The Psychøtic Reactiøn

Our single “A Moment Of Clarity” was played on Kent Unsigned last night. You can listen again here.

“A Moment Of Clarity” has been given an excellent review by Unpeeled zine.

27th Jul 2007

The next Vic’s Vapour Club is this Friday: 27th July, at The Cricketers, St Peters Street, Canterbury. As well as us you can see Picturebox, Robert Rotifer, and Far Away Tree, and entry is free. This will probably be our last local gig before we go to New York.

The gig at the Heron in Herne bay on 28th July has been cancelled. But you can still see us at Vic’s Vapo Club at the Cricketers in Canterbury on Friday 27th July. That will now be our last gig before we go to New York.

1) Yes, the new EP is absurdly late, but yes, it is coming shortly. Having suffered the usual cash-related delays of DIY, the latest problem is a duplicator who is really bloody slow! But it will be soon… very soon.

2) There is a video (also fashionably late) for Overdraft Blues, directed by Leo B. de Cookman, shortly to be available…watch this space.

3) New Rave. Why-oh-why? As if Old Rave wasn’t bad enough. Some things are best left alone. Glo-sticks and smiley t-shirts are best left alone. 2 Unlimited and Altern-8 are best left in the dustbin of history, surely?

4) Yes, we are finally going back to New York!! Leo and I will be doing a piano and guitar set at the Sidewalk Café as part of the Summer Antifolk Festival, courtesy of the marvellous Lach. Hopefully we’ll see some of you there! Maybe…

Last week, The Psychotic Reaction (well, two of them anyway) had their first ever radio interview and acoustic (!) session (!!) on Canterbury Student Radio at the UKC. As well as discussing life, the universe and everything, we played four songs: It’s A Small Town, A Moment of Clarity (where I forgot the words for the first time ever!), The Richard Dawkins Rag and Barking Up The Wrong Tree. Choice excerpts will be available for download shortly. Thanks to Amelia and all at CSR for having us, we’re due back again in September or October, after our ker-ay-zee summer of festival excess (well, sort of…)

I’ve just found two more reviews of “A Moment Of Clarity” from Diskant and Screaming Tarts. Both are quite good.

We’re NOT playing at the Heron in Herne Bay on Saturday 28th July.

We’ve just been booked for an all-day mini-festival at the New Cross Inn on Saturday 15th September, 2pm-2am. We’re probably appearing as an acoustic duo. The Alps and Nebraska are playing, and others to be confirmed. More details when we get them.

We should be doing some kind of informal live interview/session on Canterbury Student Radio tomorrow (Thursday 5th July) between 3pm and 5pm. You can listen live on the internet, or if you’re in Canterbury tune in on 97.4FM.