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As It Stands

I Was Too Good For You

STEALING SHADOWS
Written and Performed by The Minerals
Produced by Colenso Jones with Daniel Tudor Edwards
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Long Row Audio

Taken from the album THE MINERALS
Released 29.06.15 via Staylittle Music
https://theminerals.bandcamp.com/album/the-minerals

© & Ⓟ STAYLITTLE MUSIC 2015 • MADE IN WALES • SLM004

The Minerals

Stealing Shadows

Driving rockabilly number which calls to mind Jerry Lee Lewis and early Elvis Presley.

Pocket Venus

Gerry Cinnamon - 'Sometimes'

I'm a sucker for punishment.
These words are a testament to
the cigarette burns on my chest.
Like medals from a war.
Despite what you believe
I'd like less spite with my sweetness. 

She said "I love you pieces,
but we can never be friends."
She said "I'll love you more than the next man
who creeps in my bed."

I looked her in the eyes and then I said;

"Would you do me wrong tonight?
I am a thorn, you've got the side.
Do you leave here with this itch 
that tells you I am not the one?
Would you do me wrong if I
was a thorn stuck in your side?
I'd leave you with this gift 
of hopeless thoughts and move along."

Do me wrong.

I'm a sucker for punishment
lying listless on your bedroom floor.
I was torn into pieces,
but I've been broken before.
Despite what you believe
I'd like less spite with my sweetness. 

She said "I wanted you forever,
but not the voices in your head"
I said "I'm sure you'll find another deadbeat
to share your bed."

I raised an eyebrow and then I went:


"Would you do me wrong tonight?
I am a thorn, you've got the side.
Do you leave here with this itch 
that tells you I am not the one?
Would you do me wrong if I
was a thorn stuck in your side?
I'd leave you with this gift 
of hopeless thoughts and move along."

Do me wrong.


Art Of Dying Young / Do Me Wrong

Do Me Wrong

The second song from the forthcoming album "More? Why Not!" - An Anagrammatical Exorcism Of The 60s. The anagram here derived from Pink Floyd's "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" 

see the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I7KhYsCzDI 

https://thesoundofmoney.bandcamp.com

If you're on Spotify, here's a mixtape by TH€ $OUND OF MON€¥: smarturl.it/TSOM68

lyrics
:::Tiger T. – Death Happens To a Few ::: 

Here you go 
Your bed’s still warm 
You’re sneaking out the dorm 
In the rain 
Streets 
You should not roam 
But now that you’ve begun 
Never stop again 

Tiger T – 
Death happens to a few 
But not necessarily you 
So keep on fighting 

Here’s success 
You had it all 
Torn down is the wall 
In the wind 
Streams 
They carry you 
Faster than you ever knew 
And never find an end 

Tiger T … 
(Where do you want to go today…) 

written by Kaiser, Lickleder, Pöschl

credits
Sakra del Firenze: Drums, Percussion 
Silke Aura Acid: Guitar, Vocals 
Mr. Altkleider, Inc.: Strings 
B.R. Ölspachtel: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards 
Kiki Lorrig-Wossagk: Back Vocals 

(c)+(p) 2017, BB*ISLAND, 
exclusively licensed from The Sound Of Money/Echokammer

Single 1: Tiger T. - Death Happens To A Few 

The Sound Of Money : Tiger T. - Death Happens To A Few

BRAND NEW TRACK  -  ‘MOONLIGHT’  

iTunes link - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/moonlight-single/id1202978821

FORTHCOMING ALBUM 'SILENCE'  - Out 9th June

Teasing fans with the first taste of new music, indie-rock trio Auction For The Promise Club have revealed the brand new track ‘Moonlight’ taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Silence', due June 9th.

Opening with the hauntingly seductive voice of Zoe White Chambers, ‘Moonlight’ explodes into a frenetic rock anthem, showcasing the emotional and rugged dynamics that Auction For The Promise Club channel through their music.

Hailing from the picturesque village of St.Agnes, Cornwall, the band remained on home turf to record their upcoming debut 'Silence' alongside fellow Southwest local Paul Reeve (Muse, Beta Band, Supergrass) at the remote and atmospheric Airfield studios. Situated on the North Cornish coast it sits in an Second World War base.

