Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast
Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fastby Ben Myers, Tony O’Neill and Adelle StripeCaptains Of Industry are thrilled to announce our first foray into the world of book publishing courtesy of Ben Myers and his Brutalist cohorts Adelle Stripe and Tony O'Neill.This hard-hitting and emotive chapbook collection contains poems written about the respective Northern towns of the authors adolescence, it marks the public debut of The Brutalist poets.More info>>
XMAS SALE
Hello there, Captains Of Industry is
celebrating the season with a great big online sale. For the duration of
December 2007 all albums
are £3 each and all singles
are £1. The only exception to this is Gay For Johnny Depp's debut
album 'The Politics Of Cruelty' because we just released it. However!
Buy a copy of that online and we'll give your their 6-track EP 'Blood: The
Natural Lubricant' absolutely free. Either way, it's a chance to geek
out on a budget. The offer ends at midnight on December 31 2007, but who
goes online then? Also: look out in the New Year for Captains Of
Industry Books' very first publication, news of forthcoming releases and a Gay For Johnny Depp UK tour...
Watch out girls (and boys)....
Marty Leopard from New York reprobates Gay For Johnny Depp is in London town to do NME's 'Pub Golf' xmas feature. Expect drinking. Expect fighting. Expect Johnny flavoured breakfast cereal. He will be getting sexy with Lethal Bizzle (bizzle bizzle!!), Andy Falkous from Future Of The Left and some random blokes from Hadouken, Duke Spirit and The Twang. And probably some other random indie blokes.
Gay For Johnny Depp UK tour announced
Check out the ON TOUR section for details. Support comes from Hearts Under Fire and The Computers. Which is good.
A message from our friends Karoshi Bros....
Our
friends Karoshi Bros are releasing a new single this month, Love The
World, on new label We Are Woodville. We prefer their Fuck The World
version (for no other reason than swearing in songs is good) but hey,
the pressures of radio playlists n that. Its very good. Listen to various mixes on myspaceIt also has a rather tasty video on Video-CSome important people said these kind words:Jerry Bouthier (Kitsune / Boombox / M8)From
the people who brought you Paper the label, now comes We Are Woodville,
a brand new imprint which is going to ignore musical genres (hooray!).
And if this first release is anything to go by, We Are Woodville could
well turn into the eclectic electro (eclecto?) label the UK so badly
needs...
Rock Sound and the Gays
The kind people at Rock Sound mag have put 'Cumpassion' by Gay For Johnny Depp on this months covermount CD. If the track gets you sexy then you can vote for it and have the chance to win a pair of £40 Sennheiser headphones in the process. Go to page 24 of the mag for details or text ROCK2 followed by your name and address to 88600. Every vote cast enters you into the prize draw. Texts cost a max of 50p.In next months issue of Rock Sound there will be a competition to win some Gays CD's, posters and tshirts. xxx
Some Gay For Johnny Depp album reviews
Some corking reviews of the new Gay For Johnn Depp album are filtering through. Watch out for reviews/features in Kerrang, Terrorizer, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, Total Guitar etc. Plus these little online beauties:ROCK MIDGETS Exploding out of the blocks with the razor sharp guitars and throat
ripping screams of the delightfully titled 'Cumpassion', Gay For Johnny
Depp's debut full-length The Politic of Cruelty is a consummate
lesson in uneasy listening. Bringing together twelve positively
bile-infested chunks of molten hot hardcore in little over twenty
minutes, it's a quite stunning statement of discontent. Fans of the
band's well received EP's will be delighted to find that there's no
concessions made here, with 'You Have a Theory, I Have a Gun' and
'Belief in God is So Adorable' being about as gloriously uncommercial a
pair of singles as you're likely to hear all year, while closing track
'I Hate Our Freedom (Fuck You Gladys, I'm on Vacation)' is the kind of
claustrophobic headfuck that will leave you nursing a migraine for days
after one too many listens...
PS
PS You can also download Gay For Johnny Depp's single 'You Have A Theory, I Have A Gun' from these cats Emusic
Gay For Johnny Depp new album
Here it is: the long-awaited full-length from
provocative New York quartet Gay For Johnny Depp. Within are twelve
hardcore songs of De Sade-inspired smut, sex, lust and desire. Gasp! at
the ferocity of album opener ‘Cumpassion’. Swoon! to the tune of lead single
‘You Have A Theory, I Have A Gun’. Wig out! to epic closer ‘I Hate Our
Freedom (Fuck You Gladys, I'm On Vacation)’. To celebrate the miserable
death of Guy Fawkes/F*cks/whoever, the album hits the shops on Monday 5th
November but you can get your grubby little hands on it here. The first 69 orders will come with a hot
poster. Best lube up, get sexy and dive on in... Oh yeah, you
can still get their sexy little single 'You Have A Theory, I Have A Gun' from download
sites...
