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DIY micro label with increasingly high production values! Indie in ethos and quality in music. Electro to Punk (and Electro Punk), Anti-Folk to Folk, Alt. Rock to Alt. Country, Political Rap to Radiant Pop. Shoegaze to Psych. Funk to Funky. No junkies that we're aware of...We started from scratch in January 2008 & so far I Blame The Parents has released 25 cd singles and 3 vinyl singles and albums by Piatcions, Sabatta, Extradition Order & The Outdoor Types. Album and download single from Extradition Order and download singles from Maxx Green, Scott Schipper Bowden and Crescendo on i-tunes, Amazon and many more sites. in 2010 we started a series of split CD singles limited to runs of 200 starting with the Welsh wizards from Joy Of Sex and Gindrinker. We have had airplay from Bethan Elfyn and Huw Stephens on R1, Tom Robinson on BBC6 and Gary Crowley on BBC London, John Kennedy on XFM plus great support from Mark Whitby on Dandelion Radio. News
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September 28th 2011
Piatcions album is getting good word of mouth and support from XFM. Here's why...
The Elephant 12 EP launch at the Macbeth, London was a cracker - don't believe us? Someone's put all the audio up with photos. Includes Kal Lavelle and LeeN supports.
September 5th 2011
Out today, available from i-tunes Amazon and the usual download sites (listen on Spotify). Buy the limited (250 copies) cd digipak here - http://iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/piatcions-senseless-sense
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August 31st 2011
The eve of our biggest month of releases! September 12th sees the Funk classic Sabatta's self titled album.
Here's a preview of the madness -
September 19th brings something else quite funky but rather more urban - the Elephant 12 EP. Here's a taste of Diet Coke.
But first September 5th comes the astonishing Psych/Shoegaze hybrid "Senseless>Sense" by Italy's Piatcions. Here's what we say -
"Fantastic
Italian band Piatcions produce an incredible sound - somewhere in the
middle of Psych and Shoegaze- inspiring, rhythmic, even playful.
And I Blame The Parents have gone and got their 1st album release!
Coming September 2011 Senseless>Sense is a grown up album -
gossamer sounds build to Kraut riffs, dazzling and epic.
Senseless>Sense
was recorded with the production of James Aparicio (recently at work with
Wild Palms, Liars, Spiritualized), and with Robert Toher from influential
NYC band APSE (ATP Records) blessing a couple of songs with his unique
voice.
Piatcions'
debut 7" "Fireworks Generation" dates back to 2009, then
the single "Time", released in May '10, quickly became a nu-gaze
favourite, getting the Top 5 Eps of 2010 on Anti-Snob Blog (US).
Piatcions
played several Europe gigs in the past years, and in 2010 became familiar
with UK stages, bringing their heavy sound to key venues like Proud
Galleries, Peter Parker's R'n'R Club in Soho, Buffalo Bar and Club Das
Ende in Southampton with Suicide Party and One Unique Signal.
Piatcions
are:
Francy
. Vocals, Guitar, Fuzz, Space Echo
Dave
. Bass, Oscillating Fuzz
Carellino
. Drums
Here's what Subbaculture think -
If there
were such a thing as Ride’s ‘Time Machine’, there’s a hefty chance
that the Italian band Piatcions would have hopped into it and from
wherever they landed (my guess is about 1992) they would have drawn their
influence to write a record that oozes early nineties, Ride-style shoegaze
with some more modern influences too. The homage to Ride in the sustained
vocal harmonies is very apparent as an influence, but there’s a glaze of
psychedelia too which makes for an interesting and diverse listen.
But Ride aren’t the only influence here. Alongside the Jesus and Mary
Chain, there’s hints of Darker My Love, Wooden Shjips and Film School.
Those afore mentioned harmonies and softly understated vocals sit so
comfortably with the textural distortion and feedback, which build upon
and add some flesh to the subtle bones of the (perhaps too
understated) drums and bass, combining beautifully for a luscious, dense
sound, artfully constructed and beautifully arranged. High five for
Italian shoegazing. 8/10
Here's a snatch of what's to come -
Buy the beggars at www.iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com
NOW!
(PS did we mention the EP by Extradition Order coming in November?)
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August 6th 2011
Loads of pre-order stuff now at www.iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com (you get the downloads straight away, then the physical on release - or just buy as download only). We are "closed" till 22nd August and will post anything already on release then.
Cheers!
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July 18th
O.M.G! We have SOOOO MUCH coming out this year. We started with an exciting blast of Brazilian Indie Punk by Top Surprise. On vinyl. Then the magnificent second album from The Outdoor Types - "It Is The Mercy". On vinyl. But Hey! enough vinyl - it's bloody expensive!
Today we release an incredible 3 tracks from Sweden's Rain Kings.
Go to www.iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com
Great review here that nails it http://mratavist.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/rain-kings-ghost-songs-ep/
And here http://godisinthetvzine.co.uk/index.php/2011/07/05/rain-kings-ghost-songs-ep-iblametheparents/
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July 1st 2011
Well, the album launch for It Is The Mercy by The Outdoor Types set sale from Tamesis Dock barge (oh, alright it's mooered) and was a huge success with old friends and casual observers alike cheering along the Rock & Roll thrills (no frills) over a bottle of grog or two. Here's the first couple of tracks from below decks
pop to the ODT band page for part two from the bar above. And buy the bloody album! £9.99 for vinyl LP with download codes. OUTDOOR TYPES
Next release is the Ghost Songs EP CD by Sweden's Rain Kings - it's bloody special too. All currently available releases will be on Bandcamp soon - you can pre-order (and listen to it) there now. Pre-order and get the downloads straight away - http://iblametheparentsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-songs-ep
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June 13th 2011
After a little tour of the UK ("Hi" to Exeter, Brighton, Cardiff and Liverpool) and a triumphant return to London ("Hi" Denmark St.) the second album by The Outdoor Types is here. It Ts The Mercy looks great, it sounds great and there are only 250 vinyl copies in the world, numbered and with full download. £9.99.
The band are playing a free gig on a boat (Oh Yes) on June 25th so please come down an help us celebrate this great album. Support will be the brilliant John MOuse, hand picked to bring you the finest Indie Wales has to offer and various worthies will spin the discs (including our Indie Dad - and he will be bringing the ROCK. With maybe a shanty.) Here be the details, Mateys http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155532084512778
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5th June 2011
Here's some of The Outdoor Types recent Caerdiff Buffalo set, Joy Of Sex and Gindrinker on soon. The second Outdoor Types album drops 13th June on i-Tunes and limited 12" vinyl album with free downloads.
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10th May 2011
Hiyaz
Here's a release from David Endometrium Cuntplow I should have put up a few weeks ago. Soz. My bad.
First off, the net label has FINALLY been updated. Thank you for your patience w/ that. There are 8 new releases for free download and they are all very excellent. Here, have some links ;)
[LTR281] NOSKOVSOLEGS - LAST EFFORT
[LTR282] Subversive Intentions - Voiture de musique
[LTR283] Koobaatoo Asparagus / Endometrium Cuntplow - Split
[LTR284] White Marsh - ADH II
[LTR285] 4.09 - Void
[LTR286] IZFERNOR - Shelter
[LTR287] Clitoris Less Cunt - One Night
[LTR288] ZMG - the sect
There are also 4 new cassette tapes out! As always, they are $5 each USA/Canada, and $6 everywhere else. The buy 2 get 1 free sale is still happening, so you would be wise to take advantage of this :)
- endometrium cuntplow - orbits tape (c13)
- endometrium cuntplow / Red Matter - Split (c62)
- Julia LaDense / Endometrium Cuntplow - New York Artists Are So Under Rated (collab) (c32)
- RedSK / endometrium cunplow - Hoe Cakes & Spinach Pie (split) (c20)
Photos, descriptions and purchase available @ http://www.lovetorturerecords.tk/ click on the cassettes and CDs link. http://www.lovetorturerecords.tk/
http://www.lovetorturerecords.tk/
Thank you all so much for the continued support and interest.
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2nd May 2011
Short note to say hello to anyone that has skipped by after getting a freebie or flyer at the Camden Crawl. Here's a review of our last single Saturn The Season by Top Surprise on 7" £3 anywhere worldwide...
Well,
it’s a minor miracle but a Brazilian band that isn’t Heavy Metal is
actually garnering international interest. This is still noisy stuff but
minus the hair, beards and combat gear. Top Surprise formed in 2009 and
this is their debut UK single.
Saturn (The Season) is a scuzzy three minutes of high energy pop that just
drills it's way into your head, and won't dislodge easily. It’s a decent
song and performance but the squeaky girl vocals irritate. As they also do
on I Shoot The Devil which is basically a good ole barn and hay bale
hoedown and jolly good fun it is too. www.music-news.com
3/5
And
it looks like Unpeeled really loved forth-coming album two from The
Outdoor Types - "It Is The Mercy"
SOUNDS LIKE?
Nick Cash, Johnny Cave and some people from Kiddiminster who aren't Lemmy.
We begin with a drawling, guitar spangled drawl; "I only really came
here because I thought that it was free, but it turned out there was
hell to pay..." and I'm hooked. There's dirty guitars, the
black heart of roadkill Americana-na-na-na-ing away and you know
instantly, that this is the kind of cheap and instantly disposable music
that you'll keep forever. There are eleven tracks here and I don't
like the euro-pop keyboards on "Drinking Ballad", but that
apart, "It Is The Mercy" is chock full of trashy, tacky, genuine
rock n roll genius, so it actually sounds like Johnny Cash invented glam
rock in a Nevada trailer park and then Iggy turned up with
some Joe Strummer demos. You will love
this,
please, just love this, I am too lazy to hunt you down, again.
IS IT ANY GOOD? Yes and if I could find the 'thumbs up' dingbat key
I'd leave it on repeat
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26th April 2011
This is hot! Fantastic Italian band Piatcions produce an incredible sound - somewhere in the middle of Psych and Shoegaze- inspiring, rhythmic, even playful. And I Blame The Parents have only gone and got their 1st album release! Coming September 2011 Senseless>Sense is a grown up album - gossamer sounds build to epic Kraut riffs, dazzling and epic.
Senseless>Sense was recorded with the production of James Aparicio (recently at work with Wild Palms, Liars, Spiritualized), and with Robert Toher from influential NYC band APSE (ATP Records) blessing a couple of songs with his unique voice.
Piatcions' debut 7" "Fireworks Generation" dates back to 2009, then the single "Time", released in May '10, quickly became a nu-gaze favourite, getting the Top 5 Eps of 2010 on Anti-Snob Blog (US).
Piatcions played several Europe gigs in the past years, and in 2010 became familiar with UK stages, bringing their heavy sound to key venues like Proud Galleries, Peter Parker's R'n'R Club in Soho, Buffalo Bar and Club Das Ende in Southampton with Suicide Party and One Unique Signal.
Piatcions are:
Francy . Vocals, Guitar, Fuzz, Space Echo
Dave . Bass, Oscillating Fuzz
Carellino . Drums
+ Robert Toher - Vocals, guitar
www.facebook.com/piatcions
Release September 5th 2011
Here are some words from others about Piatcions in 2010
ANTI-SNOB.com's Top EPs 2010
1 The See See - Mary Soul
2 Cold War Kids - Behave Yourself
3 Vampire Hands - Skull Judge
4 Thee Piatcions – Time
Sounds XP
“Thee Piatcions are a fine psychedelic pop outfit from Northern Italy. There EP has the drones and grooves of bands like
Spacemen 3, The Warlocks and the BRMC but retains its pop hooks.”
