Oi oi

To celebrate the start of our forthcoming Boom or Bust tour we're going to be having a little promo push on Monday the 5th of October. We'll be offering an exclusive free download at 11am. All you have to do is log on to www.rebelalliancerecordings.com to get yours. Remember though, 11am sharp on Monday 5th October!

In the afternoon we will be live on air from the Leicester based radio station Demon FM, where we will be co-presenting the drive time show between 4pm and 7pm. Click HERE on the day of the show to listen to the show live via iTunes or click the 'listen to' link at www.demonfm.co.uk.

After the show we will  be heading to The Shed in Leicester where we will be playing a special all ages warm up show. Doors will be at 8pm, tickets are £6 advance and for ticket and full information click HERE.

 

The next day sees the start of "The Boom or Bust Tour - October 2009" with THE SKINTS.

DATES and INFO

06-Oct The Forum Tunbridge Wells
http://...com/sb6tunbridgewells
08712 777 101
http://www.twforum.co.uk

07-Oct The Cooler Bristol
http://...com/sb6bristol
0870 44 44 400
http://www.clubcooler.com

08-Oct The Duchess York
http://...com/sb6york
08700 600 100
http://www.theduchessyork.co.uk

09-Oct O2 Academy 2 Birmingham
http://...com/sb6birmingham
08444 772 000
http://www.o2academybirmingham.co.uk

10-Oct The Queens Hall Narberth
http://...com/sb6narbeth
01834 861 212
http://www.thequeenshall.org.uk

11-Oct The Cockpit Leeds
http://...com/sb6leeds
08712 200 260
http://www.thecockpit.co.uk

12-Oct The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
http://...com/sb6portsmouth
023 9286 3911
http://www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk

13-Oct O2 Academy Oxford
http://...com/sb6oxford
08444 772 000
http://www.o2academyoxford.co.uk

14-Oct The Waterfront Norwich
http://...com/sb6norwich
01603 508 050
http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk

15-Oct Relentless Garage London
http://...com/sb6london
08700 600 100
http://www.thegarage.co.uk

17-Oct O2 Academy 2 Liverpool
http://...com/sb6liverpool
08444 772 000
http://www.o2academyliverpool.co.uk

18-Oct Stereo Glasgow
http://...com/sb6glasgow2
0141 204 5151
http://www.stereocafebar.com

19-Oct The Tunnels Aberdeen
http://...com/sb6aberdeen
01224 619 930
http://www.thetunnels.co.uk

21-Oct Club Academy Manchester
http://...com/sb6manchester
08444 772 000
http://www.manchesteracademy.net

22-Oct TJs Newport
http://...com/sb6newport
01633 216 688
http://www.tjsnewport.com

23-Oct Club Revolution Peterborough
http://...com/sb6peterborough
01733 310 383
http://www.thepark4music.com

24-Oct O2 Academy 2 Sheffield
http://...com/sb6sheffield
08444 772 000
http://www.o2academysheffield.co.uk

25-Oct O2 Academy 2 Newcastle
http://...com/sb6newcastle
08444 772 000
http://www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk

Speaking of the Boom and Bust tour, there is a competition over at Gigjunkie.net to win tickets to all of the shows. If you're feeling lucky, head over HERE and follow the instructions there.

Don't forget that this Monday, 28th September, our new single 'Back 2 Skool' is released. The single will be availlable at all major download retailers and iTunes as well as directly from us from our DIGITAL STORE at Rebel Alliance Recordings. The £1.99 bundle single comes complete with 2 B-sides; brand new track 'The Dangers of Rock n Roll' and a much-requested acoustic rendition of 'Floating Away'. There's a review of the single over at AllGigs.co.uk so check that out HERE. Remember kids, it's 'Back 2 Skool' this Monday!

Barney x

Guten Tag!

We're here in Vienna at the Arena, one of the most mintola venues on God's green earth and it's all good. We've got Random Hand here with us which is a whole lot of fun. Speaking of Random Hand, their new single 'Anger Management' is available today so go and check out the Rebel Alliance Recordings site HERE. While we're on the subject of Rebel Alliance, it's well worth joining the mailing list and Myspace there. All the going's on are too much to mention in every Boom mailout so if you want to keep up-to-date with everything happening with the independent label of the week (not my words Lynn! The words of BBC RADIO 1's INTRODUCING's Huw Stephens) then that's the best way to go about it.

And while we're on the subject of singles, we're going to be releasing 'Back 2 Skool' on download format on the 28th September... that's next Monday. The single will be availlable at all major download retailers and iTunes as well as directly from us from our DIGITAL STORE at Rebel Alliance Recordings. The £1.99 bundle single comes complete with 2 B-sides; brand new track 'The Dangers of Rock n Roll' and a much-requested acoustic rendition of 'Floating Away'. All the relevant links will be live on Monday 28th and I'll drop everyone another mail then to remind you!