Anthony H. Wilson 1950 - 2007
"Some men make money, some people make
history"Anthony H. Wilson
1950 - 2007link
Summer Sale
Right,
hear this. Every week, for the next four weeks, we are running a different
special offer on our back catalogue. You will be notified of each offer every
Monday and they will all run for seven days only.THIS WEEK'S OFFER:Order the debut pink 7 inch EP by Silicon
Vultures and get any other single free,
with free postage. All you need to
do is place your order this week, before midnight Sunday 24th, then forward your
invoice number (you will receive it in an email) to info@captainsof.com with your choice of free single. You can choose
from the following:Sucioperro 'The
Drop' CD singleSucioperro
'Dialog On The 2' CD singleThe Sound
Explosion 'Apollo' CD singleLouie 'Trees'
CD single or white vinyl singleHell Is For
Heroes 'Models For The Programme' CD single (only a few left)Hell Is For
Heroes 'Kamichi' CD single (only a few left)The Grates 'The
Ouch! The Touch!' CD single21 Gun Salute
'Cracks (and other breaks in the surface)' CD singleOh, and free badges with every order...
Our World Our Say
Dear Friend
Tony Blair is
stepping down this month, but tragically for millions of people the decisions he
took will have repercussions for years to come. The authors of a study in The
Lancet estimate that at least 650,000 Iraqi people have died since the invasion
of Iraq. Britain's involvement in the "war on terror" has not made the world any
safer - on the contrary, it seems it has radicalised a whole new generation of
people throughout the world. Do we really believe, for example - as Tony Blair
always insisted - that the London tube bombings had nothing to do with our
involvement in this "war" or our occupation of Iraq?
And now that
we are in this "war", just how do we get out? With no definable enemy, it seems
we are "at war" with potentially millions of people...
Minus
Our party-hard Icelandic brothers are back www.minusonline.net
Captains Of Industry/A Badge Of Friendship night
A big thankyou to everybody who came along to our label night at Barfly, Camden. The music was loud, the beer was cold, the falafel was spicey.If anybody has any pics of the night send us a message on myspace www.myspace.com/captains and we'll post them up there.
Silicon Vultures EP and Radio 1 Session
Silicon Vultures' debut release is out now. It is available in all good record stores for £2.99
and to order online here Limited to 1000 copies. 5 tracks. Seven-inch pink vinyl
only.The band's Radio 1 session was broadcast last night on the Rock Show, listen here.Upcoming shows:11th May - Live show and DJ set at Prison Sex, Kettering19th May - 1 in 12 Club, Bradford22nd June - Bar Monsta, Camden, London
New God Fires Man video
Check out the new video for 'The Shrug' from our American friends God Fires Man. Its was rather cleverly shot on one hand-held camera by the super-skilled Rich Lehman at Newcastle Academy on the Hundred Reasons tour. Email him, give him work Richeytenenbaum@aol.com
Silicon Vultures Pre-Orders Today
From today, you can place your pre-orders for the debut 7" vinyl EP from Silicon Vultures, our latest addition to the Captains family. In sexy pink or sultry black. The EP hits the shops on Mon 30th April, but you will receive your copy the week before. Plus, the first 25 online orders will receive a free promo CD version of the EP. Hot shit.
What is 7" long, hard and pink?
The new Silicon Vultures EP, that's what. Out 30th April in all good stores, and some crap ones too. It will also be available from iTunes and the like.Pre-orders will be available from this website on Monday 2nd April. The first 25 orders will receive an industry-only CD promo of the EP. Orders will be shipped 23rd April.
Hell Is For Heroes headline Captains of Industry party, April 26 2007
Captains Of Industry are throwing a party in conjunction with our pals A Badge Of Friendship. A Badge Of Friendship and Captains Of Industry presents...Who: Hell Is For Heroes / Sucioperro / Silicon Vultures + Guest DJsWhen: Thursday April 26th 2007Where: The Barfly, Camden Town, London.Why: cos.Details: This is a 14+ show. Tickets are £8 and available from www.barflyclub.com. Doors open 7.30pm. Free Captains Of Industry CD goodie bags will be given away to the first 50 people through the door. BandsHell Is For HeroesThe
UK's premier DIY underground post-hardcore band return for their most
intimate show in ages! (It's also singer Justin's birthday)...
Petition against 'Pay as you go' road tax
There are only a few days left to register your objection to the 'Pay as
yougo' road tax - which closes to petitions on the 20th February
2007.The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell
anybodyabout it.
Once you've given your
details (you don't have to give your full address,just house number and
postcode will do), they will send you an email with alink in it. Once you
click on that link, you'll have signed the petition. Democracy in
action? The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean
you having topurchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly
bill to use it.The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent
study by the BBC,the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and
£194 for a deliverydriver...
FEB SALE
In a bid to tidy our office (OK,
bedroom), Captains Of Industry have extended our January sale for another month.
It is now - ta-da! - 'the February sale'. For a limited period
only albums are currently £5 or less and singles a mere £1. This offer applies
to CD and vinyl. Artists on sale include Hell Is For Heroes, Louie,
Sucioperro, The Grates, Marmaduke Duke....Go here to help tidy our office.February is the shortest of months - you better be
quick.Captains Of Industry record label.
Silicon Vultures FREE download single
SILICON VULTURES debut release ‘Sour Tits’ is
now available as a free download with artwork.
Please
go to here
for further instructions. A unique fusion of psychosexually drenched
punk assaultage and no-wave electronic dance rhythms, SILICON
VULTURES have been gaining repeat plays by Radio 1's Daniel P Carter
and Zane Lowe.
