November 2010 Newsletter

[0] MPFree: Illness: Paper Cut Live


This month's free noise-slice is a live take of 'Paper Cut' - lead track from Illness' second EP out now, recorded especially for newsletter subscribers... click... download... rawk!


[1] More Than Conquerors in the studio...



This month has been a busy one for all those at STA towers, including our newest arrivals.

More Than Conquerors have taken over an old but still fully functional church in their quest to create the self described 'bigger/dirtier/edgier' follow up to their debut EP. We are almost mission complete, recording due to complete upon the bands return from tour with Fighting With Wire starting Monday. No working titles just yet but perhaps December's mailout will have a Christmas treat for us all!

MTC's remastered, debut five track EP (now including enhanced video content) is currently receiving spins on XFM and the video for 'Go On Go On Get Out' has been soaring on YouTube since it's first outing last week.

Check them live when they take to the road on Monday in support of Fighting With Wire, dates as follows:

1 Nov - Stereo, Glasgow

2 Nov - The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool

3 Nov - HMV Institute Temple, Birmingham

4 Nov - Cellar, Oxford

5 Nov - Joiners, Southampton

7-Nov - Prince Albert, Brighton

8 Nov - Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff

9 Nov - Barfly, London

[2] LaFaro vs Europe



LaFaro are in the studio tracking album number two with Marty @ Bangor Studios. They have been submerged in the writing process since returning from Reading/Leeds festivals and they have rarely been spotted out except for a short run of hard rocking sell-out shows with Therapy? in Belfast, Cork - twice and now Dublin's Vicar Street on the 5th November.

Pic: Courtsey of AU Magazine

[3] Group Hug? Skibunny on tour...



Wed 17th Nov - BELFAST, Trenchfoot @ Lavery’s

Thurs 18th Nov - BALLYNAHINCH, Pure Savage @ Cloisters

Fri 19th Nov - DUBLIN, Tower Records in-store (1pm)

Fri 19th Nov - DUBLIN, The Good Social (w/ CRYSTAL FIGHTERS)

Sat 20th Nov - STRABANE, Dicey Rileys

Sun 21st Nov - DERRY, Sandino's Back Room

Mon 22nd Nov - GALWAY, Roisin Dubh

Sat 27th Nov - EDINBURGH, Devil Disco @ The Bongo Club

[4] And So... yet more touring

Not very fresh, but very willing - STA's very own Uncle Travelling Matts And So I Watch You From Afar hit the road again in November. The band are currently in the Smalltown America Studio recording a tour exclusive single:

11 Nov - Rosin Dubh, Galway

12 Nov - Pavillion, Cork

13 Nov - Dolan’s, Limerick

18 Nov - Riverbank, Kildare

19 Nov - Spirit Store, Dundalk

20 Nov - Whelans, Dublin

22 Nov - Dingwalls, London

23 Nov - Hare & Hounds, Birmingham

24 Nov - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

25 Nov - Kazimier, Liverpool

26 Nov - King Tuts, Glasgow

[5] Label Buddy Bed Hopping



This month Illness take to the stage in support of our SXSW10 top pick DD/MM/YYYY (pic) - the venue is Brixton Windmill and the date is Monday 1st November. Many people doubt that Illness can actually speak, let alone can sing - behold the video evidence to the contrary...

Illness' tour buddies Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea bed hop this month to take to the stage with Fighting With Wire &More Than Conquerors in Brighton's Prince Albert on Sunday the Nov 7th. A little later in the month & just down the road in Portsmouth's Edge Of The Wedge, CMCS support another Irish bill this time with A Plastic Rose.

[6] Final Farewells

Last month we bid farewell to two members of the STA family.

Firstly Let Our Enemies Beware have decided to go on indefinite hiatus, stepping out in typically irreverent fashion... Cheers for your support out there for LOEB over the few years we were doing our shizzle. Unless of course you didn't support us in any way whatsoever, in which case f***you. Nah I'm yanking ya, cheers in any case.

We were gutted that we didn't get the opportunity to release this LOEB track - killer.

Also Dan Orsmby has chosen to end 4 Or 5 Magicians - for now... If I can organise it, there will perhaps be one final show in London for the band at an unspecified date in the future where a number of past members get together to play an extended set of songs from the entire history of the band. I would definitely like to do this. Perhaps I will even keep the band going as a very occasional ceremonial band that plays special occasions once or twice a year as a couple of our contemporaries have done. Right now I am not sure. But yeah, thanks for all your support, and I'll be back soon with a new project.

