SHOWS SHOWS SHOWS (and some album info) (and some other stuff)

ENGLISH MARTYRS IS COMING OUT ON SPECIFIC AND KERVINIOU IN JUNE 2017 BUT FOR NOW PLEASE CONTEND WITH
 
INFORMATION RAFT #42

A SHOW IN THE UNITED KINGDOM!!

AS RARE AS THE TOOTH OF A HEN

ALBUM III (no, really) and TOUR V and RE-PRESS NEWS

Three major pieces of news. No messing around.

NEW ALBUM

It is completed. It is called ENGLISH MARTYRS. It has nine songs and is about 34 minutes long. This is the album cover.

1. Triangulation Point
2. Gore Seer
3. In The Home Counties
4. Once In Every Century (LISTEN)
5. Playing Golf With The Precariat
6. Written Backwards
7. Mistakes Upon Mistakes
8. The Public Weighbridge
9. Gold Curtain

We expect to have it on tour and on general sale after. Tour, you say? What tour? A-HA!

NEW TOUR

We're returning to France and Belgium in May and June. Dates as follows:

• 29 MAY Rennes, Bar Hic
• 30 MAY Nantes, TBA
• 31 MAY Toulouse, Pavilions Sauvages w/Marc Sens & Oliver Mellano
• 1 JUNE Grenoble, TBA
• 2 JUNE Metz, La Chaouee w/MALAÏSE
• 3 JUNE Liege, Le Garage

RE-PRESS NEWS

We are going to repress National Service. Some guy is selling it for 50 euro on Discogs and this will not do. Flood the market! We will have it soon, but maybe not by tour.

I WANT TO BUY TOTAL VICTORY VS. BIG ELECTRIC ON VINYL + minor news

THIS IS A LIVE DOCUMENT: LAST EDIT 7 DECEMBER 2016

Total Victory are here to help. As are Specific Recordings!

vs. BIG ELECTRIC is out NOV 18.

you may buy digital version here. or just stream it. 

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).