They
release a 7” vinyl-only 5-track single on Monday 23rd April 2007 on Captains Of
Industry. Pre-orders will be available on Monday 2nd April from www.captainsof.com. Check out their myspizzle to hear another free track.
JAN SALE
Another year, another offer. For the rest of January we are discounting all albums to £5 or less and all singles to £1. The first fifty orders will also get a very limited Silicon Vultures CD promo of ‘Sour Tits’. "Minute by minute, hour to hour, sucking on the tit where the milk turned sour". Indeed. Go here
Vote The Sound Ex!
Visit www.myspace.com/rocksound and vote for The Sound Ex. Please. Check out the new issue of Rocksound to see The Sound Ex in the Hot 100 for 2007!
Sucioperro tour with Reuben
After a vintage year that has seen three singles, an album and "a lot" of touring, SUCIOPERRO have confirmed they will be supporting REUBEN at the following places. All of which is jolly good news:
FEBRUARY 200719 NOTTINGHAM Rock City 20 SHEFFIELD Corparation 21 GLASGOW ABC2 22 MANCHESTER Academy 2 23 WOLVERHAMPTON Little Civic 24 YEOVIL Ski Lodge 25 PLYMOUTH Students Union 26 EXETER Cavern 27 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners 28 LONDON 100 Club
God Fires Man tour the UK with Hundred Reasons
GOD FIRES MAN supporting HUNDRED REASONS, JANUARY 2007.January 07 - Wrexham Central Station January 08 - Glasgow Garage January 09 - Aberdeen Moshulu January 10 - Newcastle Academy II January 12 - Manchester Academy II January 13 - Birmingham Academy II January 14 - Exeter Lemon Grove January 15 - Brighton Concorde II January 16 - London Barfly w/ Now Its OverheadThey have a
free download EP available until 6th January. A limited
edition CD EP will also be for sale at the above shows. Sign up for
their street team here
God Fires Man 'The Sinister EP' free download
Sweeping
a metaphorical velvet blanket from a virtual marble plinth, Captains Of
Industry is pleased to publicly unveil the debut EP by all-new NYC
quartet GOD FIRES MAN.This three-track offering (plus artwork)
featuring 'The Killer' / 'The Shrug' / 'Simple Things' is available to
download now completely free hereFormed
in August 2006 and already well received in their beloved NYC,
sometimes members of Instruction, Walking Concert, Into Another,
Errortype:11, Garrison and Gay for Johnny Depp expand on their previous
post-hardcore beginnings to delve deep into psychedelic alt-rock akin
to Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver and Spaceman 3...
The Sound Explosion tour with The Datsuns
It has just been announced that The Sound Explosion will be the main tour support for The Datsuns tour. Which is good. Please come along and support them. If you would like to street team the tour please go here http://www.captainsof.com/enlist.php If you have already signed up for other street team activity, email info@footsoldiers.org.uk with "Sound Ex street team" as the subject. I thank you.
Oct 25 2006 8:00P
Academy 3 Manchester
Oct 26 2006 8:00P Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh
Oct 27 2006 8:00P University Hull
Oct 28 2006 8:00P Brickyard Carlisle
Oct 29 2006 8:00P ABC 2 Glasgow
Nov 1 2006 8:00P Social
Nottingham
Nov 2 2006 8:00P The Park Peterborough
Nov 3 2006 8:00P Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton
Nov 4 2006 8:00P The
Leadmill Sheffield
Nov 5 2006 8:00P Waterfront
Norwich
Nov 6 2006 8:00P University
Southampton
Nov 7 2006 8:00P Electric Ballroom London Tickets http://www...
Street Team manager wanted!
Our street team FOOTSOLDIERS, needs someone who can manage the operation and turn it into the baddest guerilla marketing business in the UK! We need someone who loves music more than they love their mother, is well organised, is full of great ideas, has shit loads of energy, and is willing to work alongside the Captains of Industry rabble! We want you to recruit and manage our street teams (we already have many in place) and organise the campaigns. At times we may also need help with recruiting bands and labels. You can work from home so you will need an internet connection and a mobile. It doesn't need to be full time just yet so you could fit it round other commitments, such as part-time/freelance work, or studying...
band merchandise
Due to problems with our supplier we have temporarily taken down our merchandise shop. We expect to resolve this quickly so check back soon. You can of course still buy our records!
If you have an outstanding t-shirt order please contact Rich sales@captainsof.com with your invoice number (CAPT_M0000....) and he will be able to give you an update on your order. If we can't fulfill your order we will sort a full refund for you.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
The Captains x
A few words from the Sucio boys....
Hey folks,
so...we're halfway through September, which means we're quietly rolling into October. And this is where the news starts. New single 'The Drop' is released next month, and as you may know we're going on tour. Some dates have been pulled and others added, so here are the latest confirmed shows:
OCTOBER
3rd ABERDEEN Drummonds
4th GLASGOW Barfly w/Piano Bar Fight (+16s)
5th EDINBURGH Teviot House, Edinburgh Uni Student Union
7th DUNDEE Westport Bar w/Alamos
8th LIVERPOOL Barfly* (+18s)
9th YORK Fibbers*
11th CARDIFF Barfly* (+18s)
13th WEST SUSSEX Horsham Youth Centre
16th LONDON Camden Barfly* (+14s)
*Kerrang! Most Wanted Shows with Bullets & Octane and Takota...