We wish the members of both bands all the best for their next projects. The 2009 albums by LOEB and 4 Or 5 are available from the STA store at a retirement-reduced price of £5 each.

That's your lot for this month, thanks as always for reading.

Team STA
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STA Newsletter - April 2010

Happy Easter from all at STA. Don't eat too much chocolate now, y'hear...

[1] Free MP3: Illness - 'New Song'

Beloved subscribers, last month we gave you a sneak peak at LaFaro's debut album, this month's free MP3 is from STA new boys Illness. For the uninitiated, Illness is an instrumental two-piece from Brighton with a unique line in math-rock guitar/drum jams. This track, entitled 'New Song', is an out-take from the recording sessions for their forthcoming Gifts From God EP. Download it right now and play it loud. Like what you hear? Tweet Spencer and Emilio on @Illnessband. The guys are planning a July tour with Shield Your Eyes, who are awesome too - we're excited!

[2] Free Postage on all UK Orders on New Store

After more than a few trusty years of service, we've finally retired version 2 of the STA site. Our new version is now live, extra features and content will be added steadily over coming months. The webstore is up and running and has had several improvements. Firstly, we can now take direct orders from our international customers. Secondly, we're offering free postage on all orders within the UK (including Northern Ireland). Check out the store and bag yourself a sweet deal.

[3] ASIWYFA/LaFaro Tour Of Power

THE Irish rock tour of the year. Currently running riot across the UK. And So I Watch You From Afar tackle their largest headlining run to date, fresh from the release of The Letters EP and ably assisted at all dates by LaFaro. Please note that the London Borderline on April 8th is completely sold out, and some of the others aren't far behind - so buy tickets in advance or get down to those venues early!

ASIWYFA will head solo to mainland Europe after the UK tour wraps up in Cardiff on April 11th:

3 Apr - Stereo GLASGOW
4 Apr - Bannerman’s EDINBURGH
5 Apr - Academy 2 NEWCASTLE
6 Apr - Ruby Lounge MANCHESTER
7 Apr - Rainbow BIRMINGHAM
8 Apr - Borderline LONDON
9 Apr - Cooler BRISTOL
10 Apr - Cavern EXETER
11 Apr - Barfly CARDIFF
12 Apr - Domino Festival BRUSSELS
14 Apr - La Fleche d’Or PARIS
16 Apr - Mod Club HASSELT
17 Apr - Vera GRONINGEN
18 Apr - Merleyn NIJMEGEN
19 Apr - O13 TILBURG
21 Apr - Underground KOLN
22 Apr - Kleine Frieheit OSNABRUCK
23 Apr - Gruner Jager HAMBURG
24 Apr - Paradiso / London Calling AMSTERDAM
25 Apr - Train AARHUS
26 Apr - Bla OSLO
28 Apr - Privat Club BERLIN
29 Apr - Druckluft OBERHAUSEN

[4] LaFaro Album, Tour & Launch Parties

LaFaro's debut album hits shops on May 10th. Can't wait for it? If you preorder the record directly from us (complete with an exclusive bonus CD of rare and unreleased material) you'll get it w/c April 26th - two weeks early.

Following the conclusion of their support slots with ASIWYFA (see above), the band embarks on a headline tour of the UK and Ireland, including a two-night album launch party in Belfast. The first show sold out so quickly we just had to add a second :)

17 Apr - Cellar Bar (IMRO Showcase) DRAPERSTOWN
26 Apr - Menagerie *SOLD OUT* BELFAST
27 Apr - The Menagerie BELFAST - Buy Tickets Now

[5] Ice, Sea, A Tour

Ice, Sea, Dead People head out on their first headlining tour this month. Their debut album, Teeth Union, will be released in July, catch them now they slay eardrums:

5 Apr - The Freebutt BRIGHTON
8 Apr - The Mother’s Ruin BRISTOL
9 Apr - The Cockpit LEEDS
11 Apr - The Firebug LEICESTER
13 Apr - The 13th Note GLASGOW
14 Apr - The Harley SHEFFIELD
15 Apr - New Slang Rm 2 (w/ Friendship) KINGSTON
17 Apr - The Cellar OXFORD

[6] Calories @ Camden Crawl

Calories head back to London on May 1st & 2nd to play 2010's Camden Crawl, alongside a shedload of other great bands. The full line-up can be found here - STA faves on the bill include: Best Coast; Dead Meadow; Gang of Four; Joe Gideon and The Shark; Pulled Apart By Horses; Slow Club; Teenage Fanclub; Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs; YACHT and about a squillion others.

