummies.
Here is the beautiful artwork created by
@sparkydeathcap
. We're so stoked on this album that we recorded in October 2020 (!) and so jazzed we don't have to sit on it any longer! You're gonna love it.
Pre-order the vinyl or pre-save the album on Spotify at
So kind of a funny story behind this.
This song originally came from an EP I put out in 2009, called Tear Jerky, which I wrote and recorded in my bedroom when I was like 22/23. It was a super personal sad boy labour of love about a breakup I'd just gone through.
Hands down the worst character in The Office (US) is Brian the boom mic operator. Mostly because all the characters wear lapel mics throughout so what does Brian even do all day? Stand around and wreck homes, that’s what.
Had a blast talking to
@101PartTimePod
the other day! One of my go-to podcasts right now with some awesome guests.
Let’s see if Giles managed to find an edit point anywhere within the 45 min monolith of square wave drone I served up.
Listen to today's episode with
@sparkydeathcap
, as Rob talks survival years with
@LosCampesinos
, a literal RUNNING job at the National Gallery and how September became a TikTok anthem after 10 years...
Listen along ↪️
🎸This weekend I’m playing a special series of instore shows!
💿 I’ll be playing Tear Jerky EP in its entirety for the first (and only) time ever, followed by a record signing!
🎟️ Snap up tickets at:
Tonight in Brooklyn with
@LongNeckLass
and
@notapoetryclub
I’ll be playing a mixture of new songs and some old Sparky Deathcap classics for all the real heads out there.
RSVP + details here:
While you were watching Skibidi Toilet I was working in the lab to create my finest work yet: a 35 minute ASMR version of the viral banger September. Y'welcome.
Behold:
So I guess the moral of the story is to put your work up online and keep abreast of what's going on on TikTok. And believe in yourself?
Special thanks to
@grthdvd
, couldn't have done it without you, buddy. And also to Dan and everyone at Sony RCA, you've been great. And Will!
@sparkydeathcap
I AM SO NORMAL and capable of liking things in sane quantities!!!! (i bought albums on bandcamp and imported them on my computer so i could listen to them on Spotify)
My dad just got banned from his facebook model railway group for complaining about the misogynistic comments beneath a "guess the train" game. Proud of you, dad. In spite of all the shame your model railway thing heaps on the family.
@drewmcewan
@LosCampesinos
No, come on, please don’t joke about someone’s leaked nudes. It’s a serious invasion and probably a horrible episode in her life.
Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me and my weirdo music over the years. It keeps me alive when I’m trying to remix the 130+ unlabelled tracks of the logic arrangement for September.
I certainly made some odd organisational choices as a youngster.
Anyway, to cut a verrry long story (sorry about that btw) short, the other day I ended up signing deal with Sony RCA for September. I finally remixed and remastered it and it's been kind of like seeing an old friend again.
Hard to believe, but my music career was not going 'well'. I'd just appeared on the Christmas special of a local Manchester TV show, which curiously featured an old lady who reviewed the bands after they performed. She LOVED the Joy Formidable, but thought I should quit music.
For the avoidance of doubt here we're talking about
@LosCampesinos
. And I hurried out an unmastered version of Tear Jerky to release and sell on the first tour, which I was also opening on. The EP got decent reviews everywhere and the limited run sold out pretty quickly.
It then crossed over to TikTok where it began to 'snowball virally', as I have been terming it. Then some dude called Reno apparently uploaded it to Spotify (turns out anyone can just... do this) and there it had accrued 3 million + plays.
Oh shiiiiiiiit it’s
#Tearjerky
day! (again)
📼 Come with me on a guided tour of the all new Tear Jerky vinyl package…
🤳And don’t forget to post your own Tear Jerky pics in the replies (again!)
🏆Best video of phenakistiscope vinyl wins a prize!
So I took the flippant remark of an 85 year old to heart and that became the plan. And Tear Jerky was going to be my big swan song, baby. One final big score. But then out of the blue some friends asked me to join their band and it basically changed my life.
I was honoured to get to sing on my favourite record of 2022! But don't let that put you off, I'm only on one song and it's honestly such a great album that you hardly even notice.
It's your patriotic duty to go and pre-order right now. Do it for the queen.
I initially thought the first one was a scam, I just couldn't figure out the angle. But he directed me to the UK viral charts and there, at number 2 was my song September. Albeit under somebody else's name.
Earlier in the year I got to illustrate the cover for the brilliant debut collection of stories by one of my oldest friends
@ricketywhite
. Sadly the publisher, STORGY, has been hit by a funding shortfall and is running a Kickstarter in order to print this and a few other titles.
We're very excited to announce we have
@sparkydeathcap
(aka
@LosCampesinos
multi instrumentalist R N Taylor) stopping by for an in store show and signing on Sunday 3rd December at 1pm.
Entry to the event is with purchase of the new Tear Jerky EP.
This threw up a load of questions. How did the track end up on spotify? How was it trending? If you get to number one is there some kind of government agency that distributes gold records? Would 'Reno' get mine? It was a good old 2023 internet mystery.
And I always meant to go back and remix and remaster the record for streaming platforms, but I was having such a blast with LC! that I could never really face opening up the session files and trying to sift through my old feelings, questionable lines and odd production choices.
A few years ago I sought help for depression and ended up also getting diagnosed with ADHD. Now I take a load of strong brain drugs every day. I used to be embarrassed about it, but these days I’m too busy being late for things to care what anyone thinks
#WorldMentalHealthDay
So I just left it to drift like a small trash island on the tides of the internet and basically forgot all about it.
Until pretty much a few weeks ago, when I got a sudden avalanche of enquiries from major label A&R people.
Sometimes to relax I email the in-house tech at a venue 2 weeks in advance to request a spare mic line and then show up drunk to whatever show it is with my own microphone and sing along with the band.
Pt 3 of the September lyric video.
This verse is for everyone out there in the borough of Hackney. I even LOOKED at a picture of London Fields before animating it. That’s professionalism.
"I was told it was number two on the UK viral charts, which I didn’t even know was a thing." I thoroughly enjoyed speaking to
@sparkydeathcap
about life, music and the TikTok effect for
@BigIssue
🎥A couple of months ago I recorded this live version of September out by the Hudson River in Upstate New York.
Watch till the end to hear someone's dad on a boat shout 'fuck yeah' and ruin a take.
Death of the author. I have no right to an opinion on the use of my work in some sort of hellish 22 jump street entrapment psyop. That’s just what it is to be a creator of art (content)
The Grinch wants to form a band with you but you’re unsure because of his reputation for major toxicity.
But at the same time he’s a huge name and it would guaranteed be the biggest thing you’ve ever done.
Cool Uncle Bobby just announced his intention to ‘stay up all night and meet Santa’ and word is this has caused some issues with getting the children to go to sleep.
Something interesting about the song ‘Hound Dog’ is that at first it sounds like it’s probably about a person, right?
But no. Listen again and it’s actually just an exhaustive list of complaints about a useless dog that can’t do anything. And that’s what life was like in the 50s