Loudhorizon.com
“THEE PIATCIONS are a garage / psyche band from Domodossola, a smal l town between the Alps in Northern Italy - close to both Milan and also Switzerland and based on the evidence of this four-track EP, THEE PIATCIONS may just raise more of an awareness of the region and cause a few A&R people to pin a l ittle flag to their maps of Europe.
Title track'Time' is l ike the Stone Roses had just come back from their summer hol idays in India. There's a great, smooth shuffl ing sound of jangly guitars with and Eastern tip, mixed up wi th sl ight reverb on the vocals and harmonies.
Class!”
(9/10)
Mojophenia
“Our favourite Euro Alt-Garage band Thee Piatcions have seriously lushed out on us. Try mixing The Bryds, Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3, add some Italian sophistication, you`re sure gonna get the right kind of result. All bases are secured and covered in a multi-coloured swirling vortex.”
Unpeeled
“We could just say that Thee Piatcions are both Italian and rather special, but unlike Ravioli, they are a band and one who've managed to travel backwards in time to rediscover, rework and excavate the original site of the Shoegaze, the late sixties. Not that Thee Piatcions are slavish revivalists, they take a genre, fuck with it and produce some fresh mown, hotly oiled, vaguely soulful, doped up garage rock.”
Hits in the car
“They find inspiration in psych rock of the 60'es and the alternative rock scene of the early 90'es and blends it all together nicely to create a very intriguing sound.”
We are bringing our 2011 announcements to you in a rush and a push this week. We have got to know several bands in the last few months and it's time to let you know too. More news tomorrow.
Laters.
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10th April 2011
Well, the Seesound gig went off big style. The Outdoor Types acoustic showed their songs off beautifully.
Extradition Order made a welcome return to the live stage with fill in (or IS he?) guitarist and Matt on holiday.
And Elephant 12 showed everyone why we are so excited about them. More on them to follow.
Look out tomorrow for a big announcement on our new Italian signings.
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5th April 2011
Quick reminder Top Surprise 7" is out now, £3 posted anywhere. Also from www.roughtrade.com
Tom Robinson Introducing on BBC iplayer this week has Laura In The Water by Extradition Order getting it's second outing on his show.
And please come to this - me DJ with the live talents of The Outdoor Types, Extradition Order and Elephant 12 to blow you away.
Elephant 12 will be releasing an EP with us soon - he's some rough footage from a Japan relief charity gig on 3rd April at The Macbeth. Their page will be up soon along with 3 more acts (for starters)
I'll post the latest mail out here later in week for more detailed info and links.
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20th March 2011
Top Surprise reviewed on Losing Today Singled Out. http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=354
Top Surprise on Art Rocker Radio http://www.zshare.net/audio/869505437e2aac0e/
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March 14th 2011
Here's the pre-order link for the 7" of Saturn (The Season) by Top Surprise. Ships world-wide for £3 GBP all in (or if you prefer also for pre-order at www.roughtrade.com ).
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February 28th 2011
Hi. It's possible you are glancing our way after reading this weeks Big Issue (and if not buy it to see what we mean!). Which means you like a good cause. So feel free to donate a fiver to Bucks charity Shed @ The Park at the just giving link above and get an album of your choice from IBTP (Since The Bomb Dropped by Extradition Order or All Aboard That's Coming Aboard by The Outdoor Types) mailed to you.
Also feel free to buy more stuff from the Shop page (older stuff) or artist pages like Joy Of Sex, The Outdoor Types, Gindrinker and for pre-order from 14th March the new 7" by Brazil's Top Surprise.
The website isn't perfect but there's a fair bit to see and hear around the place. And if you have three quid spare after buying all our stock (arf) feel free to come see us DJ at www.seesound.co.uk Seesound Saturdays second Saturday of the month, in Central London. Usually at least 7 acts (some ours, on occasion) from 4-10 with a couple our hours of tunes from Indie Dads garage of grooves.
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February 7th 2011
We did well in the Dandelion Radio Festive 50 smashing our previous 2 years of entries by hitting no. 16 (Bob Grainger, Sexual Pervert by Gindrinker) and 12 (Red Rocket by Joy Of Sex). Thanks to all the people that voted, we're very happy!
We've made agreements with Elephant 12 to release something around May and are looking forward to seeing them again at Punk on the 9th and Seesound Saturday in April (The Outdoor Types are also doing that one). We are DJing at The Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, London on 12th Feb (though sloping off to see Chameleon Vox later in the evening!).
The Top Surprise 7" is with the factory and should OK for March 14th release.
And we hope to have a compilation CD of the label's 2008/9 releases in April along with The Outdoor Types album number 2.
A further 2 bands are waiting in the wings for the next Split Definitives CD. Oh Hell - have a look at a blast from our 2009 past. Then buy one of the few CDs left!
Scott Bowden - Scott Schipper Bowden - Man Eater live
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16th January 2011
After last nights fab Seesound Saturday DJ set (fab www.seesound.co.uk gig rather than DJing, that was passable) I thought I'd post this interview with Martin Freeman and me for local Bucks free mag. I'll take publicity where I can get it! First I'll mention how damn good The Outdoor Types were, the blend of old and new material (you HAVE to hear The Murderer) going a storm. And it was great to see and meet B-Lock & The Girl from Middlesborough (ish) who we will hopefully release later in the year. (B lock rather than Block BTW, now I just have to ask what the Hell it means).
"This month we speak to someone who is always on the look out for new emerging talent in the world of music (definitely not from the X-Factor though), 45 year old (if he looks a day) Martin Brimicombe who set up and runs the independent record label ‘I blame the parents’. Martin lives in Chesham with his partner Julia and three children Reuben, Zachary and Joseph.
Hi Martin. Can you tell us a bit about yourself, any musical background?
I entered the Young Musican Of The Year once – he was furious! Only joking, sorry. My ‘music business’ experience was limited to massive consumption as a punter of live and recorded music, 10 years as a roadie for a B list prog rock band called IQ and the odd bit of rock disco DJing at The Iron Horse and Annie’s Wine Bar in Amersham (RIP both).
I have always kept pretty up to date with music and never stopped buying product but, about five years ago (mid-life crisis?), I started buying lots of new music and going into London for several gigs every month.
Yes, I remember those two establishments well, in fact I DJ’d for a few years at the latter, although it was then known as Crosby’s. Now what inspired you to set up your own label and please tell me where did that name come from?
I started writing a music blog on MySpace, specifically to review gigs and the free downloads that bands were able to giveaway on it then. It’s since become as corporate as everything else and you can no longer get free downloads. This led to me going to more and more gigs. www.myspace.com/indiedad is still the occasional home of Parental Advisory blog (warning: adult content).
I decided to start the label in January 2008 for the purpose of releasing a single by Extradition Order, a band of Warrington reprobates slumming it in London. I happened to see them by chance in Shoreditch supporting a guy called Rescue Cat. I’d met him supporting a band called Mohanski whilst in a band called The Roxy. The singer of Mohanski is now solo and counts Ashton Kutcher among his fans – I kid you not! Ashton Twittered a recommendation and he got 10,000 MySpace hits in a week! I think that counts as digression!
Anyway, the singer played a guitar made from a Castrol can, the bass player wore a gas mask and they played Garage Rock with ridiculously learned themes from history and literature.
I was hooked, heard more on MP3 and felt compelled to ask if I could put out a single. They were good enough/ desperate enough to say ‘yes’. I then had to think of a label name. I thought ‘I Blame The Parents’ Records was quite funny (my business card says ‘Sex, Drugs, R&R – I Blame The Parents Records’) and in a fit of hubris thought the logo drawn by my partner Julia would look cool on
T-shirts. T-shirts coming next year!
Mine’s a medium – okay, large! Where do you get to hear new material and what do you look for in a band?
Bands now ask me to listen – the fools – and I still scour websites like MySpace as much as time allows.
Also the excellent Mark Whitby on Dandelion Radio (internet station dedicated to John Peel), sends me regular hints. Latest ‘signing’ Top Surprise! from Brazil were his idea.
Of course signing still means ‘can I spend my money releasing your music, please?’) see www.myspace.com/topsurprise
I will have to check them out. Now, do you go for a particular genre, maybe the type of music you’re into, or does musical preferences not come into it?
Quick answer, ‘no’ and ‘yes’. I have the widest taste in music so anything is possible – so far Electro Punk, Folk Rock, Indie, Singer-Songwriters, Shouting Poet, Noise (yep – that’s a genre!), Electronic and Country of sorts have all been touched on.
So many genres, who thinks them up? House music is the same – Tech, Progressive, Funky, the list goes on and on. What about dislikes, any style you just won’t touch? Remember the kids will be reading this…
That means no swearing, right? (hey kids don’t Google the label – you may find rough sailor’s language).
Actually I have grown more tolerant over the years. I would have called for certain bands to be shot, now exile will do. Seriously though, I listen to more styles each year. I have nothing against Pop – as Noel Coward said "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is" – but I do stand against the idea that the X-Factor etc could ever produce great art.
Lady GaGa, for example, is the creator of Lady GaGa not some glove puppet of an industry mogul.
Here, here. Once you’ve signed a band how do you promote the track and what media would you use?
Radio play was my goal this year which I got (see below) – didn’t boost sales though.
I have got an e-mail address book that’s become pretty full plus I physically mail out to around 70 media addresses and deliver by hand to BBC Radio and XFM receptions. At the level we are at and the bands are at they SHOULD be playing all the time and flogging at gigs. SHOULD and ARE not necessarily being the same!
Do you get involved with promoting these bands live or just purely with recorded material?
I arranged one label showcase early on and have done single launches. I go to see the bands I geographically can and often DJ at the events.
I managed to slip ‘The Outdoor Types’ on the bill at Chesham’s Fusion 10 fest this year and visual evidence of this and many more shows is on the YouTube – including a couple of “done on the computer by a novice” videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/iblametheparentsrecs
What bands have you signed and released and who should we be listening for? Give us your discography. Even in three years it’s too long to list here. A few albums by Extradition Order (Since The Bomb Dropped) and The Outdoor Types (All Aboard That’s Coming Aboard).
Also the following singles: Take Me To The Core Of Myself by Docksud from Argentina; Wasted by Maxx Green from London; Faces by The Dozal Brothers from El Paso; Knacy Knaggs by Woody’s Room from Liverpool; a split EP with two Welsh bands, Joy Of Sex and Gindrinker; OhOhOh by the Alligators and Maneater by Scott Schipper Bowden.
In total I’ve released around 22 singles. You can hear 35 tracks on the website. The ‘Bands’ section has a music player, one track from each album is free to download.
I’m always harping on about the sad demise of vinyl (although downloads save me a tidy packet), but what formats do you release your artists on…
Downloads are out there for some stuff. The Extradition Order and The Outdoor Types albums plus a few singles are on i-tunes etc (and Spotify for that matter), but I leave most of that to the bands.
We have done two CD albums, three CD singles and two vinyl singles with factory pressings. The bulk of the first two years’ releases were on hand crafted CD-R in limited runs. I’m afraid I’m unlikely to discard the physical release – downloads are great in many ways, but sonically poorer and collectability wise forget it.
I agree, you definitely need a record sleeve in your hand to make it feel collectable. What sort of success have you had with your releases, anyone gone on to sign for a major label yet?
I think ‘pyrrhic victories’ would sum it up! No financial rewards but we have had airplay from Huw Stephens and Bethan Elfyn on R1, Gary Crowley on BBC London and Tom Robinson on BBC6.
Many reviews that are not only ‘good’ but seem to get what the label is about. As I do not base who I want to release on anything more than personal taste, I don’t take commerciality into account – though I think many releases have been commercial.
Any tips for the top amongst your stable, maybe the future Kings of Leon, any of your bands with the potential to go further?