[7] Let Our Enemies Beware - New Stuff

Let Our Enemies Beware recently unleashed a video of brand-new, lust-ballad '(Who Wants To Ride?) The Gay Horse'. You can check out the video on YouTube. They also got a rather nice live review this month from Rock Sound.

The band have a few dates coming up this month. You can catch them at the following venues:

10 Apr - Command House CHATHAM
24 Apr - The Unicorn LONDON

That's all for April. Thanks for reading and we'll see you next month.

Team STA

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Let Our Enemies Beware Live Videos

ASIWYFA Album #2 Feature In New Rock Sound

The April issue of Rock Sound magazine is already with subscribers and hits the newsagents any day - it contains a feature on the in-progress 2nd And So I Watch You From Afar album, see below!

April Gig Listings

While our gig listings page is getting a glossy makeover, here's a round-up of April's live shows -

4 Or 5 Magicians
1 Apr The Windmill, Brixton w/ The Muscle Club - this is the final show for 4 Or 5 with their current line-up

And So I Watch You From Afar
26 Mar Andrews Lane Theatre w/ Bats, Jogging DUBLIN
27 Mar Nerve Centre DERRY
1 Apr Masque Liverpool
2 Apr Fibbers YORK
3 Apr Stereo GLASGOW
4 Apr Bannerman’s EDINBURGH
5 Apr Academy 2 NEWCASTLE
6 Apr Ruby Lounge MANCHESTER
7 Apr Rainbow BIRMINGHAM
8 Apr Borderline LONDON
9 Apr Cooler BRISTOL
10 Apr Cavern EXETER
11 Apr Barfly CARDIFF
12 Apr Domino Festival BRUSSELS
14 Apr La Fleche d’Or PARIS
16 Apr Mod Club HASSELT
17 Apr Vera GRONINGEN
18 Apr Merleyn NIJMEGEN
19 Apr O13 TILBURG
21 Apr Underground KOLN
22 Apr Kleine Frieheit OSNABRUCK
23 Apr Gruner Jager HAMBURG
24 Apr Paradiso / London Calling AMSTERDAM
25 Apr Train AARHUS
26 Apr Bla OSLO
28 Apr Privat Club BERLIN
29 Apr Druckluft OBERHAUSEN

Calories
1 May CAMDEN CRAWL LONDON
2 May CAMDEN CRAWL LONDON

Ice, Sea, Dead People
5 Apr The Freebutt Brighton
8 Apr The Mother’s Ruin Bristol
9 Apr The Cockpit Leeds
11 Apr The Firebug Leicester
13 Apr The 13th Note Glasgow
14 Apr The Harley Sheffield
15 Apr New Slang Rm 2 (w/ Friendship) Kingston, London
17 Apr The Cellar Oxford

LaFaro
26 Mar Masons Derry
1 Apr MASQUE / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA Liverpool
2 Apr Fibbers/ UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA YORK
3 Apr STEREO/ UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA GLASGOW
4 Apr BANNERMANS/ UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA EDINBURGH
5 Apr ACADEMY2 / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA NEWCASTLE
6 Apr RUBY LOUNGE / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA MANCHESTER
8 Apr BORDERLINE / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA LONDON
9 Apr COOLER / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA BRISTOL
10 Apr CAVERN / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA EXETER
11 Apr BARFLY / UK TOUR WITH ASIWYFA CARDIFF
17 Apr Cellar Bar (IMRO Showcase) Draperstown
26 Apr Menagerie *SOLD OUT* Belfast, Northern Ireland
27 Apr The Menagerie Belfast, Northern Ireland

Let Our Enemies Beware
2 Apr Watershed, Wimbledon w/ CARS ON FIRE, MUNROE EFFECT, THE 9s
10 Apr Command House, Chatham w/ Up C Down C
24 Apr The Unicorn, London w/ Elephant vs Leopard, Djevara, Pigshackle

Skibunny
27 Mar DJ set @ The Stiff Kitten w/OPTIMO & NOT SQUARES BELFAST

Let Our Enemies Beware Preview New Song on YouTube

Noisecore behemoths Let Our Enemies Beware unveil their new, epic, unreleased lust-ballad (Who Wants To Ride) The Gay Horse in video form.

