Genre Music Is The Enemy
“A Moment Of Clarity” has been voted one of the best free downloads of 2007 by IndieMP3. You can download all the tracks from IndieMP3, and it’s well worth it because there are some great songs on there, especially Club 8, who I would have voted for if it hadn’t been for loyalty to the band I’m actually in.
Our single “A Moment Of Clarity” was played on Kent Unsigned last night. You can listen again here.
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…
Here it is, our first ever video, created by the genius of Tom Marshallsay:
It’s also available on MySpace.
Our new single, the double A-side “A Moment Of Clarity” and “Overdraft Blues” is now available. It’s free to download at LastFM (or if you prefer badly designed sites that don’t work properly, you can also find it at Myspace).
It has also had another good review, this time at Room Thirteen, who gave it 10 out of… 13.
Our new single, the double A-side “A Moment Of Clarity” and “Overdraft Blues” will be released on 17th April. The tracks will be completely free MP3s and will be available at MySpace and LastFM. There will also be videos for both tracks on YouTube. Watch out for them nearer the release date. Meanwhile our YouTube profile has links to some videos of other bands we like.
We have another EP nearly ready which will be coming out some time in the summer.
Meanwhile, we will be adding more content from the old site and making new posts here.
Realising that we were going to have nothing new released this year, I decide we should record a Christmas single on Wednesday. Thursday I decided on a brief of the Pachelbel Canon in the style of the Flaming Lips. By Friday I’d come up with some lyrics, an intro riff and cribbed some J.S. Bach to lend the project suitable gravitas, and Leo and I had recorded the drums. Saturday we added guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards and (naturally) sleigh bells. We only had one thirty quid mic and the fourtrack at our disposal, so hi-fi it aint, but here it is; that rare thing, a quality Christmas song. I tried to avoid schmaltz or romance and any spiritual grappling sounds toe-curlingly pompous, so I just said what I felt, and played filthy fuzz guitar over the top (no change there, then).
The “B-side” is a live version of “Buried Alive” recorded at the Lost Sunday club at the Brixton Windmill, 5th February 2006. It will be 11 years in January since the original 4-track recording of “Buried Alive” became the first Psychotic Reaction song.
This single is a FREE download. The best place to stream and download it is LastFM.
God Is In The CD, a compilation of new bands put together by God Is In The TV webzine, is out today. It features our “It’s A Small Town” along with 17 other great tracks representing the first 3 years of GIITTV. You can see more details and order it online (only £5, with profits going to Macmillan Cancer Support) here.
Well, it’s been a long, hard haul, but our first full length, self financed CD album is here. It is entitled Rumble as a tribute to Link Wray; because it contains a few instrumentals; and as an acknowledgement, nay, a celebration of the lo-fi sound quality (although thanks to Matthew Barwick’s miraculous mastering process it sounds a lot cleaner than it has any right to!). It was initially recorded on 4-track cassette, although some of the field recordings were recorded on tape or mini-disc. A few overdubs were performed at BigSqueak studio, as was mixing and mastering. The cover photo was taken many years ago by David Williams, and shows Whitstable harbour in a storm.