Queens Of The Stone Age, dEUS, Doors, Verve, Sonics, McLusky, Jacob's Mouse, Black Keys, Sufjan Stevens, Grand Funk Railroad, We Start Fires, Popular Workshop, Raconteurs, PJ Harvey, Zombies, Kinks, Sugar, Small Faces, Graham Coxon, The Fall, Muse, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Fiery Furnaces, Soundgarden, Syd Barrett, Bullet Union, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, At The Drive-In, The Clash, Julian Cope, Nirvana, Thee Vicars, Dandy Warhols, Indelicates, Th' Faith Healers, Autolux, Warlocks, Blur, Pavement, Screaming Tea Party, Creedence Clearwater Revival, AC Acoustics, Pixies, Stooges, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Libertines, MC5, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Liars, Infants, Sonic Youth, Le Tigre, Siamese Sluts, William, Primal Scream, Seafood, Die! Die! Die!, Mudhoney, Elastica, Fight Like Apes, Charlatans, Untitled Musical Project, Reuben, KunK, Warlocks, Future Of The Left, Blood Red Shoes
AT THE STILL POINT CD / download album available 3rd August 2009
SILENT DISCO/FLASHING LIGHTS 7" / download single available 29th June 2009
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TEN CITY NATION 11-track album available COMPLETELY FREE from www.tencitynation.com
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EXHIBITION TIME AGAIN 3-track single available in all good digital stores
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LIVE ON VINYL 7-track live album available COMPLETELY FREE from www.tencitynation.com
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Limited-edition, handmade CD versions of Ten City Nation releases are available exclusively from R*E*P*E*A*T Records:
Formed in their hometown of Bury St Edmunds in 2007, Ten City Nation wasted no time in gigging like madmen – by November of that year, they were supporting NME darlings We Start Fires on a UK tour. Releasing their debut single and album to some acclaim in early 2008 (both are available as free downloads from the band’s official website), a sold-out single launch party at London’s Islington Bar Academy led to high-profile supports for Artrocker favourites Untitled Musical Project and Popular Workshop, which in turn led to an appearance at the Offset Festival alongside Wire, Future Of The Left and Blood Red Shoes. Ten City Nation also won the affections of BBC Radio Suffolk, who put the band forward to represent the station at the 2008 Reading & Leeds Festivals. The band also helped put together (and appeared on) a compilation in aid of Love Music Hate Racism, and embarked on a Summer 2008 Love Music Hate Racism tour with Popular Workshop, Nebraska, Kunk and hotly-tipped fellow Bury boys Thee Vicars. A song from the debut album, ‘TDK 90’, will be featured on the new Suicide Girls movie, due for release in 2009.
Ten City Nation's self-titled debut album is currently available as a free download from TenCityNation.com
"Ten City Nation manage to create a mood of their own, which is uncommon enough for a first album to be notable. Their moth-eaten darkness, their quest for disharmony, are evidence not only of their deep musical culture, but also of their radical talent." – This Is Fake DIY
"It's loud, melodic, passionate and everything that most bands these days aren't; Ten City Nation (both the band and the album) demands to be heard, and you'd be a fool to ignore it..." – Kiss Me I’ve Quit Smoking
"Ten City Nation are an intriguing prospect... By the time they’ve finished their opening song, ‘prospect’ is meaningless - smashed apart by the imposing edifice of vehement rock and roll; forgotten in the hazy memory of a thrashing three-chord punk rock explosion. Like The Stooges before them, Ten City Nation have amazing presence... flailing around and dancing to a Mclusky-like noise... with the intent of a band that have been together for years." - Drownedinsound.com
"This is a brilliant album... Ten City Nation propels itself with an eclectic relentlessness. (Album of the Week)” – Treblezine
"A treat from start to finish, this eponymous masterpiece proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that Ten City Nation are a politically conscious, morally astute and musically gifted band that cannot be ignored." – Screaming Tarts
"Cried-out Stooges-style vocals, energetic jagged riffs, and a taut QOTSA-style bass and drum section that thunders like bison’s hoofs across abandoned deserts... atmospheric guitar patterns hove into view above night skies, before being interjected by urgent, stabbing, early Nirvana-esque guitars, drum rolls and Seymour’s frantically emotional vocals... an act that’s clearly looking to push into vital punk rock terrains." - God Is In The TV
"...on quality of songs alone, I am positive that "Ten City Nation" is streets ahead of 90% of underground music." – Subba-Cultcha
"I can’t say enough good things about this band, they deserve to be huge." - RoomThirteen.com
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saw you at the portland last night lads. Seymour you are a star mate :P and neil, i play the drums and i could probably play as hard as you for one song onli, how you keep going is beyond me lol. hope to see you lot again soon x Dan.x
Slash usually plays a Gibson Les Paul, if that's any help. Yeah, I just thought there was a bit too much buzz out of a Tele for your style of music - certainly I'd use a Gibson semihollow if I was forming a TCN covers band - but then, I'm not a guitarist. Ever thought about fitting one with a humbucker or P-90ish sort of thing in place of one of the standard single coil ones? There's an Ibanez guitar out which has two H/Bs with an ordinary S/C in between them, too.
Right, thanks - Weyfest should be within reach, Farnham is but a couple of trains from here. What kind of Epiphone are we talking here? Also, tried a Jazzmaster (either with the P90-ish pickups or humbuckers?)
I really like the new stuff, lads. Flashing Lights is epic. Now, have you thought about perhaps making it even better? Here are a few ideas:
1 - make the vocals a little more interesting. Any chance of a Dave Grohl-esque screamed vocal line? Continual middling-pitched clean vox can get a bit boring. Otherwise, a Chris Cornell-style falsetto would be great.
2 - Make your drummer hit his drums harder, or make the drums louder in the mix!
3 - MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL. Get a guitar with some goddamn humbucker pickups! Flashing Lights would sound so much better with guitar parts - especially rhythm! - played on a Gibson/Epiphone Lucille, and the Epi can be had new for only £450 - though some say they need replacement pickups at new, as the stock ones are apparently a bit naff. The Gibson costs a bit over 2 grand, but it's the king of all guitars, no question (pun not intended - it's a productionised version of B. B. King's custom-made Gibsons). Anyway, a single-coil Telecaster just doesn't do rhythm guitar roar justice...
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