Let Our Enemies Beware Play Wimbledon April 2nd

Slagophiles - pivvy your wetsome sight-globes below-wardly...

Friday 2nd April - we said we were playing in Brixton. We lied. The gig is, in fact, at the Watershed in Wimbledon. The address is as follows:

Watershed:
267 THE BROADWAY WIMBLEDON LONDON SW19 1SD

You can get tickets here.

That's right - tickets. We've hit the big time. Here endth the lesson.

Godspeed,

Sir Michael Edward Andrew Teddington

ASIWYFA & LOEB For New Exploding In Sound Comp

And So I Watch You From Afar and Let Our Enemies Beware feature on the GLORIOUS NOISE compilation out on March 1st from Exploding In Sound. The track listing is as follows...

1. Traindodge - If I Pass You on the Street
2. Mr. Gnome - Vampires
3. LIONS - Poster Child
4. Regular John - Language
5. The Blind Pets - Fever
6. Disco Doom - The Magic Arc Song
7. And So I Watch You From Afar - A Little Bit of Solidarity Goes a Long Way
8. Let Our Enemies Beware - Personal Space Invaders
9. STEREO IS A LIE - What We Do
10. Battleme - No Time For Blood
11. Apteka - Traitors
12. Talons - Dazzling Metallic Stallions
13. Turbo Fruits - Mama's Mad Cos I Fried My Brain
14. Postdata - Tobias Grey
15. Sugar Army - Building Castles
16. Ceremony - Dreams Stripped Away
17. Prayer for Animals - Neutral Bees
18. Black Nite Crash - Jonah Dive
19. Veil Veil Vanish - Anthem For a Doomed Youth

The cover art was done by Jon Turner (www.thisisjonturner.com) and as you can see many great makers of noise are featured so worth checking out.

Let Our Enemies Beware On Kerrang Radio Tomorrow

LOEB ARE ON "THE UNSIGNED SHOW WITH ALEX BAKER" ON SUNDAY!
All the best upcoming, unsigned, minor label music from across the world.
8PM - 10pm (GMT) EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY ON KERRANG! RADIO
105.2FM UK West Midlands
DAB, Freeview, Digital Throughout The UK

Let Our Enemies Beware Score 11th Week On Total Rock Playlist

Total Rock have kept LOEB's ‘Fools! Philistines! Heretics and Whores!’ on the B-List again this week (week beginning 11th Jan). The single has now been on the B-List for the last 11 weeks. Probably some sort of record.

B LIST
RABID ANIMALS - 3 - METAL BLADE
KEEPS SLIPPING AWAY - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - MUTE
CRUEL INTENTIONS - AGE OF EVIL - OWN LABEL
DAMNED IF I DO YA (DAMNED IF I - ALL TIME LOW - HOPELESS
WE ARE YOUR DIVERSITY - BELLADONNA - VANDAL
DARK HORSE - CONVERGE - EPITAPH
MARK OF THE GUN - DEATHSTARS - NUCLEAR BLAST
A FLAME FOR FREEDOM - DRAGONFORCE - ROADRUNNER
NOW I'M A FOOL - EAGLES OF DEATH METAL - SONY
WHAT'S YOUR POISON - ELECTRIC MISTRESS - TRAGIC DEATH
A LESSER OF TWO EVILS - FIGHTING FICTION - DEAD PLANET
DYING BREED - FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH - SPINEFARM
MECHANICAL LIONS - HOPELESS HEROIC - OWN LABEL
WHO SAYS - JOHN MAYER - COLUMBIA
TAKE ME AWAY - KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
FOOLS! PHILISTINES! HERETICS - LET OUR ENEMIES BEWARE - SMALLTOWN
DARLING DEAR - LITTLE FISH - CUSTARD
STEP UP (I'M ON IT) - MAYLENE & THE SONS OF - FERRET

LOEB on Kerrang Radio

Another - the 7th in fact! - spin for Let Our Enemies Beware's ‘Fools! Philistines! Heretics and Whores!’ on Johnny Doom’s Kerrang Radio show. Windows users can listen here: LOEB are towards the end of the show sandwiched between Japanese Voyeurs and Fightstar. Gulp.

Let Our Enemies Beware Playlisted on XFM London

Ian Camfield has put Let Our Enemies Beware ‘Fools! Philistines! Heretics and Whores!’ in his XFM Rock Show Top 5 for w/c 23/11/09. Check out Ian's show this Saturday night.

