“The Fine Line Between Choice/Decay”
1. Reinvent  2. What Are You Waiting For  3. Shelter Your Loss  4. Therapy Sessions In The Dark  5. Choice/Decay  6. In Your Headlights

EP Released April 26^th

Available via CD and download, from iTunes, Amazon, HMV, Tesco, Napster and Spotify

www.brokenlinksmusic.co.uk

Diving into the lyrical and musical depths of free association, taking you on an emotional rollercoaster of despair to complete arousal. Influenced by the under-currents of post-punk, and then boxing it up into an old stone box made of pure hard industrial pop space rock and sin. A band you simply cannot ignore. An alternative act from Eastleigh, Southampton, the three piece is made up of Mark Lawrence on vocals and guitar, Lewis Betteridge on bass and Phil Boulter on drums. Heavily influenced by the 80’s, they count Joy Division, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Cooper Temple Clause and ‘Holy Bible’ era Manic Street Preachers amongst their influences.

“The Fine Line Between Choice / Decay” follows up the release of Broken Links debut EP “Resisting Movement and the Almost Advisory”, released in January this year. Mintsouth recently said of Broken Links “Unsigned bands shouldn’t be this professional.” They may have only been together for a year, but their development as a band is clear, and their second EP is testament to how they have matured in this time. Broken Links’ Mark Lawrence describes ‘We wanted to go a bit wild with the 2nd EP, and we’ve done exactly what we wanted to do musically, it’s a 41 minute ride to the dark side!!’

Broken Links formed in 2008, and spent much of the year honing in on their sound and self-recording their first EP. Their debut was written without amps, using pods and floor pedals for vocal effects, and was recorded from start to finish in Mark’s bedroom, capturing Broken Links angst ridden and downright dirty live sound perfectly.

2009 saw Broken Links perform over 40 live shows, including an appearance at Eastleigh Music Festival. The band have supported established acts British Sea Power, The Boxer Rebellion, My Vitriol, Official Secrets Act, Fighting with Wire, The Cinematics, Scarlet Soho, and Flamboyant Bella, picking up some die-hard fans along the way. They have taken their live show to well established venues such as The Purple Turtle (Camden), Powers (Kilburn), Boston Music Rooms (Tufnell Park), The Joiners (Southampton), Hectors House (Brighton), iBar (Bournemouth), The Railway Inn (Winchester), and Lennons (Southampton), with full intention of leaving watchers mesmerised by the wall of sound they create. A sound certainly not expected of a three piece. Broken Links are soon to take their sound across Europe, with a German tour now confirmed. A third EP is also in the pipeline.

March 27^th – The Bitter End, Romford / April 3^rd – 10^th – German tour / April 24^th - The Joiners Arms, Southampton (EP launch)

May 6^th – The Pipeline, London / May 8^th – Blue Cat Cafe, Stockport / May 10^th – The Cavendish Arms, London

May 29^th – Soul Cellar, Southampton / June 19^th – Alresford Music Festival / Nov 28^th – The Brook, Southampton

OPERATOR PLEASE
NEW SINGLE – ‘LOGIC’ AVAILABLE March 8th 2010 ON 7″ AND DOWNLOAD

FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE FROM WWW.OPERATORPLEASEBAND.COM

Operator Please returned home to Australia from a triumphant overseas stint in early 2008 which had seen them travel across the UK, Europe and Japan; their infectious, garage rock tunes proved to speak all languages.

While enjoying the (by comparison) holiday vibe of the Australian summer festival circuit, Operator Please started plotting the plan for their follow up release, beginning with the most intensive writing periods of their career to date.

Over the winter months of ‘09, Operator Please bunkered down at The Music Farm, a small studio in the isolated hills of Bangalow, Queensland. Engineer Justin Tressider was invited to the fold, with final touches and tweaks recorded in the living room of Amandah’s house.  Amandah & Tim from the band self -produced the album, with mixing help from long time No Doubt collaborators Jimmy Harry and Chris Fudurich. ‘Logic’, their new single, is the first offering from the album.

This new record shows all the stains of day after day stuck in vans, playing festivals such as Splendour in the Grass, Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds Festival and The Secret Garden Party, touring and working with the likes of Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys and Lightspeed Champion.

It’s confident – less angsty, but more diverse – fully embracing their pop sensibility, proving that ‘pop’ can be a very dirty word in the hands of this hardened collective.

Tim and Amandah’s production has focused on teasing out a fuller sound for Operator Please, screwing with the garage-rock instrumentation of their debut album ‘Yes, Yes Vindictive’.  The rhythms have become more predominant, the violins enrich and the sound is balanced out by heavy synths,  big bass lines.

‘Logic’ the new single is the perfect mixture of nasty and nice – a combination the band always do well – that sees a hard hitting (think Janet Jackson shoulder-pop) verse, assertively punctuated by a shimmering, elevated chorus.

Operator Please are not (all) the fresh faced teens who burst onto the scene in 2007, and not just in way of literal age. You can hear the proof in the songwriting, you can see it on the stage and in 2010 you’ll be able to hold it in your hands.

Logic is available to download free from February 8^th at www.operatorpleaseband.com

Fans will also be able to pre-order the forthcoming album including exclusive fan only merchandise and music.

WOUNDS
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THEWOUNDSBAND

DEBUT EP RELEASED THROUGH YOYO ACAPULCO ON LIMITED EDITION CD AND DOWNLOAD

RELEASED MARCH 29^TH

BROTHERS IN ARMS, EVIL PLAYGROUND, DARK, SLEAZY, PARTY, DANCE.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WOUNDS!

“Faced with a crowd of wallflowers, Dublin four-piece Wounds bring two drums into the audience, launching a no borders performance which quite literally transcends the stage. Aside from their inventive set-up, the band’s rhythm section (contributed to by three members of the band at various points of the set) drives their riff-based hardcore into the most captivating set of the night.” 9/10 Rock Sound

“I honestly wouldn’t envy any band in the world who tried to follow Wounds. Unless you’re actually Minor Threat or something, it’s going to be nearly impossible to match them for volume and energy.” Thesegeese.wordpress.com

You Me at Six are giving away an MP3 of Finders Keepers recorded live at their Kerrang Awards sold out show at London Forum back in July.

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You Me at Six are currently touring in the US on the Warped Tour and they will be back just in time to play Reading and Leeds.

New single, Kiss and Tell, is released on 7th September.
Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-PLUkpRQKM

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