Save The Astoria
Home to some of the best gigs ever witnessed in recent times, The Astoria is up for development. Life wouldn't be the same without making new friends in the Keith Moon bar, absently gazing at the really bad paintings of Jimi Hendrix (or is Lionel Ritchie?) and John Lennon, or sneaking jazz cigarettes on the balcony. Anyone interesting in singing a petition in an attempt to keep it open can do so here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/savethea/
Captain Ben of the Captains Of Industry collective.
“He might be Man Utd’s latest sensation…but he’s my band’s roadie.”
Look out for a two-page feature in today’s issue of – hmph - The Sun about Manchester United and England player Michael Carrick’s sideline as roadie for Captains Of Industry band The Sound Explosion.
It’s rather mental.
HEADLINE: “He might be Man Utd’s latest sensation…but he’s my band’s roadie.” – Glen Roughead, 21, singer.
It’s on page 24 and 25.
You gotta laugh.
Captains Of Industry. x
Lets help get 'Cunts' to No. 1....
We've not heard it, but any song called 'Cunts Are Still Running The World' has got to be good. Besides, Jarvis was the likeable face of Britpop, right? Read more here:
http://playlouder.com/news/+buy-jarvis-cocke/
Free Arthur Lee
http://www.nme.com/news/love/23819
Current online offers
For anybody who is thinking of buying some of our swag, here are the current offers we have on at the moment:
Buy 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' CD album by Sucioperro, and receive their 'Dialog On The 2' CD single FREE http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt032.php
Buy 'The Grates' tshirt and receive their 'The Ouch. The Touch' CD EP FREE http://www.captainsof.com/merch063.php
Buy Marmaduke Duke album 'The Magnificient Duke' and get a FREE CD promo, featuring 2 tracks from their next album plus one live track http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt015.php
Buy 'Blood: The Natural Lubricant' by Gay For Johnny Depp and get 'Shh...Put The Shiv To My Throat' remix promo CD http://www...
A word from our friends The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Imagine your nearest airport being bombed. Imagine bridges and roads around you being destroyed. Imagine power plants, electricity, hospitals, government buildings being destroyed and sewers stop functioning. Imagine no water coming from the tap. Imagine no food or medicine or outside humanitarian help being allowed into your country. Imagine a rain of bombs falling over houses, churches and stores so that ten, twenty, fifty civilians are killed every day.Imagine an army kidnapping half of your government and taking them out of the country. Imagine the same army every night firing sound bombs above your roof so your windows are blow open, nobody can sleep and your kids getting stomach pains from pure stress...
The soundtrack of war
'Dude (Looks Like A Lady)' versus 'White Lines' - who would you listen to while killing people?
An interesting read.
Taken From The Observer Music Monthly, Sunday July 16, 2006
Louder than bombs Every conflict has its own soundrack. The Observer's award-winning war correspondent Jason Burke tells why hip hop, Aerosmith and Wagner still echo around the world's hot spots
It was dusk, of course. Through the open gun port of the helicopter, past the crewman, and the heavy machine gun and its muzzle, I could see the open water beneath us, the line of the mangrove swamps to the left and the red and green tracer fire that pulsed up in long, lazy bursts from the jungle and then fell back into the grey foliage...
Top 10 Favourite Rollercoasters
1. Pepsi Max Big One (Blackpool, UK)2. Oblivion (Alton Towers, UK)3. Colossus (Thorpe Park, UK)4. Stealth (Thorpe Park, UK)5. The Hulk (Islands of Adventure, US)6. The Dragon (Ocean Park, Hong Kong)7. The Kraken (Seaworld, US)8. The Boomerang (Knotts Berry Farm, US)9. Dragon Khan (Port Adventura, Spain)10. The Unicorn (Islands of Adventure, US)
With thanks to Karen Luan.
Goodbye to the orginal space cowboy...
RIP Syd Barrett. (1946 - 2006)
thanks for the pressie
Many thanks to whoever kindly sent us the Captain Lionheart furry toy. However, we were slightly disapointed to find that, when we opened up his back, it didnt actually contain any drugs like in the movies. Better luck next time...
If anybody else feels so incined to send us any more gifts, please feel to do so. We make so little money (read: none) from this punk rock thing that any form of tax-free gratuity or benefit-in-kind is always appreciated! Send to 'Punk Rock Gift Aid' at the usual address....
Limited Edition Grates tee now on sale.
For those of you keeping abreast of antipedean wonder kids The Grates, a little treat! The band have given us some limited edition T-shirts which are now available from our site. This is a short run product so get one while you still can! With every T-shirt you order you will receive a FREE copy of their very first UK release, 'The Ouch. The Touch.' CD EP. Cos we are nice like that.
Look out for their debut album 'Gravity Won't Get You High' on Fiction, released 17th July.
News just in: Marmaduke Duke hit Glasgow.
