SIC has been working, if you can call it that, in the very un-British beserking heatwave this week.  An we haven’t even cracked once and had a beer at lunchtime.  Dedication, no?  Oh yeah, and guess what, we got organised.   In so many ways

We have been making ready the new Silent League album and adding in a bonus disc of rarities and pondering the loveliness of packaging options.  Album coming in the autumn

Memory Tapes have been watching the internet love build and build and grow and grow.  MP3 of the day on Brazilian MTV, Radio play from here to Australia, and more blogs than we can believe.    The Bicycle 12″ drops on August 10.  Check out the Radar piece on them in this week’s NME and listen for the radio love on Xfm.

We are making ready for The Gay Blades’ European tour next month and it is going to be great to have them back.  Look for their UK tour blog video, which is pretty damn funny.
And take the time to see their version of Michael Jackson’s Black Or White.
You can see both at http://theheadsupblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/subject-gay-blades.html

Air France are about to deliver their remix of St Etienne’s spring which will be out on Heavenly on a 12″ this summer with Richard X’s version of another track from Foxbase Alpha and are hard at work on their debut album in Gothenburg.  If you havent you should check out thier homage to their home town including an EXCLUSIVE brand new song http://www.gbgbelongstous.se/gbg.html

SIC and The Rest are brainstorming their assault on the UK later this year.   Check out their first single in the SIC sampler along with Gentleman Auction House’s debut single.   If you haven’t heard the sampler CD slash mixtape, it is called Listening Is Easy and available COMPLETELY FREE until we run out.  Drop us a line david@somethinginconstruction.com

TTFN
SIC
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A busy summer lies ahead for SIC, oh yes it does

The Gay Blades return in August for a European tour, calling in at V Festival and the 1st Annual Gay Blades BBQ at a secret location in London on Aug 24th. We might just put another single out too. Hey She Say!

Air France are hard at work making new tunes. Their first new offering is the old classic; the song/video/minisite/tourist-guide combo. Gothenburg Belongs to Me is an homage to their home town. www.gbgbelongstous.se. More coming in from them later this summer.

Memory Tapes are releasing their next release on Loog. Bicycle is already gathering Pitchfork/NME/Fader/radio love. Nice remix from The Horrors on it too. Keep your eyes peeled for an album later this summer.

The Silent League are returning with an EP, leading in to their stunningly stunning third album. Expect some very nice remixes from some surprising sources.

THE SIC WORLD SERIES is our new digital singles club. Gentlemen Auction House is up first with a massive slab of twisted dancefloor that recalls Bloc Party and The Jackson 5. 2nd in the series is the epic and beautiful guitar rock of The Rest.

Follow us @sicrecords and of course we’re on Facebook.

ENJOY THE SUNSHINE!

The music video for “Catbird Seat”, by the Silent League. Directed by Thomas Horne.

music video for Air France Directed by Marcus Söderlund.

The Gay Blades “O Shot” music video, the first single off their debut record Ghosts.

The Rest performing at Catherine North Studios on September 6th 2008.

THE GAY BLADES

Not Having Done Nothing

THE REST, SIC’s new Canadian wonder band were a blur of frantically strumemd guitars, massive drums, surging…what was that, an electirc cello? electric dub bass?

and such huge songs that it’s enuff to make one proud.

A heady mix of meetings, shopping, and barhopping filled out the time and SIC now has some new friends and some new plans. Oh yes.

AIR FRANCE are working hard on the debut album proper

Expect a lot of singing animals and tropicalia flavours.

Want it.

THE GAY BLADES are supporting SPINNERETTE

BOWERY BALLROOM

Monday June 22

We are letting the lovely LOOG records release a fantastic

Ltd edition 12″ single from MEMORY TAPES.

Bicycle, Plain Material, Bicycle (Horrors Remix)

Coming Aug 10.

