The latest Ribbon Device sitar garage rock tune "Dont Believe in Christmas" featuring Richie 1250. http://ping.fm/P2uH5

The latest Ribbon Device sitar garage rock tune "Dont Believe in Christmas" featuring Richie 1250.
http://ping.fm/lU08x

This is a very sobering video. Watch it if you dare. You have to ask yourself "What on earth would I have done had this happened to me? "
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The Ribbon Device are playing a intimate gig at Bar 303 this Sunday the 30th of Oct at 3:45pm 303 High St Northcote as apart of the songwriters collective. For more information you can check out www.303.net.au

To celebrate our Sitar Garage rock EP release you can down load it free from The Ribbon Device website. Follow the link and click on the pic of the pretty girl.
http://ping.fm/u6JPZ

The Ribbon Device is playing live on Stone Love PBS 106.7FM this Friday evening 5-7pm
http://ping.fm/ELAwZ

The Ribbon Device are playing live on the Aum Show this Sat the 8th of Oct 10:30pm - Midnight (AEST)
http://ping.fm/Bx6YT
Hosted by you favorite DJ savior RA
KISS FM MELBOURNE - 87.6 | 87.8 | 87.9 | 88.0
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Sitar garage rock EP launch "The Innocent Gun Sessions Vol.1"

Hi All,

Spring is here at last along with up & down crazy Melbourne weather. Here is the latest TRD news.

We are proud to release our first Sitar garage rock EP titled "The Innocent Gun Sessions Vol.1"

1000 Sitars Wide
The Man Who Sold the World
Liberty Valence featuring Richie 1250
Sleep Walk featuring Rose Turtle Ertler
Paint it, Black

To celebrate this release we will be doing a EP launch on Saturday the 15th of Oct at The Empress Hotel 714 Nicholson St Fitzroy North

Copies of the EP will only be available on the night.

The Latest Ribbon Device Newsletter
Sitar Garage Rock EP Launch
Saturday 15th Oct @ The Empress Hotel
714 Nicholson St Fitzroy Nth
http://ping.fm/7bYT6

Here is the latest "Ribbon Device" garage rock Sitar original "A Thousand Sitars Wide" http://ping.fm/7AJb7

"Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height."

—Casey Stengel

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
-C.S Lewis

Brilliant talk really worth listening to!
"Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity"
http://ping.fm/Sz3U8

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Andy Warhol

VIRUS ALERT! Do not open any message with an attachment called: INVITATION FACEBOOK, regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which burns your computer hard disc! This virus will be received from someone you have in your address book. If you receive a mail called: INVITATION FACEBOOK - DO NOT OPEN IT - DELETE IT. It's getting harder to justify staying on Facebook isn't it?! Cut, copy & paste to you status update!

Something I made a while ago.
Recycle old CD cases with The Ribbon Device
http://ping.fm/Ilbtc

Tonight I’m going to put twenty dollars under my pillow in hopes that the tooth fairy will leave me some teeth.

I think I would like to try this : D
Rice Experiment-Masaru Emoto RESULTS
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The Ribbon Device Newsletter
we are back again to chase the winter blues away with the latest Youtube Sitar Garage Rock covers & gig news.
http://ping.fm/mKvcr

Hi All,

we are back again to chase the winter blues away with the latest Youtube Sitar Garage Rock covers & gig news.

We were lucky enough to land some special guests for these covers, including the smooth talking & singing
Richie 1250 (PBS Fm Stonelove)
&
Multi instrumentalist extrodinare
Rose Turtle Ertler

So please take sometime out of your busy day to be entertained by some very talented musicians.

The Man Who Sold the World
Liberty Valence Richie 1250
Sleep Walk Rose Turtle Ertler
Paint it, Black

If you are a musician, film makers, photographers artists etc... & would like to be apart of this
project please

drop me line, special guests are most welcome!