Date: THU 06 JULY 2006 Venue: CLUB ÖLÜM @ BLOC, 117 BATH STREET, G2 2SZ Cost: FREE ENTRY!!! Time: 9PM - 3AM Venue Phone: 0141 574 6066Resident DJ: DIRTY MARC
Marmaduke Duke will be playing a "late night live performance". Please arrive early to avoid disappointment as this is only a 150 capacity venue. Apologies, but because it's a club night, its over 18s only. More info at: www.myspace.com/olum
Marmaduke Duke FREE rare promos
Greetings friends and lovers,
Yes. It’s that time of the week again.
To mark the clutch of live dates this week (below), Captains Of Industry have 25 extremely rare 3-track promo CD samplers of Marmaduke Duke’s forthcoming album ‘Duke Pandemonium’ to give away.
It’s inherently funky.
To be in with a chance simply send your name and postal address to: info@captainsof.com
The offers ends at MIDDAY FRIDAY JUNE 30th. Winners will be chosen on a first come basis and notified by e-mail.
Thanks,
Marmaduke Duke
www.marmadukeduke.com / www.captainsof.com
Marmaduke Duke live shows
Fri 30th June – Barfly, London (onstage late – check venue for stage time)
Sat 1st July - Barfly, Cardiff
Sun 2nd July - Birmingham Academy
Mon 3rd July - Newcastle Carling Academy (w/ Pretty Girls Make Graves)
Newcastle show, date changed
The Marmaduke Duke Newcastle show has changed from 29th June to 3rd July. They are now very special guests to Pretty Girls Make Graves. We assume tickets are transferable but check with the venue to be certain. The Duke sends his apologies if this causes you any inconvenience. Check it http://www.captainsof.com/tour.php
Free Marmaduke Duke album sampler - TODAY ONLY!
Greetings friends and country (wo)men,
Tomorrow is the longest day of the year and The Duke is soon going on tour. This in itself is a good enough reason to give away 25 highly limited sampler CDs of my forthcoming long-player, ‘Duke Pandemonium’.
To be sent one for free here’s what you need to do:
Simply e-mail your name and postal address to info@captainsof.com by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, TUESDAY JUNE 20th, his Lord’s year 2006AD.
Anytime afterwards and my minions might be forced to ignore you, however nicely you ask, and however sexually-charged your pouting MySpace photo is.
That’s all.
Thanks a lot,
Marmaduke Duke The Benevolent Duke...
Sucioperro album sells out on day of release
Sucioperro's debut album 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' - released yesterday - has pretty much sold out. Spiffing. A second pressing is underway. Please order online if you can't find it in the shops in the coming week or two. Thanks. Captains. x
Random Acts Of Intimacy in the shops NOW
Sucioperro's debut album 'Random Acts of Intimacy' is released TODAY! It's available from all good retailers, or online right here. Meanwhile, the band are halfway through their current tour, and are having a lovely time and have the following shows left:
12th BRISTOL Louisiana13th DURHAM Fishtank15th GLASGOW Barfly
www.sucioperro.comwww.myspace.com/sucioperro
Gay For Johnny Depp are cumming...
The unique entity known as GAY FOR JOHNNY DEPP are in the UK this week for three rare shows. Come one, come all:
Thursday June 8 Buffalo Bar, London w/ The Scare
Friday June 9 Snickers Bowl stage, Download festival (onstage 5.30pm)
Saturday June 10 Somewhere in Shoreditch, London
www.gayforjohnnydepp.com . www.myspace.com/gayforjohnnydepp
Thanks, Captains Of Industry. This day 6/6/6, naturally.
Marmaduke Duke announce UK shows
Spells will be cast and dancefloors destroyed when Marmaduke Duke play the following shows.
Thursday June 29 Newcastle Carling Academy 2Friday June 30 London Barfly (late slot)Saturday July 1 Cardiff BarflySunday July 2 Birmingham Bar Academy.
All tickets £7 or £7.50. Be there with bells on.
Us. x
Freaks on a leash...
Word to your Momma! SUCIOPERRO are in this week's Kerrang!, photographed on leashes and revealing all about who they are, where they come from and why they operate with ludicrous pseudonyms. It looks nice. Check it out! And you can view some live footage of the band on www.youtube.com. Love, Captains Of Interesting. x
Gay For Johnny Depp, Marmaduke Duke and The Sound Explosion announce shows
Got wood? You should. Gay For Johnny Depp, Marmaduke Duke and The Sound Explosion have each just announced rare one-off London shows. Please check our Forums for more details. And don't forget to live.
Captains of Everything. x
Marmaduke Duke made flesh.
Nine days after the summer day has been stretched the longest, the spirit of Marmaduke Duke shall be manifested in physical form in a borough of Northern Londinium. Magnificence and Pandemonium will be expressed and future generations of minions will speak in hushed tones of the myth, the magic, the majesty of those crazy, hazy Duke days at the dawn of the 21st century. Further manifestations are on the Tarot cards. Ticketweb will be collecting your hard-earned groats and winter-hewn turnips in exchange for this musical blessing. Use the wires of modernity to track down details of this apparition. Life is a puzzle; we are all vital components...
Sucioperro single - pre-order last call!
'Dialog on the 2' CD single by Sucioperro is out on Monday 15th May. If you want it before it hits the shops then get your order in quickly, your order will be dispatched the same day http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt031.php If you have already bought it tell us how good it is. Please.