A Limited vinyl and CD run of the debut album

will be available in September, via SIC and Acephale

New and slightly disturbed Gay Blades video

with script help from Sarah Silverman’s team

http://www.youtube.com/gayblades

Moshi moshi night
Hoxton Bar & Grill
5 band spectacular
THE GAY BLADES
EVERYTHING EVERYTHING
THREE TRAPPED TIGERS
WAX STAG
TINCAN TELEPHONE

doors 7.30

There is a lot to catch up on

 First check out these videos

 GAY BLADES “O SHOT”

 www.mtv.com/videos/the-gay-blades/340736/o-shot.jhtml

 AIR FRANCE “No Excuses”

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/273-air-france-no-excuses-sincerely-yours

 PLUS

AIR FRANCE ARE COMING TO DJ

SAT 25th April CAMDEN CRAWL Afterparty

FRI 15th May St Etienne, Richard X (DJ), Go Kart Mozart, AIR FRANCE (DJ )Bloomsbury Bowling

SAT 16th May  St Etienne, Richard X (DJ), Go Kart Mozart, AIR FRANCE (DJ )Bloomsbury Bowling

THE GAY BLADES LIVE

GHOSTS TOUR

 Friday 15-May-09  UK London Club NME @ Koko  w/Juliette & The Licks
Saturday 16-May-09  UK Brighton , Great Escape Festival
Sunday 17-May-09  UK Cardiff 10 Feet Tall  - 
Monday 18-May-09 UK London Old Blue Last - SIC night  w/AIR FRANCE free show, free swag, free shots

Wednesday 20-May-09  UK Liverpool Sound City - 02 Academy
Thursday 21-May-09  Leeds - Cockpit
Friday 22-May-09  UK Manchester - Hungry Pigeon Festival    
  Monday 25-May-09  Barrow In Furness - The Roxy  
 Thursday 28-May-09  UK London Hoxton B&K - Moshi Moshi night
Friday 29-May-09  SWITZERLAND  Luzern Shuur
Saturday 30-May-09  SWITZERLAND Schaffhausen Club Cardinal
Sunday 31-May-09   SWITZERLAND Basel Sommercasino
Tuesday 2-Jun-09 Oxford - 02 Academy 3 

The 10 track Album is out 23rd March in the Uk

but available NOW

on iTunes

and on CD via eBay

or Rough Trade

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=306065

2009. Moving along FAST. Gay Blades, Air France, Memory Cassette

So. OK
An update.

First up, The Gay Blades just shot a piece for NME in New York.   It’s gonna run in January.  Look out for debut single, O Shot on the radio all over soon.   We are trying to get the band over to the UK in late February.   Watch this space.

AIR FRANCE.  This one is runing away with itself.  We have already sold hundreds of No Way Down online and  on pre-release.  It is getting a formal release in the UK on march 23rd, preceded by a single No Excuses on March 9th.   There is going to be lots of press and radio on this baby.
We are waiting for the winter wind to make us a beautiful video at sea of the coast of Sweden.  really.

Memory Cassette.  Rewind While Sleepy EP is coming in March too.   Go check ‘em out in out Top Friends.    Beautiful stuff and massively tipped for 09.

Also nearing completion are new records from Akira the Don and Brooklyn’s The Silent league.

More soon.

ILL FIT II

NOVEMBER’S FUNNEST THING
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that club night then, here are the details for you, the reader, to read

SIC & TLOBF
present
ILL FIT
the second of several
a FREE party at London’s premier sweatbox, Old Blue Last, on monday November 17th

THIS TIME WE BRING THE MOTHERFUCKING NOISE
DISCOVERY ZONE www.myspace.com/discoveryzoneband

UK debut from Hollywood’s Gonzoid Rock, Bionic Pop Band

+

RUBELLA www.myspace.com/catchrubella

3rd show from London’s All-Grrl Trio

+

Spesh Guests TBA

+ SIC Unsoundsystem
+ Team TLOBF
and there is yet more:
free CDs, free giveaways, free shots, free fun, free thinking and quite definitely, free love
 
Doors will open at 8pm and it runs til 11 or something. 
And do remember that entry is free. 
There is no guest list so do come early if you want in because as you may or may not know the room is no bigger than your very own bedroom and it will fill up pretty damn swiftly.
 
