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.

END OF YEAR ACCOUNTS 2013

Greetings all.

- France tour was a great success on both a personal and musical level. Financial? We're not giving up the day jobs just yet. Regardless, we can't thank everybody involved in making it happen as much as we would like to. Needless to say we hope we can make it back one day.
- A tour diary is available to read here.
- A review of the final show is available to read here (French language).
- A photoset of the final show with Musicsova is available to view here.
- There are no more shows in 2013.
- National Service will be issued on vinyl in 2014.
- A third LP is being thrashed into shape and we hope to also release this in 2014.

Here is some assorted media.

dicking about in Dover

live in Lorient

with Fred of Berline0.33 in Rennes, post-tour crashout

Right we're going to shut the fuck up for a bit now, that's quite enough of us for this year.

TV / FRA / 2013

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
Me / I = Dan (sing)
ML = Matt Leonard (bass)
ME = Matt Evans (guitar)
James = James (drums)
MM = Martin (guitar)

CONTEXT / PREAMBLE
Fans of rough and tumble rock diaries in the vein of Henry Rollins' benchmark Get In The Van, Steve Albini's in-character last slog around Europe with Big Black or Jon Wurster's trips around the US for Superchunk's website might find themselves a bit disappointed with the general alacrity contained within this write-up. However, when Make It A Little Bit Louder asked the band to do this, ME leapt at the opportunity to make me do some work in light of having no gear to carry or vans to drive. So, here it is, the largely unexpurgated diary of TV's first European tour, all 2600 words (approx.) of it, complete with pictures, links and diversions. Recommended commute reading.

FRANCE COME IN FRANCE COME IN DO YOU READ ME?

For some reason I can't edit the shows bar at the side of this blog so this, as far as you are concerned, is the latest and most up-to-date news regarding Total Victory that there is and anything else is pure UK coalition government 2010-2015.

BOLTON: The Dog & Partridge
October 19th
w/Islands Lost At Sea, Chris Evans Collective + Friends, Blackjack Casino.
This is a special show in memory of our good friend Chris Evans. It's free entry, though you don't need to have known Chris to come down to enjoy the show. There's also a full night of acoustic performers on the 20th at the same venue.
location here

and then the band leave the North-West of England for only the second time in their six and a half year existence with a worn copy of GET IN THE VAN played at insulting volume.

LILLE: La Malterie
October 26th
w/Berline 0.33
location here
more here

PARIS: La Cantine de Belleville
October 27th
w/Berline 0.33 and Lleroy
location here

DAY OFF TO GO AND LOOK AT THINGS

MARSEILLE: La Machine à Coudre
October 29th 
w/Catalogue
location here


VILLEFRANCHE-DE-ROUERGUE: Les Haut-Parlers
October 30th
w/TBA 
location here

LORIENT: Le Galion
October 31st
w/Musicsova 
location here

RENNES: Le Bar'Hic
November 1st
w/Musicsova
location here

and then the band leave France and trudge back across their own sullen sub-continent, back to the North-West and their spiritual beginnings...

PRESTON: The Ferret
November 7th
w/MOJA and Cactus Knife
location here

MAY REPORT

WHAT NEWS?

- We're recording again. Slowly. No sense of a 'larger project' yet. Working with outsiders for the first time. It is time to move on a little.

- Live shows in Chorley with Glocks and Manchester with Rat Columns and Rank/Xerox coming soon.

- There are a couple of new-ish songs to stream here: http://totalvictory.bandcamp.com/album/cones-hotline-1992-1995

- here is a micro-clip from Wigan: https://vine.co/v/b0K6n0YYxpF

Here are some recent performance pics.

Dogstock 2013. photo by Louise Morris

Dogstock 2013. photo by Marc Barrick

Bay Horse, December 2012. photo by Em Bland.