Monday, 17 November 2014

Into It. Over It. Announces European Tour

Into It. Over It. has announced a European tour with Modern Baseball and Tiny Moving Parts as support. The tour will commence in March 2015. Check out the dates below:
























































Get your tickets here.

Save Your Breath Announce Tour Support


Save Your Breath have announced the support for their Farewell tour. As It Is and Cardinals will be joining them on their last ever run of the UK. The band recently announced that they were calling it quits after 8 years of being a band. Read their full statement here

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Man Overboard Release New Video

Man Overboard have released a new video for their song 'For Vince' from new EP, 'Passing Ends. Speaking to Rocksound, Nik Bruzzes had this to say about the new video: "This song is dedicated to my father Vince Bruzzese. Without him I wouldn't be the man I am today. This is me coming face to face with loss. This song is also dedicated to anyone who has ever lost a parent". Passing Ends is out now via Rude Records, pick up a copy here

Monday, 10 November 2014

Save Your Breath Break Up


Unfortunately, Save Your Breath have decided to call it quits. After 8 years of being a band and two albums under their belts, SYB will no longer be continuing as a band and will embark on one last farewell tour next January. The band posted this statement on their Facebook: 

"It's not you, it's me…we're breaking up. After 8 years of the most amazing experiences we've had the privilege of taking part in, it's time for us to hang up the axes. Let's be straight about it, we still love music and we love being in Save Your Breath, but for a band at our level, sometimes life just gets in the way and you have to know when to say, well, when.

We will be heading out one last time for a final farewell tour in January, you can see the dates in our header and all details will be announced shortly.

I was walking the halls at my university in the winter of 2006 when I bumped into this idiot I knew from local shows called Tom. I hadn't seen him for months and so I asked him if he wanted to hang out before going to a show one night, he agreed and shortly after brought up the prospect of starting a band. That one single moment changed my life for the better and I can never thank him enough for that. So we discussed some of the bands we liked, what we'd sound like and our plan for world domination….or rather to support some bands locally and try and make some new friends who might help us out with realising our dream of going on tour. That was it, that was all we wanted, to play some shows and make some friends along the way.

Save Your Breath started in the summer of 2007. Sometimes that seems like yesterday, sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago. Sometimes we felt like we were riding the crest of a wave and maybe our dreams would come true at other times we may never play another show again. Someone once told me that you can't appreciate the highs without the lows. At the time I had no idea what they meant…8 years of playing in this band later, I realised how right they were.

Within a few months of releasing our debut record in 2011 we were headed on tour with some of our heroes in New Found Glory, we played to big crowds at both Reading and Leeds festival, we then headed straight back out on tour with our friends Kids In Glass Houses in the autumn. It felt like things were happening and we might make good on the early potential we showed and some of the openings we'd squandered. We didn't make good on them for many reasons, but that's not the point. These are and always will be amazing memories for all of us that lived them and by any right this should've been the best time we had as a band but they weren't.

We changed a lot of members over the last couple of years and it has been a struggle to the point where most of us felt like we'd rather be doing anything else than playing in a band. Then we met Owen and everything changed again. We're great friends, we get on better than we ever have, we're closer than we've ever been and we're finally at a point where we feel like a real band. Only now does it really feel like we're where we always wanted to be and I guess that's why the time feels right.

Over the last 18 months we've had the best time ever, doing things our own way and enjoying the experience every step along the way. We just finished the best tour we've ever done where we said goodbye to our best friends in Kids In Glass Houses and we realised that it's best to go out when you feel on top. We've travelled the world playing shows and been to places we never thought we would go, it's the perfect time for us to say thank you, and to move on with the next chapters in our lives.


I could write on and on because this band really has been my life and I know that Tom, Kristian, Dave and Owen feel exactly the same way. We lived for this band and the experiences it brought us. So thanks to all our friends and family for sticking by us, it's been fucking class. You can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need.

