Pensioner Our very own Pensioner are very kindly offering fans the chance to snap up their cracking debut album Yearlings for free on their Bandcamp page. Be quick mind as this offer is only going to be available for a few more days. Aerials Up Those lovely Aerials Up kids are giving away a free download of arguably their best song, All Your Mothers Daughters here . IndianRedLopez As a Christmas gift to us all, Aberdeenshire's finest, IndianRedLopez have posted up their cover [...]
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Tweet Before I go any further, let me just state a brief little disclaimer. I happen to be a bit of a fan of Cancel The Astronauts . I may or may not have a limited edition copy of their second EP, "Funny For A Girl", which may or may not include a personal letter from the band thanking me for buying it, which may or may not be one of my most treasured possessions. If, say, I did have such a personal letter, it [...]
Cancel The Astronauts - Making Dynamite (Live at the T Break Stage, T in the park 2011) by RadioMagnetic Cancel the Astronauts - T Break Backstage Interview, T in the Park 2011 by Radio Magnetic on Mixcloud Cancel The Astronauts - T Break Stage Live [...]
And as May turns into June... Spring inevitably turns into November. Fucking great, Scotland, well done. Thanks. Anyhow, you'd think putting on a gig on Tuesday, for all its drawbacks, would at least leave you relatively free of competition but this week, for some inexplicable reason, there are two absolutely cracking gigs on Tuesday night. Other than that I have to confess I don't see much on at all this week - neither in my quick skim through the websites of Edinburgh's venues, nor in my own Facebook events calender. In fact, am I the only [...]
This blog has been up and running for just over 2 years now and i just realised that i've never actually done a proper Valentines Day post. So here is one in the form of a Monday List. Valentines Day divides a lot of people. Some love it and celebrate it to the full with presents, dinner dates, "quiet" nights at hotels, cards, flowers and the general showering of love on their partner. Then there are those who hate (lets be honest it's usually single people) Valentines Day [...]
This is one of those weeks where there could be two of you and you'd still probably not quite manage to get to all the decent gigs in the city this week. Personally I am going to try and keep it a bit calm, but I have my doubts as to whether or not I am likely to succeed. Mrs. Toad, no doubt, will be wildly impressed. I had fun down in London last week, incidentally. As I mentioned, I did a quick interview with Tom Robinson for BBC 6Music while I was there and, in typical fashion, [...]
Time for our second Christmas song of the day. All being well as this is posted I'll be getting myself ready to head off to that scary Edinburgh place to see this band playing at Kid Canaveral's Christmas Baubles gig. In a few hours I'll probably be really quite drunk and attempt to hug at least one member of each band. Apologies in advance then folks. We had this song last year, but I like it and I like Cancel The Astronauts, so here it is [...]
Time for our second Christmas song of the day. All being well as this is posted I'll be getting myself ready to head off to that scary Edinburgh place to see this band playing at Kid Canaveral's Christmas Baubles gig. In a few hours I'll probably be really quite drunk and attempt to hug at least one member of each band. Apologies in advance then folks. We had this song last year, but I like it and I like Cancel The Astronauts, so here it is [...]
Track Listing 1. I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home) 2. Love Backwards 3. Funny For A Girl 4. Animal Love Match Download
Cancel The Astronauts are indie pop in a can and I like that. Maybe a bit geeky but hey I'm sat at my computer writing a blog so there's definitely a bit of geek in me. I'll be interested to see what more CTA have got in the locker, perhaps the next Wombats? You can buy the Edinburgh band's EP, Funny For A Girl on their Bandcamp site . MP3: Things I Shouldn't Tell You - Cancel The Astronauts
Dropping into our inbox is this playful ditty from Edinburgh 5-piece Cancel the Astronauts, who're just about to set free their second EP, Funny for a Girl. This is fun stuff, but it's not lightweight; and while there is definitely a sense of whimsy there's also some more serious and darker undertones to what they're [...]
Tracks Played 1. Cancel the Astronauts - Funny For A Girl 2. Where We Lay Our Heads - No Glamour 3. Deathpodal - Every Superstition Shall Be Removed 4. Panda Su - Eric Is Dead 5. I Build Collapsible Mountains - Rails (session track) 6. Loch Awe - The Ocean In Me 7. The Last Battle - Ruins 8. Miaoux Miaoux - Knitted 9. Martin John Henry - I Love Map 10. Golden Oldie; Joesphine - This Is Not An Exit 11. Come On Gang! - Fortune Favours The Brave (session track) [...]
I first saw 'Cancel the Astronauts' last year in Edinburgh. Worryingly, the venue looked like a shabby school sports hall and there were cupcakes at the bar. Then when the band bounded on stage my only thoughts were: 'The singer is wearing trackie bottoms? Well, this is going to be bollocks'. How wrong I was. [...]
Another Edinburgh group...wow...seems like the north has finally awaken! Cancel The Astronauts (CTA) are from Edinburgh and besides a really catchy name they write great power pop tunes. They've just sent us their second EP titled Funny for a Girl, which you can stream/buy from their bandcamp page (link at the end of the post) or you can hear the whole EP below. It is true that whatever comes from Scotland immediately grabs my attention, but CTA are worth the initial excitement. Powerful melodies, full of fun and energy that will get you going in no time. Enjoy! [...]
Photo by John Cheung Picture it the 3rd of October 2009, the Bowery (now the Roxy) in Edinburgh. It's the launch night for Kid Canaveral's EP 'Left and Right'. I have just arrived in possibly the twee-est (is that a word?) venue I have ever seen, there's cupcakes at the bar and the main room where the gig is being held looks like some kind of school sports hall. Personally I am loving it, then on comes the first band of the evening, cue Cancel the Astronauts bounding on stage. My [...]
From Moscow, Russia comes Upstation , an electro-pop trio. You can check out their Myspace page to download their 4-track EP. No More Promises by Upstation Five-man indie pop band from Edinburgh, Scotland, Cancel The Astronauts are back with EP number two and it's a good one. Funny For A Girl by Cancel The Astronauts from Funny For A Girl EP In other news, I've [...]
Never mind fucking jetpacks, SPRING is what I was fucking well promised. A few weeks ago I awoke to a pleasantly mild morning and strolled into work without ducking the head or turning up the collar and genuinely believed that Spring was on its way. It wasn't, of course, it was just Mother Nature fucking with my head. I remember last year the crocuses and snowdrops were out in January, it was that warm, whereas this year it is pretty much April and they are still not out in the shadier parts of the garden. A [...]
I'm just going to keep throwing stuff at you until I get this inbox under control. It's not for lack of trying, and it's certainly not to disparage any of the fine artists in there. I love all of these. I hope you do too, xoxo Rachel Dadd's Moth in the Motor.... I still love this song so much! And one of my favorite Glaswegian bands, Cancel The Astronauts is giving away their EP I Am The President of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home) [...]
Just for a quick update what's going on... You can stream the full upcoming album, In The Dark , by The Whigs here . The album is due out on March 16th. Cancel the Astronauts are giving away downloads of their EP, I am the President of your Fanclub (and Last Night I Followed you Home), in anticipation of the follow-up EP. You can download it here , here , or there . [...]
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