We started as just Rob and Matt and did an EP on Subjugation rec's in 2001. It was recorded by my Dad in my Mum and Dad's spare room and Steve Lamacq played it on the Evening Session. That's like being played by Zane Lowe today, which seems quite implausible. We were almost living together at this point (not in the biblical sense) and we used to drink in Leeds in the daytime and people in fancy clothes shops didn't really know what to make of us but still took our money. We toured with Stapleton and the EP went unthinkably well so in 2003 we recorded an album and got Jarv and Parkes (and Chris Charlton for a bit) in to add a bit of variety to the record. About this time we paid an old lady £20 to sew little Nathaniel Green name tags onto 200 t-shirts we'd had printed, I feel a bit bad about that. The album, entitled 'Same Time Tomorrow', came out on Firefly Recordings and was also released in Norway on Sellout! Music to surprisingly good reviews. Rock Sound proclaimed it to be ". . . one of the releases of the year" which was nice if a touch over the top. We toured the UK with Koufax, then Norway with Ken Ishak and played the Sant Feliu Festival in Spain, where Matty was given access to a free beer pump. The festival organisers soon regretted that decision. We also played a gig in Southend put on by a 17 year old who kept texting me things like 'everyone is super-excited about you guys coming down', which I doubted very much. When we got there it turned out to be true and the gig was one of the best we've ever done. The young man turned out to be called Sam and he played too performing as Get Cape Wear Cape Fly for only the second time. It would be good to have some hilarious anecdote about him being rubbish and us telling him to give it up but he wasn't and we didn't. You can buy Same Time Tomorrow from us if you want, message me and I'll think of an old fashioned way to do it. It's not on iTunes cus it wasn't invented then.
Along the way we've toured and played with some lovely acts - Stapleton, Koufax, Pylon, Ken Ishak, Ted Leo, William E Whitmore, Chuck Regan, Milloy, Dugong, Copperpot Journals, Spy V's Spy, Get Cape and tonnes more. We don't play that much these days because we are old and boring and own two houses in different cities and have walls to paint and dogs to babysit.
Last year saw the end of our release drought when we released a new single on the Alcopop! label. You can listen to it above - it's called 'Old Folks/Young Folks'. You can buy it on a pretty smart 3" CD by clicking the link below or at iTunes because apparently that's the done thing these days.
The full track listing for the single is -
Old Folks/Youngs Folks
The Hardest Man in the World
All You Know
The Tortoise and the Hare
YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON ONE OF THESE LITTLE BEAUTIES BY CLICKING THE 'PURCHACE' BUTTON!
Big Scary Monsters records have just reached their 50th release milestone and to celebrate they've released a 50 track compilation of bands they've put out or just simply 'dig'. Our song ' The Hardest Man In The World' is on there, along side tracks from Stapleton, Get Cape, Sam Issac and 46 others. . .
We've also made a video for 'Old folks/Young folks' which features us driving around Norway and . . . well some more of us driving around Norway. . . enjoy!
Here's a video for the song 'Mort a la Bete' from the album Same Time Tomorrow. It feature's us walking round Wakefield singing to ourselves like mad men before returning home to find some roughians have broken in set up some drums.
Gig At The Red House Sheffield - this Satuday may 17th. get involed. £4 squids in late licence - 6pm till sometime in the early hours...
PARTY GARBAGE (alcohol drinking, burrito eating punx from texas) COP OUT (steel city skate or die pissed up youth crew, comin' thru) OFFSHORE RADIO (leeds supergroup, super good old school punk rock clash styley! ) THE AMISTAD (socially aware melodic gruff from 'suburbs) THE COST OF LIVING (female fronted discount/fifth hour hero esque, top tunes and good backing beards) THE 255'S (manc dudes, ex for old times sake,)
SHAPED BY FATE - The Unbeliever (Available Now) SUICIDE SILENCE - Suicide Silence EP (UK Version) (Available Now) 1000 HERTZ - Input The Ouput (Available Now) SYLOSIS - The Supreme Oppressor MCD (Available Now on Mailorder only) ROMEO MUST DIE - Forever Defiant MCD (Available Now on Mailorder only)
not sure how much you look at this mate but i am looking to get your second cd well i think its that one i.e not the supergirl one if you have any avialable just let me know cost will also by the single as well :O)
i finally moved onto the square well its the very last house on your side so its kind of half on the square half on the main road its looking well nice :O)
"one of the best unsigned bands i've heard in the last 6 months" - Punktastic.com
“It has to be said, if you asked a cross section of the UK’s music fans where they thought one of the most promising young rock bands in the country were from, it’s probably a safe bet that not many of them would say Pontefract.” – Die Shellsuit Die webzine
"Rip me up, burn me up and tear me fucking down! Precision guitars, bass and drums pelt at you with awsome accuracy and their chugging guitars blow a rocket through your aching forehead" - Leedsmusicscene.net
"joyous, sing-along, post-hardcore, that hasn't been heard since Hundred Reasons circa Ideas Above Our Station" - Rockmidgets.com
"all the jagged-edged pop appeal of Fightstar's early work" - Rocksound Magazine
" Bit like Biffy, but without the facial hair" - Drowned In Sound.com
This Merrie City was released on Monday, it features the following
Tracklisting
1.Little Lee - I'll Be By Your Side
2.Pylon - King Of The Underground
3.The Old House - Ruff Idea Of Smiling
4.Piskie Sits - Different, Better
5.The Spills - Poor Health
6.Napoleon IIIrd - In Business We Are Resigned
7.The New Delamores - Shoot Me Girl
8.The Labels - We Were Good Together
9.The Humour - Truth, Lies And Greed
10.Above Them - You Think You've Changed The World
11.Dirty Robbers - School Of The Dead
12.The Intergallactic Urangatang - Substance False Confidence
13.Sarah Williams & The So Called Friends - What I Really Mean
14.The Blueskins - Silicon Puppies
15.Vida Cartel - Cogs
16.The Critiques - Missing
17.Nathaniel Green - All You Know
18.Mi Mye - Leaving The House With Cat
You can buy one of only 1,000 copies for £6.00 from
www.myspace.com/louderthanbombsrecords
www.myspace.com/thismerriecity
Louder Than Bombs Nights at Escobar
Jumbo Records (Leeds)
Crash Records (Leeds)
HMV (Wakefield)
Thanks
This Merrie City
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