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SWFU! Xmas BASH!

2009-12-14T17:17:00.003Z

We have had a bit of a nightmare venue wise with next week's christmas show, but we have finally sorted it out.

The show is now being held upstairs (on the floor) at SIN CITY, thanks to them for bailing us out at last minute...

The Show is ONE WEEK away.

Here is the poster;

Here is a link to the facebook event's page

and here is a link to our new facebook page.

We had a blast playing a couple of shows with D4 last week, thanks to Lil and Dave and Matt for hooking us up with the shows!

We have some Arteries Zip Up Hoodies available for pre-order in the shop. We are only going to be accepting orders for a couple more days so if you want one get your order in right away incase you miss out!

that's all for now.

Some Videos...

2009-12-07T20:06:00.004Z

We played a show at The Cross Kings in London in June (i think) and someone has put our set up on You Tube, they must have had the camera linked up to the sound desk or something because it sounds pretty good. This was the fist show that we ever played Nail Scale at and it was probably one of the first times that we played Mutual friends too. Anyways, it's in three parts - check it out below...

We are playing two shows this week with Dillinger Four, we are pretty excited!

We are playing at The Underworld in Camden Town, London on Thursday and at The Fleece in

Bristol on Saturday, The Cut Ups are playing that show too.

Come out at have fun!

Our friend Nathan has just opened up a new shop in Exeter. It's called 'No Guts No Glory' check

out the website here.

News about the SWFU! Christmas show coming very soon...

For your viewing pleasure!

2009-12-03T18:27:00.001Z

Tim sang Martin with SNUFF at the Venue in Gainesville at The Fest, here is a video of the cockney little bugger in action!

Katie | MySpace Video

sorry for the delay...

2009-11-18T22:04:00.003Z

it's been a little harder than i thought accumulating photos/videos and shit like that from our east coast tour. I'm sure I will get my hands on some stuff soon enough and when that day comes I will upload a whole bunch of interesting imagery to this here blog... but don't hold your breath!

For now, check out some interviews;

a recent one for distorted magazine

and a not so recent one with the lovely Hamish back in May.

also, the 'Brits Abroad' 7" that we are featured on was recently reviewed by PunkNews.org you can check that out here...

Tomorrow night is sadly the final DEAD CITY STEREO show, they totally rule so try and make it - it's at the Cavern in Exeter.

that's about it for now, thanks for stopping by.
jamie

Some New shit in our online store...

2009-11-06T17:44:00.002Z

check it out!

We are back home from the states, tired, hungover and jet lagged...
Photos, videos, stories and news coming very soon!

we're in

2009-10-24T17:50:00.003+01:00

Take that THE MAN!

We are in US and we are going on tour starting today - yee ha!

couple o things

2009-10-24T17:49:00.001+01:00

So our friend's in the band BANGERS had this idea of putting out a 7" featuring new songs from a bunch of UK bands that are going to be playing this years FEST 8.He asked us to be one of the bands featured on the record, it sounded like a great idea so we said yes but the problem was that we didn't know when we were going to be able to record a song for it.
This was all a couple of months ago, and at the time we had a busy couple of weeks/months ahead with various tours. Andrew (from Bangers) said that he needed the song ASAP so i called Pete Miles to see if he had any free studio time over the next week or so. He told me that he was completely swamped and the only time that he could fit us in was that very night!this phone call was made at about 5:30pm, Pete's studio is a good 4 hour drive from Swansea and weren't even able to leave until 7:30 because one of us was in work that day.Here's the other thing, the only new/unspoken for song that we had at the time was written about 2 days before and we had probably only run through it fully once or twice...Even so, we jumped in the van and headed to Pete's in Devon, by the time we got to him it was midnight. Luckily BANGERS had been recording that day so there was already a backline set up, everything was ready to go.We nailed a few cups of coffee and gave it a try.The first take was actually pretty good considering, Jenks had to write his guitar solo in the van on the way there!
Pete came in and told us that the coffee was too strong, we were too loud, then miles came in and said that we played it too fast and too sloppy, we took some deep breathes waited for the green light and gave it another shot. nailed it - i don't know why we don't do all of our recording sessions in the middle on the night, unprepared and buzzed on caffeine!
All we had to do then was wait for Miles to lay down his vocal track (which we had never heard before!) then we were done, Pete burned the song onto a CD told us to leave and off we went- we were in and out in just over an hour!
To cut a long story short...This 7" is Almost out and for a very limited time you can download the whole thing completely free of charge!That's a brand new song from us, OK Pilot, Bangers and Brothers for FREE!
You can also pre - order the record, i think it will be out next week.
Visit the SPECIALIST SUBJECT RECORDS website for all the details...
In other news (I mentioned this a while ago, but I wasn't supposed to I guess, so now it's real news.)BlACK NUMBERS are releasing our bubble gum pink 'Blood, Sweat & Beers' LP in the US!
Exciting weeks up ahead -
D0*tT£Ll^hEM@n@Bou^F£$t!

