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As It Stands

I Was Too Good For You

Released 1st Sept 2017 on Regent Street Records

'YEAH YEAH YEAH' lyrics:

Oh, when my hands are tied
I feel living dead
When I’m by your side
Get on my knees
Pray for the end
For dreams for drugs for sex & love
The death of all your friends

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Try find a way
Just nod your head
Do what you're told
Do what they said
Get on your knees
Pray for the end
For dreams for drugs for sex & love
The death of all your friends

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Pray to your god above
For the untimely demise of everyone you love
Pray to your god above
For dreams for drugs for sex and love
Pray to your god above
For the violent demise of everyone you love
Pray to your god above
For dreams for drugs for sex & love

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Gerry Cinnamon - 'Sometimes'

SPOTIFY

ORENT - Wasted (ft. Mila)

Words and Music by Cal Roberts.

Produced/ Engineered/ Mixed 
by Skellums at Rent & Debt Studios.

Cal Roberts - Vocals/Guitars/Organ
Matthew Crichton - Bass
Chris Courtney - Drums.
Keys Carmichael - Backing Vocals.

If You Have To Leave Single

If You Have To Leave

Next To Me

Rabbit Holes was written surrounded by nature, by the open widow of a rundown Cornish farm house after a period of listening to a lot of The Tallest Man on Earth. 

The song follows the path of someone yearning to reach their love who has gone to a place that can't be followed. Although they both want to be together, the desperate efforts are seemingly in vein.

Rabbit Holes

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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