Gig News

The Ribbon Device will be playing Grump's Green 125 Smith St Collingwood Vic this Sunday the 31st of July at 7pm. Playing a mixture of originals & Sitar covers.

Also the Ribbon Device is now taking gig bookings, so if you would like us play your next house party etc... feel free to drop us a line

Please email me about any enquiries: mat@theribbondevice.com

Cheese Mat

Here is the latest "Ribbon Device" garage rock Sitar cover "Sleep Walk" featuring "Rose Turtle Ertler" http://ping.fm/0gpJq

Protesters destroy GM wheat crop in Australia.
Good on them!
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Here is our latest The Ribbon Device garage rock Sitar cover "The Man who sold World" http://ping.fm/zycd5

http://ping.fm/EicwP

Check out Richie 1250 and the brides of christ new film clip "walk the whippet" http://ping.fm/v49yf

Save a tree.  Eat a beaver.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.  We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.  And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

http://ping.fm/2oyzU

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.  ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982

Newspapers:  dead trees with information smeared on them.  ~Horizon, "Electronic Frontier"

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.  ~American Proverb

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.  ~Bill Vaughn

Here is our latest The Ribbon Device garage rock Sitar cover
"The Man who shot Liberty Valance" featuring Richie 1250 http://ping.fm/kNq4A

iphone pinball console, haha very cool
http://ping.fm/c6KIZ

This is really cool! Arcade console for the ipad!
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The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here is our latest "Paint it, Black" http://ping.fm/MrVrP

Words cause more damage to our body than injury & infection.

World's Most Amazing Musical Instrument
(haha)
http://ping.fm/OhZoG

On the 13th of June (Queens birthday) The Ribbon Device will be performing their "Sitar Garage Rock Covers" show at The Empress Hotel 714 Nicholson Street Fitzroy Nth 3068, Victoria, Australia

Hear The Ribbon Device playing 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton) on the sitar, live on 3CR 885fm today from 12-1pm on the show Roominations. You can listen in here: http://ping.fm/Vf8ur

Harmony House, very inspiring!
http://ping.fm/MxUCO

Things are either devolving towards, or evolving from , nothingness.

Music equipment: if you bought something and it didn't work you would send it back. Now if you got the replacement and if it didn't work as well, what would you think? I dont know what Im doing, the product is crap, or something else?

I think I need to clone myself or maybe add some extra arms and legs.

Vocal take 113: A poorly executed good idea is always better than well executed bad idea.

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here is our latest "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division http://ping.fm/HnJzW

Should Ronald McDonald Retire
Hundreds of doctors have backed a campaign to get McDonald's to stop marketing junk food to kids and retire its corporate symbol Ronald McDonald, publishing an open letter in major US newspapers.
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Ronald McDonald told to retire, 20 years to late but about bloody time!
http://ping.fm/CKqL1

11 dimensions of reality
http://ping.fm/AOB2C

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here is our latest "Local & or General" by the Models http://ping.fm/zmBw2

Im thinking of calling the next Ribbon Device Album "A gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a ute of bogans" What do you think?

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20.

Someone on earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.

An Albatross can doze while cruising at 25mph/40kph.

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here our latest "Bang Bang my baby shot me down" http://ping.fm/dsidu

Best card trick ever!
http://ping.fm/ZaW9t

Happy Easter from The Ribbon Device

Here's hoping the Easter bunny comes through for
you!

This year we have under taken a new project of recording covers on the sitar and posting them on YouTube. The plan is to do a new song each week,
fingers crossed!

The aim is to connect with our fans and we would love to hear your requests! Please email me what song you would like us to cover and we will do our best not to screw it up! Email your requests to mat@theribbondevice.com

If you are a musician and would like to be apart of this
project please drop me line, special guests are most welcome!

Here is the list of songs we have done so far.

