Public Service Broadcast Club 6 - TODAY!

Details are over -------------------> on the main website.

It's my birthday on Monday, so I'm probably going to drink too much cider and play some Bruce Springsteen. JUST A WARNING. Anyone want to sell / give me a ticket to the London show on the 28th? PLEASE?

Public Service Blogcast Episode 3: This Ain't No Picnic Special

A special show this week presented by DIY festival wunderkind Daniel all about the upcoming This Ain't No Picnic event. On September 27th and 28th, STA take over King's College London Student's Union for one of the best line-ups of the summer; among the 34 bands playing are headliners Future Of The Left and Polysics plus some acts that you may not be so familiar with but you're hopefully listening to as you read this. Both day and weekend tickets are still available, and all proceeds from this event will be donated to charity, split between Cancer Research UK and The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Those of you that have experienced the previous STA All-Dayers know how good the last weekend of the month is going to be.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 3
31 minutes 33 seconds
Recorded 18/09/08
Tracklisting
00.03 Let Our Enemies Beware - I Am Lono (from forthcoming Against Karate album released 12th Jan - Smalltown America)
03.43 Laura Wolf - White Light Collision Course (from Wolf Goes Pop! EP - self released)
05.58 The Retro Spankees - Pickin' Flies (from I Know You Are But What Am I? album - Kooky)
09.54 Tubelord - Dun Dun Dun Scissor Rocks And Tonne (from I Am Azzerad 7" - Big Scary Monsters)
14.12 4 or 5 Magicians - Ideal Man (from Change The Record / Ideal Man 7" - This Is Fake DIY)
17.29 This Town Needs Guns - Lemur (from forthcoming Animals album released October - Big Scary Monsters)
21.04 Jam on Bread - It's Always Sunny Inside (previously unreleased)
24.00 Brontosaurus Chorus - The Myth of Love(from split 7" with And What Will Be Left Of Them? - Popart Records)
28.03 Superman Revenge Squad - I'm Gonna Go To Bed... (from This Is My Own Personal Way Of Dealing With It album - self released)

If you have any questions about (what the kids are calling) 'Tanp' this is the link you need. If you want to get a track played on a future episode please get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk
See you at the front!

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So the cat is, one might say, very much out of the bag: we are running a festival!

We're all (obviously!) very excited about this, as you may have been able to tell if you'd heard Ferris and I talking about it on Radio 1 the other night. We've been beavering away on this for a while now (pretty much since the last alldayer died) and it's already had a fair number of emotional ups and downs, so it's a huge relief to make it public. Hopefully you approve, and hopefully you'll snap up the earlybird tickets pretty quickly!

Thinly-veiled sales pitch over.

Today, I will mostly be burning CDRs of An Emergency's forthcoming album so I can do a promo run. This would be a lot easier if my burner (only about three weeks old) would let me burn more than one at a time, but it isn't. I don't know why. It burns the first CD, yet when it comes to the second it keeps telling me there's an "invalid block address". Still, it's marginally better than my old burner, which doesn't work at all. Glamorous life etc. I may head to Oxford later, as my friend Steve aka Jam On Bread (vetern of PSB Club #2) is playing with the wonderful Foxes!, and I fancy a night away from London. Plus, there are few better ways to go from drunk to hungover than on Oxford Tube somewhere on the motorway at 2am.

Public Service Broadcast Club #2

Aaaaaaand... that was Public Service Broadcast Club 2! Thanks to everyone who came down and a special thanks to all of the bands for being... well, fucking brilliant, if I'm going to be honest. How good was Jam On Bread's cover of At Your Funeral? A LOT BRILLIANT, that's how. Plus, Aaron Connolly finally cornered me for this documentary he's making about us, and it went far better than I ever expected it to. I probably talked a load of rubbish, but you can blame the Arts Club's rotten cider for that. The evening went hilariously off-the-radar after we left Notting Hill, and ended up with my friend Chris and I drinking cheap Strongbow whilst making keyboard loops and guitar feedback in my tiny, tiny flat until about 4am. I think my neighbours probably hate me now.

Oh well! Public Service Broadcast Club 3 is set for June 14th, which is also my birthday weekend! Most, most excellent.

So tomorrow, we're off to Radio 1. I'm really excited! I've only been to Maida Vale once, when I saw the Super Furry Animals do a session about seven years ago. I've also been up since before 7am working on some sampler CDs, we have the intention of thrusting them into the hands of anyone important looking we see while there...



You may also notice the presence of a Faux Discx logo on there - for those who don't know them, they're a great little label based down in Brighton, and we'll be co-releasing and handling distribution on a number of release with them this year. This is also really exciting! Have a look at their website, there's a bunch of free download releases that are all worthy of your time.

So there you have it! Record labels: pretty exciting.