ALIVE AND WELL IN MARCH 2013

We played a show! It included a new song! Crikey!

photo by Jude Jagger of excellent close-harmony trio The Bobbysocks

OH CRAP IT'S 2013

Quick post

- three songs (two new, one live) streaming at http://totalvictory.bandcamp.com
- some gigs announced, look to the left of the screen
- vinyl funding has reached target, we're going soon

2012: A RETROSPECTIVE

The year is over. Sing hallelujah.

A year in which joy was heightened by cessation of the bitter navel-gazing and commemoration of post-industrial torpor. We've been together a while now despite making no money so we consider ourselves a band in the most profound sense, inasmuch as it seems preferential to hermitude despite appearing similar. 

The name of the band is lived-in now. There is mild anticipation of record releases in pockets of Europe but we cannot get shows in Leigh because the one band we know who played there (that we are neither fans of or friends with) have management who won't allow them to play there anymore.

original bands play on our sunday service which is the last sunday in every mth this sunday as its bank hol was sorted 6mth ago the last sun in sept is a punk day and the oct 1 i have not done yet the nov will be all classic rock bands and is for charity do you know any bands that play here as we may be able to get you a support slot ?

Our second album, National Service, came out. It was meant to be called Pre-Language but Disappears got to that title first. At least they did a good job with it. It's been well-received by Aural Delights, The Needle Drop, Bant, and K Fuel. It was less well-received by Stripwax, and was incomprehensibly-received by Little Indie Blogs.

More importantly: having gained some distance from it, we all still really like it. It's also coming out on vinyl in 2013. This is OFFICIAL NEWS. More soon.

The Bay Horse show

Some highlights from live shows

• the Ballast III show in Manchester with Monster Island and Naked (On Drugs)
• Codex Leicester being total champs
• Dogstock weekend
• Alan's Records re-opening and hosting a series of awesome and varied shows

Next on the slate is to regroup and relearn some old songs we've neglected and try to write some new ones.  It would be nice if they sounded different but no guarantees. New LP for 2013? I'd say chances are against it. Maybe something shorter. We haven't donned the slippers and told junior to fetch the pipe just yet though.

Happy new year.

5.5 YEARS IN THE WRITING, THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF TOTAL VICTORY, A MUSICAL ENSEMBLE FROM GREATER MANCHESTER

Total Victory began in 2007. Group members originate from Atherton, Salford, Bolton and Wigan, all within the Greater Manchester administrative area.

The band released their debut album The Pyramid of Privilege in 2011, following it up with 2012's National Service.

Collective interests include British railways and the West Pennine Moors.

Photo by Big John

THE NEW ALBUM IS OUT RIGHT NOW

http://totalvictory.bandcamp.com/album/national-service

We're really proud of this. £3. If enough of you buy it then we'll press it up LIKE GOD INTENDED. If you ante up now you'll be taken into consideration down the line - think of it as Kickstarter but you get something NOW.

Now watch out as we try and cross this road.

Photo by Darren Riley

NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM COVER NEW NEW NEW

out 5th November 2012

photo by Darren Riley

WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH YOUR BAND?

1. The album is done. It sits on our hard drives. It is fully mastered. We're biased but we think it sounds very good and we're all really pleased with it.

We want to release it on vinyl because we think it legitimises our efforts as a band more fully than any other format and is of greater value [insert your own narrative about relative value and the democracy of the internet].

The problem is that we're all terribly broke at the moment. The talk is of early 2013 for release. If the money doesn't come together before then, we will put it online.

2. A split 7" with the band Fighting is coming together after a million miscommunications. Two new non-LP songs will feature ('Golden Calf', 'House of Lords').

3. We are still alive and we have a couple of shows to round the year out in Blackpool and Oldham. It would be great if you could make it to either.