Silence features a collection of 12 diverse and powerful tracks including 'This May Hurt' which was dubbed by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson as “their best yet” and 'Cut So Close', both of which were released as a special limited edition 7" AA red vinyl on Record Store Day last year.

Being championed by BBC Cornwall Introducing the band has had national radio play on the Radio 1 Huw Stephens' show and BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson as well as support from Rolling Stone, Classic Rock, MTV Hive, XFM and NME Radio.

It saw the band share stages with the likes of Paolo Nutini, Martha Wainwright, Prides and Reverend and The Makers and appear at a number of festivals including Bestival, Boardmasters, The Great Escape, Y Not Festival, Radio 1's Big Weekend Showcase and the BBC introducing stage at Looe Festival. The trio also had a once in a lifetime opportunity to headline the Emerging Icons Stage in the Olympic Park for the opening day of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Produced by Paul Reeve and Auction for the Promise Club.  Out on Easy Action Records. 

Check out their music videos on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/AuctionForThePromise

Moonlight by Auction for the Promise Club

THE IMMEDIATE
‘With The Fireflies’ single
OUT NOW

“… I just think this is absolutely beautiful.” (referring to With The Fireflies)
Janice Long, BBC Radio Wales

  “… a great tune, great playing, wild spiky guitar, odd lyrics, a light sprinkling of anarchic menace and the perfect pop radio length.”
Tom Robinson, BBC6Music (referring to What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?)

“The Immediate could conceivably be the Welsh REM.”
Louder Than War, 8/10 (review for Manbuoy)

For fans of: Teenage Fanclub, James Taylor, Neil Young.

We are The Immediate, a three-piece band from Mold in north Wales. We have released a critically acclaimed album, two EP’s and a single, receiving airplay and support from Tom Robinson on BBC 6Music, Janice Long, BBC Introducing, Chris Needs on BBC Radio Wales and from a host of excellent independent radio shows and blogs (Louder Than War, Sweeping The Nation, The Breakdown, Music Is My Radar, Neil Crud).

Our new single, ‘With The Fireflies’, is OUT NOW as a download (bandcamp / iTunes) / and to stream via Spotify etc. 

‘With The Fireflies’ is a brand new song written as a tribute of my (Adam’s) dad, who died in July, and had been hugely supportive of the band, regardless of our limitations and despite some of the questionable decisions we made. He was aghast, for example, that we cut short a paid residency that we had in Saint Tropez in the early 90’s; he just couldn’t comprehend why we’d give up the sun and money to return to a life on the dole, in drizzly, grey Mold, and he was -of course- absolutely right.

‘With The Fireflies’ is not intended to be mawkish or exploitative. My dad encouraged us, and instilled his passion for music into me, and ‘With The Fireflies’ is a musical echo of many of those artists that I grew up listening to: Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, particularly.

The song details a memory from an ad hoc family holiday to Tuscany when I was young. This wasn’t quite the supremely comfortable, middle class holiday experience that Tuscany usually evokes: there was a harem scarem drive across Europe in a borrowed Maxi; nights in windblown tents, and - of course - fireflies.
 We have just played their final gig of 2017 and will spend the end of the year writing for, and recording, our next EP, due for release early in 2018.
	
If you have any further enquiries, please contact:
theimmediateband@gmail.com
http://theimmediate.co.uk

With The Fireflies

Buy On Bandcamp

The Immediate - With The Fireflies

Here For Life

Still Remains

My dad died a year ago today. We miss him every single day. The grief has been supplanted by an enduring bittersweet melancholy, that rings with memories.

It's not so bad, but we all dearly wish he was still here.

Ava did a collage and I did a song.

Love you, dad x

Sorry about the telescope. Still.

'Til Darkness Dies

MY LIFE

Skellums was formed because there was nothing else left to do.

Skellums DO NOT want to join the long list of bands who have success, but have nothing to say.

Skellums fell together through necessity, tired of the music industry, they set up their own record label, Rent & Debt Records, and decided to take on the world. 
One little venue at a time.

Underneath all the dirty guitars and pounding drums, there lives a pop song. Skellums believe, that as long as you have a decent melody, you can get away with all manner of noise.

Pop songs with dignity.

In a world where every band has the same barber, and shares the same River Island gift card, Skellums are a little different.

They may be a little rough around the edges, a little bit pissed off and a little bit scruffy, but they have something to say.

S K E L L U M S....they are coming.


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Do Me Wrong

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