Okay! After an inexplicable week's delay, The Retail Sectors 8" square vinyl lathe 'March Of Incurable Workaholic' / 'Song About A Girl Who Killed Herself Yesterday' is finally out now! You know the crack: with this little doozy you get two tracks about Kentaro Togawa's ironies of life and death in the form of lovely, dramatic instrumental post-rock, and there's only 150 of these little belters, half have already went out via pre-order, so be quick or be dead, as the Maiden once sang.
All copies come with download codes for the 320kps mp3s and .FLAC files, and it will be available in RPM, alt.vinyl and Beatdown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, or online from our preferred retailers rather than the chain stores: Norman Records, Boomkat, CD Baby, or Action Records, or Piccadilly, and here's the video, courtesy of the uber-talented Tsuchiya Takafumi (download an .mp4 - compatible for ipods - of the video here):
Our next event is the mighty Kania Tieffer on December 4th! How to describe Kania. . . mmmm. . . how about French-tinged gabba-fried Chicks-on-speed stupid wonky r'n'b'n'electropop? With otter overtones. Yep, it's evident that Kania Tieffer has that niche market sewn up, so why not check her out for yourself at her web site (not that work safe, if your work hates bare breasts), her myspace (definitely worksafe; not for epileptics though), or her free releases on byteburger and Selva Elettrica. It's been scientifically tested: if you go to Kings of Leon at the Arena instead of this, you're a certified cretin.
We finish off by thanking everybody who turned up for the High Places event last Sunday at The Head Of Steam in Newcastle - supports Nathalie Stern and Cathode were as sterling as ever, and High Places were fantastic, especially when the audio cut out five or ten minutes in (thanks to a RUBBISH US to UK voltage converter) and they had to rewire everything through effects pedals and rearrange various bar objects as improv percussion paraphernalia, with the crowd singing along the basslines. Absolute legends! What a special show that was. And among the friendliest people we've ever met! Hopefully they won't be disappointed enough to never return to Newcastle again (yeah yeah, double negative, I know). You can see photos from the show here. We realise that many people may have left to catch the last bus or something; if this applies to you, get in touch with us via e-mail and we'll make amends.
Okay, that's it for this week, take it easy there. distraction.x.
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