Old Blue Last
38 Gt Eastern St, corner of Curtain Rd
Hoxditch
EC2A 3ES
 
ILL FIT will return
on
Monday December 08th.

www.thelineofbestfit.com
www.somethinginconstruction.com 

SO, SEPTEMBER, COMES TO PASS

AND WE HAVE NEW THINGS TO DO

two new ones for you
and
three new dos for you

TWO NEW BANDS…
1. from SWEDEN, two sailors, staight outta Gothenburg,
AIR FRANCE
Discodelia. The vodka kicking in. The sun setting. Beats and strings. Discodelia though…
Or maybe the memory of a summer that never actually was…

“It imagines an impossibly idyllic place through sounds thatprobably could never have been performed that way in real life. Though it’s been said, many times, many ways: Welcome to paradise.” 8.6 Pitchfork

Hear things from the forthcoming album and “No Way Down” and assorted lies at http://www.myspace.com/theairfrance

AIR FRANCE will be here in October doing a short DJ tour.
They are, in their own words, “the worst DJs in the hole of Sweden”. Possibly a typo. Possibly not.

“Brilliant” Rob Dabank Radio 1

 

“magnificent” TheLineOfBestFit.com

 

“pushing all the right buttons” Drownedinsound

  “love it” Huw Stephens, R1

and, my favourite:

“At Air France’s first and only show a year ago, where they were meant to DJ but drunkenly attempted to play their elaborately tracked songs on a couple of borrowed instruments, Fürst and Berglund saved the day by jumping onstage with their friends, and the crowd got so hyped that both bands and all of their fans were immediately thrown out by security.
Air France hasn’t played a gig since, though they do paper
Gothenburg with faux flyers announcing debauched shows at Fürst’s apartment dated the day before they post them, simultaneously building word-of-mouth buzz for the “missed show” and avoiding actually having to play.”FADER magazine

2. Five teenage tearaways from the Hollywood hills of Hollywood,
DISCOVERY ZONE
This is a rock band. Really though. Produced by Rob Cavallo, (MCR and GREEN DAY), hand picked to soundtrack James “Terminator/Titanic” Cameron’s new $400m sci fi blockbuster, and offering their worldwide debut on SIC.TRUE!
Catch up with their exploits and learn the fucking words at http://www.myspace.com/discoveryzoneband

A short UK tour in October from these young gentlemen is to be announced shortly also.

STARTNG WITH

ILL FIT Nov 17th

OH YES…
…ANDANOTHERTHING
or three

SIC and TheLineOfBestFit.com are throwing three (3 though!) parties
at London’s fashionable sweatbox, OLD BLUE LAST.
Get a pen. Or make the appropriate click.
Got it?
DIARY DATES:  OCT 20    NOV 17   DEC 08
If you are in London, we will need your help.
If you arent, then..ah…maybe you should be, hmmmm?
They are going to be fun.
We are booking them now.
Oh yeah
they are FREE

Did you download that free smaper we did with TheLineOfBestFit.com

Thousands did. And why not? It is AWESOME after all
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SIC’s attack on 2008 opened with….

CHRISTIAN SILVA’s debut album ONWARD!

And tours with Peter Bjorn and John and White Rabbits

“a masterpiece of a debut album” 92% The Line Of Best Fit
“As mad as a box of frogs, and all the more amazing for it.” Gigwise
“amazing…flamboyant pop magnificence…beyond the sun” The Guardian
“big and gleaming…genius” UNCUT
“Brilliant!” Huw Stephens, Radio 1

info
www.myspace.com/christiansilva

The Silent League are nearly finished recording album #3
Coming later in 2008
MARCH 4th

AKIRA THE DON has a new mixtape. It is called THIEVING. Looks like this:

He is hard at work right now on album #2 with Stephen “PSB/NewOrder” Hague, and I don’t even make the exaggeration meter flicker when I say that it is going goddam unbelievably well and is going to be a no-filler completely stunning pop record that is going to make ATD the playa he has threatened to be.

Until then, THIEVING has a host of tunes that didn’t make album #1, or are a bit “streeeeeet” for album #2,or one-off colabs and remixes and shizzle. And one or two that have samples that we aren’t even going to try to clear.

It is pretty damn fine stuff.

You should listen.

The Back In The Day remix is even a bit of a tearjerker.

Music Of The Spheres is something you ain’t heard from ATD yet. Wasn’t that the week they went Country’n'Western?