ONLINE STORE!

2009-10-08T14:12:00.004+01:00

We now have an online store!

You can purchase the new arteries/cutups 7", this BRAND NEW beauty;

and a few other things...
we will be adding more things soon as hell!

just click the SWFU! link at the top of this page!

cheers

a whole bunch of recent and pretty recent photos...

2009-10-06T20:50:00.015+01:00

lots and lots to do...

2009-10-01T12:16:00.005+01:00

what a busy week! we have been playing shows pretty much every night since friday, until yesterday we were all in a car because our van was having some work done to it, we have it back now so that rules!
by day, we have been trying not to get kicked out of uni, working and sorting out everything for the 7" release show. the 7" is looking pretty sweet but there is still loads to do, here are some photos of the processes;

only 500 more to go! i'm off to the print room, we are playing in Exeter tonight with loads '0 awesome bands... come!

here is a video of us playing 'Mutual Friends' the other night in London;

check out our friend Ian's blog he has many many excellent moments documented.

we had a blast!

2009-09-22T18:11:00.004+01:00

We had a blast in Europe (and at the UK shows that we played before we went!)
Thanks so much to everyone that helped us out, the list is too long to mention everyone, but special thanks goes out to;
Seb, Pugs, Jort, Nina'school, Warm Audio, Marc, Uncommon Men From Mars, The Flatliners, Toby, Lil, Chas, our Van and Mother Nature.

we are REALLY fucking busy at the moment getting all the shit together for this;

It's going OK but there is LOAds to do...

we have lots of photos and videos to sort out and upload ( sowatch this space...)

In other news, We are kinda going on tour on friday, we have fun times ahead with ABOVE THEM, THE CUT UPS, OK PILOT and LANDMINES, check our myspace page for the show details.

That's all for now though
x

we are on tour from today!

2009-09-03T08:57:00.003+01:00

woo hoo!

this is our first show;

friday's show is at the camden underworld with The Flatliners and then all the other shows are past the dover peaks, the details are up on our myspace.
i have swine flu :(

rhys printed up some new shirts...

2009-08-24T13:27:00.005+01:00

if you like you can buy one, they cost £8.50 that includes post and packaging.
here they are;

'Deanna' green

'Deanna' pink

You can also buy one of the last copies that we have of the sweat 10"

'Sweat' £6.50 inc. P+P

'Sweat' 10" £6.50 inc. P+P

one day soon we will make an online store that will make this seem a lot simpler bit for now just deal with this. if you want to buy a copy of our album on CD of a copy of the'Beers' 10" scroll down, and you will find paypal links in an older post.

thanks

A SONG FROM THE CUT UPS SPLIT ONLINE!

2009-08-19T23:20:00.003+01:00

We just uploaded one of the songs that will be on our upcoming split with The Cut Ups to our myspace page - CHECK IT OUT!

punk news interview...