The Rock Show – Ian Camfield – Sat 10pm to 2am

Where We Belong – Lost Prophets
Gunman – Them Crooked Vultures
Get Into The Spirit – Halford
Verses The Allegiance – Straight Lines
Fools! Philistines! Heretics And Whores – Let Our Enemies Beware

Looks like Ian's forgiven STA for organising the inadvertent crashing of the XFM switchboard when Jetplane Landing's Brave Gravity was up for a Music Response phone vote.

4 Or 5 Magicians Vs Shirley Bassey

Let's call it a draw.

4 Or 5 Magicians & Let Our Enemies Beware: Rock Sound Hats Tipped

The always astute Rock Sound give 4 Or 5 Magicians an 8/10 album review, a feature and airtime on the covermount CD as well as offering kudos to Let Our Enemies Beware for their recent album. The December issue hits the newsagents' racks this week. Thanks to Darren and his team for their ongoing support.

STA Newsletter - September 2009

I type from a very hot store cupboard where STA Autumn/Winter CD Samplers are being burnt and printed crisply ahead of tonight's (24^th Sep) Club: STA launch in Belfast, you want news… we got news! >>

1. [LIVE] And So I Watch You From Afar, 4 Or 5 Magicians, Calories, The Moi Non Plus, Club:STA (Belfast & London) and City Of Song Festival (Derry)

2. [ONLINE] STA On Spotify

3. [ORDER] Let Our Enemies Beware – ‘Against Karate’ – Debut Album Launch Gig Special Offer!

4. [GOSSIP] ASIWYFA New EP and STA Speaks @ In The City…

(This month's photograph: ASIWYFA @ AU Party, Belfast – Courtesy AU Mag)

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1. [LIVE] And So I Watch You From Afar, 4 Or 5 Magicians, Calories, The Moi Non Plus, Club:STA (Belfast) and City Of Song Festival (Derry)

ASIWYFA back on the road this month ahead of their support tour with This Will Destroy You in October ----- 4 Or 5 Magicians are gearing up for their debut album tour with Times New Viking, Japandroids and Johnny Foreigner support slots ----- fresh from the studio Calories announce a Youves co-headline run of shows ----- new STA signings The Moi Non Plus hit the UK to take on In The City amongst others ----- Winnebago Deal come to our side of the water to launch Club:STA in Belfast ----- Club:STA in London hosts Shapes and Ice Sea Dead People @ The Good Ship ----- STA’s City Of Song Festival kicks off this weekend in Derry >>

SEPTEMBER 2009

24 And So I Watch You From Afar - Cardiff , Barfly

24 4 Or 5 Magicians – Brighton, The Freebutt

24 (CLUB:STA) Winnebago Deal & LaFaro – The Menagerie, Belfast

(FIRST FIFTY IN GET FREE STA 10 TRACK EXCLUSIVE SAMPLER)

25 And So I Watch You From Afar - Liverpool, The Masque

26 And So I Watch You From Afar – Birmingham, The Flapper

26 Let Our Enemies Beware – Lewisham, Fox & Firkin

26 Ice, Sea, Dead People - Brighton, The Hobgoblin

27 And So I Watch You From Afar – Sheffield, The Corporation

28 And So I Watch You From Afar – York, Fibbers

29 And So I Watch You From Afar – Manchester, Moho Live

30 And So I Watch You From Afar – Dundee, Fat Sams

OCTOBER 2009

01 And So I Watch You From Afar – Aberdeen, Tunnels

02 And So I Watch You From Afar – Glasgow, The Twisted Wheel

03 And So I Watch You From Afar – Edinburgh, GRV

03 (CLUB:STA) Shapes, Ice Sea Dead People, Instruments & Illness - London, The Good Ship

