arteries/bangers 'tour'

don't call it a tour, jenks will shout because he has so much work to do - it's a long weekend! ;)

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we are going to have A2 screen prints of this poster available at the shows... all the venue details are on our myspace page

Recording El's songs the other week...

A couple of weeks ago we went down to Pete Miles in Devon to record two songs that our lovely friend El Morgan had written and then sent to us (the demos that El sent us are on her myspace page 'blah blah blah' and 'ballroom') to be turned into arteries kinda songs (but with El on vocals) for the B Side of a split 7" with Kelly Kemp and Bangers doing to the sort of thing (but with Kelly's songs) on the A Side. 

anyways... so we got to Pete's at about 2pm on the sunday and waited around for a couple of hours as we hadn't spoken for a couple of days and the last time we talked we just said 'sunday afternoon.' Once it got to to 5pm we started to worry, and we couldn't get hold of Pete! once we did, it turned out that there had been some confusion as to wether or not the session had been confirmed and at the time Pete was in Brighton, oh dear!

That day was the only day that ourselves and El could get together to record the songs so we decided that we may as well wait for Pete and just blast them out when he got home. So that's what we did, but stuff like this always seems to take longer than expected... Pete made it home by about half past midnight , by the time we had all drank a couple of coffees , and everything was set up/miked up and sound checked it was gone 2am before we hit record! Once we got going we got through the songs really quickly, i think we ended up using the first take for one and the 3rd take for the other, then we had a listen back, Pete set up ready to record the vocals, then El laid down her vocals, Miles laid down his back ups and then we spent way too long messing around with about 10 seconds of gang vocals at the end of one of the songs, by the time we were done it has gone 4am, but we were all wired on coffee so Pete suggested that we demo a bunch of new songs!

Pete's dog Ali had had enough!

We left Devon at 6am on the monday and drove back to Swansea (via Bristol) hitting all the morning rush hour traffic outside every city on the way and got home at 10am - it was a pretty strange 24 hours to say the least!

But... The songs came out sounding cool! right now they are being mixed and mastered with the Bangers tracks and then i guess they will be out on 7" asap, i'm not sure of any other info on the release but we will keep you posted.

Tickets available for the Chuck Ragan show...

you can get tickets here!

s s s C RAAAY!

We are insanely excited to be able to say that we are supporting Chuck Ragan in March... And, it's in Swansea, woo hoo!

Tickets will be available in the SWFU shop asap!

shoop shoop scho ha!

last copies of sweat...

Rhys just finished screening the sleeves that we have been waiting for, this is literally the last of 'em...

if you want one you can order it here

You're just a shitty band

our friend Ian filmed this at Punk n Bowl III on December 20th...

check out his blog here - there are loads of other live videos of UK punk bands on there, he is a good dude!

Jenks and Miles are being struck down by the mighty arm of Physics exams at the moment, meanwhile we are still trying to write new stuff, watch this space...

Xmas show photos and some other stuff...

Here are some photos that our friend Stuart Argue took at our Xmas show on December 21st in Swansea...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are more in an alum on our facebook page

We aren't playing any shows this month because of physics exams, but we are recording a couple of songs for a 7" some time at the end of the month - Specialist Subject records are putting out a another split record;

Sida A will feature 2 songs with written by Kelly Kemp but played by BANGERS and Side B will feature 2 songs written by El Morgan but played by us... more info on this release soon!

In February we are playing Brighton Zine Fest '10 and a couple of shows with THE PLIGHT and THE COMPUTERS.

In March we are doing a short but extensive UK tour with BANGERS, as well as a few shows with PBC and SHOOK ONES.

Dates, Posters and all that crap will be up on here soon!

In other news, i made a blog for the art stuff that i do, check it out!

oh yeah, one more thing - it's seems quite far away but we are booked in to record our second full length LP in June...

Shirts and Zip Ups

We have some new t shirts for sale in the SWFU! online shop.

We are also taking Pre orders for Arteries zip up hoodies, here is the link for that...

Last weekend

We had an awesome couple of days, we played with Snuff and The Computers at the Garage in London last Saturday, at Punk n Bowl III in Bloomsbury on Sunday and had our Xmas show in Swansea on Monday with Portraits, Bangers and The Computers - we had a blast!

thanks so much to everyone that came along, made things possible, helped us out, we really appreciate it!

Our friend Stu was snapping photos all night at the Swansea show, we should have them from him soon, For now there is a Punk n Bowl Photo album on our face book page.

In Other news, Blood Sweat & Beers Made Big Cheese Magazine's top 100 list of '09, I think we probably have Ian Chaddock to thank for that, if so, cheers dude!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

SWFU! Xmas BASH!

We have had a bit of a nightmare venue wise with next week's christmas show, but we have finally sorted it out.

The show is now being held upstairs (on the floor) at SIN CITY, thanks to them for bailing us out at last minute...

The Show is ONE WEEK away.

Here is the poster;

Here is a link to the facebook event's page

and here is a link to our new facebook page.

We had a blast playing a couple of shows with D4 last week, thanks to Lil and Dave and Matt for hooking us up with the shows!

We have some Arteries Zip Up Hoodies available for pre-order in the shop. We are only going to be accepting orders for a couple more days so if you want one get your order in right away incase you miss out!

that's all for now.