Taken from the Made To Break / Four Hours single, released through Anti-Manifesto, November 2014.

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Four Hours

Made To Break

Taken from the "Politics" EP, released 23/12/14 through Anti-Manifesto.

Cemetery Sea

The Barricades Built

Politics

Recorded live by James Johnson in a Leith living room.

Postscripts (live demo)

After a doubtless entertaining/horrifyingly drunken open mic experience at Banshee Labyrinth, this seemed like a lyrically appropriate cover...

Is It Me? (Billy Liar cover)

Taken from Curators' second record "The Cold In The Walls", released through Anti-Manifesto April 2013

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North Star

One of the best anti-Thatcher (and anti-Thatcherism) songs ever written. 

Subtle, intelligent and biting, Robert Wyatt's is probably the definite version and this cover is not intended to infringe on anyone's rights or anything else. I certainly won't be making any money from it, no doubt much to Maggie's posthumous disgust...

With all the vitriol in the press from both left and right, I still think this is the last word. As Wyatt scathingly said on the Old Grey Whistle Test, "this is a piece of completely escapist light entertainment called Shipbuilding".

Shipbuilding

Curators are a band from Edinburgh who, if pushed, might describe themselves as melodic indie-punk-rock plus a preoccupation with minor chords. Their debut album “Is This A Private Fight?” was released in 2010 and saw the band rank highly in many writers’ albums-of-the-year lists, as well as winning them airplay on Radio 1, Kerrang Radio and Radio Scotland to name but a few. 

After gigging around Scotland in support of that album, the band lost their then-bassist to the navy, prompting a hiatus while they regrouped. During this time, they began work on what was to become “The Cold In The Walls”, a record that is much less produced and more expansive than their previous work, allowing the band to bring their vocal harmonies to the fore whilst continuing to show their love of untamed, raucous guitars.

Due out on Anti-Manifesto in March 2013, “The Cold In The Walls” is a record about change, persistence, hope and loss. It is the sound of a band maturing without ever forgetting the power of loud guitars and raised voices.