The nice people at Xtra Mile are to release a four-part series of split seven-inches next year, featuring some really quite smashing acts.
The releases break down a little summin summin like this:
9th January
This Et Al - 'Pigs Make Children Sick'
Adzuki - 'You Are The Answer'
16th January
No.1 Son - '27'
My Luminaries - 'All I Really Want'
23rd January
Dartz! - 'Fantastic Apparatus'
The Maybes? - 'Stop, Look & Listen'
30th January
Reuben - 'Every Time A Teenager Listens To Drum & Bass A Rockstar Dies'
Frank Turner - 'The Real Damage'
Yup. So go out and buy them, if you like.
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Dartz! are great!
Dartz!
Get Dartz forget Reuben who are worse than bad .
get the dartz and reuben ones
reuben are amazing.
frank turners solo stuff is excellent.
and dartz are bound to be big soon.
reuben have lost a little motentum but the shows they did in the autumn was their biggest headline tour yet and nearly all the venues sold out (i saw them in a couple of venues and the audiences were really different both nights, not just kids like at a BFMV or MCR gig) ... plus lenman is still pumping out charming and charimatic lyrical gems.
people who are writing them off already are probably just getting ready to jump on the next bandwagon of trendy coolness while totally disregarding young bands who are actaully really good (like reuben)
my luminaries
= greatness.
Mr Ben Marwood
He talk a lot of sense that Ben Marwood.
I wonder if he's coming to the Water Rats on Saturday...
Sorry Ben, didn't mean to talk about you in the 3rd person. Are you coming down?
Yes
Will certainly get My Luminaries offering.Great.
sub pop
what you neglect to mention is that you can buy them all and have them sent to you as they are released (like a subscription)...its basically like what sub pop records did back in the day....
very cool idea
frank turner rocks!!!
yeah
hear that diver? you're NEGLIGENT. lol.
I can only write what I'm told, sheeeesh
yeh
Everyone should get the Frank Turner/Reuben one...or yeh-all of um.
Not in this life
Frank Turner = talented. Reuben= past it.
Past what, exactly?
After two ace albums? In their early twenties?
hmmm
I kinda lean towards past it...Second album did very little, and they've lost the kind of momentum they had at Freddy Kreuger era...A lot of rock bands are struggling in the indie climate which is why some are diggin deep; all guns blazing style (check Hundred Reasons site!) But Reuben did more of the same with a couple of bad ballads tacked on...gotta love Lenman though.
This
notion of "past it" is really weird, and depressingly indicative of an EVERYTHING NOW culture, where Elton John and The Rolling Stones live forever while young bands bursting with potential are written off after 2 albums because they're not bigger than the fucking Beatles yet. And it took The Beatles a fair few albums to get really interesting anyway. I have a lot of faith in Reuben, they've got that SOMETHING that so many bands painfully lack. And they rock like monsters live.
Last live shows
were full of tricks not "rock monsters "at all. All free fribees and 12year olds. Sad.
" ace albums???
Last album was best forgotten.Same old stuff. Past it.
I will
defend Reuben to the death. Meet me after school for a sound pasting.
Have a look
at dave89, maria and Emilyhatesyou's profile pages. Is it just me being overly-suspicious, or are they all uncannily similar?
reuben
are clearly still a very talented, young band whose new material is bursting with potential. they've managed to build a fairly respectable fan base on the back of a lot of hard work and the quality of their songwriting.
im with seymour - they're ace.