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Current mood:  optimistic Category: Music
Howyiz, lads, lasses & mammy-sh*ggers everywhere!
Right, so - this is it:
Well, at long fe*kin' last! - We here at Neck Towers are chuffed-ta-f*ck to announce that our brand new album 'Come out Fighting!' (& a pretty apt title too) is finally...
- drum roll, gasps of incredulity, swooning & an involuntary orgasm by a far-too over excitable young fella from Sidcup! ... OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes indeedy! - erm - would someone please get yer man a Kleenex or 5?
People could slip on that stuff & break their legs and then where would we be?
Also - no backyard baby for us:
the release is Worldwide on Golf Records (CAT #CDHole179), except the USA & Canada, when it will be released on Tues. March 9th 2010 on Abstract Sounds (CAT #tba ).
You can order directly from both Golf & Abstract Sounds sites:
http://www.golfrecords.co.uk/
www.abstractsounds.co.ukIt’s also available digitally - except the USA & Canada until March 9th 2010 - via the below on-line stores:-
24-7 Entertainment :: 7Digital :: Amazon MP3 :: Gracenote :: Hot Topic / Shockhound :: iTunes Music Store :: lala :: MediaNet - Digital :: MySpace Music :: Napster :: Neurotic Media :: Nokia - Puretracks :: R2G :: Rhapsody :: Rogers Wireless :: SecuryCast :: Slacker :: SonyEricsson PlayNow Arena :: Spotify :: Starzik :: Verizon Wireless :: Zune
And the album will be available in the shops, of course, & distributed in the following countries by the corresponding Distributors:-
AUSTRALIA
& NEW ZEALAND - RIOT :: CZECH REPUBLIC - DAY AFTER :: DENMARK -
TARGET :: FINLAND - SUPERSOUNDS :: GERMANY & AUSTRIA - CARGO
RECORDS GMBH :: HOLLAND & BELGIUM - BERTUS :: ITALY - TBA :: JAPAN
- TBA :: NORWAY - TUBA RECORDS A/S :: PORTUGAL - RECITAL MUSIC :: SPAIN
- MASTERTRAX :: SWEDEN - SOUND POLLUTION :: SWITZERLAND - IRASCIBLE ::
UK & IRELAND - PLASTIC HEAD ::
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There are 14 tracks on 'Come out Fighting!' - all recorded with legendary Producer, Pat Collier (originally in '76 Punk Rock legends The Vibrators, Pat made his name producing The Wonderstuff & Primal Scream & has since worked with virtually everyone in your record collection - including Lars Friedrikson!).
Pat's definitely brought out the best in us: it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best sounding, most powerful album we've ever made! He's given us a new, more focussed, lean & muscular sound - & in depth: There's the usual range of 'Up & at 'em' Impassioned hIrish Punk Rock Polemic, replete with Pop-tastic Harmonies & the fave Neck 'Now-you're-moshing-now-you're-Riverdancing-now-you're-moshing-again!' trick; 'Necked-up' Traditional Irish rousers, ballads & Jigs; (& even a sh*ggin' Irish Power Ballad fer Chrissakes!) - just all louder, clearer, more powerful and more 'swirlier'!
"...it's a muscular, lean, musical hay-maker that can stand it's ground & slug it out with the best of 'em!"
So - on the back of growing live successes over the last few years (we're getting approached by more festivals in the USA, Europe & the UK than ever before - resulting in 2 U.S. trips last year; our 6th Glastonbury and Rebellion; & headlining or closing stages at festivals in the UK & Europe now!) - we're in the process of putting some dates together to promote the album in the UK, Europe &, if we're lucky, even the USA again - I'll defo be after prayin' to St. Meiriceá - the patron saint of gettin' our sorry arses back over Stateside!
So stand-by for more announcements!
And if you want us to come play in your town - drop us a line...
AND - to tie-in with the re-vamp of the MySpace & Website, & release of the new album, we're going to be giving away a free download bundle:
a song MP3 { Blue skies over Nenagh }, lyric sheet, band logo & photograph.
As the whole matúbagh's got clunky & unwieldly over the last 10 years, all we're going to ask everyone to do is to re-register (or even register!) for the mailing-list via the 'Join the mailing-list' links on either the MySpace or Website.
http://www.neck.ie
http://www.myspace.com/neckireland
+ there will be links to click-on to order the album & also keep an eye on these for updates of our live shows...
Here are a few reviews of the album we've already had:
‘"Come out Fighting!' - a full-on and in your face aural assault. A record that combines the pathos of The Pogues, and the punchiness of Stiff Little Fingers to mesmerising effect." - Big Cheese Magazine
'...easily as good as The Pogues ever got...they go to all the places Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphys do but with more first hand closer to the bone reality. Neck's finest moment yet and another fine hooley of an album by the best Irish Punk band in the world!' - Organ magazine
‘...A particular favourite's 'Everybody's welcome to The Hooley! With it's anti-racist lyrics and reel halfway through, it exemplifies Neck's riotous sound: as if The Clash were born on the Emerald Isle!’ - The Irish Post
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or upcoming UK live Tour dates see our gig listings + we're going to be announcing further UK Dates, as well as tours in Europe AND, hopefully, the U.S.A!!!
Our MySpace & Website will be updated as soon as gigs come in, so keep an eye on them:
http://www.neck.ie
http://www.myspace.com/neckireland
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We'll also have T-shirts, badges/pins, stickers, etc to tie-in too - details to come...
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So - as always:
we pledge upon our dubious, Diddly-aye Delinquent honour, that - wherever the road may rise before us - we will defo BRING THE HOOLEY!
And we think the album speaks for itself!
- Sláinte & g'luck!
- Himself & all the other looneyt'icks in NECK!
p.p.s. >phew!< Right - down the boozer! - SCOOPS!!!!!!
6:31 PM
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