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:: Okay, it's NEW MUSIC DAY! Our first release since we put out our 172-musician Ska/Punk/Folk collab LP "The First One" - and we're so stoked to share this one too! Featuring extra vocals from Jake & Tom of Roshambo, and some electronica courtesy of Common Sense Kid - all mashed up in a ska-djacent song / rave. Confused? Yea, that's fair. Have a listen! Out now on Pookout Records. On Spotify [here] On Bandcamp [here]

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:: We did an acoustic, live-lounge styley version of our album track “Something’s Out” recently, and er, well, this is it! Guess which one of us has had more time in the sunshine lately?!

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:: We now have USA Distro too! This and other news quickly chatted about in this mini-catch-up Vlog!

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God DAMN our new vinyls are so pretty - and this is the normal version, it’s not even the cute limited edition George orange splatter! For anyone wondering what this is, it’s a 172-musician Ska/Punk/Folk record that took 4 years to make, starting with travel and ending remotely during the lockdown. All profits go to Centrepoint & Music For All, and you can pick up the last of the pre-sales until the 20th, with tonnes of freebies included, from Pookout Records - [click here]

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:: OUR VINYL HAVE ARRIVED!!!!! All of the pre-sales come with an art print, a personalised written postcard from here in Glastonbury where the album was mixed and mastered, and stickers, not to mention Pookout goodies too! There’s only a few of the limited edition George Orange Vinyl left, and pre-sales are only open until the 20th - From then on, it’s on full release and the goodies are all gone! My god, are those discs good looking! Anyway, here’s a vlog about packing up the first bunch of pre-sales at Pookout Records HQ!

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:: We had awesome fun picking tunes, chatting, drinking cider and getting interrupted by my incredibly squeaky chair a little while back with Chris at Warrington Ska Punk for their podcast - [Click Here To Hear It!]

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:: It’s always fun to fully flip the script. For this week’s youtube video, instead of a vlog about us and our project/band/thang, we turned to four awesome podcasters & radio presenters who helped out with our album release, to see what got them started, why they do what they do, and basically all round popping the spotlight onto them :) It was a super interesting time to hear their perspective on the scene we all love and live, eat and breathe - it’s a long one, so grab a coffee, put your feet up and - well, don’t fall asleep, but hope you dig it!

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:: Right, time for another Behind The Scenes kinda thang!

Our pal Andy, who’ll you see a lot more of in our next project, took on a 6-hour drumming livestream raising money for mental health charity Mind.

Anyway, we filmed a lot of the set up and messing around, all done covid-safe at Nick Hartland’s Drum.Dog Studio in Somerset and made it into this BTS video for your viewing pleasure! 

If you want to donate, well, that’s mighty lovely, you can do so [here]. Hope you’ve all had a rad weekend!

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:: New vlog day - aaaand it’s s lyrics deep dive! When out travelling recording our 172-musician album “The First One”, we worked with not only old friends from touring years back, but also brand new people we’d never met before.... ....Jenny from Florida Ska/Punks Tef London was just one of those, so we video chatted about reaching out across the pond, actually turning up, and about her lyrics for what became our song “Not Gonna Settle”.

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:: New Vlog Day!! We’ve got an update on the vinyl delivery, including a song by Pook (haha), AND we’re having an album release show in November... AND you can get involved with what comes next too! All that in 3 minutes and something seconds (I forgot how many) for yer eyes and ears this fine sunny sunday arvo.

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:: Bit of a change for our weekly Youtube video this week.. We’d had this behind the scenes footage from filming Keep Summer Safe’s ever since the shoot back last year pre-covid, so thought we’d combine a video of bands larking around with some “how-to-on-a-budget” tips for filming music videos too!

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:: Well, it was was high time for a classic AMA episode. Yup, the ask me anything train rolled up into our station this week! Zero regrets (mostly), there’s (some) useful information in there, and generally just a good ol’ digital chinwag with our lovely community. Get yourself a beer and tune in / tune out for half an hour. Alriiiiight!

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:: We can’t make music videos right this second due to covid.. ..so we went through the video archives from our 2017 USA Road Trip, right at the start of recording our 172-musician album, so that you could still put faces to the voices! You can check out the full album [here] if you want to hear the rest!

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:: New Vlog!! We dive into how Californian Ska-Punks Chase Long Beach become good pals with UK Punk-Ska Mob Fandangle before even touring together back in 2007, and we dive into the writing & recording of singer Karen Robert’s vocals on our 172-musician album track ‘Won’t Back Down”. Hope y’all enjoy! 

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:: IT’S BANDCAMP FRIDAYYYYY! Bandcamp waive their fees today, meaning artists make more from each sale - Because we’re donating all of the profits from our debut album “The First One” to charity - namely, Centrepoint & Music For All, that means that picking it up digitally today donates even more to charideeee! Win, Win. ..And of course, that gets you a copy of our 172-Musician Album. If you’re into Punk, Ska, Folk, Protest, Pop, Skate or want to fins out what the hell Admin-Core is (hint - wrangling nearly 200 musicians takes some epic emailing!) then this is potentially right up your street! It’s got musicians of all abilities and stages sharing the limelight on the same songs as members of: Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, The Slackers, RX Bandits, Hayseed Dixie, Zebrahead, Bracket, Ten Foot Pole, MC Lars, Suburban Legends, Kye Smith, Random Hand, [Spunge], The Toasters, Call Me Malcolm, Bite Me Bambi - It goes on and on :) Pick it up [here]

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:: They’re coming thick and fast today! Another album review from today, how lush! Super stoked on these, all of the yay. All of it. ALL THE YAY!

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:: Big Up Thanksss to The Bad Copy for this lovely review of our album! And for name checking us an admin-core - it’s starting to catch, there’s a new genre emerging here ;)