Comfortable On A Tightrope stage at Shebeen Festival 16/12/12

Above is the poster for SHEBEEN FESTIVAL by David Bailey, The poster we made for our stage at said festival, a video playlist we made containing music and video of most of the acts from our stage and the album artwork for our 'headliners' GOLDEN GRRRLS forthcoming debut album (made by Laetitia & Roxanne). Hits the shelves and the streets Feb 2013 via NIGHT SCHOOL and SLUMBERLAND and with a small cassette run on C.O.A.T. A Release is in the works too for EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS who'll be performing in Manchester for the first time!

BIRTHDAY TAPES MMXII explanatory notes

At the beginning of the MMXIIth Year of our Lord we started a new collaborative with our sweet-hearted friends GIANT HELL.
We called it BIRTHDAY TAPES, as it was to be in concert with the cosmos and zodiac-affiliated and but also because we wanted each object to feel like a gift, wrapped as they are specially commissioned ark work.
Essentially a 'singles' club with one split release per zodiacal month.
So in MMXII there will be contributions from 24 different bands /recording artists and 12 visual artists/ image makers/ illustrators.

You can listen to the 7 so far below.

The series can be subscribed to HERE or digitally HERE.

Alternatively individual releases can be purchased HERE or digitally HERE

There a still a few full subscriptions remaining, which, in addition to all 12 tapes, also include a hand-mae wooden box to keep them all in courtesy of WINEBOX PRESS as well as some other surprises  and printed matter.

If you have any questions please direct them to:
 birthdaytapes@gmail.com or comfortableonatightrope@gmail.com

Saturday from 2pm at KRAAK

Cass Mccombs, Veronica Falls, Manchester Zap!

On Monday March 5th Cass Mccombs, returns to Manchester for the first time in over two years to perform two sets at Band On The Wall. We will be playing some records betwixt the sets.

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Golden Lab present MANCHESTER ZAP! at Night And Day, WAITERS and FORMER BULLIES play the Tuesday with FREEDOM SCREECH.

And then on Friday VERONICA FALLS, NOVELLA and PINS all play at The Deaf Institute. Above is a poster made by Lucy Jones

We have much more news to disclose soon, including a BIG announcement tomorrow. Check back here or here

C.O.A.T012 NISENNENMONDAI / WAITERS

The 2011th Year of our Lord began with WAITERS and NISENNENMONDAI playing together at BIJIN RECORD Festival in TOKYO, JAPAN

AND So it ends with the release of this long-awaited split 7". 




  C.O.A.T012 NISENNENMONDAI / WAITERS by BEATUNHAPPENING

NOW SHIPPING
order HERE

Another WAITERS video

This time a fashionably late video for 'BREEZY' one of the two waiters contributions to COAT010 Former Bullies / Waiters split 7".

NISENNENMONDAI play live in USTREAM, release new split 7" with WAITERS

NISENNENMONDAI on USTREAM tomorrow!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nisennenmondai

we NISENNENMONDAI are playing on Ustream tomorrow!
it'll start around 2100hrs (JAPAN TIME) / 1200 noon (UK TIME) on May 15th.
please chech it up here!!! 

Live Video streaming by Ustream

HERE IS THE ART WORK for the new NISENNENMONDAI / WAITERS 7" available HERE.

Help Night School Records to Help Japan

 Night School Records have released two of our favourite records so far this year (Beautifully screen-printed and hand-stamped 7"s by Golden Grrrls and Terror Bird) and are readying a tape compilation called 'APPEAL', the artwork of which is above. One Hundred Per Cent of the funds generated by the sale of the tape will go directly to helping those affected by the recent humanitarian disaster in Japan. We are honoured and delighted to contribute to this worthy and worthwhile project (via donating songs from WAITERS, IRMA VEP and FORMER BULLIES) and urge you to buy it immediately from HERE . Here is the  full and fully amazing tracklist:

