This Town Needs Guns

This Town Needs Guns - Japan Tour 2010 from Stuart Smith on Vimeo.

So I did some filming while we were in Japan and put it all together last night. It’s not great by any means, but hopefully you’ll enjoy it.

Got back from an amazing tour of Japan yesterday afternoon. Back to the day job today, but still finding time to stare out of the window and daydream about all the cool stuff we managed to do last week. Tour diary to follow soon

…Dad Rocks!

So it looks like our airline are back up and running, so fingers crossed we’ll still be flying out to Japan this weekend. This week has been a bit of a nightmare worrying about whether we’ll be going or not, and whilst we still have no guaruntees, it’s certainly looking a lot more positive

In other news, Zef’s Chasing Cara have another free EP available for download. It is pretty bloody good and if you enjoyed the first record, you won’t be dissapointed with the follow up.

TTFN

Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I found this band whilst watching a trailer for a new Travis Bean Documentary that is currently in production (featuring interviews with Steve Albini and My Disco no less) and thought some of you might dig it. Anyway, I have no idea if they’re still playing as their myspace doesn’t look like it’s been updated since 2007. They’re called Arma Secreta and sound a bit like Burning Airlines. I like what I’ve heard so far. Listen to ‘Undressing Underwater’ first and use the free listening widget thing on their myspace. The sound quality is way better than the myspace music profile thing.

All dates with Native

SAT 29/05 BLED FESTIVAL HOWELL, MI

SUN 30/05 THE GRIST MILL WATERLOO, ON

TUES 01/06 SNEAKY DEES TORONTO, ON

WED 02/06 CASA DEL POPOLO MONTREAL, ON

THU 03/06 GREAT SCOTT BOSTON, MA

FRI 04/06 SOUTHPAW BROOKLYN, NY

SAT 05/06 THE FIRE PHILADELPHIA, PA

MON 07/06 BLACK CAT BACKSTAGE WASHINGTON, DC

TUES 08/06 LOCAL 506 CHAPEL HILL, NC

WED 09/06 MASQUERADE PURGATORY ALANTA. GA

THU 10/06 SKULL ALLEY LOUISVILLE, KY

FRI 11/06 LEMP ARTS CENTER ST LOUIS, MO

SAT 12/06 BEAT KITCHEN CHICAGO, IL

Our good friend Tobias Hayes of Shoes and Socks Off (’Meet Me In St Louis’ and ‘Shield Your Eyes’) fame, has just released a free download of covers. Have a listen…I like them:

You can download them from http://bsmrocks.com/

So before we go to the US this summer, we’re going to be playing a few UK warm up dates. Details below:

MAY

WED 19th - LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY FESTIVAL
venue and time to be announced

THU 20th - BIRMINGHAM, THE FLAPPER
w/ Six Gallery (US)
ticket info coming soon
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FRI 21st - SHEFFIELD, THE HARLEY
w/ Six Gallery (US) + Pirouettes
tickets facebook last.fm

SAT 22nd - LONDON, THE BORDERLINE
w/Six Gallery (US) + Tangled Hair (ex-Colour)
tickets facebook last.fm

Hope to see you at one of the gigs.

We were honoured to receive an invite to play with one of my personal favourite bands over the weekend. Youthmovies have been an important part of the UK music scene for the last 8 years and were instrumental in developing my own music taste during my university days. We couldn’t be happier to accept the opportunity to play with them (at one of their last shows) on the 24th of March, at the Deaf Institute in Manchester. We hope some of you can make it. Joining us will be Adam Gnade, and Foals DJ’s. Should be good times. See you down the front.

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Get yer ears wrapped round this. It’s only a new band from those sprightly young fella’s from Colour. Sounds like summer