RIOT SEASON : News & Updates

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I'm more than happy to announce we'll be releasing 'Happy Birthday' the new album by the mighty 'sarflondoners' HEY COLOSSUS in August. If you haven't already checked em out now is the time : www.heycolossus.com + www.myspace.com/heycolossus

I've posted an album track on the myspace site to get your whistles whetted : www.myspace.com/itsriotseason

The band will be touring the UK to coincide and are on the look out for gigs. So if you can help em out lemme me know.

HEY COLOSSUS
'Happy Birthday'
catalogue # REPOSECD018
format: CD
label: Riot Season
barcode # 666017189024
release date: August 18th 2008 (Mailorder copies can be pre-ordered now)

Release Info : From headlong infusions of psychedelic rock to the limitless furrows of doom, in "Happy Birthday" London's Hey Colossus has constructed an all conquering citadel of experimental/metal disrepair. The album is a rampaging fire-cloud of superstoked riffs and ever mounting walls of feedback, a rough house collection of battering new songs driven at sweltering pace by a band with a fearless momentum. The is the record that the band has always threatened to unleash - a pitch black album for our ever scorched earth. The band will head out on tour to coincide with album release.

Tracklisting:

1. War Crows
2. Tight Collar
3. Are Nice Men
4. Fire Up The Tambourine
5. Are Coming To Kill You All
6. Permanent Vacation Part 1
7. Permanent Vacation Part 2
8. Overlord Rapture In Vines Part 9

More info and pre-order links here : www.riotseason.com/REPOSECD018.htm

HC TOUR DATES : WILL UPDATE AS AND WHEN

31st July - London Corsica Studio (with Acid Mothers Temple)
10th Sept - Cambridge, Portland Arms (with Ripping Yarns)
19th Sept - Liege (Belgium), La Zone
20th Sept - Tilburg (ZXZW fest, Holland), venue TBC
25th Sept - Berlin, Cassiopeia (with Pelican + Torche)
5th Oct - Leeds, Packhorse (with a bunch of bands)
7th Nov - Brighton, Engine Rooms with Don Caballero
8th Nov - London, 93 Feet - East Hokaben08 Fest with OTTO VON SCHIRACH, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, STEARICA, CHRIS CORSANO + MICK FLOWER DUO, AUFGEHOBEN, NEPTUNE, TEAM BRICK, VIALKA, RAMESSES, DETHSCALATOR, ZUN ZUN EGUI

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO UK & Ireland Tour & Riot Season Album Release

To coincide with an album on Riot Season (the first for The Cosmic Inferno!), AMT&TCI will be back in Blighty and Ireland for a lengthy tour in late July/August, with new member Pikacyu (Afriampo) on second drums. The tour winds up at a special double header with our very own SHIT AND SHINE in Soho. More info to come as and when

JULY
30 Brighton Engine Room
31 London Corsica Studios (w/ Hey Colossus)

AUGUST
01 Birmingham Hare & Hounds
02 Standon Calling Festival (Tent Stage) Standon, Hertfordshire (www.standon-calling.com) with Super Furry Animals, Melt Banana etc
03 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach - please note this show will replace the cancelled Bristol show
04 Cork Crane Lane Theatre
05 Galway Roisin Dubh
06 Dublin Whelans
07 TBC
08 Glasgow Nice n Sleazys
09 Sheffield The Dream Machine @ The Shakespeare
10 Manchester Islington Mill
11 Nottingham Bodega (ex Social)
12 London White Heat @ Madame JoJo's (w/ Shit And Shine)

Artist: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO
Title: 'Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space'
Format: CD
Label: Riot Season
Catalogue # REPOSECD019
Barcode # 666017191027
Release Date: TBC

CD Tracklisting :
1. Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space (Part 1)
2. Message From Outer Space
3. Take Me To The Universe
4. Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space (Part 2)

SHIT AND SHINE 'CHERRY' CD/DVD OUT NOW!!!

Artist: SHIT AND SHINE
Title: 'Cherry'
Catalogue # REPOSECD017X
Label : Riot Season
Format : CD / DVD (Initial Pressing Only)
Release Date : May 26th 2008
Barcode : 666017184326

Due to demand from here and overseas, the recent and magnificent S&S album 'Cherry' will shortly be available on CD for the first time. I know a lot of folks like to get both available formats so to make it worthwhile for those who already own the vinyl set - we've decided to include a bonus live DVD with the initial CD pressing. This will be limited to 1000 copies for the world!

The bonus DVD was filmed at the bands Nov 29th 2007 show in London (Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes) which was an event held by last.fm (www.last.fm) and features their full 35 minute set in proper multi camera beauty. Release dates and pre-order details will be posted here as soon as we have em.

What the press have said about 'Cherry' so far ...

"The kind of deranged collage that damaged psychedelic warriors like The Butthole Surfers or Bongwater used to come up with. Its an album that defies any kind of neat summation. Immense!" The Wire

"Not since Royal Trux and 'Twin Infinitives' has any band released an album as recklessly inventive and sadistically fun as this greasy double helping" Rock-A-Rolla

"Absurdist, addictive, obnoxious and usurped by a general air of alcoholic wrongdoing, feral psychosis and unsettling malice. A murkier, down-the-pub 'Locust Abortion Technician' for a 21st century world hurtling ever closer to bloody-minded oblivion" Terrorizer

“Heavy, noise, groovy and bizarre really if you enjoyed their other work you’ll lap this up like a rabid dog on heat & if your still to enter S&S world you’re in for one hell of a cheeky, brutal and memorable ride - suck S&S Cherry you wont regret it, I swear!” Musique Machine

“Like some sort of government drug experiment, where various deviants and ne'er do wells, criminals and sociopaths, were incarcerated, dosed with all manner of experimental psychotropics, then let loose in a concrete bunker filled with drums and amps and busted up old bass guitars, everything recorded for posterity, until someone started leaking the tapes, code name: SHIT AND SHINE” Aquarius

See/read more reviews below and on the release page

Check out the Wire, Terrorizer & Rock-A-Rolla reviews below

New online review at Musique Machine : here

Italian online review courtesy of Ondarock uploaded now : here