I would say Rescue Cat – I went on to release him too – is a good contender for success and The Outdoor Types have a wide appeal (if I can get them to the audience). Several bands split, one on the day their 7 inch came out!
What’s next. What have you got in the pipeline, any future releases to look out for?
The latest single ‘One-Legged Elvis’ by The Outdoor Types is on CD EP and limited 7 inch – out from 29th November.
We will have a 7 inch from Top Surprise! Out in January 2011 and I hope to do a compilation CD of the 2008/2009 releases in the first half of 2011. Also Split Definitives, two with two bands, two tracks each. I have my eye on a band from Hull for half of that.
If I can plug a local charity we are supporting – on the website is a donation link (Just Giving) collecting for Shed @ The Park www.shedatthepark.co.uk Anyone donating £5 will get the album of their choice mailed free. Please include address and album choice with donation.
We don’t mind a plug for such a worthy cause as Shed @ The Park. Finally, the question you see every month, what advice would you give for anyone wanting to start up their own label?
Expect to lose a lot of money and time! If you find a band with no label that you love and want to release, chances are they’ll let you if you pay.
It is better to concentrate on one or two bands, although I have clearly failed in that respect. With the bands at the level we deal with they have no management and it’s easy to be drawn into that but I have no interest or time for it.
I would also say two heads are better than one. Also go with your instinct. The only real irritations I’ve had have been thinking I know better but bowing to a bands wishes. I DO know better!"
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3rd January 2011
Hello 2011. See below photo of fairly recent 7" by The Outdoor Types - "One Legged Elvis". This cracking bit of 2 track vinyl and it's CD EP counterpart are available via Paypal on their Band page on this site or at www.roughtrade.com Obviously I'm biased but it's bloody great - just under 3 minutes of R&R heaven.
And while I'm flogging, anyone donating £5 to the Shed @ The Park charity via the button on this page gets either the Extradition Order or The Outdoor Types album mailed free anywhere in the world. I gotta say it - c'mon you tight fuckers.
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December 31st 2010
In case dealing with a house full of drunks slows us down tonight we'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Thanks for buying our releases, coming to see the bands and occasionally hear Indie Dad DJ. Thanks to all who have written about or played our releases. The wish list this year was radio play and specifically Radio 1. So thanks due to Gary Crowley, Tom Robinson and Huw Stephens (as well as the ever reliable Mark Whitby on Dandelion) for making it happen.
New Year Wish List 2011
NME better fucking get their finger out and feature something. Really. And surely our great vinyl should feature in Record Collector? Yes, it should.
What's coming in 2011?
First up will be a 7" by Top Surprise! from Brazil - see band page. Mark Whitby's December show opened with their "I Shoot The Devil". Probably ready by Feb. but looking at March release to give the promos time to circulate.
We very much want to put out a compilation of the first 2 years of releases (2008/9) so we'll be trying to get OKs from the bands and bring out a compilation of around 20 tracks.
We are looking to release something by excellent new band B-Lock & The Girl (most likely half of a Split Definitive CD) and there's a London crew we reckon are special we hope to approach soon.
Indie Dad's new ipad will also come in handy in limiting the amount of cd's he needs to schlep into London with for his regular DJ gig for www.seesound.co.uk Next one is Saturday 15th Jan 2011 at what I think is now called The Alleycat Club, 4 Denmark St. one minute walk from Tottenham Court Road tube. 2.30 till 11pm 6 acts including The Outdoor Types and B-Lock. Three Quid to get in and right near Oxford Street. One a month on a Saturday (Feb 12th next one after).
Top Hole - see yer next year.
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December 8th 2010
The One Legged Elvis 7"s have arrived and they look amazing! Go to band page to buy with various options (pretty please).
Great news from Alastair Extradition Order - a Daughter has arrived, Pererin. It's Welsh for pilgrim.. Congratulations from all at IBTP (so me basically) to Alastair & Imogen.
If you're looking in the Big Issue this week you should see an ad. for Elvis. And if you're looking for an all day party this Saturday please come to this...
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December 4th 2010
Well, the
good news is my local free mag did a piece on the label. The bad
news they stuck a photo of a stranger in the middle of it. Now, the
main purpose of the photo in my mind was people might approach and ask me
to listen to their music. I'm afraid they'll instead be asking a
very confused woman! So in the unlikely event you're looking here
after reading a piece in "Your Chesham" I actually look like
this - 
(although slightly less blurry). So to those who know me - no, I haven't shaved or started wearing lipstick (again).
So now you know what I look like you can also hear what I sound like - with a cold - by clicking this.
The Outdoor Types 7" of One Legged Elvis now ready to mail - see their band page for various offers.
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November 24th 2010
If you want to make an old man very happy then please vote for something I Blame The Parents in the Dandelion Festive 50 http://www.dandelionradio.com/festive50.htm voting ends November 30th. Plenty to choose from (and 3 votes so you can still massage a major) Stella Assembly, The Outdoor Types, Joy Of Sex, Gindrinker and even Extradition Order (Laura In The Water).
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November 22nd 2010
On the main page (above) - and at www.myspace.com/iblametheparentsrecords - is a Just Giving link. We are collecting for a local all inclusive, mixed ability kids theatre group called Shed @ The Park. NOT anything to do with the label. It is a charity organisation that gives theatre training and puts on shows using it's mixed ability actors. It has many volunteers and a skeleton staff of paid experts. Due to the recent funding cuts (yeah, blah, blah) it needs a little more than normal to survive. Any donations would be very gratefully received but if you send £5 we will mail you either Extradition Order or The Outdoor Types album free anywhere in the world (please state which and leave address).
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November 10th 2010
Quick up-date for a review of Stella Assembly cassette from Unpeeled.
STELLA
ASSEMBLY "Demand A Genuine Cassette" (I Blame The Parents)
RELEASED?
Out now.
SOUNDS LIKE? You always hear the tinsel tarts at radio stations
banging on about bands, most of whom turn out to be so dull-normal that
you despair. Then a totally unheralded slab slips under the radar and
makes your day by being different, or good, or both. Stella Assembly are
both very good and slightly different. For sound-a-likey point of
reference purposes you can draw a line from early Cuban Boys to a heavy
metal dance take on George Harrison. Obviously, that'll be a very
wibbly line that wanders along like an old man looking for lost sock
before charging off, in full panzer division after a small Frenchman
mode.
IS
IT ANY GOOD?
Yes, it's fantastic and that's just because it is, not
because it's from a band that even wilful obscurists have never heard of.
I'd love this as much, probably more if it came from Kylie or Robbie.
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November 9th 2010
One-Legged Elvis by The Outdoor Types is being pressed as we speak...250 7" singles and a 5 track CD EP...out November 29th.
Still a few copies of the limited Cassingle by the Stella Assembly, from www.roughtrade.com or the link below in last news.
Don't forget to vote in the Dandelion Radio Festive 50 - Joy Of Sex, Gindrinker, The Outdoor Types, Stella Assembly and Extradition Order are all eligible http://www.dandelionradio.com/festive50.htm
And we've finally got the page for Top Surprise! set up in "Bands" section. They're from Brazil and a 7" will be our first 2011 release.
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November 1st 2010
If you liked Crescendo (and their CD EP last year sold out) then you will want one of the 30 copies of The Stella Assembly cassingle Demand A Genuine Cassette. 3 tracks that don't sound a million miles from Crescendo (and with good reason - hint, hint). £4 anywhere in the world with the click of this button - card mounted cassette and space gum.
Here's a pic...
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October 21st 2010
Demand A Genuine Cassette by Stella Assembly by IBlameTheParentsRecords
This is the lead track from new cassette single by The Stella Assembly (take note Crescendo fans ;-)) - three track EP cassette single £2.99 at Rough Trade http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=333133
While you're here, have a look at The Outdoor Types acoustic from the second SeeSound Saturday gig in Denmark St. London.
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October 14th 2010
Last week we had The Outdoor Types at local fest Fusion in Bucks...
...and on Saturday 16th they are doing an acoustic set at the second SeeSound Saturday at 4 Denmark Street London near Tottenham Court Road.
One-Legged Elvis (CD EP and 7") is cmong on well for its release end of November. Meanwhile label completists will want to get on the super limited cassingle EP by Stella Assembly out end of October. There'll only be 30 between us and Rough Trade and we'll do pre-order soon...
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September 29th 2010
Here's a couple of gigs The Outdoor Types have coming up - one London, one in Bucks.
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September 21st 2010
GINDRINKER ON RADIO 1 THIS WEEK!
But first...
We had a trip to Cardif on 14th for the launch of the Joy Of Sex/Gindrinker EP at the Buffalo. We'll be posting some videos this week. It went fantastically well great turnout and stong sales. The CD is available on button below or www.roughtrade.com £3.00.
It was our first exposure to Gindrinker live and boy, we weren't disappointed! Amazing (as were the slimmed down Joy Of Sex with plenty of quality new stuff). Here's a new review -
"What would a stranger to Cardiff think, stumbling upon this miniature showcase for these two capital bands? Would they dig the seam of darkness here, seeing Wales still worrying the carcass of old songs? Or would they just reject bollocks theorising and simply get off on a couple of great rock bands who happen to be based in the same city? Joy Of Sex and Gindrinker are certainly Great Bands, a few years and a couple of singles old, their perma-presence and blatant decency sometimes leaving them underestimated in this jumped up town.
On the Gindrinker side are two more songs from their stash of pickled character sketches and bleakly funny state of the nation yowls. ‘Bob Grainger: Sexual Pervert’ lurches queasily like the “mucky man” in question, horizontal guitar riff and slow drum machine thud pushing DC Gates’s vocals along, semi-spoken word rambles about a molester of animals, fish and stone walls (“It was mossy / He said”). Like a lot of Gindrinker songs, it reaches some sort of hysterical climax, rising comparisons to fellow explorers and tyrants Amelia Earhart and Enver Hoxha. It’s sleazy, brainy, high quality stuff. ‘Y Chromosome’ ups the tempo and adds some fine guitar from Graf, alternately stabbing and throttling like some bearded murderer. Lyrically, it’s a male of the species layed into for ugliness, uselessness, worsening the world through the misfortune of being born (Best line: “What went wrong with your daddy’s balls?”). The further adventures of Cardiff’s premier publican tag team don’t disappoint.
Joy Of Sex slink further down the alleyway. ‘Hypnic Jerk’ begins jerking between crisp riffing and drums thrown against a wall, before Max’s vocals stride in, agitated and cool. A chorus that rides on three guitar notes slides in, Rosie batting back lines as the whole thing creeps upwards unnervingly. A post punk, Wire-y direct hit. Growling bass runs through ‘Red Rocket’, more male/female voices in your head crawling toward almost-choruses. Joy Of Sex play with silence and clean minimalism like Prinzhorn Dance School or Young Marble Giants, wring dryly melodic twists out of them, and make great, blackened music, of which these two brief songs only give you a keyhole view. Your fictional stranger might think these two bands dark, twisted, obsessed, but they’d have to be impressed too." Joy Collective.
The week saw our first ad in a national mag - a 1/4 page classified in the Big Issue (check your re-cycling if you missed it!)
Here's some news from our ex moggy Rescue Cat...
"Blog about cats wearing bling and some exciting news about Rescue Cat's
new EP available on itunes from TODAY!
http://rescuecatmusic.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/luxury-pussy-for-sale-on-
itunes/
Also, Under Your Colours makes it into the ilikemusic top 20 this week!
http://www.ilikemusic.co.uk/pop
Meow!
RC x"
AND, YES... Huw Stephens will be playing Bob Grainger:Sexual Pervert on his 12.01 am -2am show on BBC Radio 1 23rd September (and thereafter on i-player for a week). Thanks Huw. Your reward shall be a promo of One-Legged Elvis by The Outdoor Types (soon).
