vs. BIG ELECTRIC + news + reflections

It's been a while! We're not dead. Still. They can't take us out. To be fair they haven't tried very hard.

TOTAL VICTORY // vs. BIG ELECTRIC 
 

Coming the final quarter of 2016! This is a compilation of our EPs to date with a couple of songs taken from those sessions that we couldn't finish properly - until now. Here is the tracklist.

TOUR IV / EXTENDED PLAY

Lille 20th, not 19th

Has the year flown so quickly? Are we all nearer to the grave? Will we realise the futility of our endeavours? Is our ego not sated enough?

TOUR III and ALBUM III

Hello there gentle flowers of the early year sun. We hope you are well. Here are two pieces of news.  

LIVE PERFORMANCES

MAY 16
Chorley
Brock and Broll
w/Cactus Knife and Grave Diggers Union

Information here

An interview with IAALS

We did an interview with I Am A Lungfish Song that was translated into French. Here is the English version. Go and read that excellent blog here.

What is the story behind Total Victory?

I (Dan) had split from an old band and was working a shitty job and living in an unfamiliar town and needed some kind of thing to occupy my time and brain. I put an ad out in 2007 for people wanting to play noise-rock kind of like XBXRX and Skin Graft/Gold Standard Labs kind of music. Matt L (bass) and Matt E (guitar) joined, followed by James (drums) one drunken day at a festival.

We realised we couldn't play at 200kph like those bands so we slowed down and tried to not sound so forced and began to incorporate our regional identities and actual personalities a little more. Martin (guitar) was a friend and fan who we asked to add guitar to The Pyramid of Privilege and gradually we forced him to join full-time.

If it were a film it would be a strange story about a group of people who were nobodies at home and vaguely interesting to people somewhere else. Like the opposite of Cool Runnings (which was called Rasta Rockett in France).

THANK YOU FRANCE / HELP THE DOG

Two things. One good, one bad.

01. FRANCE REPORT

We did a tour to France. It was fantastic. We had a great time. There will be no diary as such because there was no conflict. It was just really really fun. Here it is in bullet points.

• Rolled into Nottingham to crash at ME's house (he moved. This was covered in previous dispatches). Visited England's oldest inn, which was a moving experience for all concerned, mostly in the gut.
• Left at 2.30am the next day for the ferry and just powered through to Rennes by 6pm (take off the hour time difference). Great show here with loads of brilliant people being super bien to us. 

LET'S TOUR AGAIN, LIKE WE DID LAST AUTUMN

Hello friends

We're off to France again. One warm-up show. Here is the news!

SALFORD CRESCENT VAULTS
17th October 2014
+ Leer A Los Heroes, Mr. Heart and Shut Up Dad.
Free in. We're on about half ten. Should be fun.

Then we get into a van and head to France. This time we visit...

RENNES BAR'HIC
29th October 2014
+ Trombe
Six euros. Really looking forward to return to Rennes and providing a show where the singer has a functioning voice.

 

LYON LE PÉRISCOPE

30th October 2014

+ Deborah Kant

Again, six whole euros. We visited Lyon last time but didn't play there. Our hosts were magnificent so we really wanted to come back and if that means torturing them with our music, so be it.

REIMS LESPACE LUDOVAL

31st October

+ Kitchen Tool Set, Oui Mais Non, Taulard

HALLOWEEN PARTY! FREE!

LILLE LA MALTERIE

1st November

+ Berline0.33

Six or eight euros though I can't remember the circumstances in which you pay the higher price. It's Saturday. Live a little! Also we're playing with Berline0.33 who are KVLT AS FVCK.

Only four dates this time - bastard capitalist employers! We'll be back!

NEWS HAS A KIND OF MYSTERY

Really quick post this, I'm trying to beat a work deadline.

NATIONAL SERVICE IS AVAILABLE ON VINYL COURTESY OF BRUISSON/KATATAK/KERVINIOU/TANDORI. 180GSM. IT LOOKS AMAZING.

BUY HERE NOW: https://totalvictory.bandcamp.com/album/national-service

COST IS £10. INCLUDES HQ DOWNLOAD.

IF YOU DOWNLOADED IT ALREADY LET US KNOW. IT WILL THEN COST £7.

Reviews (French language):
- http://www.perteetfracas.org/zine/kros2014/kros_t/total_victory_national_service.htm
- http://www.indierockmag.com/article25030.html
- http://www.maplatine.com/blogs/135-selection-juillet-aout-2014

ATTENTION LA FRANCE! AVAILABLE TO BUY HERE: http://www.t-dt-b.org/Site/Pages/av.php

We're also going on tour in Europe again. Dates TBA. Pre-tour shows in Bolton and Salford announced.