Ben continues to extend his resume in the world of Viral Video production with his new opus to accompany Back 2 Skool. Drawing creative influence from the classic film genre of 'School Conflict Saga' he's outdone his previous output by a considerable degree and is currently warding off offers of scholarships from such prestigious academi as the New York Film Institute and the Saratoga Conservatoire of Modern Moving Arts. Barry Norman himself wouldn't be able to find the words to describe the magnitude of what you lucky readers are about to feast your beadies on HERE.

Right then, I'll remind you next week to squander £1.99 of your hard-earneds on our new single. Someone on our forum (which you can come and get involved with HERE) said the new B-Side was one of his favourite Boom songs and even asked if we were going to play it live so it's got to be worth £1.99 to find out if he's telling the truth or not really hasn't it?

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

Barney x

Greetings!

 

The CD will be released October 5th and all Pre-Orders will be sent first class on Friday October 2nd. This CD will not be in the shops until November, so order from us now to be the first to get your hands on The Ruff-Guide To Genre-Terrorism DELUXE EDITION.

Click HERE for the CD & T-Shirt bundle.
Click HERE for the stand-alone CD. 
 

The packages are both available for Pre-Order now at our Official Store which you can find HERE.


 
Thank you!

Barney x

p.s. Cheers to Lion Heart Photography for the photo!

Word up.

It's that time of the year again! This coming weekend is the Reading and Leeds festival (thank God we don't have to call it by the name of that dreadful cooking lager anymore...) and, much as we'd like to be coolly nonchalant about the biggest gig we've ever done I have to admit that we're pretty much like kids at Christmas. 'Well looking forward to it' is the phrase that comes to mind. Please note that we'll be onstage at midday and the gates are open to the arena at eleven. Bearing in mind all the times I've been there and there has been a massive queue to get in the arena I must implore that you get your hungover bodies out of your sweaty bags and get to the arena early.

ARENA OPENS AT 11!
BOOM ON AT 12!

It's that simple people.

For one final blow-off of the cobwebs, we're doing a show in Alton on Thursday evening. The Facebook group of this fantastic little concert lives HERE. Gnarly! Please come and make big fun time.

Which brings us nicely to the big announcement! Our October UK tour! We're going to be covering the length and breadth of our beautiful isle with Rebel Alliance labelmates the Skints in tow so it's going to be a stonker. Check the dates below and tell the world. The Boom is coming! The Boom is coming!!

06-Oct The Forum Tunbridge Wells www.twforum.co.uk 08712 777 101
07-Oct The Cooler Bristol www.clubcooler.com 0870 44 44 400
08-Oct The Duchess York www.theduchessyork.co.uk 08700 600 100
09-Oct O2 Academy 2 Birmingham www.o2academybirmingham.co.uk 08444 772 000
10-Oct The Queens Hall Narberth www.thequeenshall.org.uk 01834 861 212
11-Oct The Cockpit Leeds www.thecockpit.co.uk 08712 200 260
12-Oct The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk 023 9286 3911
13-Oct O2 Academy Oxford www.o2academyoxford.co.uk 08444 772 000
14-Oct The Waterfront Norwich www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk 01603 508 050
15-Oct Relentless Garage London www.thegarage.co.uk 08700 600 100
17-Oct O2 Academy 2 Liverpool www.o2academyliverpool.co.uk 08444 772 000
18-Oct Stereo Glasgow www.stereocafebar.com 0141 204 5151
19-Oct The Tunnels Aberdeen www.thetunnels.co.uk 01224 619 930
21-Oct Club Academy Manchester www.manchesteracademy.net 08444 772 000
22-Oct TJs Newport www.tjsnewport.com 01633 216 688
23-Oct Club Revolution Peterborough www.thepark4music.com 01733 310 383
24-Oct O2 Academy 2 Sheffield www.o2academysheffield.co.uk 08444 772 000
25-Oct O2 Academy 2 Newcastle www.o2academynewcastle.co.uk 08444 772 000

There will also be local supports on the vast majority of shows so ask about, but we're trying to make sure that some top quality bands will be on the bills. Boom or bust!



Cheers! Speak to you guys after the weekend then, happy packing!!!

Barney x

Banzai

Ooooh, I don't know, Boom mailouts are like buses. And by that I don't mean that they're filthy metal monsters carrying the cast of the Jeremy Kyle Show and driven by grey-haired malcontents with their own eccentric take on the time-space continuum. Nor do I mean they're a former nationalised industry sold off piece-by-piece for short-term profit and currently being ill-governed by white-shirted dimwits walking a beaurocratic tightrope between ailing profits and public dischord. What I mean is, you wait for ages and two come along at once! Ho ho ho.