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September 13th 2010
OUT TODAY! JOY OF SEX/GINDRINKER SPLIT CD EP - 250 only, £3.00 Each including post world-wide.
Cover by Anthony Frost (many thanks) of Extricate and Imperial Wax Solvent fame.
Tracks - Joy Of Sex "Red Rocket" & "Hypnic Jerk"/Gindrinker "Bob Grainger:Sexual Pervert" & "Y Chromosome"
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September 1st 2010
A picture paints a thousand words - and also helps us get the message across that the Joy Of Sex/Gindrinker split cd is out 13th September and the launch gig is 14th at Cardiff Buffalo. Simples.
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22nd August 2010
Been on holiday from IBTP Towers so here's a little review found on our return.
"For the past year and a
half, there’s been a new sound coming out of Wales, which has been both
exciting and infuriating to watch as the quality of music has wavered so
much. That sound is a return to the period of bands like Joy Divison and
Ultravox! with smatterings of British punk (both kinds) and strains of dub
step whacked in for good measure.
Joy Of Sex aren’t ignorant of this exciting sound and settle down to
take their place somewhere between the outrageously wild antics of Islet,
and the slightly more poppy offerings of The Victorian English Gentlemens
Club. Their first track, ‘Hypnic Jerk’, is a very catchy, very poppy
offering with drum beats galore and incomprehensible lyrics, which as the
title suggests, takes flight very quickly with the dub step bass that’s
so characteristic of Cardiff at the moment, using drum sounds to form the
melody. It’s all going well when at 2:25 in there’s a quick change to
an altogether more exciting part of the song, but it’s curtailed so
quickly that it can leave you feeling rather cheated.
Next, the click track for ‘Red Rocket’ has a bit of a go followed
by cascading guitar chops which are very reminiscent of ‘She Lost
Control’ by Joy Division. The lyrical content is as off-the-wall as
‘Hypnic Jerk’ , with lines such as “Baby I wonder why why we try /
When love is just violence well disguised / So we measure our daily dose
as prescribed / With diligence never sold as advertised," but despite
this it's still a nice track, easy to put on repeat." This Is Fake
DIY August 2010.
Split CD EP with Gindrinker 200 copies out 13th September. Oh, and
here's some new Extradition Order live.
Extradition Order - A Girl @ Brixton Windmill
I Blame The Parents Records | MySpace Video
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August 1st 2010
Well, we have advance warning - just. "By The Gallon" by The Outdoor Types is on Tom Robinson tonight on BBC6 between 1-3a.m. (about halfway through). But it's on the i-Player all next week so no excuses to miss it. Album out now and available here with Paypal (see above, below and band page). Also from www.roughtrade.com and www.normanrecords.com £5 (that includes P&P anywhere bought from us).
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July 29th 2010
We have 2 releases coming your
way – on August 2nd the album “All Aboard That’s Coming Aboard” by
The Outdoor Types which may well have been in your post in the past month.
It was Rough Trade recommended week starting 19th July, Tom Robinson is
set to play free download single By The Gallon. Here’s the hard
word.
“To my ear, aside from absolutely falling in love with their debut All
Aboard That's Coming Aboard, I am hearing a folky Radiohead at times, at
others a sly, more poppy version of folk-punk heroes Dropkick Murphys.
Mostly, I am just filled with an urge to make a fool of myself and dance
all about my house. At other times, I am just left in awe of the
creativity and catchiness. This album has me in awe!” Music Emissions
5/5
“On ‘Bones of Convention’ the band manage to clock in a track
lasting 1:42 minutes and in that time they conjure some subtle lyrical
play and sing along chorus – the bleak sounding songs such as ‘Come
and Join Us In Hell’ and ‘ Over The Pylons’ display the bands softer
side showing they are not a one trick pony. The strongest track is
‘Devils on Horseback’ which combines great lead guitar, fiddle playing
& singing and in fact sounds a little like Curved Air playing with
Depeche Mode.”Americana UK 7/10
“What shall we do with a drunken sailor?” P.I.X.
“I Blame The Parents is a music label which continues to drag
fantastically talented bands out of nowhere for your listening and dancing
pleasure, and The
Outdoor Types are no exception. With witty lyrics, deceptively simple
arrangements and the voice of Luke- a man who sounds like a cross between
Patrick Wolf and The Lone Ranger, you are taken on a wild ride that feels
like being spun in a tumble
dryer filled with harmonicas, guitars and fiddles. A disorientating ride
of pure joy that will ring in your head long after the last track has
rocked to a close.” Unpeeled
Joy Of Sex/Gindrinker Split. Not out till 13th September this will
mark the first in a series from I Blame The Parents Records called Split
Definitives – two or more bands across 4 tracks. Limited to 200
copies from us or Rough Trade the idea is to showcase new music and
perhaps put out the out rarity from I Blame… acts.
First out of the traps is a twitchy rock beast combing two track each from
Joy Of Sex and Gindrinker, two of Wales’ finest. Joy Of Sex have
already self-released a couple of EPs that caught our ear and we made a
point of seeing them live and fell in love. They in turn introduced
us to murky fiends Gindrinker, led by Welsh underground legend D.C. Gates.
And if that wasn’t enough the cover is by revered abstract man Anthony
Frost who aside from his day job as a leading UK painter is behind the
Falls’ Imperial Wax Solvent & Extricate cover images. And yes,
he knows we’re using it!
Lastly - here’s a last plug for SeeSound’s all-dayer at Peter
Parker’s R&R Club in Denmark Street (Nearest tube Tottenham Court
Road). IBTP bands in bold but many sound good and we unreservedly
recommend Ben Shaw and Paul Hawkins. Doors are at 2pm and IBTP DJ in
all the gaps, reply for guest list.
Ben Shaw 2.45-3.15
Romans 3.35-4.05
Clacka 4.25-4.55
Shiva 5.15-5.45
Kid Gloves 6.05-6.35
Outdoor Types 6.45-7.20
The Cellophane Flowers 7.40-8.15
Extradition Order 8.30-9.05
Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences 9.20-10.00
(Now far be it from us to plan your day but you could do worse than travel
the relatively short distance from Denmark Street to Kings Cross-ish and
rock to the wee smalls at this – it’s free at The Lexington. We
love Rough Trade at IBTP, we do.
“Saturday, July 31 Rough Trade East Anniversary Special - Bo Ningen,
Becoming Real, Drum Eyes, MNDR - DJs from Rough Trade, Co-op, Tough Love,
Fuck Buttons, ATP and Intensive Care 9pm-4am free Come and celebrate Rough
Trade Shop East's 3rd anniversary with live stuff from Bo Ningen (Japanese
feral punk-metal freak-out band) , Becoming Real (ghost-step progenitor),
Drum Eyes (electronic sludge-doomists) and MNDR (bass-heavy synth- popping
Mark Ronson song-writing newbie) plus DJs from Co-OP, Rough Trade, Tough
Love, Fuck Buttons and ATP.”)
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July 19th 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t3t3s fFor
Tom Robinson's latest show featuring Laura In The Water. It's the
last track but we urge you to listen to the show (feel free to scoot to
the end first, then backtrack of course!).
The track is on i-tunes, spotify etc as is the
album. The CD album is £4.99 (14 bleedin' tracks - barg) from their
band page here (or the bargain option with The Outdoor Types, below).
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July 12th 2010
OK it's out officially on 2nd August but if you're itching to get The Outdoor Types CD album it's available from their BAND page on this site £4.99 posted anywhere in the world. If you want a real bargain £7.99 on the button below gets you that AND the Extradition Order album Since The Bomb Dropped also anywhere in the world. That's 27 tracks...
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July 1st 2010
July - and a fulsome start to the news month. At http://www.dandelionradio.com/ our good friend (never met him, of course!) Mark Whitby has a session featuring not one, not two but three tracks by Extradition Order. Works in progress and improvisation etc. the tracks are "Day 1, 2p.m.", "Hate" & "Ludmilla's House" Also on the EO front - they have recorded a track for an election themed charity album. More news on that when we have it but we've heard it and it's 'mazin' and funky and tight as. Despite the very EO vocal (and hoorah for that) it is a leap forward.
Also on Mark's show an album taster from The Outdoor Types in the shape of "Vanishing Cream".
That it? Oh, no mates. Extradition Order say "farewell" drummer Mark and "hello" new drummer Radhika (and quite possibly "oh look it's drummer Ian Button")at a star-studded night at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon. The full range of EO tracks past and present. Plus The Outdoor Types. Come and sweat freely.
And at the months very end it's a pretty amazing 9 band bill put on by SeeSound http://seesound.co.uk/ with - and here's why we're mentioning it - Extradition Order and The Outdoor Types, with our Indie Dad DJing all day. £3 - BARGAIN!
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25th June 2010
Word has reached us that Tom Robinson (and at I Blame Towers that name means something both in music AND integrity) will be playing Laura In The Water by Extradition Order in the next month. Probably also worth noting that Mark Whitby will have a 3 track session by EO on his show airing throughout July.
Oh, and The Outdoor Types
digipaks are back from the plant...
You can already pre-order for £4.99 from Rough Trade, we'll a Paypal link for it here soon. Meanwhile if you're hungry for a deal send £7.99 to i.blame.the.parents@ntlworld.com via Paypal and get The Outdoor Types album PLUS the Extradition Order album POST FREE. DEAL! (put "2 albums" in the note section)
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June 21st 2010
First review (that we know of) is in for The Outdoor Types album "All Aboard That's Coming Aboard" and it's a 5 out of 5 from U.S. site Music Emissions. here it is from www.musicemissions.com
Wow. I am quite sure there are other
bands who sound similar to
Right off the bat, "Vanishing
Cream" lets you know what TOT is all about; catchy, folk-infused rock
that keeps up a frantic pace even when it slows itself down to let a
particular melodic hook snag you. Their lyrical approach is seemingly of a
fantasy nature, but it sounds more like they worked to fit the words into
the sound more than the other way around. Their vocal melodies are some of
the best I've ever heard in terms of matching the music and in turn
enhancing it, blending as one fantastical sound. To be honest, a lot of
this album sounds like nostalgia to me...like tributes to classic rock
songs of all sorts, done up in a specific sound. That's either the band's
intention, or just a nod to their songwriting prowess. "Jangler
Swifteye" is a wonderful anthemic number. "Got a Concept, Got a
Job" reminds me a lot of Radiohead and is one of the reasons for the
earlier mention. "Long Distance,
On the whole, All
Aboard That's Coming Aboard is a moving, grooving good time,
as much fun as I've had with a record in a long time. Very creative,
catchy, everything it should be as a fast-paced folk-based album. The
fellows of The
Outdoor Types have certainly set themselves up for
immediate success, and I'd recommend this album to anyone. And I mean
anyone.
You can hear 5 tracks of 13 (including the free download single By The Gallon) on the top of the music player on the bands page. You can pre-order the album from Rough Trade
In other news... the Joy Of Sex/Gindrinker split is pretty much sonically ready - the four tracks are Red Rocket/Hypnic Jerk (Joy Of Sex) and Bob Grainger, Sexual Pervert/Y Chromosome (Gindrinker). Release date tbc but hopefully first half of September. Meanwhile here is the amazing Anthony Frost painting that will be on the cover...
...that's the Anthony Frost who did the cover of Imperial Wax Solvent (and others) by the Fall BTW.
Also apart from the various artists split CD mentioned in the last "News" and the second Crescendo single we hope to release our first cassette single - by the mysterious Stella Assembly.
