bethan elfyn

Bethan Elfyn played another song off our new record on her radio show last night. it's called 'Turn Of The Tide' it's the second song into the show, you can listen to it right here...

Dead Sea

A small amount of insight regarding the release of our new record, as well as the artwork for the front cover have been blogged by Huck Magazine and Specialist Subject Records. 

Check them out and hold tight for more info, including; new songs, full artwork, US vinyl/digital release and pre order details coming very very soon!

thanks...

Dead Sea album release show...

we're having a release show for our new record in swansea on october 8th!

here is the poster with all the details;

and here is the fb event with even more details...

junk 'n' punk 'n' bowl

Punk N Bowl V! was a lot of fun!

here are some photos that our friend Minty took during our set;

many thanks for Greg and Cara for organising the whole schbang, great job once again!

our new record 'Dead Sea' is going to be released here in the UK on CD and download via SWFU! and Specialist Subject Records on October 11th. 

we are also going to set up pre orders at the beginning of september, you will receive a ltd edition t shirt and maybe some other cool shit when you pre order it, we'll have more on this soon.

THE FEST 9!

We are heading back to Gainesville florida once again this October to play at No Idea Record's The Fest 9!

We are very excited! We are going to be touring down the East Coast from New York to Florida a week or so with our bestest buddies Static Radio NJ... COWABUNGA!

We also have a lot of other exciting stuff going on in-between now and then including a European tour with the mighty Bangers throughout September, the release of our new record, 'Dead Sea' and a UK/Ireland tour in early October. 

There will be more details about the release of 'Dead Sea' very soon...

Punk 'n' Bowl V!

This is our next show, be there or be square...

crunch wrap supreme

our friend Owen Richards was snapping away at our show at South Of The Border last friday, here are some of his photos...

everything sucks today, tomorrow!

we are playing our first show since the beginning of may tomorrow night in east london. it should be a lot of fun, we are going to play some new songs i think...

here is the poster with all the info that you need to know;

in other news, the holy Joseph Pies finished up the artwork for our long awaited split 7" featuring El Morgan featuring us and Kelly Kemp featuring Bangers - i guess that means that it might be out soon...

we'll keep you posted!

recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 6

We carried on with vocals as soon as we got to the studio yesterday morning, we had four songs and a cover to do...

We used the same technique of Miles doing a song or two and then giving him a breather whilst i did the back ups, we got there in the end. Once the vocals were done we had a list of various other things that we still had to record, but before we could get down to doing all that stuff Pugs had to lay down one line in the Dead Milkmen cover that we have recorded, he did it in one take, what a pro!

The cover, as well as another song is going to be featured on a split 7" entitled, 'Banana Split' with New Jersey's Static Radio some time soon.

We recorded a bunch of roomy sounding screams and breathing and shit,

we recorded our friend Nic saying a couple of lines of a song over the phone

and we recorded a bunch of other bits too that will be subtly featured in various places on the record so look out for them.

That was it, we were done!

Now all that is left to do is mixing and mastering. Tim had time to mix one song and gave it to us to take away and think about, i think it sounds great so in theory mixing the rest of them shouldn't be so hard. We are heading back to the studio this coming friday to finalise everything, then the plan is to get it released as soon as possible, hopefully before october, fingers crossed!

Recording 'Dead Sea' - Day 5

Yesterday we did vocals all day long! 

There were a shit load of songs to get through, ideally we wanted to get them all done so that we could spend the whole of the final day mixing but it didn't really work out this way, we did get a lot done though, it's just that everything takes way longer than we initially think... especially the small things and it's the little things that count right? 

(insert small dick joke here)

Miles has loads of super high parts and and screamy bits in these songs so to keep him from blowing his voice out he would do a couple of full songs and then i would do the back ups straight away so that he could have a little rest...

I suck at singing, the difference between mine and Miles' singing stamina is pretty obvious when we are recording. I pretty much  blew my voice out just doing the back ups.

 arghhh wooo oohhh ahhh, kinda like that but load as sh*t!

In-between songs we hung out in the control room, we watched a little bit of this, some of this and a whole lot of these!

By the end of the day the checklist looked like this, it was actually pretty productive in hindsight.

One more day to go...