Drugs.....
The British music industry is a dull, corporate world these days but at least one girl has been doing her bit to bring back the spirit of the 70s and 80s.
A blonde executive at SonyBMG has been making friends with many of the label's top bands like Oasis and The Zutons thanks to a prolific consumption and provision of "fruit and flowers". Sadly the gakhead's appetite was not matched by her salary and she suddenly found herself stuck with a five grand debt to her dealers for the stars cocaine. Label bosses have checked her into rehab at the Priory and are trying to sort the mess out quietly.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox declared that he would sign a bill to legalise recreational drug use in Mexico...
Don't forget to vote TODAY
Flex your democratic muscle. Piss in the ballot box. Dance the light fandango. To keep out those BNP comedians, if nothing else. Sexual. x
The Sound Explosion vs Hell Is For Heores TONIGHT
News just in: The Sound Explosion have been added as support to Hell Is For Heroes TONIGHT in Newcastle. The tour support can't do it so our four noble young heroes are stepping in. If you're planning on being there, do pop down early to hear some new tunes from the forthcoming album. Safety. x
Remembering the Armenian Genocide
April 24, 1915 is the day the world remembers all those who fell victim to the Turkish government and their genocide towards the more than 1.5 million Armenians. Children, women, and men starved to death, marched through the desert, brutally beaten and raped among other indescribable atrocities. Armenians the world over shall never cease to stop banging at the world's door until justice is served.
And now just Armenainas either, but anyone sick of humanity's lies, bruality, corruption and cover-up's.
New bands wanted!
Go here: http://www.captainsof.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60
An Emergency cancel shows....
A note from the band:
We've had to pull out of the majority of our short tour this month, cancelling shows in London, Kingston, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. As we mentioned in our last update, this is due to a death in the family of one of AEs members. We're sorry to anybody who may have been coming out to see us, as well as the promoters but hope you can understand.
We're planning on playing our Exeter show and also the show at the Dublin Castle at the end of the month. As far as we know the shows we have pulled out of are still going ahead so get down there to check out some incredible bands. We're gonna try and re-schedule a tour for July/August so watch this space...
FREE, exlusive Sucioperro download single.
Available from today Sucioperro celebrate their April tour with a FREE, exclusive download single 'Wolf Carnival' taken from their debut album 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' (available June 12th). Download the track HERE. Wolf Carnival comes as a CD quality mp3 and is complete with artwork by The Spider ready for those of you who wish to rip and burn and start the sucio collection on your shelves.Their first CD single 'Dialog on the 2' will be released on May 15th but we hope you enjoy this FREE taste of things to come in the meantime. The band can be seen live at the following happenings: 11/04 LUTON, Students Union
13/04 BRISTOL, Louisiana
15/04 HARLOW, The Square
16/04 OXFORD, The Wheatsheaf *
18/04 DUNDEE, New Westport
19/04 EDINBURGH, The Venue
20/04 ABERDEEN, Drummonds
21/04 SCARBOROUGH Vivaz
22/04 KINGSTON, The Peel *
23/04 LONDON, Upstairs @ The Garage
24/04 LEICESTER, Sumos *
* with Dive DiveNot to be missed!
Top 10 Glam Rock names we'd happily change ours to by deed poll..
10. Rikki Rockett (Poison)
9. Brent Muscat (Faster Pussycat)
8. CC Deville (Poison)
7. Pepsi Tate (Tigertailz)
6. Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue)
5. Tracii Guns (LA Guns)
4. Taime Downe (Faster Pussycat)
3. Nasty Suicide (Hanoi Rocks)
2. Jizzy Pearl (Love / Hate)
1. Chip Z’ Nuff (Enuff Z’Nuff)
GAY FOR GAYFOR
Sid Jagger from Gay For Johnny Depp spotted this little gem. This guy is our new hero! www.youtube.com
TEAM to split...or just resting?
You decide....
http://www.teamtm.co.uk/
And read this too:
http://www.new-noise.net/see_354.html
Gay For Johnny Depp to play Download!
Prepare thy lube - Gay For Johnny Depp have been confirmed to play Download festival 2006 with lots of closeted metallers. Get in! They're on the Snickers stage. More details to follow. Our advice is do not eat the Snickers that day...
Top 10 Bands You're Too Punk To Admit To Liking
1. Reef
2. Helloween
3. Blink-182
4. Poison
5. Yes
6. Girls Aloud
7. Huey Lewis & The News
8. These Animal Men
9. Kelly Clarkson
10. Chaka Demus & Pliers
An Emergency tour and split single
Our spazzy post-punk friends in the south, An Emergency, have pulled together a lovely tour in April and are releasing a cheeky little 7" split single with tour buddies Breakneck Static. Because they can. It will be released on Vacuous Pop/Freakscene Records, hopefully during the tour. But you know how these things are.....