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June5th 2010
Oh dear, Oh dear. 3 months since an update. Poor. VERY POOR. But we do have an update and we haven't been dossing. So here's some things that have happened -
Extradition Order supported Darwin Deez at The Black Heart, Camden as he came saw and conquered London. They also played the Paul Hawkins album launch at the Brixton Windmill. They also played a semi-acoustic show at Pure Groove near Barbican (with IBTP Indie Dad on the decks).
We are pretty near to having the finished tracks for the Joy Of Sex/Gindrinker split CD single. And Crescendo have around 5 tracks being completed.
A bit of a change to the hoped for Asleep Beneath Volcanoes release. They have been put on hold while the 2 members pursue other musical avenues (although they should be working together in the future) but we should be putting out one track as part of a larger EP. We have 3 tracks in mind to join them subject to agreement and I hope one is a fantastic new track called "Spiders" by LOVE/TRON plus a couple of more dancefloor tracks to make a magnificent and varied Electronic EP.
And - a bit of an unplanned and happy surprise - we are releasing a new album! Yep, we have a hand in bringing out the debut album by The Outdoor Types - a band we've admired for several years. Promos are flying out now for a release in August. We'll have a page for them up soon along with a free download single as a taster. Here's the cover to be going on with. More soon...
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March 10th 2010
Nothing IBTP to report so a couple of quick plugs for other great Indies.
Audio Anti-Hero have made a big splash with their first 2 releases, "I Got The Pox..." EP by Benjamin Shaw and the fantastic, nearly lost Nosferatu D2 album. Get them here - http://www.audioantihero.com/
Ben Shaw also appears on the Filthy Little Angels Pavement covers free download album (loads more freebies too) at http://www.filthylittleangels.com/
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March 3rd 2010
Whoa there. No update in February. Bad Parents.
The obvious reason being no news. We're waiting for music and while we wait, we watch. And what we watched in February was Extradition Order at the Camden Head and Joy Of Sex at The Old Blue Last. But we're not selfish - so go to their band pages and check out a track each from Youtube. Nick over to Youtube to catch a couple more.
Crescendo & Joy Of Sex are well on the way to getting their shit together - shame they're not sharing the same "split"! Still we're taking it easy like the Caramel Rabbit. No rush - and when something's ready we'll make a lot of noise about it.
Oh and while we think of it Extradition Order will be touring in early April with David Cronenberg's Wife the length and breadth of Britain. Well, definitely Cardiff, Glasgow and Hull.
Laters...
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January 25th 2010
Quick "news" today as an excuse to pop up a link to a blog that positively drizzles compliments over the steaming plates of our releases...
http://onlineantihero.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-blame-parents-celebration.html
We will put up individual bits on the "band" pages. I like his description of me as an "aging genius" - he's half right!
Will have pages up for the first two new bands to OK releases on IBTP in 2010 - Joy Of Sex & Gindrinker. Enter The Dragon, isn't it.
Last I must send you scampering to the new endeavour of our "son" Ross Drummond - it's just the same songwriting chops but with a dash of the electro...
www.myspace.com/mylieslieslies
Wishing Ross all the best with this. If you want some "old school" Ross copies of the Drink Up cd are still available at his band page http://www.iblametheparentsrecords.com/RossDrummond.htm
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January 4th 2010
Happy New Year, Blamers!
The last year was very busy and
we plan to make this one equally so. The
Split Definatives CD single series is in place with 5 confirmed acts and a
few more we’d like to get on board – so we’d better go ask!
The timing is really up to the artists, who gets released first will depend on the artists and how long it takes them to finish their two tracks. And you know artists…
It
might be a little quite for a couple of months on the surface.
But trust us – we’re working our nuts off “backstage”.
So
let’s spend the time productively – here are two things we’d like
you to vote in, on our behalf.
First XFM Debut Album Of 2009 poll – http://www.xfm.co.uk/news/2010/vote-for-the-xfm-new-music-award-2010
Please
vote for Since The Bomb Dropped by Extradition Order.
You get to vote for 3 so get your thinking caps on – we’re
voting for Dead Man’s Bones and Nosferatu D2.
You get put in an XFM prize draw too.
Next
NME awards – http://www.nme.com/awardsvote
OK,
I know, we aren’t likely to feature but getting a good few votes can
only help visibility.
If you would Extradition Order “Since The Bomb Dropped” best
album and album cover, and best track Laura In The Water or Matches Meet
Petrol by Extradition Order, High Infidelity by Crescendo or… well any
IBTP released tracks released last year .
It all helps.
Honestly.
But it’s not all take, take, take. The New Year brings the traditional January Sale.
So
– Extradition Order album £7.99
with post in
Extradition
Order 2010 gigs soon.
Ta.
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December 29th 2009
Second year
of I Blame The Parents Records comes to an end around now.
Our first album was released – Since The Bomb Dropped by
Extradition Order – along with home produced cd singles.
We also got into downloads with Crescendo, Scott Schipper Bowen,
Maxx Green and of course Extradition Order.
Check out i-tunes & Amazon
among others. Also Extradition
Order are on Spotify and MOG http://mog.com/
for your virtual radio pleasure.
Beth Elfyn
gave us airplay on her R1 Wales show (Scott’s “Man Eater” and The
Alligators “Ohohoh”) and Mark Whitby on Dandelion Radio was
ridiculously supportive. Or
sensibly supportive we think!
After getting
entries in last years Dandelion Radio Festive 50 we have Crescendo at
no.46 with High Infidelity this year - congrats guys.
http://www.dandelionradio.com/
Next year
will see a series of limited pro manufacture CDs called Split Definatives,
featuring 2 artists doing 2 tracks each.
Artist in agreement so far are Crescendo, Asleep Beneath Volcanoes,
Joy Of Sex, Gindrinker, Dozal Brothers and AudioMasher (or whatever he’s
calling himself by that time!). The
more observant will see this means 3 CDs worth so far.
Gulp. We’re not going
to set out a rigid schedule as I imagine getting 2 sets of artists ready
for set dates will be near impossible.
I’d like to have one ready by March.
Thanks to all supporters of the label and everyone who spent their hard earned on us. Ta.
December 20th 2009
The
lovely AudioAnti-Hero label put Extradition Order in their top 10 albums
of the year and said
"Like putting an audio book and
an electric guitar in a tumble dryer. Very special. 'Laura in the Water',
'Candide' and 'Islington Creeper' need to be heard."
I
know this sort of small label back-clapping is a tad incestuous but AAH
know their music. So ta.
Full
list here - onlineantihero.blogspot.com/2009/12/aahs-10-favourite-records-of-2009.html
I'm compelled to mention they brought out the excellent "lost"
Nosferatu D2 album this year.
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November 30th 2009
Out today. At last a second Dozal Brothers release! The "Faces" EP has three tracks including Crucify Yr Parents (yay!). The zombie cover tradition is continued with this gem -
Cost is £3.00 including post worldwide.
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November 19th 2009
This Saturday Extradition Order play Camden Barfly (they are on at 8pm) in the rather excellent company of The Bridport Dagger and the wonderful Six Toes. Should be a good 'un. They will be celebrating the release of download only single Laura In The Water (coupled with non album House Carpenter) so pop along if you can. Or help us out and download them - i-tunes etc. If you could spare a minute please go here and vote for some I Blame stuff in the Dandelion Radio Festive 50. We had two entries last year and it would be great to appear in there this year. Ta. http://www.dandelionradio.com/festive50.htm
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November 9th 2009
NRYY 4 track EP CD single out today. "Doesn't Finish Ringing" plus 3 other beautifully produced atmospheric Noise pieces. Go to "Bands" section for player with lead track, then go to NRYY page for Paypal button. £3.00 including post anywhere in world. Only 35 will be on general sale from here so be quick!
Extradition Order download single will be live anytime now - "Laura In The Water" plus House Carpenter. Meanwhile vist their page on site for their excellent promo video for the track. Expressionist film-making with added torture scenes. Lovely.
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November 1st 2009
Long time no up-date. Bad parent. Been relaxing just a tad after the build up and release of the Extradition Order album "Since The Bomb Dropped" and the release party at The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch. I know we are bound to say it was a success but it REALLY was well attended and punters got a great free show from support The Bridport Dagger and EO. Stuck on the merch table the filming was basic but here's Laura In The Water... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZ5T-bh9sQ
Ooh that'll be out as a download single with a non album "b-side", House Carpenter. Meanwhile it's on the CD and download album. New review on www.sicmagazine.net
London-based four-piece Extradition Order play with the kind of passion that feels like they’re on the verge of madness. Post-punk guitars clang and strafe, cheap keyboard sounds splash colour and humour across the mix, the rhythm section stomps and crashes, sometimes struggling to keep up with the galloping momentum, and vocalist Alastair Harper croons and yelps over the top. Essentially, these Northern fellas manage to synthesize the lascivious melodrama of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the literate sneer of Elvis Costello, and the dank British indie-rock that I grew up with in the early ’90s (Marion, Molly Half Head – remember them?). It stinks of frustrated masculinity, laughably romantic gestures and righteous anger. I would have killed to see them live when I was 16.
Since the Bomb Dropped comes rattling out of the gates with the chunky bass, wafty keyboard line and call-and-response vocals of ‘Atticus’. Harper immediately grabs you by the throat with his impassioned vocal style. ‘Petrol Meets Matches’ follows, a tight dance-punk stomper akin to The Rapture minus the cloying production sheen. A punchy opening salvo.
‘‘Peterloo’ with its filthy bassline and eerie keys, Harper’s voice cracking in the chorus, leads into the superb middle trio of songs- ‘Laura In The Water’, ‘The Bullet, The Knife and The Ice’, and ‘Candide’. ‘Candide’ is especially good, with Harper even getting away with speaking the bulk of the lyrics without sounding like a dick. Quite a feat. 7.5/10
Full article here -
http://www.sicmagazine.net/articles/384/extradition-order-since-the-bomb-dropped
Next Monday (9th November) see the release of an exceptional (and very limited - 35 for sale from us, 50 in total made) EP from Japanese artist NRYY. He is broadly aligned with "Noise" but the four EP tracks are really soundtracks in search of films. Although certainly rather twisted films!
Towards the end of the month another limited cd single - the fantastic return of The Dozal Brothers with the "Faces" 3 track. Again only 35 from us (and the first single of theirs sold out the 100 we did).
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October 7th 2009
It occurs I've mentioned Extradition Orders album launch gig everywhere but here. So get along to The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch if you're in or around London for a FREE gig with The Bridport Dagger supporting EO plus a few DJs. Approx times Bridport 9.30, EO 10.30.
For more in depth reviews see news sections below. Here are a couple more snippets -
"In
these tapes, the songs themselves are at the fore, and the time and effort
put into writing them is clear.
Take Matches Meet Petrol - a rock
song without a guitar shoved right under your nose; a song where jittering
drums, rhythms and bottle-tapping take precedence; a song that excels,
screaming, in its self-constructed arena of mania and threat. It's as
thrilling a song as you'll have heard all week.
Or take Laura In The Winter,
flooded with gothic (note: not 'Goth') melodrama and strange lust, the
sheer attentiveness of which shows Extradition
Order to be a band with their eyes fixed firmly on bigger and
better things." A New Band A Day site
"Extradition Order’s debut album Since the Bomb Dropped reminds me a bit of the Clash’s 1980 triple-album Sandinista! Like that record, the album is hugely varied in style, rough round the edges. Occasionally, the vocals are reminiscent of Mr Strummer’s coarse style, too. This is a recklessly ambitious debut which attempts lo-fi acoustic guitars and whistling with synthesisers stuck on the end (’Precious Home’), a plodding, waltz-like tune (closer ‘Marriage’), and a semi-progressive song with jucious cyclic piano and organ (’The Wheel’)." Line Of Best Fit site
track info for November's CD singles from NRYY and Dozal Brothers soon along with cover images.