03 Ice, Sea, Dead People – London, The Good Ship

07 And So I Watch You From Afar – Preston, The Mad Ferrit

08 And So I Watch You From Afar – Newcastle, WHQ

09 Ice, Sea, Dead People London - Unit 3XXX

10 4 Or 5 Magicians – London, The Garage

11 And So I Watch You From Afar – Dublin, Whelans

12 4 Or 5 Magicians, Brighton - Hectors House

16 And So I Watch You From Afar – Plymouth, White Rabbit

16 The Moi Non Plus – London, White Heat @ the Lexington

17 And So I Watch You From Afar - Milton Keynes, Pitz Club

18 And So I Watch You From Afar - Brighton, Audio

18 The Moi Non Plus - Manchester, In The City

19 And So I Watch You From Afar - Birmingham, Academy

19 4 Or 5 Magicians - Brighton, Oxjam @ Hanbury Club

20 And So I Watch You From Afar - Leicester, Firebug

20 The Moi Non Plus - New York , Cakeshop / Subbacultcha! CMJ Showcase

20 Ice, Sea, Dead People - London Tom Robinson's, 'Fresh On The Net' Festival @ Riverside Studios

21 And So I Watch You From Afar - London, Camden Underworld

21 The Moi Non Plus - New York, Piano's CMJ Dayparty

22 And So I Watch You From Afar - Nottingham, Rock City

23 And So I Watch You From Afar - Glasgow, Ivory Blacks

23 Illness - Southampton, The Hobbit

24 And So I Watch You From Afar - Leeds, Damnation Festival @ University Of Leeds

26 The Moi Non Plus - New York, WFMU Radio / Beastin' The Airwaves CMJ Showcase

27 4 Or 5 Magicians - London, White Heat @ Madame JoJos

27 Calories - London, Scala

28 Calories - Brighton, Audio

29 Illness - Brighton, Caroline Of Brunswick

31 4 Or 5 Magicians - Barnstaple, Inn On The Square

City Of Song Festival 24-26 September – Various Venues, Derry

Lineup includes: Valerie Francis, Pocket Promise, Clown Parlour, Daveit Ferris, Gentry Morris, Jackson Cage, Johanna Fagan, John Shelly & The Creatures, Johnny Black, Kitty & The Can Openers, Matt McGinn, Mel Wiggins, Pixie Saytar, Rachel Austin, Ray Dunn, Shauna Tohill & Tom McShane

Myself and Stephen McCauley (Radio Ulster – Electric Mainline) will be spinning discs at the launch night at The Bound For Boston – Thursday, 24^th September - Visuals by F21. Holy Shit Batman! That’s tonight!

All events are FREE – programme details can be found on the official City Of Song Website – hosted by our festival partners Music 55-7.

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2. [ONLINE] STA On Spotify

You can now stream a large portion of the STA catalogue via Spotify – as well as releases from our peers, friends and influences (Holy Roar, Big Scary Monsters, Ecstatic Peace!, Woodsist, Paw Tracks, Monotreme, Anticon…). A good day indeed for independent listening.

Elsewhere on the interweb this month>>

• [PICS] ASIWYFA secret show shut down by the cops – in pictures…
• [AUDIO] Moi Non Plus/Subbacultcha’s STA Blogcast Takeover
• [FREE DOWNLOAD] 4 Or 5 Magicians’ oxymoronic ‘Nice Little Earner’ free digital download & video
• [VIDEO] STA Presents: The Terrordactyls
  
• [WORDS] Alan MX on the importance of reading books
• [PICS] Fighting With Wire Album 2 News
• [VIDEO] Dan Ormsby on Scott Walker

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3. [ORDER] Let Our Enemies Beware – ‘Against Karate’ – Debut Album Launch Details

Awesome, spine-tingling math-darkcore by Medway quartet LOEB, several years in gestation – the album is finally unleashed on an unsuspecting public. You need this record in your life – it is absolutely fantastic, trust us.

THE ALBUM LAUNCH is tomorrow (Saturday 26th September) at The Fox’n’Firkin in Lewisham. You should be there. If travel is a problem there will be a coach from Medway. Contact STA for the deets:

Album Tracklisting:

1. I Am Lono

2. Pow! Right In The Kisser!

3. Personal Space Invaders

4. Fools! Philistines! Heretics And Whores!

5. Between Us And The Sun

6. Noise Equals Death

7. I'm Not Laughing I'm Choking

8. Inhale: Sleep

9. Momento Mori

All album orders for the next seven days (until October 1^st inclusive) will get a free copy of Daniel’s lovingly handmade, ‘Pow! Right In The Kisser!’ single.