'Presenting new signings Sucioperro'
Captains Of Industry are tickled to announce the signing of storming new Scottish four-piece Sucioperro. And a tour to celebrate - happening right now....Tour dates with Oceansize - on tour now!!Wednesday March 22 - Birmingham Academy 2Thursday March 23 - London ScalaFriday March 24 - Nottingham Rock CityTuesday March 28 - Cardiff Club Ifor BachThursday March 30 - Manchester Academy 3Also:Sunday April 23 - Upstairs @ The Garage with TEAM, Roma 79 and Riddle Of Steel.From the seaside town of Ayr (also home to both Robert Burns and Biffy Clyro), Sucioperro are The Dragon, The Big Slice (bass/vocals), The Farmer (guitar) and The Welshman (drums)...
Gay For Johnny Depp's highway to heel….
Gay For Johnny Depp frontman injures himself on stage. AgainSpare a thought this week for Gay For Johnny Depp frontman Marty Leopard who has shattered his foot during the band's first hometown show of 2006.Leopard, single white male, bi-curious, broke his heel after a brave and foolish leap from a table in Brooklyn's cruising joint/venue Galapagos whilst wearing only his underwear. Also playing on the bill were a bunch of bands no-one can remember. "We were pretty drunk for most of the show so have no memory of what happened," said band spokesman/guitarist Sid Jagger. "Sorry. I do remember that there was a cross dresser as master of ceremonies though...
Pandemonium
A quick update on the life of Marmaduke Duke.
The Duke's latest installment, originally told in the Homeric oral tradition, has been translated into music by his hirsute earthly representatives, The Dragon and The Atmosphere. It goes by the name of 'Duke Pandemoium' and features nine pieces of music, each vastly different from one another. Sample titles includes 'Silhoettes', 'Pink Rubber Lover' and 'Everybody Dance'.
Expect to see a single before the album.
Expect to see rainfall before the single.
Expect to see dark clouds before the rain.
Expect nothing and you will always be happy.
The new website is here!
The new Captains Of Industry website is finally here. You're looking at it. Within you will find interactive forums, videos, downloadable press kits, pretty pictures and hyperbolic rhetoric.
Each month we're also offering a free downloadable compilation album 'Liberation Music' for you to rip and burn or add to your generic non branded mp3 pod. We're giving away our entire back catalogue this way over the next year and will continue to do this as long as people express an interest.
Hope you like the new site, keep coming back from now, comrades of the new beat.
Texas watch yo ass - Future Ex Wife are in town....
From March 13th Future Ex Wife will be in Austin Texas eating ribs, drinking ice-cold beer and getting more numbers from more strippers.
Oh! And they're playing some shows too.Check their MySpace page for the info as venues are subject to change: http://www.myspace.com/futureexwife
Frontman Pete 'Black Spider' Spiby has also posted this message about new 'Wife recordings:
"New songs recorded are live faves 'Woman' and 'St.Peter', with new songs 'The Opener', 'Valley of the Kings' and 'Stay Down' biting at their heels. In fact 'Stay Down' was only written last week and is superb!! We hope to have it used by a certain US wrestler, who wants to use it as his intro music...
Pontious Pilots...
We Will Be Pilot's 2005 debut 'This Is What You Fight For’ continues to receive love from all-comers. Check out the new review on www.caughtintehcrossfire.com this week:
"It’s always a pleasure to uncover a total gem of an album sitting on the shelf and this is a beauty. We Will Be Pilots’ are part of Captain of Industry’s growing stable of unfettered talent and this mini album is over brimming with fuzzy unpolished vocals, catchy hooks and a tight guitar disco-vibe sound that hits the spot. The storming ‘We are Not The Doctors’ rampages out of control with a growing sense of urgency – pop punk seared with screamo (without the caterwauling vocals) pounding out like a wrecking ball to the senses...
It's grate when you're straight...yeah!
Arguably the three cheeriest people in the world, Patience, Alana and John - that would be The Grates - have now signed to Interscope and are working on their debut album. They have many shows lined up, including playing South By South West in Austin, Texas in March '06. See www.thegrates.com. We have a highly limited amount of copies of their imported four track ‘Message’ CD (featuring ‘Sukkafish’) left. Chuck another kanga steak on the griddle, then buy one. We wish them well for the future.
Hell Is For Heroes reschedule UK tour
A word in your shell-like from the Hell Is For Heroes camp:
“Hey'all. Sorry to say we've had to pull out of the Boy Sets Fire tour due to a load of logistical problems we couldn't solve. We're putting together our headline tour for April and will announce it here shortly. Boy Sets Fire tickets can be exchanged for records/merch at those shows. Thanks.”
Louie sign deal, release second single
Louie signed to a major record label shortly after the release of their debut single 'Trees' on Cpatains Of Industry. Their new single 'The Curves And The Bends' is released on the 6th March (today!) on Fallout Records. The CD comes a new track called 'Young Evil Souls' and the transparent blue vinyl 7' is backed with another new one called 'Down The Honey Pot'
Louie are touring all the time at the moment - go see them play.
Good luck punk gonks!
Gun' Ho
The 21guns boys are polishing their barrels indefinitely.
Louie tour, single, sign record deal...
Louie are currently touring the UK with Dirty Pretty Things and Humanzi. Get in.
Watch out for their new single 'The Curves & The Bends' - out this week! - and their forthcoming raucous debut album on Island Records.
And check out www.louie.uk.com for all the latest info.