Elsewhere you’ll be hearing Slayer, Elastica, Was Not Was, 70s funk and of course XTC, which is more of that new wave crate digging that started with the Ruts and Clash based tracks that ATD produced for Lethal Bizzle’s album, which kicked off the Gallows link up.

So. Pay attention cos it all starts here.

FEBRUARY 12th. That is today.

First up, CHRISTIAN SILVA has some dates coming up. He is playing as a two piece. Pianos and drums. And some nice lamps. Come and see it. It is absolutely the shizzle.

Feb 23 BOURNEMOUTH Adventures In The Beetroot Field Party @ 60 Million Postcards

Feb 25 LONDON Madam Jojo’s. So It Goes Launch Party TBC

Mar 04 LONDON Electro Acoustic @ Slaughtered Lamb

Apr 14 LONDON Old Blue Last Album Launch Party

May 1 LONDON Old Queens Head. Shoot Low They’re Riding Shetlands Party

Press is begining to run on the album and the blogs and online world are beng particulalry enthusiastic. Good for them.

Also we are about to announce details of SIC’s 3rd annual compilation. This new one is going to feature guest contributions from some of our friends, and a LOT of new bands that we have fallen in love with of late. It is strong like a giant and slinky like a snake and it kicks like a rifle. It is just awesome pop new music. It is going to be called BUILDING WITH STRINGS. At least that is the plan today.

In further other news, AKIRA THE DON, is in the studio working on album #2 with legendary producer Stephen Hague (alchemist of pop majesty from Pet Shop Boys and New Order among others). Also in the studio, cooking up album#3 are Brooklyn’s THE SILENT LEAGUE.

Our friends LONEY DEAR are planing a jaunt here soon so look out for them.

Jan 5th

The Christian Silva album is finished.It is called Onward!.We have copies in. Christian is selling them at his shows as of now. It is available via all digital platforms on Christmas Day, including iTunes Worldwide.

We have a limited stock of the album, with copies individually signed by Christian, available exclusively from this site from Monday 10th December.

Drop us a line here (SICrecords2008@gmail.com) and tell us how many copies you want and send £10 per album (inc P&P) via Paypal to the same email address.

Please note all of our albums are available at that price in the same way.

Onward looks like this

Hello you beautiful chunks of humankind.

We have a new website.
We keep our teeth clean now.

And we got game.
Scrabble mainly.

We have a shop that works. So buy things.

We have all new songs for you to steal. Go check em out in Releases. Loney Dear vs CSS, Akira The Don, Silent League, Christiansilva, Damn Arms and manymore. Whores shall have their lovely shiny trinkets. And so shall you.

We will be writing pearls of wisdom, news of stuff and sharing things that make our days brighter and longer with you. All the time, though.

Right now we are in New York. Stalking, shopping and looking at pop groops. Lucky us.

The Other Passengers album, “We Are All Other Passengers” is fiiiinally out now and it really will kick and scream and blow your mind. Hewn from Joy Division and Butthole Sufers, via Can, QOTSA and Portishead. Big. Fat. Heavy. Twisted. Rock. Songs.
They are playing with Secret Machine and Calla this weekend in Manhattan.

So, do you love them?

“I guess I love them ” (8/10) DROWNEDINSOUND
“I love them” musicforrobots
“I fucking love them” The Deli
“unhinged” NME
“monumental” Artrocker
“dark brilliance” The Fly 4/5
“makes QOTSA sound positively tame by comparison ” GIGWISE
“scary, intense, magnificent” Village Voice
“rock and roll grace” New York Times

Straight outta Brooklyn and right in there, under your skin.

Annnnd
We just mastered the Christiansilva record today. Super Furries and Sufjan Stevens go Ziggy Stardust. Coming soon.

And the Silent League’s second album, “Of Stars & Other Somebodies” is out too. “majestic” is what most of the reviews said so I guess that is true.
They are playing shortly with Los Campesinos and Maps and coming back the UK later this year.

And Loney Dear’s “Sologne” is still going very strong. Damn that Emil writes a good tune.

Akira The Don is well into album #2 at the mo. And it is both Royal and Mint.

Right. Gotta go back.

Play nice.

See you soon.

SIC
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