S I D E  A 

1. 1.  B I T C H E S  -  JESUS SWEAT
2. 2.  H E A T S I C K  -  2010 DUB (APPEAL EDIT)
3. 3.  I R M A  V E P  -  THE FEELING HAS GONE
4. 4.  T R A S H  K I T -  TEENAGERS
5. 5.  H E L M  -  1221 2
6. 6.  S P I N  S P I N  T H E  D O G S  -  BED (ALT VERSION)
7. 7.  D I V O R C E  -  LOVE ATTACK (DEMO)
8. 8.  T H E  S H I T T Y  L I M I T S  -  TWICE AS FAST
9. 9.  G O L D E N  G R R R L S  -  DATE  IT
10. 10.  W O O L F  -  FISHING WITH LOLITA (DEMO)
11. 11. T E R R O R  B I R D  -  MAKE YOU SWEAT 
12. 12. M E D D I C I N E  -  TELL ME THE WORD
13. 13. W A I T E R S  -  STEPLADDER
14. 14. P H E R O M O A N S  -  ROBOTIC SON
15. 15. P L E A S E  -  CLOTHES
16. 16. T H E  H A X A N  C L O A K  -  INCANTATION
17. 17. M A R I A  M I N E R V A  -  WHERE DO YOU GO
18. 18. S K I T T E R  +  C O L I N  S T E W A R T  -  BOXBAND

S I D E  B

1. 1.  T R O G O N S  -  MAKE IT SO
2. 2.  P E E P H O L E S -  STEP ONE (DEMO)
3. 3.  H A R D  S K I N  -  SAUSAGE MAN (DEMO)
4. 4.  G I R L S  N A M E S  -  I DON’T MIND
5. 5.  D E S I G N  A  W A V E -  STRANGE FEELING 
6. 6.  W A Y  T H R O U G H  -  RUINED  ACRE
7. 7.  M U S H Y  -  FORGOTTEN HORIZONS
8. 8.  D I G N A N  P O R C H  -  DARKNESS (HOME DEMO)
9. 9.  R A Y O G R A P H S  -  SPACE OF THE HALLS
10. 10. W A R M  B R A I N S  -  MARBLE ARCH
11. 11. PETER  M  -  TERMINATE
12. 12. B E C O M I N G  R E A L  -  SOUTH LONDON CONGO 
13. 13. T H E  L O W E S T  F O R M  -  7.
14. 14. C L E C K H U D D E R S F A X  -  CLEX30
15. 15. F O R M E R  B U L L I E S  -  THINGS STAY THE SAME

15. 16.B I L L  K O U L I G A S -  UNTITLED

    17. J A C K  M A Z E S  -  AIN’T THAT ENOUGH

If you still want to do more to help those affected in Japan, all of the songs on WAITERS bandcamp  are now available on a 'pay-what-you-like' basis (including the 15-minutes recorded for and released at the Bijin Record Festival in Tokyo this January) and, again all of the proceeds will go directly to Japan.

Furthermore, BIG LOVE (our favourite record shop in the world), has organised an exhibition and made a charity zine to raise money too! you can buy it, along with special totes, keyrings, tapes and records HERE. Here's a couple of photos of the exhibition:

Remember, A Generous World Demands Generous Living.

We have so much to tell you

but, for now let's go one day at a time. Tomorrow is the closing night of the 'Merzman' series and the party starts at 7pm and runs til 3 with a wild and diverse programme which includes cumbrian pipers, a linguistic choir and a special Midnight Performance from JOHN MAUS who's new album 'We Must Be The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves' is out soon via Upset The Rhythm and who, if you've never seen before, you must see.  Plug, Horses and Waiters are also playing  and No Womb and Barney Doodlebug on the decks. Are you coming or what?

In January WAITERS went to play in TOKYO

WAITERS in JAPAN

TY SEGALL

has released about 10 of our favourite records of this millennium on some of the best record labels around----John Dwyer's CASTLE FACE, Nodzzz' MAKE-A-MESS, Kill Shaman, Wizard Mountain, Trouble In Mind and GONER.
He also had a brief stint playing the drums in SIC ALPS who along with John Dwyer of the Oh Sees contributed to his most-recent and best lp 'MELTED'. He also used to play in the Traditional Fools and Epsilons with Mikal Cronin. Somehow he found time to record/engineer the last brilliant colors record too. And he's only 23 years old.



Check out this video, directed by Mike Donovan of SIC ALPS :


or this live clip form RVCA San Francisco:



And then come to the Deaf Institute tonight to see him play. Former Bullies, Milk Maid and Waiters are also playing, it's going to be a party.

"The fifth artist whom

 a beautiful woman record recommends it to with confidence from what and U.K., Manchester!If think it to be ... smelling of JESUSANDMERYCHAIN; after all!でした. But the problem that don't lie down that it doesn't model comes, and it isn't 思 うほどですので, a mere follower and imitator to start it from a label of oneself. Feel of a material that is low-fidelity, melody that are loss of strength / dreamy and ノコギ"

Sunrain records review of Waiters translated into English