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September 28th 2009
Hooray,
Hooray, Extradition Order album out today.
The more cautious can listen on this page and download the first
and last tracks for nada. The
reckless romantics can yomp to the SHOP page (or below) and use Paypal .
In this case Who Dares Wins as you will get a free copy of the
superb “Take Me To The Core Of Myself” white vinyl 7” by Docksud for
a limited time only (ie about 2 weeks before next website up date).
Other stockists below(Jezus Factory currently on cheap offer £8
before P&P but you won’t get the 7” of course).
It's on i-tunes for the usual stipend (and lots more I'll blog when
confirmed). It's on Spotify too. Whooooooa, our 1st
album.
http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=316706
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/index.asp
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/
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September 22nd 2009
Days only till the official release date for the album Since The Bomb Dropped by Extradition Order. thanks to all early bird purchasers. It's in Rough Trade (shops and on-line), Sister Ray in Berwick street London. It will be in Jumbo Records in Leeds, Piccadilly Records in Manchester (and on-line) and Puregroove (on-line). And of course you can get it direct from us - current details on SHOP page (with free Docksud 7" offer), links to follow on 28th.
Two reviews in http://neverenoughnotes.co.uk/wordpress/ here's the fulsome praise for the album - see Extradition Order's BAND PAGE for the live review.
MySpace: Extradition Order
As a folk singer’s daughter who was brought up with fisherman-jumper-clad beardy singers around her breakfast table plucking banjos, when I was asked to review the anti-folk movements Extradition Order’s 1st album ‘Since The Bomb Dropped’ I giggled somewhat whilst humming fidley-ridley-roll. The anti-folk movement itself was born in Greenwich Village, New York in the early 80’s. This first long-player (14 tracks) from the Warrington based quartet is an anarchic, manic, raw, strung out and passionate post punk gothic folk ride by whirlygig.
The album cover by Clifford Harper, the anarchist illustrator, is a striking woodcut of a man heading towards the city under a waning moon and the opening track ‘Atticus’ is the tinder that smokes and sparks the musical journey ahead into wildfire. With the guttural vocals building “she will take you away…”, the album does just that leading onto ‘The Wheel’, laced with organ and deep backing vocals that evoke the feeling that you are in a wild man’s church.
This album has the sounds of Armageddon, with the wild broken voice of Alistair reminiscent at times of Nick Cave in his dark romanticism especially on ‘Laura In The Water’ and less so on ‘Marriage’ which will be one of their two digital singles. The other ‘Petrol Meets Matches’ with its’ screamed, spit-filled vocal delivery, go-go bells and more of those wonderful backing vocals is the one that will make you want to move, jump and dance. And so it goes, the tracks switch between angry expressive pain filled pieces, to the promise of reprieves like ‘Precious Home’ which nurtures, feeds you tea and pulls you back together again.
Awkward timings, out of tune, this is no criticism…it adds to the slightly other-worldly feel, as if the music is forming itself as you listen from the bog where things are born. There isn’t enough space here to tell more but congratulations Extradition Order, you made a classic especially for a rebellious, pyromaniac folk singer’s child. 10/10"
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September
28th 2009 - "Since The Bomb Dropped" by Extradition Order
RELEASED. Manufactured
CD and full download across all sites you can think of. Spotify as
well. Did I mention the amazing Clifford Harper cover? The
first and last tracks on the album - Atticus & Marriage - are
available gratis on the reverb nation player widget on the MySpace and
website. This may not last past the release date so make the most of
it! Let us know what you think and make sure you add them to
"friends" at www.myspace.com/extraditionorder
www.musosguide.com had it as their
pick of the day, Tweeting "it's very, very good". If you
haven't seen them live you have some great chances coming up in London-
27th August Last Days Of Decadence, 2nd September Queen Of Hoxton, 9th
September Brixton Windmill (a bit of a summit, this one - Dan Costello,
Paul Hawkins & Superman Revenge Squad too). And
you are all cordially invited to the album launch on 8th October at The
Old Blue Last, Shoreditch. Yes,
we'll be selling the album - it's back from the factory, it looks and
sounds great. In fact you can get it now from the website - www.iblametheparentsrecords.com
with the added enticement of a free white vinyl 7" by Docksud.
Rough Trade (it's there on pre-release), Piccadilly Records, Sister Ray in
Lonndon & Jumbo in Leeds will all have it come 28/09/09
In October Laura In The Water b/w a non album track will be out as a
download only single followed by Matches Meet Petrol (with some remixes)
in November.
Phew, what a lot of Extradition Order.
But we are not an all eggs, one basket label - oh no.
November will see the final 2 or 3 CD-R limited cd singles on the label.
Confirmed - a 4 track EP from an amazing artist from Japan N.R.Y.Y.
& the long awaited second UK single from El Paso electro punks The
Dozal Brothers. 3 fun packed
tracks.
So why no more CD-R singles? Next year the plan is to release a
split cd single EP every 2 months in proffesionally produced editions of
100. The first release, pencilled for January, is Crescendo
Vs Asleep Beneath Volcanoes.
SPLIT DEFINATIVES - Coming Soon!
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August 3rd 2009
Lots happening. Extradition Order CD album "Since The Bomb Dropped" in pressed and ready for it's September release. It's available to order on pre-release from Rough Trade (yeah, it's a bit early but just so you know...). Anyone gagging for it and pre official launch (physical and digital), shops etc you can send £9.99 (UK), £10.99 (Europe), £11.99 (Rest Of World) including post to i.blame.the.parents@ntlworld.com It's rather spiffy. And to make clear this is a fully professional pressing not cd-r and features 8 page colour booklet with a splendid cover commissioned from artist and anarchist (we mean it, Man) Clifford Harper. November will see - we hope - three cd-r single releases. These will take the running total up to 20 cd-r's in well under 2 years. Many still plentifully available (hint, hint) on Shop page with offers to make your mouth water. Then in the new year the professionalism racks up a nothch with a proposed new series of split cd's with pro pressings of 100 copies, one every two months. More news on acts on all these releases soon.
I Blame The Parents hit the Buffalo in Cardiff on July 23rd with Extradition Order, Crescendo (and non IBTP Joy Of Sex) all playing sets that impressed the admittedly select crowd. Indie Dad DJ'd (along with the perhaps more impressive Bethan Elfyn from R1) and a fun, rather liquid, time was had by all. Here Indie Dad does his best Freddy Krueger "You are ALL my children, now..." impression beneath the way cool neon.
Stop back again soon for more concrete singles news and 2 (count 'em 2) free Extradition Order album downloads. Oh, and I'm updating the label gig list, visible on "bands" section.
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July 12th 2009
Go to Shop Page for offer on CD singles. 2 for £4 including UK post, £5 Europe £6 Rest Of World.
Well, in all honesty not a lot of news but should mention that after the Extradition Order release in September the October/November schedule has a new Dozal Brothers EP (hooray!) and nryy from Osaka. All pretty experimental in their own way, so next year will probably flash back to pop.
A reminder - Extradition Order, Crescendo (plus non IBTP Joy Of Sex) will be playing Cardiff Buffalo on 23rd July (with Bethan Elfyn and Indie Dad).
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July 1st 2009
Officially exciting news. I Blame The Parents Records hit The Buffalo in Cardiff on 23rd July. Extradition Order, Crescendo and Indie Dad DJing. Smart eh?But not just that local heroes Joy Of Sex and Bethan Elfyn of Radio 1 DJing (and responsible for the invite). I'm off to practice my skillz!
And in late breaking news that doesn't involve celebrity death UnPeeled just posted Extradition Order album review. It would be almost disappointing if they didn't have a small whinge but they most assuredly like it.
EXTRADITION ORDER:
"Since The Bomb Dropped" (I Blame The Parents Records)
RELEASED? 1st September.
SOUNDS LIKE? We very much liked the earlier, three track taster thing
and are even more pleased with the full album, mainly because we've found
a bit of shit to slag, "The Wheel" being an indulgent, mess,
apart from the central, down-tinkling piano riff.
So, yeah, what do Extradition Order sound like? Good question and the bad
answer is largely an unpolished and punkish early Roxy Music trying to
strangle 'Quadrophenia' issue Who, but they sound like themselves,
everyone and everything inbetween, example, "Peterloo" is a
lush, churning, doors-ish drone that's begging for a punk upgrade, a
hippy-shit, keyboard decline, or just leaving alone, because it's
excellent. This is an unusual album, it's listener-friendly for a whole
whack of buyer-niches, it's smart, it's retro (we cite "Islington
Creeper") it's accessible, but could easily become their 'lost' album
because "Since The Bomb Dropped" is so disparate a collection of
cool strands drawn, dragged and seduced into cohesion, that it can be too
much to too many.
IS IT ANY GOOD? They've made sense of their parents record
collection and that means 'yes'.
http://www.unpeeled.net/albums.html
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June 29th 2009
Matches Meet Petrol, the funky beast from Since The Bomb Dropped album by Extradition Order (don't look yet, out September), got some early support on Art Rocker Radio. Expect Mark Whitby on Dandelion to be supporting the album in his August show. He'll be playing Jeremy Kyle Mash Up by Goby Jovelor in his July show.
See below text from an Interview with Extradition Order at SoundsXP http://soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/interviews/Extradition_Order.shtml
Extradition Order are coming I
tell you and they are bringing their bag of raw sounds with them. With
their debut album here, I caught up with three of the four members via the
magic medium of email and asked them to reveal all to me. The photos shall
remain in my secret draw but you can read their words of wisdom...
Soundsxp: You once said "Hello, we're Extradition Order"
but who are Extradition Order and why are they here? Are you outsiders
trying to conform to 'normal' society?
Alastair: No. We're very much insiders. In fact, we pretty much run
the country in an oblique masonic way. Just last night I hosted a dinner
for cabinet minister and high court judges. From the heart of the British
government to the boardrooms of international banks, our names are known
and influence acknowledged. It's a good job we're so benevolent. But the
whole economic meltdown was a warning shot we thought we'd fire off.
Nick: We are Order. Have been since we all fell for the same girl
when we were 12, and simultaneously let her carry us off with her every
whim. She died in a canoeing accident in Wales, and that was the end of
that. Since then we've forged a brotherhood that hides our grief, and has
brought us all together.
Mark: Let's get one thing straight here. The so called accident was
actually an act of sheer desperation from one of our members. Let's just
say that two in a canoe doesn't go. Unfortunately the girl did. That
member will not be named.
Soundsxp: How would you describe your music to me?
Alastair: It used to be crude garage rock, which people thought was
because we were crude rocky types but really it was just incompetence. I
think it now sounds like Steve Reich and Philip Glass, but most people
still think it's crude garage rock with added twinkly keyboards.
Nick: We've always played with enthusiasm in our music, but I think
since we got a 4th wheel we've come on from our garage rock days. Now
we're making more sounds and less noise. I think our influences come out
at different times: blues, new wave, punk, classical - but our sound is
still quite raw.
Soundsxp: Tell me about the forthcoming debut album and the
thinking behind it. You must all be excited and anxious about its release.
Alastair: It's produced by Ian Button who I insist should be known
to the world as up there with the great. He's sort of non-crazy Martin
Hannet for our times since he's grown a scene around who he records.
People like Paul Hawkins and David Cronenberg's Wife. The three of us
sound nothing alike and he is able to not leave a stamp of his own sound
on their records - he just enhances what the bands do themselves.
