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30/11/05 Jeepers, lots and lots and lots of news... we'll be at ATP this weekend hopefully we'll man a stall on Sunday and we'll also be doing some DJ action in the pub! THE UNIT AMA cds arrived today so I'll have fun putting these together over the next few weeks. Copies will be for sale at ATP and I'll make them available to buy online once I get back. The vinyl version will follow early in the new year. POLARIS The cd version of their album has been sent off for manufacture and will hopefulyl come back before Christmas. Again, the vinyl will follow inearly 2006. So hang on! LORDS (news direct from Chris) "Jay Howell has done the artwork for the album. It'll be worth the wait. Jay has also provided us with a tremendous sleeve image for the split 10" with Part Chimp, TODD and Hey Colossus which is due in January. Jay is at www.punksgitcut.com. Touring-ish activity in Jan/Feb. We have also recorded a bizarro cover of 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey' for a forthcoming Radio One Special where tons of bands cover a track each from The Beatles' White Album. Trust us, it sounds odd. Erm... We're probably going to have to change our name because of the Lords on Jade Tree. Please email any suggestions to us at honeyisfunnyATfastmailDOTfm. The more minimal the change the better. The Lords has gone. Current favourites are Looords, Lloorrddss etc. We are good at prizes so we will give an album and a prize to the best suggestion." That BBC session will actually be broadcast on the One World show , Monday 5 December 2005: 0100-0300. CLAMBAKE
will be doing some recording early in the New Year and will have a track
on the lovingly compiled Static Party compilation which should be out in March.
This is a record that has been compiled by Lee Sonic Dirt and Gaz X-Ray, more
details to follow when they are available. SOEZA are doing a live session for dexterBentley which will be broadcast on Resonance FM on the afternoon of Saturday 7th January. They are also playing quite a few gigs so be sure to go and check them out. Ben has moved to Cardiff and has started putting gigs there. Mr Owen has joined the MySpace revolution, so be sure to add him as your friend. BILGE PUMP have a MySpace page put together by one of Leeds' most eligible young men around town, Mr Daniel Robert Chapman. Here it is! SAN LORENZO Owens' new band, Grand Old Dukes, play The Spitz in London on a Fire Records night on Feb 17th 2006! DESIGNER BABIES have updated their site with photos and video clips from the Melt Banana show. 26/10/05 For a Lords interview, go here 17/10/05 POLARIS have finished their new album, the long awaited follow up to ‘Belated’. CD and vinyl (yes!) will be pressed up soon and available for your enjoyment. Have a listen to an mp3 of ‘Kissing’ here
THE UNIT AMA are about to go on a week long tour with the excellent Souvaris. Gringo is currently putting together a repackaged version of their self-released album which will be on CD and some beautifully package vinyl.
LORDS are up to all sorts of activity as always. The album "This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing" is complete and en route to mastering. It has 10 songs and many surprises. It also has horns, reverb, some children and numerous pant-soiling moments of molten guitar spume. Lords have also recorded a track for a split 10" with brothers in volume Part Chimp, Todd and Hey Colossus which will unite the labels Southern, Rock Action, Jonson Family and Gringo in a co-release love in. A small tour in January will follow.
BILGE PUMP continue to amaze, writing new songs which top the last in terms of dexterity, sweat and ROCK. I’m giddily excited at the prospect of a new album some time next year because it will be immense! One of Neil’s other bands, Quack Quack, have just released an album on Run of The Mill Records. We’ll have some copies of this in the distro soon.
ESKA recently played a gig in Glasgow, but unfortunately it will be their last for some time because Chris Mack is moving to Brazil to live for a while. I don't see enough of Chris as it is and now he'll be even further away! Apparently Eska are going to try and record a new album before Chris leaves.
SOEZA recently released their excellent album ‘Why Do You Do?’ on Gringo. If you don’t already have this then snap it up! They are such an underrated band.
KILL YOURSELF have recorded a new album which should see the light of day on Gringo early next year once he boring stuff like artwork is sorted out.
CLAMBAKE have completely their metamorphis into Nottingham’s answer to Motorhead.
