Germany, distribution by Broken Silence/UK, distribution by Cargo. Downloads available on fintunes and itunes. www.klangbad.de
This is their fiercest, most lacerating album yet, better by a good margin than the mid-1980s Pigs on Purpose...and that was excellent - BLURT
This is a living, breathing beast of an album - ARTROCKER
Unlovable as ever. The Nightingales remain hard work for precious little gain - MOJO
Boozy and deranged, Insult to Injury is how the new Franz record ought to sound - VICE
Their freshest and most subtly intoxicating work to date - OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY
The new album from the 'Gales is their finest for 27 years. Start here and work backwards - SUNDAY TIMES
This album is uneven, undisciplined and overlong - UNCUT
"LIVE IN PARIS" (Big Print Records)
Available now in decent record stores and super cheap mail order - write for details.
"WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?" (Caroline True Records)
It's hard to warm to an album when the first track opens with almost an entire minute of out-of-tune guitar noise. 'Plenty Of Spare' gives us this, and sadly, more. This is a deeply un-enjoyable song, having no regard to rhythm, melody, or indeed any sense of cohesion. - THIS IS FAKE DIY
Order "What's Not To Love?" for £6.99 inc UK postage and packing (USA £8.50 inc airmail delivery) -
Pay paypal: jkertland@yahoo.co.uk
"OUT OF TRUE" (Iron Man Records)
This is that rarest of achievements: a comeback album that actually adds to an already illustrious reputation. Out Of True finds the Nightingales not merely back to their best, but actually improved - DAILY TELEGRAPH
Buy "Out Of True" from the Iron Man Records Ebay shop here
The Nightingales to Download from Iron Man Records:
http://www.ironmanrecords.co.uk/index.asp?Page=bands&P=30
The Nightingales Digital Downloads available from:
ironmanrecords.co.uk, itunes, Napster, Emusic, HMV, Karma
Download.com, MSN, 7 Dugital, Sony Connect, Musicnet, OD2, Real
Rhapsody, Yahoomusic, Wippit, Tune Tribe, Virgin Digital
The Nightingales available for Podcasters:
www.music.podshow.com
The Nightingales was formed by former members of Birmingham's original punk group The Prefects. With an ever fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, the band recorded a bunch of singles, three albums and many radio sessions for John Peel before splitting up in the late '80s.
Following occasional reformations, in 2004 The Nightingales re-grouped in earnest. Since then they have released five 7" vinyl singles and three albums, toured the UK, mainland Europe and USA several times and recorded numerous radio sessions in England and America.
In March 08 the group recorded a new album (the final one starring teen guitar sensation Matt Wood) - "Insult To Injury" - with Jochen Irmler and Andreas Schmid at the Faust Studio in Scheer, Germany. This record, the 'Gales best yet, was released in February 2009 on the Klangbad label.
The group will be touring Germany in April and returning in the Summer to play a few festivals and record their next album.
After fucking about with various wastrels, precious sorts and mercenaries (plus TGS Matt Wood) the group's current line up features Lloyd, original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley, ex Pram drummer Daren Garratt, guitarist Christine Edwards (from Christy & Emily), Andreas Schmid (Faust Studio) on bass and, for the foreseeable future, bassoonist Katherine Young.
For further information on the group (& free downloads) visit the website - www.thenightingales.org.uk
USA, November 2008
PRESS
What's Not to Love takes all the elements that powered Out of True – the furious drumming, the lyrical vitriol, the chaotic, post-everything guitar work – up a notch. The six songs are so clamorous, so headlong, so brutal that the record seems like a milestone. You can tell that the band's been playing together for a while by the way it continually skirts the edge of chaos and continually fails to fall in. Opening cut "Plenty of Spare" emerges out of a rapid-fire maelstrom of a-melodic guitar notes and furious drum skitters, an almost free-jazz ooze that somehow births a song. Or, sort of a song. It's too complicated to be punk, too hard and fast to be anything else...maybe it's time for the Nightingales to invent their own genre. After all, it's not like they ever fit very well into the existing ones. - DUSTED
Robert Lloyd, the Black Country Captain Beefheart, steamrolls his unwitting inheritors. Lesser talents plough the comeback trail, but the Nightingales press onwards - scratchy guitars scribbling furiously over exploratory drumming - the group reaching new heights in its third decade. - SUNDAY TIMES
The Nightingales are morally sound, cynically sweet, disturbingly comedic. All carelessly and unconsciously cool, Nightingales are grown men with something to say and sparse, post-punk soundtracks to back them. So, back them - UNPEELED
Nightingales are unreal. The level of playing and songwriting after their post-punk hiatus is unparalled by any of their generational comeback cohorts - TERRE T/WFMU
This is a record that manages to sound more youthful and vibrant and packed with genuine humour and vitriol that any band currently pedalling themselves as post-punk, or anything near it, will no doubt be left feeling deflated - TASTY
Songs tumble past, pasty faced and brimming with mother's pride, as fresh and corruptible now as when they started twenty years back. Age has neither dimmed their rage or diminished their satire - PLAN B
The Nightingales in Southend on Friday (19 May 06) jetted in to my top ten gigs of all time - PHILL JUPITUS/BBC 6 MUSIC
The Nightingales - they're back and they're marvellous - MARC RILEY/BBC 6 MUSIC
They show up today's runty excuses of art rockers for the soiled bags of old washing that they are - KITTEN PAINTING
With The Fall getting Lifetime Achievement awards and Gang Of Four canonised it is long past time the wayward genius of Robert Lloyd and his cohorts was recognised - RECORD COLLECTOR
Forget all these NME Band Of The Week types who make out they don't care, won't compromise, etc, because rock 'n' roll rarely gets as uncompromising as this - PLASTELIN
The Nightingales turned in a performance of the type that will serve to confirm their excellence when other infinitely better known bands stand revealed as charlatans - JOHN PEEL, BBC RADIO ONE
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
Hey! I play "Well Done Underdog" / "The Crunch" in my October show for Dandelion Radio - The online radio station inspired by John Peel!
This month's show commemorates the fifth anniversary of the great man's passing, every other track is one which John (& probably only John) played at least a few times on his BBC Radio 1 show.
To listen, go to our website at dandelionradio.com and click on one of the "Listen Live" links on the front page.
You will be able to hear my show on most days for the whole of the month! Plus a host of other shows playing an eclectic variety of new and unreleased music, as well as exclusive sessions by Peel legends! See schedule on website for details!
Just to inform you of the release of a new book from Cherry Red Books;
'Independence Days - The Story of UK Independent Record Labels'
Independence Days cover the era's most celebrated labels including Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet/4AD, Factory, Cherry Red and Mute, and covers releases by notable acts such as The Smiths, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gary Numan, Teardrop Explodes, Nick Cave, KLF etc. There is also extensive coverage of a myriad of less familiar labels and their unique stories, revealing a fabulous, almost Shakespearean cast of characters along the way, simultaneously profiling their achievements and contributions.
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Hi Gales! Many thanks for the add and for continuing to make great music! Hope there'll be some more gigs/records in the not too distant future. Regards, Sterl.
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greez from berlin to the wonderful nightingales.
