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Last Updated: 11/24/2009

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Status: Single
City: Sheffield
State: Northwest
Country: UK
Signup Date: 3/7/2006

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Thursday, April 23, 2009 

Our new single 'Dancing' got played on 6Music by Steve Lamacq this week:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/steve_lamacq/tracklisting.shtml?y=2009&d=20090421

Listen again here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_lamacq_tue

We're on at 2hrs 27mins

John Kennedy on XFM also played the single!

Monday, April 20, 2009 
OUT TODAY!

OUR DEBUT SINGLE - It's a split with Slow Down Tallahassee and features our song "Dancing"


Give it a listen
BUY 7" VINYL HERE (with free download)
BUY DOWNLOAD HERE


REVIEWS



"Standard Fare offer a big pop tune with heartbreaking lyrics and more ideas than most bands can muster in an entire LP in just one song. Best new band of the year thus far? I think so." Indie MP3


" 'Dancing' makes the heart skip a beat like the finest of Magnetic Fields songs. Which is about as good as it gets." Sounds XP


"Standard Fare hit us up with a little love song about dancing called ‘Dancing’. The vocals are decent, like Debbie Harry if she’d fronted some 4AD band in the nineties. Ace!" Norman Records


‘‘Dancing’ provides the perfect foil to Slow Down Tallahassee and puts a lid on this best of split personalities." Sandman Magazine


"I love Standard Fare for many reasons: the crackling female vocals; the way each song seems as though it's about to fall apart before it roars off into the stratosphere again; the fact that, in the days of ridiculous band names, they have a quite self-effacing one" A Layer Of Chips


‘’Dancing’ is a gorgeously drizzled bitter sweet slice of mel-pop, all at once hurt, bruised and possessed of a resigned recoiling shyness that aside being disturbingly touching is tempered by a tenderly hollowed and wintry melodic underpin that to our mind sounds like Decoration imparting their own unique appreciation of an early career Go Betweens." Losing Today


"Like many an SPC band Standard Fare they belie their DIY qualities through the power of simple melodies, guileless vocals, scab picking lyrics and a great deal of joie de vivre." Sweeping The Nation

‘Dancing’ is very catchy, tuneful and offers up something more than the some of its parts." Forge Today

"Standard Fare add urgency and passion ‘Dancing’ and vocalist Emma’s raw but endearing words." Tasty Fanzine

AVAILABLE FROM THE FOLLOWING SHOPS:


Thee SPC, Online - BUY HERE

Norman Records, Online - BUY HERE

Rough Trade, London - BUY HERE

Pure Groove, London - BUY HERE

Picadilly Records, Manchester - BUY HERE

Jumbo Records, Leeds - LINK

Jacks Records, Sheffield - LINK

Record Collector, Sheffield

Championship Vinyl, Poland - BUY HERE

Vollwert Records, Germany - LINK


Apple Crumble, Japan - BUY HERE

IMPO, Taiwan - BUY HERE
Friday, April 03, 2009 
We've posted a video for our new single on our profile. Or see it on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99MS5-wr1cc
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 
The excellent online independent record shop, Norman Records, have our single available as a pre-order! Follow the link below:
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/106611
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 
You can pre-order our debut single from Rough Trade in London at the following link:
https://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=311616
SF xx
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 
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"I love Standard Fare for many reasons: the crackling female vocals; the way each song seems as though it's about to fall apart before it roars off into the stratosphere again; the fact that, in the days of ridiculous band names, they have a quite self-effacing one; but most of all - because they either refuse to be part of, or seemingly have no knowledge of "the scene". And that quite appeals to me."
Friday, March 13, 2009 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Music
We've a new single out through Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation on the 20th April. It's a split 7" single featuring our song "Dancing". The single also features excellent Sheffield band Slow Down Tallahassee.

You can pre-order the 7" single (or buy the digital download now) from Thee SPC website at www.theespc.com. If you buy the 7" vinyl, you get a special code to access the digital download for free!