It was really important we made something that flowed together. An album
you put on and sit and listen to, not just a bunch of songs. And the
artwork is just as important. We got Clifford Harper to do the cover who
is an amazing woodcut style artist who does a lot of old history book
covers and things like that. Stuff for E.H. Gombrich and A.L. Morton.I
wanted something done in his style and was looking around for someone who
could emulate him but in the end discovered, after writing him a letter,
he was up for doing it himself.
Nick: The ideas have mainly come from Al for a lot of the songs,
but we've all been involved in creating the music, and ultimately this
collection of songs that we think works as a whole. A lot of help has
indeed come from the amazing Ian Button, who has simply been brilliant
throughout. He makes my bass playing sound like I didn't even know I
wanted it to until I'd heard it. It's the first release for us, so of
course it's a challenge and there's so much we don't know but every step
is exciting.
Soundsxp: You say that you are about myths and legends. What do you
mean by this?
Alastair: Ambiguity. So I probably shouldn't say or it's all
ruined. Now Nick will go on too much and ruin it.
Nick: We talk about all sorts of things in our songs. Some are
myths, and others legends. Mark usually has a fine tale of one or the
other.
Mark: Not now Nick.
Soundsxp: You are sophisticated, intelligent, driven souls are you
not?
Alastair: Yes.
Nick: I lack sophistication. I'm off the rack.
Soundsxp: Tell me about mountain scavenger hunts, Chipsticks and
rouge lipstick. Is it the way forward for promoting new albums?
Nick: Ask Alastair, although the keyboardist is partial to rouge
lipstick, and who doesn't like chipsticks?
Alastair: It's about absolute desperation to try and get people
vaguely interested in us as the world's bands scream against each other in
every corner of the internet.
Mark: You would be amazed at the people you meet during mountain
scavenger hunts. Chuck them an Order CD and everyone's a winner.
Soundsxp: Warrington versus London . Who wins and why?
Alastair: Luckily all of Warrington moved to London in the last
five years. I am one of those great defenders of their place of upbringing
who has absolutely no interest in living there again. Warrington was a
great centre of the Enlightenment. Benjamin Franklin based his college on
the Warrington Academy - the first secular university in the world. Then
the industrial revolution ruined it and it just became a place inbetween
Manchester and Liverpool. Generally though, the North generally reveres
its writer, artists, radicals and musicians. London worships its
criminals. They can keep their Kray fetish.
Nick: Warrington. You can't get decent fish, chips and gravy here.
Bloody disgrace it is.
Alastair: Actually, that's blind patriotism from Nick. Warrington
hasn't got any decent fish and chip shops these days. You have to go to
Yorkshire.
Mark: Come on now. The Neptune Bar (now called Panny's I think) in
Stockton Heath does grand fish and chips. In terms of the great debate
itself, Warrington is a lovely place to go back to, if only for a short
while. People are even friendly at times and often say please and thankyou.
Soundsxp: Tell me about Extradition Order live.. Is it an
experience to behold?
Nick: Aforementioned enthusiasm means we try to put on a pretty
good show. I think live we're a whole new beast since we got a keyboard
that lights up last year, and someone to finger it. Plus we're not very
fussy on what we use. Bones and selotape have been integral to past shows.
Alastair: The bones didn't work well. I thought we had a brilliant
new approach to the drum stick and couldn't believe no one had done it
before. Then they ripped every skin on the kit by halfway through the
first song.
Soundsxp: If you could play one music festival this year where
would it be and why?
Alastair: We love the End of the Road festival and the smaller more
thoughful places like that. I personally hate the needs to camp in a
field, shuddering as louts consume too much lager and talk about their
awesome hippy lives and how awesome some Gallagher is before returning to
work in the Carphone Warehouse. But End of the Road is more interesting in
both its setting and its music choices.
Nick: I'd say End of the Road too, for the atmosphere and setting.
It was good seeing some of our friends there last year like Congregation,
and I like the idea of it much more than other festivals. The organisers
are lovely too.
Soundsxp: If you could extradite one person from your country who
would it be and why?
Nick: I'd extradite myself to somewhere fun. Maybe Japan. I hope
they've forgiven me for last time. I really didn't mean anything by it.
Mark: I'd also extradite Nick somewhere.
Soundsxp: I overhear you listening to tunes as I step through the
streets of Clerkenwell. What or who can I hear coming out of your music
machine? Who should be on everybody’s ipod/mp3 player/casette
player/compact disc player/square wheel producing music mechanism machine?
Nick: I got a Leonard Cohen cd for £3 yesterday, so he's been
singing to me a lot recently.
Mark: I found a band called Therion on Spotify the other week who
I've enjoyed listening to. I don't think the rest of the band will agree
with this.
Soundsxp: What’s so good about summer?
Nick: Gosh.. I've no idea what to say.
Alastair: We spend most our time indoors.
Soundsxp: What is next for Extradition Order?
Nick: Victory.
Alastair: Or the endless pursuit of glory with each succesful climb
to the top of the mountain of ambition only revealling the next, larger,
obstacle, never feeling satsified with the progress made, only the endless
journey still to go, until eventually the only logical thing is to fling
oneself in front of the subterranean tube train. Or contentment, maybe.
Mark: World domination.
Soundsxp: And finally a great philosopher asks you to sum up in one
paragraph the evolution of music from the early days of banging two sticks
together to the download age that we find ourselves in. What say you to
him?
Alastair: Get a real job.
Nick: That's what my dad told me. But I discovered that great
philosophers don't ask questions but just get on and write great works in
bullet points in wood cabins. Kind of like how Bon Iver writes albums. So
I'd tell him he wasn't all that great bothering us for answers.
Mark: I say what on earth is wrong with just banging two sticks you
ignorant bum?
Quite. Check the lads' myspace for gig and release news.
Finally this headline from Warrington Guardian PROBABLY isn't about the band...
Friday Jun 5
A Warrington businessman accused of murdering his millionaire girlfriend in Paris appeared in court today to face extradition to France.
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June 13th 2009
Out Monday - Love All The People by Goby Jovelor. Listen above, 50 copies only on CD. Backed with Jeremy Kyle Mash Up. You all like Bill Hicks, right?
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June 3rd 2009
Come to this, people -
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June 1st 2009
Out today - WASTED by MAXX GREEN. 2 track CD (backed with WE ARE THE ACES) limited to 50 copies - see shop page. Out to download from i-tunes and Amazon.
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May 26th 2009
Monday 1st June is release date for the hedonist pop of "Wasted" by Maxx Green (backed with the laid back boast "We Are The Aces"). Listen on the player to Wasted, check out We Are The Aces at www.myspace.com/maxxgreen1 . Still trying to sort out the new band pages for Scott Schipper Bowden, Maxx & Goby Jovelor. Soon come. innit.
The Extradition Order album is
complete, we have fantastic cover art by the respected Anarchist AND
Artist Clifford Harper (his work includes the Guardian and numerous book
covers) - no relation to the bands Alastair BTW. Check this out!
The album will release in September as a full professional CD and download from i-tunes etc. Distribution willing it will be a little more visible than just Rough Trade & Piccadilly Records (no disrespect to those fine institutions of course).
Still waiting for Scott, Maxx & Crescendo to go live on the digital sites. Bloody long wait that, actually!
Lastly for this update here are some wise words from Unpeeled - the sometimes grumpy, usually correct bearers of the JP torch.
GOBY
JOVELOR: "Love All The People / Jeremy Kyle Mash Up" (I Blame
The Parents Records)
RELEASED? 15
June.
SOUNDS LIKE? Bill Hicks sampled to point out the obvious; Paul
McCartney on cardigans = "Frog Chorus", the same man on smack =
"Monkberry Moon Delight". It's smart though. There's only one
problem with the fantastic and frantic "Jeremy Kyle Mash Up" and
that's the title. Make that mash into smash and a zillion would buy it,
vote for it, do it.
IS IT ANY GOOD? Goby Jovelor has a daft name and a fine record.
MAXX GREEN: "Wasted /
We Are The Aces" (I Blame The Parents Records)
RELEASED? 1st June.
SOUNDS LIKE?
What's the opposite of rabble-rousing? This is. Gently wired
anthemic stamp pop to stay in bed to. Oh, the odd, duvet
protruding limb might
twitch along for a second or two, but phasing everything,
including the phaser,
adds the slack and removes the backbone. Ditto-ish on the flip, "We
Are The Aces", a little something that crash
staples Creeper Lagoon to Medicine Head, both worth looking up. As
are (is?) the woozed and the phased in
the Maxx Green offering.
IS IT ANY GOOD? Yes, it's shiny and scuffed and comfortingly
modern, I hate the fact that I like it, but that's my problem, you just
scoot along to the webthing.
EXTRADITION ORDER: "Album Taster" (I Blame The Parents
Records)
RELEASED? Sept 2009.
SOUNDS LIKE? If you were brave enough to cross The Great Crusades with
a beefed up Smog you'd get something like Extradition Order. You'd also
get a shanty-esque swamp drone and ramshackle rant called "Laura In
The Water", all of the above, but with black Irish guys running
slowly away from Haysi Fantaysi to the echo and wobble of "Petrol
Meet Matches" and reverb as terror weapon, early Costello brooding to
violence and on to Magazine with "House Carpenter" and these are
just a 'taster' for the album?
IS IT ANY GOOD? Very, very, very.
And bear in mind the band have
so much quality material House Carpenter is now a prospective B-Side, left
off the album (and it's still 14 songs long)
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May 11th 2009
A while since an update but we haven't been sitting on our hands at IBTP towers - oh no. June will see the release of ibtpcd00016 "Wasted" by Maxx Green (50 copies only) followed by download on the major sites. June 15th and it's 2 short n sweet cut ups of Bill Hicks and Jeremy Kyle over beats by Goby Jovelor on ibtpcd00017. Promos out with the great and good now.
Extradition Order have finished recording their album tracks so we can now argue over the running order. What with getting everything ready I expect it will be September release but the tracks will be up to hear in advance of that.
Will post more details on Maxx and Goby soon.
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April 20th 2009
OUT TODAY - Steve & The Oh's - "A Perfect Catch" (b/w Here's A Feeling). Liited to 50 copies, cd single. Available from shop page £2.50 plus P&P. Why not get OhOhOh by Steve's other band The Alligators while you're at it? As heard on Bethan Elfyn BBC Radio 1 Introducing April 2nd.
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April 16th 2009
Steve & The Oh's "A Perfect Catch" out Monday, £2.50 plus post - limited 50 CDs.
From today - the rather wonderful but frankly didn't sell like hot cakes Docksud 7" is now £1.99 plus post. White vinyl and two timeless shadowy rock classics. I have about 4 copies in the art print cover then it will be my original cover design for the rest. So if you wanted the full colour cover... now's the time. I need Guinness money for the Camden Crawl, help a brother out!
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April 4th 2009
Below is a journal piece on last.fm by Dandelion Radio DJ Mark Whitby. Believe it or not he is not a relative or mate (well - he is now!)
Given
the pace of change in music these days (and indeed, thankfully, for about
the last forty-five years) it’s a dangerous business to claim that
anything is your favourite this or favourite that. But I’ll try one. I
Blame The Parents is my favourite record label.
In my Dandelion Radio show for April, I think I say it’s my favourite
British label. But I’ve changed my mind. Despite the considerable charms
of the likes of Enough Records in Portugal, France’s Al Dente and the
always enormous number of treasurable US indies, following its launch as
recently as January 2008, IBTP is now right up there at the top of the
pile.
If it’s the measure of a truly great label that it can combine a sense
of identity with a hugely eclectic and varied roster then IBTP does this
in a way that few labels since the early Rough Trade has managed. But
maybe that isn’t it. Because legendary labels as diverse as Chess, Stax,
Factory and 4AD, at least in their earlier phase, had a recognisable sound
that wasn’t necessarily eclectic, and they were all great labels,
weren’t they?
