Hello everyone
Despite appearances to the contrary, City of Thieves is out now! Reviews have been dropping in thick and fast with NME describing it as “inexorably, thrillingly now”, and Big Cheese magazine (which you can visit HERE) concluding that “it’s smart, joyous music that has plenty to say and does so eloquently”. The heavy, heavy monster sound of Kerrang! gave it four Ks, but I haven't had chance to read that yet because it came out today and I'm still in bed. Even Music Week are getting in on the Boom love with the almost biblical proclamation of “finally, their time has come”. The digitally inclined among you can go and buy City of Thieves now from our online Digital Store over at Rebel Alliance Recordings (also released today is the incredible ‘True Stories’ by Mouthwash).
http://www.rebelalliancerecordings.com/digitalstore.cfm
Unfortunately, with all this love coming our way, the karmic tectonic plates of Boom have shifted to create a right old bothersome situation. The CDs, ordered some time ago (in time for the original 20th April release date at least) simply never came. Scant correspondence from the (apparently professional and trustworthy) company which we were dealing with gave way to answering machine shrug-offs and ignored emails as the days became weeks. By the time we’d moved the release date back to accommodate their ‘mistakes’, something was smelling very fishy. We took the gamble of ordering an extra batch of CDs from a different company a week into waiting from the date the original company had promised we’d have them by. This gamble paid off. The original company simply took our money and gave us promises the CDs would materialise. They never did. We don’t know why, we don’t know how, we don’t know if the company is even in business right now (we even went and physically visited their empty offices). We are currently receiving legal advice about how to go about dealing with the situation, what with no only the obvious financial implications but also our loss of earnings and so on. This, as you may imagine, is enough to turn ginger into grey. I won’t bother keeping you up to date with that through emails if you don’t mind, just rest assured that this is not something we’ve been in any way lackadaisical about in our approach to dealing with it. Come and ask in person at a gig on tour if you want to know the gory details. But I probably won’t be able to say anything for legal reasons, like on the telly.
Anyhoo, the upshot of this is that we’re going to have CDs from the new company very early next week, with the digipaks following shortly after. We have to thank the guys at Photofit and the Ministry of Sound for helping us out of this hole (and Lil for offering). I was going to provide the number and email of the original company for you to forward your complaints to but due to the fact we are unsure of where we stand legally at this point, we’re going to leave it. Just believe you me, it’s getting dealt with. If anyone has ordered a CD up to this point, they will receive a complimentary digital download link, for the Mp3 version of the album so they can hear it in the meantime.
Unfortunately (how I hate that word!) this has meant the instores this week in Exeter, Taunton and Kingston have had to be rescheduled again. We offer our thanks and appreciation to Banquet Records and the guys in Exeter for their understanding about our predicament. And we promise we are going to make it over. We are going to re-schedule the dates the minute we have a CD in our hands! And you have to come, clap along and buy a CD yeah! Thanks to everyone that came down to Afflecks and All Ages.
Oooh, but thanks to everyone who has seen us on the tour so far! And hopefully see you at a gig somewhere down the road. Shout outs to the Bomb Ibiza crew, the gig this Saturday in Manchester is the Bomb Ibiza 5th year anniversary special which features 5 bands and free entry to the clubnight. Ooooh, it'll be messy! They've been providing Manchester with ska and punk gigs for 5 years now. I remember the first night back in the day in the student hall of residences. Me and Bobby Keeling out on the town. It was like Swingers. Ooooh, the stories I could tell you. But again, you'd have to ask me in person. Check out their myspace!
http://www.myspace.com/bombibiza
Anyway, enough of my yakkin. Thanks to everyone who has come down to the tour so far. Random Hand joined us last night on the tour and will be with us for the remainder. And they rocked! Check the rest of those dates!
http://www.myspace.com/sonicboomsix
Barney x
Despite appearances to the contrary, City of Thieves is out now! Reviews have been dropping in thick and fast with NME describing it as “inexorably, thrillingly now”, and Big Cheese magazine (which you can visit HERE) concluding that “it’s smart, joyous music that has plenty to say and does so eloquently”. The heavy, heavy monster sound of Kerrang! gave it four Ks, but I haven't had chance to read that yet because it came out today and I'm still in bed. Even Music Week are getting in on the Boom love with the almost biblical proclamation of “finally, their time has come”. The digitally inclined among you can go and buy City of Thieves now from our online Digital Store over at Rebel Alliance Recordings (also released today is the incredible ‘True Stories’ by Mouthwash).
http://www.rebelalliancerecordings.com/digitalstore.cfm
Unfortunately, with all this love coming our way, the karmic tectonic plates of Boom have shifted to create a right old bothersome situation. The CDs, ordered some time ago (in time for the original 20th April release date at least) simply never came. Scant correspondence from the (apparently professional and trustworthy) company which we were dealing with gave way to answering machine shrug-offs and ignored emails as the days became weeks. By the time we’d moved the release date back to accommodate their ‘mistakes’, something was smelling very fishy. We took the gamble of ordering an extra batch of CDs from a different company a week into waiting from the date the original company had promised we’d have them by. This gamble paid off. The original company simply took our money and gave us promises the CDs would materialise. They never did. We don’t know why, we don’t know how, we don’t know if the company is even in business right now (we even went and physically visited their empty offices). We are currently receiving legal advice about how to go about dealing with the situation, what with no only the obvious financial implications but also our loss of earnings and so on. This, as you may imagine, is enough to turn ginger into grey. I won’t bother keeping you up to date with that through emails if you don’t mind, just rest assured that this is not something we’ve been in any way lackadaisical about in our approach to dealing with it. Come and ask in person at a gig on tour if you want to know the gory details. But I probably won’t be able to say anything for legal reasons, like on the telly.
Anyhoo, the upshot of this is that we’re going to have CDs from the new company very early next week, with the digipaks following shortly after. We have to thank the guys at Photofit and the Ministry of Sound for helping us out of this hole (and Lil for offering). I was going to provide the number and email of the original company for you to forward your complaints to but due to the fact we are unsure of where we stand legally at this point, we’re going to leave it. Just believe you me, it’s getting dealt with. If anyone has ordered a CD up to this point, they will receive a complimentary digital download link, for the Mp3 version of the album so they can hear it in the meantime.
Unfortunately (how I hate that word!) this has meant the instores this week in Exeter, Taunton and Kingston have had to be rescheduled again. We offer our thanks and appreciation to Banquet Records and the guys in Exeter for their understanding about our predicament. And we promise we are going to make it over. We are going to re-schedule the dates the minute we have a CD in our hands! And you have to come, clap along and buy a CD yeah! Thanks to everyone that came down to Afflecks and All Ages.
Oooh, but thanks to everyone who has seen us on the tour so far! And hopefully see you at a gig somewhere down the road. Shout outs to the Bomb Ibiza crew, the gig this Saturday in Manchester is the Bomb Ibiza 5th year anniversary special which features 5 bands and free entry to the clubnight. Ooooh, it'll be messy! They've been providing Manchester with ska and punk gigs for 5 years now. I remember the first night back in the day in the student hall of residences. Me and Bobby Keeling out on the town. It was like Swingers. Ooooh, the stories I could tell you. But again, you'd have to ask me in person. Check out their myspace!
http://www.myspace.com/bombibiza
Anyway, enough of my yakkin. Thanks to everyone who has come down to the tour so far. Random Hand joined us last night on the tour and will be with us for the remainder. And they rocked! Check the rest of those dates!
http://www.myspace.com/sonicboomsix
Barney x
