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Hey folks, unfortunately we've had to pull out of our upcoming shows due to unforeseen personal circumstances, but we are hoping to arrange a big Scottish weekender before the year is out, so stay tuned for that!!

In other news, the new TNS Compilation 'Mainstream Music Is Shit' is out now, featuring our track 'Greed & Fear' alongside 36 other beastin' bands and compadres! Click here to order your copy and help support the UK's independent Punk & Ska scene and an ace label.

The Hijacks
xxx

24/07/09 - CD OUT TODAY, PARTY TONIGHT, TOUR TOMORROW!

YES, as if you didn't notice, our brand new CD EP 'Consuming Our Compassion' is OUT NOW and we are taking orders from the numerous links dotted around the brand new page!! What are you waiting for??

Tonight we have our record release party at Cellar 35 and we are pretty excited to say the least. Rumour has it, there's going to be some video cameras down there, so come and get your mug in a Hijacks video or something...

...Then, at stupid o'clock in the morning we embark, bleary eyed on our summer tour! That's right, Tour Baby! We're gonna try post updates as we go so keep checking back for your regular dose of Hijacks tomfoolery. All that's left to say is thanks a lot for all the great feedback on the new song, and we'll see you on the roooaaadddd! Barry get Jaya ready

The Hijacks xxx

12/07/09 - NEW CD AND SUMMER TOUR!!!

Hey folks. Hope you're having yourself a good summer. We've just uploaded a brand new song!! And you know, there's no better way to enjoy the sunshine than with a little bit of ska punk ;) In fact, a recent academic paper in the journal Skaience showed that there's nothing better than lying in the sunshine while listening to the new Hijacks EP, Consuming our Compassion, available from July 24th - "Guaranteed to improve your suntan". We had the privilege of working with the fantastic Tim G down in Manchester again - a big shout out to him for all his hard work mixing and mastering it as well.

The CD will be available at all the upcoming dates of our UK tour - check out the flyer before for details. It'll be our first visit to quite a few places so it'd be great to see some new and friendly faces; please make it down to a show if you can. We'll hopefully be chronicling our travels and posting up pictures as we go along. We may even unveil a new interactive van-based feature called "Where's Barry?", so be sure to keep checking out our page so you don't miss out!

We'll have a new song or two, debuting at our record release night on July 24th in Aberdeen. We've posted the lyrics for one below so you can sing-along first time!

Let us know what you think of the new song and the CD when you get it,
Hope to see you soon,
The Hijacks
x

NEVERENDING NIGHT

It’s so hard to accept, just what it is your life is like
Waiting for the last bomb to fall, on a never-ending night

You close your eyes to find some peace

Your homes, your schools, your world destroyed
You hold on while your children cry
You close your eyes to find some peace
& we close our eyes to the truth outside

So let’s invade every MOD
Stop this collateral misery
Let’s torture unjust suffering
Nuke crimes against humanity
Lay mines under war presidents
Forget the weapons & end all this

26/03/09 - BARRY'S BACK - We're offski!

After enduring the last two weeks without Barry White (our van...THE van) we're celebrating his return by taking him down Manchester way for what will be a great weekender with our friends THE FRACTIONS. The following weekend we're entertaining them up here so hopefully you can make it to a show...The Aberdeen date is at Cellar 35, our first time playing there, but it's gonna be excellent (though we would say that)

So lately we've been working hard on new songs (lyrics below) and have some exciting news - we're booked in at the end of May to record with TimG again down in his new studio, BigTone in Manchester! Expect a new Hijacks release to coincide with a UK tour this summer from July 24th-5th Aug. If you want us, you know what to do!

Cheers!
The Hijacks...and Barry

GREED & FEAR

Everybody’s running scared, panic and fear,
The markets are crashing, unemployment’s near.
The headlines, and leaders, all followed the line,
Of the bankers and CEOs committing the crimes...

Live your life to work all day,
Sweat for the man, ‘cos we gotta plan
Follow the rules like a slave,
No protest, no stand, no things outta hand

Stop to think about this life,
Is this what we want, ‘cos it’s what we got
To continue in this system,
And watch our dreams rot, ‘cos that's all we got!

Why don’t we work less, and produce less?
If we consume less, we can forget this
Way of living, that don’t make sense
Dictatorship in disguise, democracy in demise.

It’s more, more than we need
To need’s not a crime
The crime is the greed
The greed and the fear

29/01/09 - So, 2009!?

Hey folks, a belated happy new year from us – sorry it’s taken us a while to update this! The winter tour went really well with loads of good gigs and high jinks; hopefully there’s still a tour blog in the makings somewhere – but don’t hold your breath. There are some tour photos up if you haven’t checked them out already. Massive thanks to everyone who put us on, put us up & came to see us!

We’ve got our first few gigs of '09 coming up very soon, supporting Kris Roe (of the Ataris) in Edinburgh this Friday, then playing with the amazing Bomb the Music Industry in Edinburgh and Aberdeen the following week! We should have a new song ready for the Aberdeen show, with a few more forthcoming. We’ve also got a whole heap of shows around Scotland in the next few months, with another full UK tour planned this summer, as well as a new recording! Also look out for the next batch of Brass Not Bomb T-shirts, which we've just ordered with 2 new colours added to tickle your fancy!

Below are the newest song lyrics to date, and our latest blog entry above has some recent EP reviews and an interview, so go check it out.
Hope to see you at a show soon!

WARS, INVASIONS (LOVE YOUR NATION)

I am bored of my nation
I am sick of its lies
Tired of hearing clichés
About why I should feel pride

Now I search for bigger symbols
And burn “my” flag inside
Stand up with my brothers
And sisters of no nation
But the myth and story-telling,
Of history persist
To keep the soldiers marching,
keep our pride alive!

The legends of the wars,
Or just the ones we won
The tales of the uncivilized,
In darker continents.

You never taught me about Amritsar,
Or bombs dropping in Dresden.
That my humane, proud nation,
sells weapons for poor children.
I never knew our great war hero,
was a racist imperialist
I guess it’s so much easier
to look the other way.

Wars, invasion, occupations, Conquerors and dead civilians
Truth distorted, propaganda. Stand in line with the millions

GROUNDHOG DAY

People say, this world is evil
We can’t change what’s born inside of us
Dog eat dog, survival of the fittest
Forget your ideals and bury your soul.

It’s all around me – Woah-oh-oh-oh x2
It’s all around you – Woah-oh
Change tomorrow, change today!
Change the future & make history!

So listen up, this ain’t a "groundhog day",
We can change, tomorrow’s not yesterday
Human nature, it’s just a poor excuse
To close your eyes and tie the noose!

It’s all around me – Woah-oh-oh-oh x2
It’s all around us – Woah-oh
Change tomorrow, change today!
Change the future & make history!

...AND WE STUMBLE ON

And we stumble on…
Into another passage of meaningless existence,
And acceptance of unjust order.
Where we only care about drugs and television,

One step closer to the end of struggle,
One step closer to the end of resistance.

Performing mindless tasks for profit and consumption.
An acceptance that this is all there is,
There’s no choice in life but to submit.

Wake up, before it’s too late
Stand up, for what you believe

Say no, to a pointless life
Strive for, what is on the inside

And we stumble on…
Without reflection of injustice on our doorstep,
Of lives of sorrow, hatred and fear.
Every so often something will remind us,
What it means to be alive,
But then it slips down the drain of memories,
Lost forever, in unknown seas.

Say no, to a pointless life
Strive for, what is on the inside

We all know how to smile on the outside,
Everyone is told what to dream for,
We all know how to smile on the outside,
Everyone is happy to walk on by…