So maybe it’s more than, over the course of barely more than a dozen
releases, it’s established something rather special. And while it’s
been doing that, there’s not been a bad one among ‘em. Surely that
puts it up there with the above, along with Two-Tone, Sub-Pop, Fast.
Well, whatever it is, you can’t go wrong by getting yourself onto their
website and shelling out an unfeasibly small amount of money for anything
that’s on there, because you know it’s going to be a small charge for
stuff that’s gonna keep you company for the rest of your life.
But if you still need convincing, I’ll be featuring six tracks from IBTP
on my show at www.dandelionradio.com
throughout the month of April. Regular listeners might question why I’m
playing that many when I’m always moaning about the lack of time to play
all the great stuff that’s out there. Because it’s that good; that’s
why.
And, as I’ve said, hugely varied. Forthcoming single from Steve &
the Ohs (uncomplicated garage punk that just might be about to go a little
bit too far...) jostles rancid noisemarkers Chav Stabber and Endometrium
Cuntplow for airspace. Scott Schipper Bowden slips on his spurs and picks
a fight with 2008 festive fifty debutants Extradition Order. And
Crescendo, who a few weeks ago you might have described as electro-pop
from Liverpool without pissing me off, deliver such a well-found nugget
that anyone attempting such a lazy description stands to be accused of
rampant synecdoche (don’t even know if that one gets found in
dictionaries any more). And no room for Rescue Cat, Earl Grey & the
Legomen showing that even with a strong half-dozen such as that there were
difficult, indeed well-night impossible selection decisions to make. And I
played the fantastic single from Love//Tron in March.
I suspect you’ve got the message - it’s all great. But I’ll finish
with a few words on Crescendo, because it may even be that their
‘Don’t Let Them Tell You What To Do’ is the pick of a very fine
bunch indeed. One of those that, listening it in the car, brought such
unwilled tears to the old eyes that, in a moment of lost vision, I had to
swerve and almost hit a tree. That’s not actually true, but it sounds
right. And that’s the measure of all things. Certainly it is in the case
of the best record label in the world right now.
Never has my flabber been
so ghasted!
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April 1st 2009
Available NOW from SHOP page - Scott Schipper Bowden - Man Eater/Robbin' The Cop & My Rose ibtpcd00014 £2.50 plus P&P.
As heard on Bethan Elfyn Introducing on BBC Radio and playing daily all April on Mark Whitby's Dandelion Radio show on t'internet (along with 5 other IBTP releases - why not buy a few and get discount deducted from purchases made together).
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March 31st 2009
Man Eater by Scott Schipper Bowden will be available to buy from tomorrow from this website - be quick 50 copies only on CD single with the equally great track Robbin' The Cop & My Rose. Bethan Elfyn played it last week on her Radio 1 Introducing show in Wales (still on the i-player till 2nd April, check in about 1 hr 22mins if you don't want to hear the whole show) said she was "blown away" by it and has described it as gorgeous. She's not wrong!
Also from tomorrow Mark Whitby will be playing a veritable cornucopia of IBTP on his show on Dandelion Radio repeated daily throughout April. http://www.dandelionradio.com/schedule.htm
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March 26th 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bethanelfyn/
I said to Matt from Extradition
Order last night my number 1 priority was getting something on Radio 1.
Thanks Bethan, God is VERY prompt these days!
Check the Bethan Elfyn Introducing show tonight Radio 1 Wales 12-2am for a
play of Man Eater by Scott Schipper Bowden. I'm officially fucking
excited! From here as pre-order 1st April, 50 copies £2.50 plus
P&P. I presume it will be on the i-player after tonight.
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March 24th 2009
We certainly can't claim any credit for it but Benjamin David & The Goliaths have made the last 20 of Indie Idol (I know we're cringing too) the competition for unsigned bands to appear at the Camden Crawl on April 24th. As soon as I have voting details I'll be pushing that mutha fukka hard.
Till then... please listen to this album taster from the incomparable Extradition Order. Album (and indeed track) still in progress, soon come.
GO TO "BANDS" SECTION FOR MUSIC PLAYER
Oh, and we've decided to do two 50 edition cd singles in June. We're bloody addicts, we are.
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19th March 2009
The
official news item to introduce our next 2 releases…
ibtpcd00014
Scott
Schipper Bowden – Man Eater/Robbin’ The Cop & My Rose
No
doubt popular opinion would dictate I should sell this one to you as
Don’t
run off, he doesn’t sound like Dylan.
Steve
& The Oh’s – A Perfect Catch/Here’s A Feeling
The
second I Blame… release that could be described as Garage Punk is by
Steve & The Oh’s. The
first track is Wham Bam R&R under 2 minutes, the States export, we
import, thus was it ever. Second
track is more in line with the Indie Pop of Steve’s other band The
Alligators (ibtp0007 Oh Oh Oh by The Alligators released last year –
keep up). Another from the
Now,
chances are I will actually make copies available from 1st
April.
Some
good initial feedback. Bethan
Elfyn from Radio 1 Introducing in Wales Twittered Tune
of the Day: Scott Bowden, Man Eater on 'I Blame the Parents Records' -
gorgeous!
Unpeeled
reviewed thus on 17th March 2009 -
SCOTT
SCHIPPER BOWDEN: "Man Eater" (I Blame The Parents Records)
RELEASED? 20th April.
SOUNDS LIKE? Classic nu-country as Gram Parsons gets upped a beat
while 'The Graduate' storyline gets another updating. Take away the
genuine American accents and this could easily be a track lifted from the
Stones "Sticky Fingers".
IS IT ANY GOOD? Yes.
RELEASED? 20th
April.
SOUNDS LIKE? Very much like young Americans, there's some horrible,
bratty-whine vocals queering the pitch, but there's also some rather
wonderful post twang guitar and some excellent drumming going on, so we'll
not gut them just yet, eh?
IS IT ANY GOOD? They could well be.
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March 8th 2009
All this month Mark Whitby is playing Endometrium Cuntplow & LOVE TRON on his Dandelion Radio show, it's a web show go here for broadcast schedule - http://www.dandelionradio.com/schedule.htm Also many thanks to Conor at Cork Campus Radio for playing Crescendo's High Infidelity. And talking of Crescendo have a look at the video player for a track from both recent shows in Aylesbury & London. We're getting to the end of the first 50 cd singles, these have a slightly more elaborate packaging and when the 100 are gone that's it. Though downloads will hopefully be on i-tunes etc in coming months.
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February 26th 2009
Thanks to all the Crescendo buyers, good opening sales. Nice reviews in Losingtoday - see Parental Guidance section . Thanks to Conor on Cork Campus Radio for th play this week. Crescendo venture down South this weekend, playing The Hop Pole in Aylesbury on 27th and The Social W1 on 1st March as part of Rescue Cat Presents... If you are in London on Sunday The Social is very near Oxford Circus, 6 PM till 12 four acts (inc. Mr Hudson) plus DJs FREE all night. The event will be repeated with different acts on the 1st Sunday of April & May.
Mark Whitby at Dandelion Radio (web radio show based around John Peel's belief in supporting new, sometimes challenging music) will be playing LOVE TRON and Endometrium Cuntplow on his show playing throughout March. He features the label again in April, giving a crack of the whip to Chav Stabber. So he CLEARLY supports new and challenging stuff! Thanks Mark.
Finally a quick reminder that if you would like me to hear your music ideally mail me though the Parents Association contacts page (all band links are there too) and then send a cd (rough as fuck is fine) or link to download/MP3 direct.
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Here's the 3 track Crescendo EP out NOW!. Go to shop page buy the cd single (limited edition of 50 in full packaging) for £2.50 plus P&P.
Check track High Infidelity on the MP3 player
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February 1st 2009
OUT NOW! LOVE TRON - Kill The Mother CD single £2.50 see shop to buy.
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January 16th 2009
OUT NOW! Endometrium Cuntplow - UK SAC EP & Chav Stabber - "Black Mental" both CDs are £2.50 each or both £4.00. See shop for details of this Noise slamdown.
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January 1st 2009
We had two entries in the Dandelion Radio Festive 50 (the spiritual successor to Peel's) - number 49 (any holes a goal) with "Last Summer" by Earl Grey & The Legomen & number 33 with "Penetrate" by Extradition Order.
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2009 will see exciting developments – An Extradition Order album, new CD singles from Endometrium Cuntplow, Crescendo, Twin Crystals, Chav Stabber, LOVE//TRON and at least a couple more to be confirmed.
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We were label of the week 01/12/08 at CMU Music Network, a daily industry tip sheet and news forum. See full article in Parental Guidance section. (Steve – I’ll send you the piece with other bits to go in the PG section)
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November 24th 2008. Extradition Order go down
a treat supporting Jeffrey Lewis at a sold out
Brixton Windmill.
Jeffrey got a front row spot as you can see
from the back of his head! Yep – the guitar
IS an oil can.
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Check numbers 49 & 33 and thanks to any voters…
"Continuing a Christmas
tradition started by the late John Peel in 1976,
join Dandelion Radio DJs Matt, Jeff, Rachael,
Pete Jackson, Mark Whitby, Neil, Simon, Rocker
and Andy as they take it in turns to count down
through the best 50 tracks from the last year
- as chosen by you the listener! Voters picked
their three favourite tunes of 2008 in October
and November, and now you can hear the full
results of this legendary poll in one mammoth
show, repeating daily from Christmas Day until
the end of January!"
01 The Fall - 50 Year
Old Man
02 Das Wanderlust - Puzzle
03 Decoration - square mile
04 MGMT - Time to Pretend
05 ste mccabe - Huyton Scum
06 The Container Drivers - It Must Be The Pipes
07 The Fall - Wolf Kidult Man
08 The Deirdres - Milk Is Politics
09 The Hillfields - Spoon
10 Beatnik Filmstars - Hospital Ward
11 The Lovely Eggs - Have You Ever Heard A Digital
Accordion?
12 Portishead - Machine Gun
13 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Everything
with You
14 MGMT - Kids
15 Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
16 The School - Let It Slip
17 The Manhattan Love Suicides - Heat and Panic
18 Superman Revenge Squad - Idiot Food
19 The Wolfmen - Cecilie
20 The Wedding Present - The thing I like best
about him is his girlfriend
21 Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day
22 Portishead - The Rip
23 Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
24 sarandon - Kill Twee Pop!
25 Glasvegas - It's My Own Cheating Heart That
Makes Me Cry
26 The Fall - Tommy Shooter
27 Town Bike - dougie
28 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
29 Decoration - Glasshouse
30 Pete Green - Best British band supported
by Shockwaves
31 Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
32 wolfram wire - Armitage Shanks
33 Extradition Order - Penetrate
34 Glasvegas - Geraldine
35 Half Man Half Biscuit - Took Problem Chimp
To Ideal Home Show
36 Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
37 The Deirdres - Claire, Are We Safe To Be
On Our Own?
38 Sigur Rós - Festival
39 Alex Canasta - Records
40 M.I.A. - Paper Planes
41 The Fall - Can Can Summer
42 The Wedding Present - Don't Take me home
until I'm drunk
43 Thomas Tantrum - Swan Lake
44 The Parallelograms - 1,2,3, Go!
45 Jegsy Dodd & The Original Sinners - Liverpool
2008
46 The Manhattan Love Suicides - Clusterfuck
47 Santogold - L.E.S Artistes
48 The Lovely Eggs - I Like Birds But I Like
Other Animals Too
49 Earl Grey and The Legomen - Last Summer
50 The Pocket Gods - Supermans Head
