It is with girlish giggles of excitement that we announce that our debut album, Maximum Fisting, will be released in the Americas, Asia and Australasia in June.
Courtesy of Californian indie label Poison Tree Records, Maximum Fisting will be available from iTunes and, as the contract tells us sternly, ‘any and all download sites deemed appropriate’. Small but perfectly formed, Poison Tree Records has worked with Mondo Generator, Fu Manchu, Brant Bjork and Dwarves. As such they know their figurative onions in relation to our type of rocking, and we’re very pleased to be working with them.
We are not deaf to the protests of the EU, which is murmuring to the effect that it notices its absence from the release territories named above. Patience, my sweet. In short, we don’t know yet. It will be a separate release, and we need to tread carefully to get it right. Look at this e-mail that Chris actually had to send to someone the other week, for heaven’s sake:
Hi [A&R Guy]
Thanks for your message and your interest in our album. However, I must point out that our lyrics include the chorus 'we all worship Satan' and, irony notwithstanding, we might be at odds with a professedly Christian label?
Best wishes,
Chris
We. Kid. Not.
Meanwhile, the album is being mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering. Check out their link for informative clips on how vinyl records are made: http://www.myspace.com/optimummastering.
For an understanding of the modern music industry you might try this documentary, viewable free online, with the pleasant narration of Forest Whittaker: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-856606244008931882
Interviewees include TBOTE ally Joey Burns of Calexico. It’s interesting and informative viewing, if a little sentimental, and seemingly produced by people who think that the issues raised affect only America (somewhat ironic as they refer to U2, Eric Clapton and Elvis Costello). Watch!
If you can drag yourselves away from your computers there’s still the option of live music:
Friday, 24 April at the Comedy Café in Shoreditch, doors 10PM. It’s a measly £3.50 in and we’re on with The Wow Signal (distributed by Universal, if you don’t mind), Planet Chivers, Dim and Captain of the Rant.
On Tuesday, 12 May it’s AR2 at Bristol University, and for eye pleasure twice in a week get to Weston-Super-Mare on Thursday, 14 May for a show at Hobbits with Cosh, Panic Office and the Ottawa Hoax.