We've got a couple of gigs coming up over the festive season:

First up there's our Christmas Mutiny Spectacular which has got an absolute peach of a lineup. Plush & Plastix are everyone's favourite woozy ghost-train soundtrack...Bad Guys are the greatest band whom we've ever seen destroy a chalet. They wear spandex and they totally rule. Check both of them out on our top friends, you'll see why we're excited.

It all kicks off at 8.00 on the 18th of December at the Grapes, and the door tax is four pounds. I can guarantee you that it will be more fun than the average office party.

Then if anyone's kicking around Hunters Bar on the 23rd of December, we're playing at the Lescar's christmas bash with the wonderful Little Robots.

Incidentally, the album's almost mastered and ready to go on Armellodie records. Check out our label's brilliant new website...and get your mits on the Cuddly Shark album, it's mint!

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If you missed ourlive session on BBC Radio Sheffield last night, you can hear it here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p003mlql/Raw_Talent_09_07_2009/

We're on about 20 minutes in.

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Now then...tickets for the Acoustic Ladyland gig at the Shakepeare on the Friday the 19th of June are starting to sell at a reasonable pace. This is an opportunity to see their held-melting combination of jazz chops and punk attitude in an intimate venue, and it shouldn't be missed!

Tickets are £9 in advance and available online here.

We are expecting quite high demand for this one, so book early to avoid disappointment.

If you haven't seen what this band are capable of, have a look on Youtube...their performance on Later With Jules Holland is amazing and they have added a guitarist to their lineup since then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1rXve_cyQU&feature=related

That's what I'm talking about. More to follow...

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Come and get your mits on some new KTC produce...

We have Rummy. A tune which everyone bizarrely refers to as "that Ska one which you play".

Next up, there's The Yellow Brush, a six minute sludge-kraut epic with about 1000 guitars overdubbed on it. Mmm. Droney.

Finally there's Spot the Leopard. This one is dedicated to Angel Black. Wherever/Whoever you are. You can download this one I believe just as long as my tired brain managed to make it work properly.

I'm dangerously over-excited, but it's definitely bedtime.

Big Ups to that Scouse lad in the K to the T to the C. He managed to produce all of this all by himself without ever donning a fireman's helmet or sitting in a sandpit.

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Paul

I'm still totally buzzing after Mutiny on Saturday. Cuddly Shark in particular earned themselves some new fans with their hard-rocking yet hilarious set, the Neil Diamond cover was inspired. Thanks to everyone who came down, the atmosphere was fantastic.

I'm very pleased to announce that the next Mutiny will feature the magnificent Bilge Pump from Leeds as headliners...we've also got a great Sheffield punk band called The Interiors.

If you haven't seen Bilge Pump live, prepare to be blown away...they're unbelievably good.

You can check them out here:  http://www.myspace.com/bilgepump 

The date is Saturday January the 24th, the venue The Grapes, the cost a measly £3 dent in your post-Christmas finances.

Incidentally, we now have a venue confirmed for our gig in London on the 6th of December. We'll be playing at the Pangea Project, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington. If you live in or near the Smoky Apple, come and crump to our wholesome din.

In a bit,
Paulie
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Bonjour mes amies...

Our EP finally got reviewed in Sandman:

Kill The Captains

EP

Four track EP from Sheffield noisy rock quartet Kill The Captains has three 2 1/2 to 3 minute sound bombs and the longer, live favourite "Fun Anxiety" to close. Ensuring great production by using Messrs Smyth and Sanderson at 2Fly this impressive debut offering by the hard gigging Captains hits you in face from the feedback intro on opener "Bottom Lip" with its edgy guitars through the pacey "Chrunt" with its God complex references onto the laid back lullaby "Long In The Tooth" with hints of Morrissey in the vocals. The closer though, the aforementioned "Fun Anxiety", is the one that does it for me with bassy intro, heavier beat and understated vocals. It's a journey of nearly 7 minutes with a mixture of some offbeat guitar and great stickwork, strangely divorced from the other demos songs but a great track as the closer of a live set.

Sean Bruce

It's a flurry of activity in KTC World...we're currently recording some new tunes at Red Cloud studios which should hopefully see the light of day in the New Year. We're having a crack at producing ourselves, hopefully this doesn't end up with Scouse Paul sitting in a sand-pit wearing a fireman's helmet a la Brian Wilson.

On the 22nd of November it's Mutiny's first birthday (well, really our birthday is in December but we somehow got out of sync with ourselves). We've got an absolute peach of a line-up featuring Glasgow's finest shouty abrasive funsters Cuddly Shark and a murkily brilliant lo-fi band from Leeds called Wonderswan. Hopefully we should have a new tune or two ready for our set...

We're travelling down south for a gig in London on the 6th of December (venue to be hastily confirmed)...my other band the Brian Blessed Blues Messengers will also feature on the bill. We're the UK's seventh best transvestite blues covers band. Or something. Watch this space for further developments...

We've inherited a Volvo estate which fits all of our clobber, so we'll generally be hitting the trail in the New Year. Please contact us if you would like us to play in your neck of the woods.

Warmest Regards,
Captain Scarlett
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Now then ladies and gentlemen...

Just a quickie: we now have a website thanks to the hard work of Leon Carter, our erstwhile guitarist/singer and an estimable chap by all accounts.

The address is:

www.killthecaptains.co.uk

Take a look and let us know what you think. We're on a little summer recess at the moment, but we can't wait to get going again in the Autumn. There are a couple of things you should be aware of. Firstly, for all you South of the Watford gappers, we shall be making our live London debut on Saturday the 6th of September at the Good Ship in Kilburn (round the corner from the Luminaire).

For all you lovely Sheffield people, the next Mutiny has a killer all-Sheffield lineup featuring Gyppos and YoYo static. Check our top friends to hear what they sound like. It's on Saturday the 20th of September at the Grapes (where else?)

They're blowing up our cooling towers tonight...I feel a bit weird about it all. Soon this city will be devoid of landmarks, featurless and barren. It will just be a sea of yuppy flats, most of them empty because of the credit crunch. Such is the short-sighted boom and bust cycle we seem to be locked into. It's strange, because creatively this city is thriving like never before.

Anyway,  I'm going charge my glass and toast those old ladies who used to greet me every time I came home.

Yours sentimentally,
Captain Scarlett
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