Thanks Mark James for being the first person to believe in us and sticking by us through thick and thin, admittedly it was mainly thin.

Mike Lewis for picking up the reigns and pushing us in all the right ways. Without you maybe the last 18 months might well have been disastrous and we definitely wouldn't have got shelled then filled out a 5am application to get us in to States and realised one of our dreams.

Anna for the unenviable task of booking us and managing to always get us on great bills with great bands. Thank you for allowing us to do what we enjoyed the most.

Kids In Glass Houses for being there for us since day one. We played our first show with you in a kitchen in Cardiff and you've taken us to some of the most amazing venues in the country, shared your bus, beds, food and booze with us. Not just at a band level but on a personal level, you are our brothers in arms and we can't thank you enough for everything you've always done for us.

The Wonder Years, A Loss For Words, The Story So Far, Fireworks, Matt at Animal Style for putting out our record, Stuart Richardson for helping us in our hour of need, Rich Clarke, Jeff and Jennifer Dean, Basement, Decade, Man Overboard, Make Do and Mend, Young Guns, WATIC, Neck Deep, Seahaven, Light You Up, The Blackout, Funeral For a Friend, Cardinals, Ghost Agency, 4th N Goal, Now Here, Woodsy, Stanley, The Bollock, anyone who put a show on for us, booked us on a festival, gave us food, drinks, a place to sleep…thank you for everything and you made this possible for us"


We wish the band all the best for the future!
Check out the tour dates for Save Your Breath's Farewell Tour here.

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

ROAM Sign to Hopeless Records and Release New Song


ROAM announced today that they've officially been signed to Hopeless Records! They also announced that they will be releasing a new EP titled 'Warning Sign' on January 26th. Check out the first single from 'Warning Sign' with the same name below:

Monday, 3 November 2014

Six Time Champion – Expecting Honesty – Artwork Feature


Pop-Punk: just in case you missed the billboard sized memo, it’s back, hotter than ever, and it now comes in a fetching shade of British. Hot on the heels of fellow countrymen Neck Deep, ROAM, As It Is and Trash Boat, Brighton quintet Six Time Champion are making their presence felt with storming new five-tracker, Expecting Honesty. Released on the 1st December, the work is buoyant with hooks and drives its points home with fiery panache, Six Time Champion’s rougher edge reveals their boisterous live energy. Here STC talk through the artwork for Expecting Honesty...

When we first began putting some thought towards the artwork for “Expecting Honesty” we toyed around with a few ideas, mostly hand drawn designs at first as we had come across a number of artists, whose work we all really loved. We threw together a few sketches whilst at the recording studio but never really managed to create a rough design that we were all totally sold on, so eventually we decided to break the confinement of illustrated designs and look further afield. Watch the video for Expecting Honesty below.

A couple of weeks passed with nothing really springing to mind for any of us, until eventually Rich threw an idea out to us. The idea was simple and based around some of the lyrics in the track “Dragging My Feet”. To put it simply, the initial idea was to have a pair of hands full of ash, holding a gold object, to tie in with the lyrics “If you take all of your problems and burn them with the lies you've told, although the smoke might fill your lungs in the ashes you'll find gold”. Rich actually sent us all an amusing photo of himself holding rice as a substitute for ash to give us a solid idea of what he had in mind.

So we all agreed this simple idea had some potential, we also agreed that it should perhaps be photographed rather than illustrated to give it a more authentic feel. That’s when we turned to our good friend Jake Ratcliffe, having worked alongside him right from the start. We knew we could rely on him to take the idea and create something quality, and bring out thought behind the design. After gathering some ash, and an old pocket watch, the idea finally came together. As Jake sent over the final version it instantly became something we were all very fond of, especially seeing as it actually holds direct relevance to the E.P. itself.

Six Time Champion release ‘Expecting Honesty’ on 1st December


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Seaway Stream New EP


Absolute Punk are streaming Seaway's new EP 'All in My Head' a day before it's official release. Check it out here.