Tracklisting

1) Feral Fanzine Frenzy
2) Roly-Poly
3) Kim’s Song
4) Stockholm Archipelago

They were very kindly recorded for us in Stoke, by Pete Horowitz.

I’m so pleased with the way the packaging has turned out! The image was drawn by Kooky Koala and was screen printed onto some of Stumptown Printers chipboard packaging by Get a Grip.

We’ve written and printed a zine which is in the box too with pieces about some of the things mentioned in the songs, and an interview with Pete about home recording.

It’s available for just £4 (plus P&P) from Oddbox Records, or if you’ve never bought anything from Oddbox before then you can also buy it as part of an awesome treasure trove of CDs which will also get you the new albums by Ace Bushy Striptease (it’s got a song on it called Bon Nuit, J’ai Changé Mon Esprit which is one of the best things ever!) and One Happy Island (similarly fantastic) along with the new Humms album. Win!

They are

Tuesday 20th July at The Victoria in Birmingham
Hosted by The Autumn Store
With The Smittens and Jam on Bread

Facebook event

Thursday 22nd July at The Musician in Leicester
Hosted by Sweeping The Nation
With MJ Hibbett and The Validators and Standard Fare

Facebook event

Saturday 24th July at Indietracks Festival!!!
Hosted by Indietracks Festival
With loads of amazing bands who are playing Indietracks Festival

Facebook event

Hurray!

Eagle eyed web foragers may have already come across this interview on the Blue Whale blog with me and Simon from Ace Bushy Striptease in our Tiddlywhips disguise.

You can find out more about Ace Bushy Striptease and Cast and Crew by following them there links in this here sentence. As always there’s a Facebook Event.

The Moseley Arms is on Ravenhurst Street

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Poster by Alex from Devil and Casey Jones.

Also, excitingly, I think Rotunda-sault is in a gigable state. There. I’ve said it so we’ll have to play it now.

The songs can be downloaded from the Oddnet site. There’s loads of other great download singles there too!

Lights Out Birmingham was inspired by a New Scientist editorial about how they switch all the lights off in Reykjavik so that you could look at the stars in the night sky. Lights Out Birmingham was also the set opener and the ‘hit’ from when we were a three piece and had one of those bassists, like what the bumper book on starting a band says that you need. As it was Stu’s melodic basslines always contributed immensely to the two songs, and pulled them in scary new directions.

The b-side is again, Birmingham centric, all namedroppy by mentioning Snobs and The Jug and um, again all Nordic in that it’s about Swedish pop music. Isn’t Swedish pop brilliant!

Both the songs were recorded by Dom James and the cover was by Carla of Kooky Koala fame.

So here’s what I was thinking - Get A Grip can reproduce the four colours of the image on a t-shirt, and I was thinking about chestnut as it’s similar to the original packaging and you’d get the same nice red and white on brown contrast (as taken as I was with Safety Green mind!)

It would work out at £10 a t-shirt, though it would be a quality tee, and none of this tat that is sold to you outside at concerts.

These are the chest sizes:
Small 34-36
Medium 38-40
Large 42-44
X Large 46-48
2X Large 50-52
3X Large 54-56

To get an idea of demand (it’ll only be short run) drop me a message in the comments or by e-mail (dunc@theautumnstore.co.uk). I’ll probably be going ahead with it but this’ll give me an idea of the sizes I should be ordering, or whether it’s a totally daft idea.

It’s going to be made up of four songs which we’ve been performing over the last year

1) Feral Fanzine Frenzy
2) Roly Poly
3) Kim’s Song
4) Stockholm Archipelago

Pete Horowitz has been wonderfully kind and helped us record the songs up in Stoke and it’s coming out on Oddbox Records, hopefully at some point in early June.

The cover image (which, honestly, I think looks amazing… more on that next post) was designed by Kooky Koala and printed by Get A Grip in the Custard Factory.

And here it is:

Yay.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are headlining this year, along with what must be one of the best line ups yet!

More info and tickets on the Indietracks website.

Anyway, a big huge thank you to Paul Busst who taped our whole gig from Saturday and has initially put together this lovely video for Don’t Go Changing from the images of us packing away.

Justin the sound man from the evening and drummer for the awesome Seeland, and Pagan Wanderer Lu also feature.

First up, we’re playing at The Autumn Store on 20th March, with The School, and Pagan Wanderer Lu

There’s a bit of info on The Autumn Store blog and a facebook event. It’s at The Victoria.

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We’re playing at Island Bar on 2nd April for I Love Noise Pop.

Really looking forward to this gig, as it’s the second I Love Noise Pop and the first was pretty ace. We’re playing with Barry’s Attic, Sonic Delays and My Imaginary Friend.

There’s an I Love Noise Pop facebook group here.

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Third and finally, we’re making it down to Bristol (yaaay) on 4th April to play Antifolk 3

So many good bands on that line up. Paul Busst Paul Busst has kindly invited us to do a bit of a collaboration which we’re very excited about too

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Cool, that’s all the gigs. The one other bit of news is there’s finally a Falling and Laughing video page linked on the left with a Falling and Laughing video on it, performing a Falling and Laughing song called Navigating The Split Screen! It was recorded by Liam from Kidnapper Bell. Thank you Liam!