That London

Our next gig is down in that there London, at the Strongroom Bar on 13th June. Click the poster for details and tickets.

Ukraine

Our next gig is a fundraiser for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal at the famous Golden Lion in Todmorden. We’re on at 9pm; click through for more info on the FB event page.

New T-shirts

It’s #BandcampFriday and we have new T-shirts for sale!

Some gigs…

A couple more gigs to tell you about:

Firstly we are playing the inaugural HRH Psych festival at Liverpool Arts Club on the Easter weekend. We’ll be on at 6:30pm on Sat 16th. See the poster below for the full lineup; day splits and ticket links here or see their Facebook for the latest info.

Then we’ll be supporting Black Doldrums at the famous Night & Day Café in Manchester on Friday 22nd April. Tickets here.

You say Ommicron, I say Ohmicron…

Thanks to everyone who came out to hear us in Levenshulme and Dumfries, and special thanks to Sammy and Dave respectively for putting the gigs on. We really enjoyed playing live again despite the challenges involved.

We’re having a little break over Christmas and then for the dark months of the new year we’ll concentrate on recording; by March / April time we should be ready to venture out again, subject of course to how badly our alleged government have bollocksed up the next phase of the Covid pandemic. We have a slot at HRH Psych in Liverpool on the Easter weekend still on the cards; any other promoters or interested parties please get in touch!

Get yer jabs, be careful out there, and merry Christmas.

Dead Sea Apes Live

It’s just over 2 years since our last gig, so we’re looking forward to getting out and about again with a local show followed by our Scottish debut:

27th Nov at the Talleyrand in Levenshulme, Manchester supporting Rocket Recordings artists SMOTE and also featuring Black Brunswicker;

and 11th Dec at The Venue in Dumfries, supported by Vert:x and Snakes Don’t Belong In Alaska.

Click the flyers below for tickets or see the GIGS page for more info and links.

Golden Lion Sounds

We are proud to be part of the Golden Lion Sounds series of split singles, alongside artists such as Gnod, Jane Weaver, David Holmes and Jarvis Cocker. The latest GLS release features an exclusive new track from us, Night Of This World, and on the flip an intense jam from our old pals Carlton Melton.

The 7″ single features a unique 3D label and is now available to order on transparent violet or standard black vinyl, for delivery around the end of October* – also check out the other releases and merchandise from Golden Lion Sounds.

*As you may have garnered, increased demand, Covid and Brexit have caused a massive backlog in vinyl pressing especially for the UK.

DATALAND review round-up

We’ve had a great response to our latest album with Adam Stone & Black Tempest, DATALAND – here are some of the reviews available online.

Terrascope | Record Crates United | It’s Psychedelic, Baby | Vanguard | The Fragmented Flâneur | C-Beams Glitter | Soundbergs | The Psych Rock | The Sleeping Shaman | My Rock News | The Ominous Drone | [sic] Magazine | Revolt Of The Apes

If you’re quick there are a few of the red & white splatter vinyl left at Cardinal Fuzz; otherwise the album is available on classic black vinyl from a variety of outlets and distributors in the UK, EU and North America; and on our Bandcamp site where we also have CDs and downloads.

We Shall Overcome

Earlier this year, prompted by the Covid lockdown and the first #BandcampFriday, we made our downloadable music Name Your Price on Bandcamp with the proceeds going to charity. Our initial choice was the Trussell Trust which campaigns against food poverty and supports a national network of food banks, and we have raised over £1400 for them.

From tomorrow, under the We Shall Overcome banner, our Name Your Price download proceeds will go to support the work of Pauline Town at the Station Hotel in Ashton-under-Lyne, providing much needed food and assistance to homeless people in the area. Since 2013 she has helped hundreds of homeless people access the benefits system and find accommodation as well as providing daily packed lunches. In 2015, local musicians, artists and activists including Pauline formed We Shall Overcome, which has grown into a national network of groups and events campaigning against austerity and poverty while helping those worst affected.

More information:

Manchester Evening News profile

About We Shall Overcome

Pride Of Britain Awards

Coming soon…

We are pleased to announce our forthcoming album DATALAND, a collaboration with both Black Tempest and Adam Stone. Its origins lie back in 2018, but it was the Covid lockdown of 2020 and abandonment of our existing plans for the year which provided the suitably weird circumstances for it to flourish, with most of the audio being recorded in our respective homes and sent over the internet. Insistent, evolving electronic sounds run into a variety of guitars and percussion, from the clockwork kosmische of ‘Lost Hours’ to the stumbling noise dub of ‘Shop Soiled’, while Adam Stone’s words meditate on life in the post-industrial west, our increasingly atomised and data-driven society and its logical conclusion in a corporatised dystopia.

Dataland will be available through Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (USA) on red & white splatter vinyl for direct sales and black vinyl for retail, plus a small quantity of CDs in handmade replica sleeves; and downloads will be available from our Bandcamp page.

We are also pleased to announce that two out-of-print records from our back catalogue are being reissued, also by Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube:

The Sun Behind The Sun, our 2013 vinyl debut and first collaboration with Black Tempest, will be re-released in a fabulous mirror board sleeve; and our most recent album Night Lands is being re-pressed on clear vinyl with a black twist.

Pre-orders for Dataland, The Sun Behind The Sun and Night Lands will open on Friday 4th December, which also happens to be a #BandcampFriday when Bandcamp waive their usual cut of the purchase price.  The official UK release date is 29th Jan 2021 to allow for potential delays over Xmas/New Year but we will send them out as soon as we can. Fans in North America wishing to avoid heinous shipping costs are advised to hang tight until stocks arrive at Feeding Tube Records.