• Imagine
• 9 to 5
• Tomorrow Never Knows
• Monkeys gone to heaven
• Africa
• King of Pain
• Creep
• The Dolphins
• My Girl
• Weather with you
• Over the Rainbow

Please email me about any enquiries, or
if you want to be taken off the newsletter list.

Cheese Mat�

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here our latest "Over The Rainbow" http://ping.fm/8pnXG

best book Ive read for a long while "Sweet Poison" why sugar makes us fat by David Gillespie. I always knew that low fat food was crap and this explains why.
http://ping.fm/fNDy5

About 7000 new insect species are discovered every year.

Ribbon Device Band Photos. http://ping.fm/g7J06

People who are lying tend to look up and to their left.

'Goodbye' comes from 'God be with you'.

At any one time, 0.7% of the world's population is drunk.

Just got this book on guitars from amazon, very cool!
http://ping.fm/43HFg

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.

: 1 2 3

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here our latest Crowded house "Weather with You" http://ping.fm/AOZnW

The Ribbon Device is taking cover song requests, please let me know what you would like us to cover on the sitar. Here is an example: Imagine by John Lennon http://ping.fm/livod

Latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, Mith this one is for you! The Police, "King of Pain" http://ping.fm/2kVjq

Latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, Radiohead, "Creep" http://ping.fm/PB5ts

Latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows" http://ping.fm/F71EL

Forward this message to at least 8 other people...... and you will get.....


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That's right, Fuck all.


You won't get good luck or a nice surprise, 5 grand or a holiday in Jamaica , just, Fuck all..... it's true...... it works.....!


I sent it and I got........



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Don't break the chain! It's the only one of these things that actually works!

So send it and get, Fuck all. It's brilliant!

Fact: Most toilets flush in Eb.

Fact: The Amazon rainforest producers over a fifth of the world's oxygen supply.

Fact: The USA producers more tabacco than wheat.

Latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, Fred Neils "The Dolphins" http://ping.fm/XVrfh

Fact: Superman can be seen in every episode of Seinfeld

fact: 52 of the 206 bones of the body are in the feet.

True fact: Light bulbs use a third of all electricity.

Latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, Toto's Africa.
http://ping.fm/UVkzf

Paper cranes (live) by The Ribbon Device http://ping.fm/awbxJ

Emulsion (live) by The Ribbon Device 2006
http://ping.fm/V0edB

The latest Ribbon Device sitar cover, (Noel this one is for you) 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton. Enjoy!
http://ping.fm/B2161

Comic book art No.2 for The Ribbon Device song "Na na na" by Shane Van Den Akker. Enjoy!

http://ping.fm/ZaTDx

Comic book art for The Ribbon Device song "Every Bodies Gonna Fry" by shane Van Den Akker. Enjoy!
http://ping.fm/eE5KL

We are currently taking song requests, if you would like us badly cover a song please drop me an email or leave a comment. cheese Mat
mat@theribbondevice.com

Here is us destroying "My Girl" with a sitar
http://ping.fm/1gYFs

True fact: In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again, Sam."

Check out the film clip for the song "Dawn" by The Ribbon Device. Its so epic only my foot made the cut!
Sorry to those who have already read this and are bored, I will say no more.
http://ping.fm/YCfGW

Latest Ribbon Device Film Cilp "Out to Sea"
Sorry to those who are bored of this message.
http://ping.fm/0atqv

Amazing true fact: New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote.

I like to think Im pretty bullet proof, but I just watched the movie "127 hours" and I nearly vomited! Best flick Ive seen in a long time!!!

Check out the latest Ribbon Device film clip,
Its so big & epic only my foot fitted into the camera angle!
http://ping.fm/9SmpM

Happy invasion day!

Songwriting tip No.1 good song writers write, great song writers steal.

My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One, funny stuff!
http://ping.fm/bLmY2

QLD flood pics comparison, quite amazing! http://ping.fm/s0eJl

Film clip for song "Emulsion" by The Ribbon Device http://ping.fm/RAdjg