This Town Needs Guns

So a lovely young lady by the name of Yoshie was kind enough to snap these little beauties at her local record shop and send them to us on myspace:

Thank you Yoshie

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To celebrate Big Scary Monsters Records reaching the half-century of releases, they’ve put together a compilation CD featuring 50 MP3s from past, present and future label alumni along with some of their favourite other artists. The CD is available to buy for £4 or get it free with any other purchase from www.bsmrocks.com. Here is the tracklisting:

01. Anathallo - Kasa No Hone
02. Audrey - Views
03. Blakfish - Merry Fucking Xmas
04. Cats And Cats And Cats - Brilliant The Brilli Ant
05. Chariots - Friends Forever
06. Copy Haho - To Balance A Diet
07. Cut The Blue Wire - The Race To The King
08. Data.Select.Party - So Long Sweet Lime
09. Days Ago - Where No Measure Refracts
10. Emotive Exposed - Russian Bride
11. Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire - Disaster! Disaster!
12. Fang Island - Curuga
13. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Whitewash Is Brainwash
14. Hikikomori Broadcast - Three Cheers For Other Peoples Poems
15. House of Brothers - Lose Yourself
16. Hush The Many (Heed The Few) - In Bloom (live)
17. Itch - Sleeping Lions
18. Jacob’s Stories - Dear Mr Pearson
19. Jeniferever - You Only Move Twice
20. Jonah Matranga - Not About A Girl Or A Place
21. Jonquil - Thick Mugs
22. Lucy And The Caterpillar - I Don’t Want Your Stupid Crisps
23. Maps and Atlases - Every Place Is A House
24. Marvin’s Revolt - Deliberate Deeds
25. Meet Me In St Louis - Ein Zwei Drei Hasslehoff
26. Mimas - Cats On Fire
27. My Awesome Compilation - Our Lives: The Sequel
28. My Favourite Co-Pilot - Cadence And Close
29. Nathaniel Green - The Hardest Man In The World
30. Outcry Collective - New Franchise Mess
31. Pennines - Open Closed Open
32. Richard Walters - Elephant In The Room
33. Rolo Tomassi - Beatrotter Remix (Please Will)
34. Sam Isaac - A Cinematic Low
35. Secondsmile - Years
36. Settlefish - Summer Drops
37. Shoes And Socks Off - Yeah, But
38. Stapleton - From Wood To Ridge
39. Tera Melos - When Worms Learn To Fly
40. The Campaign For Real Time - Rachel Says
41. The Dudley Corporation - Safety Shot
42. The Family Machine - Reminds Me Of You
43. The Next Autumn Soundtrack - Lost.Fondly
44. The Remarkable Rocket - I Only Count In Tens
45. The Sound OE - Party At The Moontower
46. This Town Needs Guns - If I Sit Still
47. Tubelord - Half Man Half Amazing
48. Wintermute - Shark Vs E-boat
49. Yndi Halda - We Flood Empty Lakes
50. 4 or 5 Magicians - I’m In The Band

Here’s a nice video advert (if you’re into that sort of thing)…

Much to my surprise I was reading an article on everyones favourite music website (DrownedinSound.com) about the history of math-rock and found our name mentioned This pleases me no end, as we are mentioned along side some of our favourite bands (Shellac, Joan of Arc, Owls, Don Caballero, Botch, Dillinger Escape Plan, Battles, Maps & Atlases etc). Good times. If you want to have a read go here.

So we received a bunch of copies of the Japanese release today and they look lovely. You can order copies from the following places:

TOWER RECORDS (JPN)

HMV (JPN)

AMAZON (JPN)

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…and it was ace Thank you to all the guys at the Schaltot Collective for having us and a big thanks to all those of you who came to see us play. It was great to discover that a bunch of people from France and Germany made the effort to come along and see us. We couldn’t feel more honoured.

Here are some photos that a young guy from Belgium (called Guillaume) was kind enough to take:

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Are you bored? Sitting at your desk at work trying to think of something to do before the weekend can begin? Why not do some of these things:

Read the Jonquil European tour diary - I read it yesterday and it documents their adventure across Europe this Easter. French bridges in the sky, Spanish ghost towns and the ultimate demise of Truckasaurus (our ex postal van that we lent them for the journey), are all explained in detail by the beautiful penmanship of one Jody Prewett. Go read.

Listen to Secondsmile new songs - Secondsmile have uploaded a couple of new songs to their myspace. Dan plays trumpet on one of them

Book tickets to come to Luxembourg and see us play this weekend - Got nothing to do this weekend? Come to Luxembourg and see us play with a bunch of cool bands.

Watch our new video - It’s down there in an earlier post. It’s fun.

Read about this crazy dog - Dan sent me an email about this dog that attacked a porcupine and lost. It’s pretty savage.

Listen to Nate Kinsella - Just listened to Nate Kinsella’s (Make Believe’s drummer/keyboard player) solo stuff and it’s REALLY good.

Stu x

You can hear his handy work now on the Secondsmile myspace profile. The song is called “Stars Away”. It will only be up for 2 weeks so listen while you can.

So our ‘back-catalogue’ record is now out in Australia and will soon be available in Japan as well. Here is the tracklisting and here is a link to buy the record from our Australian label.

1. 26 is dancier than 4
2. And I’ll tell you for why…
3. I’ll forget about you throwing that rock cos that dance was pretty funny
4. 1470 man
5. Do you wanna come back to my room and listen to some Belle and Sebastian?
6. If I sit still maybe I’ll get out of here
7. Japanese ultra-violence in D-minor (the saddest chord)
8. It’s not true Rufus, don’t listen to the hat

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