4. [GOSSIP] ASIWYFA New EP and STA Speaks @ In The City…

And So I Watch You From Afar have finished mixing their next release – entitled ‘The Letters EP’ – you will not be disappointed ----- Fighting With Wire have decamped to Nashville to begin work on second album, song titles include ‘Erase’, ‘Graduate’ and ‘Fire Away’ ----- Alan MX has been working with New Yorker Brad Walsh on some new collaborative material ----- Ice, Sea Dead People's debut album is back from Chicago and sounds INCREDIBLE ----- LaFaro are putting finishing touches to their debut album in Bangor, Northern Ireland ----- Calories have recorded a second bunch of songs to conclude their ‘Habitations’ set, according to Tom Calories "it's amazing" ---- Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, you can hear me talk about running a record label at Oh Yeah – Belfast (25/09/09), Hot Press Music Show – Dublin (04/10/09), BarCamp – Derry (10/10/09) and In The City – Manchester (20/10/09) – please come and say hi!

Thanks for reading,

Andrew, Ash, Daniel, Brian & Charlene

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Let Our Enemies Beware Gig Utterances

Filthy Whore-Slags, hear my utterances:

Utterance #1: ROAR Festival in Gravesend this weekend (11th - 13th September). We have a few tickets left. You want them, huh? You NEED them, eh? No problem. They are four of your dirty English pounds. Let us know if you want some by contacting us.

Utterance #2: THE ALBUM LAUNCH on Saturday 26th Septmeber at The Fox N Firkin in Lewisham. You should be there. If travel is a problem there will be a coach from Medway. Again, let us know the crack by Saturday 12th September LATEST. LATEST. LATEST. E-mail us. Now, get to it.

Godspeed.

Master Meat.

Public Service Blogcast Episode 51

From Let Our Enemies Beware:

This is our blogcast. Don't listen to it.

Seriously DON'T.

LOEB would like to thank Vicious Biting Thing for his dedication to THE CAUSE.

At one point we have paraphrased a quote from the Armando Iannucci Show without permssion. We would like to make it clear that we are huge fans of the work of Armand Iannucci and that of Alan Ford. Whilst we do have the utmost respect for them, we were compelled to hear their work through a threatening Stephen Hawkins-esque voice-box named 'Fred'. Please don't sue us or we will come round and batter the chins from your living skulls.



Public Service Blogcast Episode 51
25 minutes 48 seconds
Recorded 10/07/09
Tracklisting
00.45 Let Our Enemies Beware - Noise = Death (from forthcoming Against Karate album - pre-orders coming soon - get a free exclusive bonus disc - Smalltown America)
04.24 Honey Ride Me A Goat - Quentin's Curly Shoes
06.55 The Ergon Carousel -
Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing (from Ergon EP - Holy Roar Records)
08.17 Mind Without Maths - What You Advertise
13.02 Cups On Strings - Flight Plan Four
16.38 And So I Watch You From Afar - The Voiceless (from self titled album - Smalltown America)

If you have any suggestions for future takeovers or want to submit your demo for our forthcoming Public Service Podcast series, get in touch - email blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk

Cargo Collective September 2009

Let Our Enemies Beware: Final Fibonacci Download

Medway havoc-bringers and new to the STA family are
Let Our Enemies Beware; in the build-up to the release of their incendiary and epic post-rock/metal hybrid of a debut album Against Karate later in 2009, each week for the next 10 weeks the STA blog will host a series of downloads.

So here's the final download in LOEB's Fibonacci series. The link below will expire after a solitary singular 1 download...1 being the 1st number in the Fibonacci sequence...

F10 = 89 - Fools, Philistines, Heretics and Whores - only a few downloads left!
F9 = 55 - I Am Lono - only a few downloads left!
F8 = 34 - POW! Right in the Kisser - only a few downloads left!
F7 = 21 - (Personal) Space Invaders - only a few downloads left!
F6 = all 13 downloads taken
F5 = all 8 downloads taken
F4 = all 5 downloads taken
F3 = all 3 downloads taken
F2 = all 2 downloads taken
F1 = 1

The very-limited hand-finished single Pow! Right In The Kisser which precedes the album release can be pre-ordered from the STA store right now. But in the meantime, to close the Fibonacci series and for just one lightning-fingered blog reader here's the whole Against Karate album in full...


Download 'Against Karate' by Let Our Enemies Beware

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STA Newsletter - July 2009

Hi STA Friends,

I hope you are all well. Lots of news to report - let's crack on with a roster roundup!

And So I Watch You From Afar

Instrumental juggernauts - And So I Watch You From Afar - are headlining Belfast’s Ulster Hall on December 18th 2009; we will be releasing an EP of brand new material at the show.

Tickets for the Ulster Hall gig are available now, priced at £8 advance, they can be purchased from the Waterfront Hall Box Office on 028 9033 4455 and from The Ulster Hall. Full supporting line up to be announced soon, so keep an eye on the website for more details.