DESIGNER BABIES have had a wee line up changed, slimming down to three piece with a sick new drum cat. 22/09/05 Eska played a gig in Glasgow on Wednesday night, but unfortunately it will be their last for some time because Chris Mack is moving to Brazil to live for a while. I don't see enough of Chris as it is and now he'll be even further away! Apparently Eska are going to try and record a new album before Chris leaves. I'll keep you posted. Eska also have a track on a Scottish Charity Album called "one-in-four". The track is Hypnotism Act, the same version that was on the Gringo Singles Club 7". The CD also has tracks from Belle and Sebastian, Sons and Daughters, TFC, Delgados, James Orr Complex and more. Although there are thousands of copies it is not available in the shops, but should be given to all Scottish Students starting this year.... 13/09/05 Lords - The album "This Ain't A Hate Thing, It's A Love Thing" is complete and is en route to mastering. It has 10 songs and many surprises. It also has horns, reverb, some children and numerous pant-soiling moments of molten guitar spume. Lords are recording again in a weeks time for a split 10" with brothers in volume Part Chimp, TODD and Hey Colossus which will unite the labels Southern, Rock Action, Jonson Family and Gringo in a co-release love in. A small tour in January will follow. Lords have other dates on the gig page before then, especially an early evening performance with Part Chimp in Nottm to spite the latecomers, a return visit to Audioscope (conquered last year with Damo Suzuki) on Oct 30 and a few shows in December with fellow Thin Lizzy fanclub members The Fucking Champs. In other news, Lord Philip has moved to the Shire of York, Lord Elvin spent a week naked in Wales and Lord Christophe saw Iggy Pop's winky. Lords Elvin and Christophe have united as Halfmast Hambone (aka Thee Viscounts, aka My Balls/Your Chin) for some Sonny Sharrock/Last Exit inspired noise at a venue near you soon. Good day. A FREE NIGHT OF GRINGO IN LONDON!!! a
badge of friendship presents... 14/06/05 GRINGO CLASSICS BACK IN STOCK! We have very limited numbers of the following titles... Reynolds
'Field Recordings' CD album In other news, BBC6music have been going Gringo crazy recently. Phil Jupitus has been playing Clambake's feelgood hit of the summer 'Dogging Spot #1', while Marc Riley has ben featuring tracks from the Gringo Singles club. 22/05/05 Clambake news from the mouth of Andy Bake "We have 3 tracks from our album Gator in the Pool featured on the soundtrack of the independently produced film 20,000 Little Reasons-Director Andy Wilton has kindly invited us up to the premiere which is happening in Newcastle. Though I haven't seen the film yet I am told that it is a gritty low budget gangster film. The film was shot over a two week period in and around Newcastle and has a soundtrack which features many artists from many diverse areas of music. Andy, the director, is particularly happy with the soundtrack and we are glad to have been asked to contribute and have been happy to do so. The film also features a voice over by Norman Lovett of Red Dwarf fame. The release of "This is Punk Rock Blues Volume I" is scheduled for 4th July, 2005. The expanded line up on this fantastic compilation now features The Gin Palace, The Immortal Lee County Killers, The Soledad Brothers and Ghostwriter as well as the original artists featured on the album, T-Model Ford, Gaffer Hexam, Catweasel and of course us! The
folks at Not The Same Old Blues Crap have done a brilliant job in putting this
album together and there will be some live dates featuring some of the bands involved
in the album in the near future. We will put details of these gigs on the site
when we are in possession of the full facts." 15/05/05 If
any of you are short of something to do... 27/04/05 Gringo now has a My Space page with a jukebox and everything - http://www.myspace.com/gringorecords 18/04/05 The first ever Bilge Pump interview is now online! 01/04/2005 I've been neglecting my duties again, but in my defence I am on holiday right now in sunny Sacramento, California. Off to Portland at the weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing some big trees. The Soeza album is out right now! Buy it buy it but it. Lords, The Unit Ama and Polaris are all polishing off albums. Kill Yourself too! Bilge Pump are going to try and get an album done for later this year (as exclusively revelealed in their first ever interview in Sandman magazine!) Designer Babies have had a wee line up change, Kush and Nick have left. Mark and Kate have recruited new drummer, who I'm told is a bit of a demon. 26/01/2005 - GRINGO 2005 BAND BY BAND BILGE PUMP are going to be on a split 12" with The Edmund Fitzgerald, courtesy of Noisestar. I hear it could be ready within a month. Bilge continue to write songs for the second album which we would like to release by the end of the year. Joe Mask told me a great story about a guy shitting himself at a party last weekend. CLAMBAKE have two new tracks on a compilation called "This is Punk Rock Blues" which also features unreleased songs by T Model Ford, Gaffer Hexam, Jawbone, The Killer B's, Mudlow and Tony Moon. The album provides a vital document of all the bands/artists who a beating the "blues" out of shape and unleashing this on an unsuspecting world. We suggest that you check www.notthesameoldbluescrap.co.uk for details and try and get one of these babies. DESIGNER BABIES are massive in Mauritius. Kushal went home for the holidays and was interviewed in a major national newspaper while holding a broom, a razor and a toothbrush very menacingly. French speakers go here! EMPIRE-BUILDER fans can celebrate their first recorded output in five years (I think) as the Gringo Singles Club split 7" with Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! has been pressed and we are screening the sleeves next week. ESKA are hard at work recording new songs which I can't wait to hear! Could they become the first band to release two albums on Gringo? KILL YOURSELF had a lovely day in the studio in Liverpool recording the rest of the songs to form an album to be released some time in the next 6 months or so. I haven't asked them on what label, maybe I should eh?! LORDS will soon be in a recording studio pouring hot fudge sauce over an album for Gringo. A Lord recently moved in 8 doors down from me. POLARIS have been mixing their album and Ben Owen from Soeza has done a nice painting for the artwork. I got to see Polaris play with Hoover and they were fantastic. SAN LORENZO have been playing some shows together, I'm looking forward to seeing them again. SEACHANGE nicked my Telecaster and hotfooted to the Devon / Cornwall border to record two (TWO!) new albums for Matador. SOEZA's album "Why Do You Do?" can be pre-ordered now and we will send them out next week!! Go visit the shop. I'll put more up about this soon. THE UNIT AMA are pottering about finishing off the artwork for the Gringo re-release of their book-bound album. There might be a vinyl version in the offing if you are lucky! Expect it out around May. WOLVES! (OF GREECE) might have called it a day. Simon has decided to leave and it looks unlikely that the rest of the band will play together under the Wolves moniker. I'm not sure what is happening regarding the mooted Gringo 7". More news as and when. Sorry if I have forgotten anyone. Gringo slipmats are on the way. All the band pages on the Gringo website have been updated. Ted Leo is coming over soon. Ipswich are top of the league. Life is sweet.
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