TOTAL CRISIS / TOTAL REFRESHMENT

Owen Richards took a few snaps of us playing at Andrew Mïlk's BIRTHDAY CRISIS at the Total Refreshment Centre:

INTERNATIONAL CASSETTE STORE DAY

Hey ho, so Saturday 27th September was the second annual INTERNATIONAL CASSETTE STORE DAY.

We contributed a practice room demo (record with one microphone and an audio interface by the inimitable Mr Joseph Johns) of one our new songs 'Singled Out' to Negative Space's 'Evenings Spent' mixtape.

So says Freya and Laura:

‘Evenings Spent’ documents some of the bands that have played for us over the last year, including Brilliant Colors, Omi Palone, Soft Walls, La La Vasquez, R.Elizabeth, Phonic Rotations, Sex Hands, Witching Waves, Personnel, Teardrop Factory & Sea Pinks.

Released on 27th September – look out for it in Rough Trade East (London), Rough Trade West (London), Flashback Records Crouch End (London), Pebble Records (Eastbourne), Norman Records (Leeds), Monorail (Glasgow), The Drift Record Shop (Devon), The Inkwell (York), Voxbox Music (Edinburgh),…

(Photos: Owen Richards)

LP LAUNCH

Here's some photographs taken by Owen Richards at our LP launch party at The Old Fire Station.  Big thanks to Phonic Rotations, Witching Waves and Soft Walls for playing, Negative Space for putting on the show, and to all those who came out on the night. 

Architecture

The video for ‘Architecture’ is a visual homage to relics of the Brutalist and Modernist architectural movements and social-housing builds of the 1960s and 70s. 

Shot across the London boroughs between W10 to E14 and featuring structures designed by the likes of Ernő Goldfinger, Neave Brown and Alison and Peter Smithson, the video examines the remnants of a now obsolete movement that saw virtue in honest and exposed functionality, bold monumental béton brut construction, and cellular repetitious aesthetics.

The song itself muses on the way in which some individuals struggle to cope with the political and social ideologies that exist within the architecture of a metropolis.

The video was directed by the band’s own Simon Marsham, with artist/film-maker Emma Charles acting as Director of Photography and Editor, and photographer Owen Richards providing an additional camera for the ‘live’ footage.

Extended appreciations to Emma Charles, as well as to Owen Richards and Lucy Anstey (who painted the backdrops), for giving up so many hours of their time gratis.