Since the album release, ASI've toured relentlessly around the UK, hit up Germany in support of stoner behemoths Clutch and levelled festivals across Europe (inc. the Oxegen Festival, the largest in Ireland). Next weekend will see the four piece headline Northern Ireland's very own and much loved Glasgowbury Festival in Co. Derry, topping a bill of the best of the Irish rock fraternity including In Case Of Fire, LaFaro and General Fiasco. Tickets are available now, priced at a bargain-like £30 (including camping pass).

Fighting With Wire

Fighting With Wire take a break from writing their future-hits-packed second album to play the Bohemia stage at the Metallica-headlined UK Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, Stevenage over the weekend August 1st and 2nd. Also playing Bohemia are STA faves Rolo Tomassi, Hundred Reasons, Fucked Up and Cancer Bats. It's sure to be a monstrously memorable weekend some tickets are still available.

Let Our Enemies Beware

An album that's sure to be making waves this autumn is 'Against Karate' from our newest signings math/noise/metal experimentalists Let Our Enemies Beware however quick-fingered readers of the STA blog will already have assembled fragments of the album via LOEB's Fibonacci Download Series - head to the blog to grab some of the few remaining free mp3 album tracks and to see if you can understand the un-necessarily complicated maths.

Debut single and of course the album itself will be available for pre-order soon on the store.

Calories

Fresh from the recording of their 2nd album 'Habitations' (yes, already!) Calories take a trip to Belfast and partner up with LaFaro in a sonic smackdown against the best fighters from rival label the Richter Collective's roster - Not Squares and The Vinny Club - Thursday 30th July at The Dockers Club. The smart money's on Team STA - we're gonna crush those Dubliners!

The weekend before Calories join ASIWYFA... and an acoustic Andrew Ferris on the bill for Truck 12 on Hill Farm in Steventon near Oxford; an absolute essential in both the festival and agricultural calendars; it's the strongest Truck line-up in years with Supergrass and Ash headlining.

STA Live
If the above hasn't sated your STA gig appetite, we heartily recommend the 4th Club STA event at Masons in Derry headlined by Bats! and in London you'd do a lot worse than checking out the 4 Or 5 Magicians curated 'Our Band Could BBQ Your Life' weekend at the Brixton Windmill featuring loads of bands covering The Replacements, Black Flag and the other legends profiled in Michael Azzerad's equally-legendary book on 80's American underground music. Watch out for a special blogcast on the event.

23 July - Let Our Enemies Beware - Lewisham - Fox N Firkin
23 July - Ice, Sea, Dead People - London - El Paso
23 July - Bats!, Black Bear Saloon, Comply Or Die & Andrew Ferris - Derry - Mason's Bar
24 July - Calories - London - The Lexington
24 July - 4 Or 5 Magicians - London - The Lexington
25 July - And So I Watch You From Afar - Draperstown - Glasgowbury Festival '09
26 July - And So I Watch You From Afar - Steventon - Truck Festival
26 July - Calories - Steventon - Truck Festival
28 July - And So I Watch You From Afar - London - Fair Play Gigs @ Bull and Gate
30 July - Calories - Belfast - Trans Festival @ The Waterfront
30 July - Ice, Sea, Dead People - Bristol - Thekla
31 July - And So I Watch You From Afar - Dublin - Richter Collective Singles Club @ Twisted Pepper
31 July - Calories & LaFaro - Derry - Mason's Bar

The Young Playthings
The soundtrack to your summer is not complete without such guitar pop gems as 'Y Don't U Like Me?', 'Going Out Staying Out' and 'Some Badness Goes On' which can all be found on the new album from The Young Playthings available now from the STA store, all good retailers and digitally on the iTunes store.

STA Blog
The STA Blog continues to be a hive of news and time-wasting - recent highlights include first word on the STA-curated singer-songwriter line-up for September's City Of Song Festival in Derry and episode 40(!) of Public Service Blogcast with tracks aired from the best new bands around including Youth In Colour, Bola Pear and Illness to name but three. New bands note - the blogcast series ends in the autumn so if you want your music played get in touch quick-like - blogcast@smalltownamerica.co.uk

STA Twitter
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Mailout Soundtrack: Elk / Marnie Stern / Future Of The Left / William / Dinosaur Jr / Fuck Dress / Three Trapped Tigers

Thanks for reading,
Andrew, Ash, Daniel, Brian & Charlene