Anyhoo. We do have some fresh and minty gigs coming up in the next few weeks, warming up for those summer festivals. We've just added gigs in Keighley and Poole as well as quite a few others up and down this fair isle. Check em out...

13 Aug 2009 SIN CITY SWANSEA
14 Aug 2009 THE WHITE LION CHEPSTOW
15 Aug 2009 DE MONFORT HALL (SUMMER SUNDAE) LEICESTER
16 Aug 2009 DIGITAL BRIGHTON
18 Aug 2009 KING TUTS GLASGOW
19 Aug 2009 CATHOLIC CLUB KEIGHLEY
20 Aug 2009 MR KYPS POOLE
21 Aug 2009 BEAUTIFUL DAYS FESTIVAL - ESCOT PARK DEVON
22 Aug 2009 CITY HALL SALISBURY
27 Aug 2009 COMMUNITY CENTRE ALTON
28 Aug 2009 READING FESTIVAL READING
30 Aug 2009 LEEDS FESTIVAL LEEDS

OK then, I hope that everyone enjoyed the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show session that broadcast last Monday. If you didn't hear it you still can until this coming Monday! Francis from Stand Out Riot was apparently so impressed with how accurate our renditions of our tunes were that he told the internet and Mike Davies himself described our bantering on 'Strange Transformations' as the "VIP version" so if that isn't reason enough to listen, I don't know what is. Click your Clickers HERE and get your head around that iPlayer. We're added a short film about our day out onto our YouTube account so you can go and have a look at that too if you have a spare five minutes. I don't know who the 80s-looking band I'm grumbling about at the start is so don't ask. But throw any magazine in the air and point at the page it opens on and it's probably them. Check it out HERE. You can also check our YouTube page HERE which has more interviews, live stuff and videos for your enjoyment, bemusement and so on.

This coming Sunday the good people of NoSweat.org are bringing you good people a wonderful gig. Suicide Bid are going to be playing a rare gig at the Garage in London (along with the mighty Filaments, The Grit and Mouthwash) so please come and take a look! Suicide Bid is a musical collective featuring members and ex-members of awesome bands : King Prawn, The Filaments, Ex-Cathedra, Sonic Boom Six, The King Blues, Inner Terrestrials, The Foamers, Deathskulls, Black Radio, The Ambition and P.A.I.N and you can see the myspace HERE. The Bid haven’t played together since 16th August 2008 - so this show is going to be very special indeed. Speaking of which, we’ve recently been working on new Suicide Bid material and the stuff we’ve heard has been awesome so be very excited!

Get your ticket HERE.



Okey dokey, I'm gonna be hitting everyone up with those full October tour dates and more news of the Back 2 Skool single next week, so don't leave our mailing list, block us on myspace or deny our existence between now and then.

Enjoy yourselves!

Barney x

Good morning!

First of all, apologies for the fact that it’s been a while but we’ve had a very busy few weeks indeed. Thanks so much to everyone who’s seen us either in France or on a stage in the UK last week and an extra special oi oi oi! to all our friends at Rebellion Festival. This year at Rebellion was the best for us yet and we were stoked and humbled by the amazing reaction we were lucky enough to receive, we really do appreciate it. Boomtown Fair and Hevy Festival were awesome too, there’s a few photos of the show at Hevy HERE. We still have a bunch of gigs leading up to the Reading and Leeds Festival coming up in the next few weeks so head over to the myspace and check them out.

A few weeks ago we headed over to the Maida Vale Studios to do a session for the Radio One Punk Show. The session is going to be aired tonight at 2am and the show will be able to be streamed from the BBC site for the forthcoming week HERE. It’s the first time we have ever had a string section ever and it’s certainly the first time we’ve ever covered a 70s disco hit so please tune in and let us know what you think. Cheers to Mike Davies and Dave King for making it happen and thanks to the capable stringsmanship of Studt and son!

To follow our veritable rock radio triumph of ‘The Concrete We’re Trapped Within (It’s Yours)’ we’re going to release a new single on September 28th. The second single from City of Thieves will be ‘Back 2 Skool’ and will feature two brand new B-Sides. To support the single we are going to embark on a full UK tour across October with hot new signing’s to Rebel Alliance Recordings The Skints in tow. More details about all this coming very soon!

