It's like this... the four members of Mind of a Toy met when they were all working one summer inside a snowstorm paperweight, pushing the snowflakes around inside with great effort and sustantial amounts of co-ordination.
Their only diversion from this pointless and unrewarding task was listening to music by James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and The Stooges.
Then one day, Tom Schwenkenberg suddenly shouted to the others "Fuck this, let's break out of this artificial world and make some real fun for ourselves"
His colleagues Tom George, Marty Welsh and Bob Moscow all agreed, and with a lot of combined kicking they soon broke through to the outside world where they found themselves on the desk of a local businessman who specialised in the manufacture of toy helicopters, one of which was sitting conveniently nearby.
Climbing inside the toy, the team set off, flew out of the window and off on their adventures...
PORTMAN - Release their debut album “From Here To Your Eyes And Ears" on March 3rd. The album is available to stream right now on their Myspace Page and to Pre-Order Right Here. Check it out!
DOWN FOR THE COUNT - Their February UK Tour fell through at the last minute and to apologise to all the fans about this we are now selling the bands debut album “Broken Record Tactics” for just £3.99, available Right Here
The band are hoping to come back to tour the UK late summer/early autumn so keep an eye out for that.
'Broken Record Tactics' is a fun little record for fans of Cartel and The Starting Line. If you're in the mood for some chirpy, melodic pop-punk with a bit of a rockier edge, you could do a lot worse than to check them out.' - Punktastic.com
I hope you don’t mind this promotional message, we promise it will be the last one for a while :-)
Just a quick message to let you know that we have just released the new Down For The Count album “Broken Record Tactics”. It came out on Monday June 4th and is 11 tracks of sunshine filled pop-punk at its best.
'Broken Record Tactics' is a fun little record for fans of Cartel and The Starting Line. If you're in the mood for some chirpy, melodic pop-punk with a bit of a rockier edge, you could do a lot worse than to check them out.' - Punktastic.com
You can check out 3 songs from the album on our Myspace Page and the album is now available from the following stores:
Hey, hope you don't mind this small promotional comment. We just released the new Down For The Count single "Less Than Three Is Enough For Me" on Monday and wanted to let you know that it is now available to download from our 7Digital Indiestore for just 79p:
The song is taken from their debut album 'Broken Record Tactics' which is released on June 4th and is now available to pre-order from PEP-ROCKRECORDS.COM for just £6.99 (including P&P). Everyone who pre-orders the album before the June 4th release date will also receive a Free SIGNED Down For The Count Poster as well as Free Badges. Cheers
Hey Dudes!!
Nice to see a myspace finally set up for the greatest musical creation to come out of Liverpool!!
I am very well thanks Martin, im off for easter for 2 weeks woo! whats this gig at everyman? I'll try be there!! have you booked a date to record with Jamie yet?
see u soon guys!!
-Carly xo
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