i want to clear this up once & for all as i am sick of still getting sarcastic comments from certain people whenever i go out, about this complete bollocks of apparently ripping off arcade's band name.

i did not rip it off, i thought of it first, i had it written down on paper as early as spring 2000 before i even had any recording gear & i started using it in may 2001 when i decided to start recording my solo project!

i even tried to show certain members of arcade, then in glue, my first tracks when they came to record with me in december 2001. of course no one took the slightest bit of notice & were more interested in playing grand theft auto all weekend, but they definitely saw the name of my project on my apple mac.

others who witnessed the name of my project before arcade ever existed include; jay & dave (who recorded with me in january 2002 as no claims bonus); jimmy; steph; johnson & wooders who came to stay with me in february 2002 for jimmy's 21st birthday weekend & bluey (who actually recorded some drums for early crash arcade tracks in april 2002)...

...so imagine my surprise when i move back to braintree from cambridge & find out that the ex glue boys are now in a band called arcade, on the night of their first gigl!

i told them about the name conflict the next day, i even showed my website & a couple of the tracks on my mac, but as they had already played a gig they said weren't changing their name again just for me!

so of course in late 2002 when i decide to add other members to my project to get more of a live band feel to the sound - it all kicks off with stories of us ripping off arcade's name.

& just to really take the piss, in summer 2003, all of us in crash arcade, absolutely caned it all the way back from newquay after a weeks holiday, to get to colchester in time for an arcade gig, just to get slated on stage in front of everyone in the olly twist - for what? ripping off arcade's band name!

not surprising everyone thinks i'm a cunt is it?!

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