2009-08-12T23:57:00.001+01:00

if you are bored, maybe you could read this...

many exciting things...

2009-08-10T22:33:00.004+01:00

Hey,

So we have recently been quite busy planning stuff, writing stuff, practicing stuff and recording stuff. Last Friday we spontaneously drove down to Devon to record another new song with Pete Miles in the middle of the night. It was pretty fun, we left Swansea late because Tim was working 'til 8, by the time we got to Pete's it was 11pm we set up and rocked out the song live, it's called 'Nail Scale.' it was so new that Miles' vocals take was the first time any of us had heard the words and Jenks pretty much wrote his solo in the van on the way there.

So now we have 5 brand spanking new songs recorded and ready to be put onto records... we are pretty excited about the releases! ;

- 2 songs, 'Shitty Band' and 'Mutual Friends' are going on a split 7" with the mighty CUT UPS.

- 2 songs, 'Paying For The Name' and 'Turborocket' are being featured on a 7" as part of the 'Art Of The Underground' single series!

- and 'Nail Scale' will be featured on a 4 way split 7" (pretty appropriately) named 'Brits Abroad' along with our friends BANGERS, BROTHERS and OK PILOT.

All 3 of these 7 inches will be out this October. We will stick some of the new songs online on myspace or some shit soon.

Some more good news is the news that Black Numbers are going to re-release our debut album 'Blood, Sweat & Beers' on pink 12" (also this October) the record is going to be ready in time for our east coast tour with STATIC RADIO n.j. down to Fest 8, hopefully we will still have plenty of copies to bring back to the UK with us.

that is pretty much it i think, we have a lot to do, there is artwork to be done, wax colours to decide, sleeves to fold and print - jeez, it's gunna be a busy couple of months, but fuck yeah life's a garden dig it, right?

i will leave you with some pretty recent live photos that i stole from our friend Owen's flikr page;

(thanks Owen.)

Bloody HTML!

2009-07-26T18:42:00.006+01:00

'BLOOD, SWEAT & BEERS' Album CD £8.00 inc. P+P

Sorry to anyone that has tried to buy a record/cd recently and not been able too...

what the hell happened?

2009-07-18T11:50:00.005+01:00

what is up with Epitaph these days, seriously!? what the hell happened$?
Holy Shit! and the warped tour! - how did this happen!?..

"Do you remember when?/Yeah, well so do I," - Salad Days

here are some photos that our friend nathan took in exeter the other week;

recording with Pete

2009-07-16T23:08:00.004+01:00

On monday we spent the day with Pete Miles at his home/studio in the beautiful Devonshire countryside and recorded four new songs; two to go on our forthcoming split 7" with The Cut Ups and two to go on something else...

Recording the songs went really well, we did everything live apart from vocals, it was a sweaty blast!

here are some photos from the day;

pete had an awesome dog named, Ali

this is the live room, Pete has loads of good equipmentthe photo is upside down but he had a pedal that was pretty fitting for Tim.

Our mate Nathan came down with us to take photos

Miles got into it... oh wait
The Cut Ups guys came down later on in the day to help out with some backing vocals...

... The legend of Squat Breath came too!

Nathan took a load of photos during the day, he is going to put some sort of documentary zine together later on in the year, check out his website here. here are a few that he took when we went for a swim in the river that runs through Pete's garden!

Recording in the morning...

2009-07-12T23:39:00.002+01:00

We are on our way to Exeter in the van, we are recording new songs for our forthcoming split 7inch with THE CUT UPS in the morning. It sure is wet out!

stuff...

2009-07-04T23:58:00.005+01:00

We are doing a bunch of shows next week, go to our myspace page to see the details, the first show is in Brixton at the windmill, it's on Tuesday, the last show is in Cardiff at Welsh club with our friends, Portraits and Harbour, it's on Friday and the ones in between are in Brighton and Exeter.