Finally, we’ve got a few new items of merch in over at the Sonic Boom Six store. First is the much requested revival of the classic Street Fighter II style shirt in a new colour. The geekier amongst you will nod at each other and then go ‘ooh, he’s done that to look like the colours of the Champion Edition of SFII rather than the original’. And you'd be right, but a geek. Also, we’ve got a nice new girls top which is kind of half way between a vest and a t-shirt and sports the old-school grenade logo in pink and yellow which look really rather nice. Come and take a look! Our store is HERE.
 

Ta!

Barney x

p.s There is a new, quite in-depth interview over at Peppermint Inguana and the site is worth having a look at too. Come and have a ganders HERE.

p.s.s Apologies to leaping onto Asher Baker with my stage antics at Rebellion which equated to a diving headbutt which in turn lead to a sore head for me and battered jaw for him. Rock n Roll though innit.

 

Hey everyone

We're heading off to France tomorrow for a small jaunt around their fair country. Can't really say fairer than that. Here's those dates....

23/07/09 Bressuire BAR LE GORILLAZ w PAPYPION
24/07/09 Soustons LE LIVE
25/07/09 Jurancon OPEN AIR FESTIVAL
26/07/09 Trelins (Loire 42) STADE DU MORTIER (FREE/GRATUIT) 20:00hr
27/07/09 Malakoff LE ROCHER 20:00hr



And that's pretty much it for today!

For all you French people and French-speakers, there is a review of City of Thieves over HERE. Thank you to the good people at Punk Fiction, I'm assured it's a good review!!!



More news of a new single and a new UK tour coming very soon.

Ciao!

Barney x

Ey yo.

Today's the day! 'The Concrete We're Trapped Within (It's Yours)' is out and about in your friendly neighbourhood record shop. The single will be available on CD maxi-single and download formats. The CD single contains three brand new B-sides, the bouncy dub of 'Nine Stitches', the scorching ska-core of 'This is Real' and the electrifying electro of Ben C's remix of the title track. Also on there is the album version of the song and the recently polished viral video by Ben C.

You can check out the download versions on our Rebel Alliance Recordings digital store. For the one-track single click HERE and for the 3-track bundle single click HERE. For the good, old-fashioned CD option go HERE.





OK then! The acoustic In-Store Boom Tour begins today in Manchester. We've added a full acoustic show at the Croft in Bristol on the 14th July, with the absolutely stonking political folk-hip-hop of Clayton Blizzard in support. Should be a really fun show, just £5 advance. Any questions head over to www.myspace.com/deadpunkpromotions.

Lots of people have been getting in touch to ask more details about the in-stores. So, being the helpful bugger I am, I am hereby providing the said info...

ALL SHOWS ARE FREE ENTRY. NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME AT LEICESTER INSTORE.

Monday 6th July Manchester Café Mod Pop 6pm
34-36 Oldham St, Manchester, Lancashire, M1 1JN
0161 235 5236

Tuesday 7th July Kingston Banquet Records 6pm
52 Eden Street, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1EE
020 8549 5871

Wednesday 8th July Southampton Reskue Skate Shop 5pm
10 Bargate St, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 2DA
023 80710528

Thursday 9th July London All Ages 5pm
27 Pratt St, Camden, London
020 7267 0303

Friday 10th July Alton Astra Records 3pm
27 Market St, Alton, Hants, GU34 1HA
0142080619

Monday 13th July Exeter Martian Records 4:30pm
15 Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS,
01392496531

Tuesday 14th July Taunton Martian Records 5pm
3b Bridge Street Taunton Sommerset TA1 1TG,
01823330978

Wednesday 15th July Leicester Rock Boom 1pm
4 St. Martins Sq, Leicester, LE1 5DF,
0116 253 8293



Rightio, in other news, we went down to Maida Vale studios on Saturday for a session for the BBC Radio 1 Punk Show. We played three tunes off 'City Of Thieves' and a brand new, session-exclusive cover version that encompassed a real-life string section. Very fancy. There's never a dull moment. You can have a look at a couple of photos HERE but we'll have a little video of the day up very soon. Please follow our Blog if you're the Blogging kind. And let's face it, who isn't these days?

And, that, as they say, is very nearly that. Tomorrow there is going to be some big old Rebel Alliance Recordings news about a new band joining the ranks that we're stoked about. You can get all the Rebel Alliance news just by joining the mailing list.

Join the Rebel Alliance HERE!

Barney x

Ey yo!

 

And that, as they say is, that for now. Please, please, please do us a favour... don't forget to request 'The Concrete We're Trapped Within (It's Yours)' on the Radio One Punk show HERE and if you can spread this little banner around, we will continue to make our wonderful music forevermore.
 

Barney x

p.s. RIP Micheal Jackson. 'Wacko' he may have been but we've all danced to his hits at one disco or another. And maybe that's the point.