Kettering and Corby based four piece My First Radio release "Progress" as free download on the GIITTV singles club. The track comes as a precursor to a full physical single released on Series 8 records later in the year.Bside "My Secret Plan" is now available to all.
In a live setting My First Radio combine the fragile atmospherics of Engineers, Mogwai and Redjetson with the mashed up effects pedal punk of Bloc Party and add the vocal kick in the nuts of Six By Seven and latter day Primal Scream. You could call it shoegazing with size twelves.
In this context "Progress" is somewhat disarming, catching you totally off guard with its wistful, emotionally charged vocals which ache over a gentle piano motif eventually rising to a searing vocoder soaked ephiphany. The bside "My Secret Plan" combines knowing vocal interplay with spiralling shoegaze fuzz that smacks you about the face and lets you know who’s in charge here...
Superman Revenge Squad comprises of one man from Croydon, called Ben, playing the acoustic guitar and singing. He used to be in Nosferatu D2, who played their final gig at the Spitz supporting Los Campesinos in March 2007. Since then Ben has been playing around London, York and Brighton as SRS.
Who are Small Crew? Small Crew is Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards (formerly of bands like The Boyfriends, The Lucas Group and Vermont), although neither is necessarily on any given Small Crew Recording. Small Crew is whoever is in the room at the time when Small Crew music is being made. Small Crew can also be at the end of a phone line, in the post or on a computer, radio or television. If you aid, facilitate or enjoy Small Crew activities, you are Small Crew. Activity is currently limited to this planet but this is purely for technical reasons.
Small Crew make any kind of music depending on what's in the room or who's on the phone. They like singing and dancing and they like to keep it dirty.
The Sailplanes formed in London two years ago with no pre-conceived notion as to where the band would go, just a mutual appreciation of noisy experimental music. Since then they’ve released four records of challenging, sharp, arty, experimental, noisy music to the acclaim of the UK underground. In June of this year they released their debut album: 'a second, or ten years later' on their own Redheaded Stepchild imprint.
Drowned In Sound: “That very debut is The Sailplanes’ noisy, discordant, and succinct raison d’etre. In short – it’s awesome.” and iShotthedeputy: “aggressively and wonderfully different… Some songs have the sort of edgy and crazed distortion and noise ... others are simply sublime little pop gems and sometimes they're both." Robots In Electronic Brains hailed it as “genuinely arresting. Pristine but intricate: a difficult balance, yet here it is, fuzzy/lucid, baroque/austere, harsh/pretty. They blast out non-conventional chords and guitar figures less like riffs than flowing thoughts….”
New single “The End of the World” sees Time. Space. Repeat. step up and produce their most accessible song to date, combining the emotional ferocity of Six. By Seven with the widescreen stargazing of My Bloody Valentine, and it’s everything that shoegaze should have been the first time round. With epic, fuzzy guitars, arching melodies and a real knowledge of what makes music work that borders on the obsessive, Time. Space. Repeat. are ready to take the world on a journey through the universe and back, and show the Nu-Gaze imitators how to combine noise and tunes in equal measure.