The mini tour that we played the week before last was a blast!
Many MANY thanks to everyone that put us on and all the great bands and people that we got to spend time with, especially; BANGERS, ABOVE THEM the Portsmouth dudes, Dave, Mike, THE CUT UPS and THE COMPUTERS!

We played a show with BANGERS in our friend Steve 'microphonehead' s flat in Kinston the morning after the show in London, it was loads of fun (thanks Steve!) somehow it didn't get shut down. we played a bunch of covers and a bunch of our own songs, as did BANGERS, at one point Rhys, Roo and I sort of played a cover of 'Six Pack' by BLACK FLAG - Roo learnt it in the toilet moments before...

A bunch of photos were taken but i don't know who took them, if i get my hands on any i will upload them. Our friend Kerry filmed some of it on her sexy new iphone - here is some of the footage;

'3 Cats, Sunday afternoon bedroom show 21.06.09'

'Hope (DESCENDENTS cover) Sunday afternoon bedroom show 21.06.09

We are running pretty dam low on copies of the 'Sweat' and 'Beers' 10"s and are totally out of 'Blood's. Recently we printed up the last bunch of 'Beers' in LTD. edition pink, get 'em while they're hot!!!

i think we are going to do some new shirts soon too...

hopefully catch you at one of our shows next week!

on tour in the morning...

2009-06-19T00:07:00.003+01:00

hey, what's up? it's been a while...

so, we are going on a small tour starting tomorrow (friday.) here are the details;

Friday June 19th - The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth w/ABOVE THEM

Saturday June 20th - Bedford Park, London w/ABOVE THEM, BANGERS + more...

Sunday June 21st - The Loft, Castleford w/ABOVE THEM

Monday June 22nd - The Cooperage, Newcastle w/ABOVE THEM

Tuesday June 23rd - T.J.'s, Newport w/BOUNCING SOULS

Wednesday June 24th - The Croft w/THE CUT UPS + THE COMPUTERS

if we are playing a show near you, come out and party with us!

we are excited to announce that we will be playing this years, No Idea records' FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL on Halloween weekend

FUCK YEAH!

'Blood, Sweat & Beers' got a pretty swell review from the people at PunkNews.org recently. check that out here.

hopefully see you on tour!

fun stuff in swansea

2009-05-27T22:10:00.005+01:00

there is some cool stuff happening in swansea in the next couple of weeks...

get on your bike

and come out to this

on friday.

here is the facebook group thing so that you can stay informed on other upcoming bike gang stuff.

Florida's own New Bruises are playing at sigma next wednesday, here is the poster for that show.

check out the swansea collective myspace for more details

And on June 26th pugs is having a birthday show;

oh yeah, i almost forgot, this fucking shitty excuse for a 'band' are playing at sin city tomorrow night - get a baseball bat, hammer some rusty nails into the end of it and wait for them outside.

see you there!

beer beer everywhere, but not a drop to drink!

2009-05-14T21:54:00.005+01:00

we just had our second band practice in our new top secret location - it was pretty cool! we now kinda have 3 new songs kinda fully finished and the are FUN to play!

i guess that these three songs will be the songs that go on our forthcoming 7", who knows?
jenks is in bristol revising for science so he has no idea how to play them. if he comes home in time to nail them then i reckon we will play them at the lemuria show in sigma on june 1oth.

i just found this little video that i made up from a bunch of footage from a few european shows that we played in spring '08 that i had forgotten about.

check it out;

good news!

2009-04-29T19:15:00.005+01:00

we are going to release a split 7" with the high and mighty cut ups from exeter!
it will feature 2 new songs and a cover from each band.

this is the next show that we will be playing;

we will probably play a bunch of new songs.

go and see the computers, the cut ups and the plight - they are all on tour right now!

oh yeah..
the 7" will be out in september and will come with an mp3 download code.