Public Service Anouncement
Smalltown America is a very fine independet UK record label. Actually we're sort of jealous of them because they're more organised than us. HOWEVER we're not envious and suppor their cause whole-heartedly. Which is why we recommend you check out their latest compilation 'Public Service Broadcast #7' which features Captains Of Industry's very own An Emergency. It's limited to a mere 500 copies so it might well have sold out and the full tracklisting is below. Viddy well, brothers and sisters. Viddy well....
1. We Versus The Shark - You Don't Have To Kick It 2. The Adventures Of Loki - Punch Drunk Sunday 3. The Holy Ghost - Commercial 4...
The Sound Explosion record new album
Bloooze! Newcastle noiseniks The Sound Explosion are currently at home writing their second album. They hit the studio with producer Matt Elliss in February 2006. Some singles and an album will be released this year, plus more extensive touring. Copies of their acclaimed self-titled debut and new ‘Apollo’ T-shirts are available: www.thesoundexplosion.com
Buy curious...
The world’s hottest band Gay For Johnny Depp are currently back in Brooklyn working on a full-length (and we mean full and, indeed, length) carnival of musical smut. It’ll be released when it’s finsiehd and the stains wiped away. There is also talk of Gay For Johnny Depp split record – with themselves, naturally – on the rather special Gravity Dip Records sometime in 2006. In the meantime, send them filth at: www.gayforjohnnydepp.com or check out their various related bands including Fires, Instruction and Hopewell.
Tales from the Tundra
Minus are currently in Iceland. Fucking shit up.
Dog gone...
Whatever happened to The Coyote Men anyway? Answers on a stamp-addressed raw steak please.
Marmaduke Duke: the quest continues...
The second installment of Marmaduke Duke’s trilogy, Duke Pandemonium, is near to completion. A vast departure from their The Magnificent Duke debut in sound, style and structure, it’s a funk-filled twisted pop opus. Marmaduke Duke have been rumoured to feature members of Sucioperro Biffy Clyro. Expect a single preceding the album…and some tour dates. Those who saw the band play their first ever shows late 2005 will know special they are live. The Duke himself is currently in Eastern Europe on a fact-finding mission.
HIFH sign to Burning Heart
The Hell Is For Heroes brothers recently signed to Sweden's Burning Heart Records (home to Refused, Turbonegro, The (International) Noise Conspiracy) and have been touring Europe where Transmit/Disrupt recently had a general release. Get in. See you down the front.
Terror alert!
Sonically-minded art-rockers Peace Burial At Sea have recently completed and remixed their second album Holy Terrors due for release in 2006.
In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Debt
Blood Valley have split into various nefarious factions. They can now be seen lurking in the darker corners of London as, amongst others, Mystery Meat, A Life In Bandages and the Gila Monsters. Hurrah for that.
Favez open for The Pixies
Favez opened for The Pixies at the Geneva Arena on june 27th.
Shit Captains saw them play to 10 people in Sunderland.....
When asked about it pre-gig they unexcitedly said about supporting the Legendary band
" they don't care, their audience doesn't
care and you're way too nervous to play a good show and if the bass player
comes to check you out you make a mistake just when she's looking". And that's
sort of how it was, except that the audience was pretty nice to them, Mrs kim
d. came to check them out and, (as they didn't realise it), so they didn't make
any mistakes ." very frankly, we had fun but it's not that
big a deal
(ooops, bad choice of words here...
Movers Mangle España
The Illegal Movers have taken their riotous punkpoppowerduelux to the
sunny shores of España as the guests of the awesome Los Chicos. The geordie punk quartet have already had a massive response from Spanish radio stations and first shows suggest that Spanish punks appreciate their knuckle dragging, guitar shredding escapades. Needless to say with a line up of The Movers and Los Chicos the bars will be drained and mayhem will ensue.
Kinesis split
Kinesis have split up - on the day 'You Are Being Lied To' is released.They released the following statement before dispersing to the four corners of the earth to persue various charitable, political, musical and educational projects: "Five years after having performed, Kinesis are no more. If we leave a legacy of any kind, we hope it is one of inspiration - it's better to be proactive than reactive. We would like to thank everyone who has played a part in this adventure."An articulate post-morten of the Kinesis corpse, as performed by singer Michael Bromley, can be read here:www.youarebeingliedto.com
TEAM tour. TEAM single. TEAM rock.
TEAM are going on tour. Again! After a drunken jaunt with Denvey Dalley’s Statistics, stapleton and Jeff Klein this big-hearted rock brutes hit the road in February for some headlien shows. See tour dates for details. There’s also a highly limited single coming out to coincide. It’s only available at show or go to www.TEAMtm.co.uk. TEAM’s second album The Line From A – B is available now. Fucking rocks aswell…
Petition against 'Pay as you go' road tax
There are only a few days left to register your objection to the 'Pay as
yougo' road tax - which closes to petitions on the 20th February
2007.The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell
anybodyabout it.
Once you've given your
details (you don't have to give your full address,just house number and
postcode will do), they will send you an email with alink in it. Once you
click on that link, you'll have signed the petition. Democracy in
action? The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean
you having topurchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly
bill to use it.The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent
study by the BBC,the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and
£194 for a deliverydriver...
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