NEWS: I've been so fucking slack...

I was going to post a lengthy post about what's been going on since I last posted. But bullet points are waay more efficient...

• Caves from Bristol have been added to the already amazing Bridge and Tunnel show on May 16th at Mozarts, Swansea!
• We will be releasing a tape by Hell Money from Bridgend. The release show will be the Bridge and Tunnel show, and preorder will be up pretty soon for those unable to make the show!
• Pipedream "Shell EP" is almost completed. The tape version which we're releasing will have an exclusive track that you wont be able to get anywhere else! Expect preorders and release shows to be posted soon.
• We're starting up a 4 way split series with the lovely Life On An Island of Long Island, New York! The first edition will feature Sunday League, Cycle Schmeichel, Giant Peach and Haircut and should be available in June time!
• "Before You Go" by Forrest sold out SUPER fast, so there'll be a repressing very soon!
• Muncie Girls tape is going to be repressed really soon! Hopefully be ready in time for the Spraynard show on May 8th at Mozarts, Swansea!
• Dividers will be touring with Glass Avalanche on certain dates and Pipedream on others this July. Go here to see the dates and to see who is playing what!

See ya soon. xoxoxox

SHOWS: Upcoming WWSBD shows!!!

So we have 3 amazing shows coming up in May...

8th May, 2012 - Spraynard, Little Ease, Muncie Girls and 1tbc - Mozarts, Swansea
Pat from Spraynard said this about the last time they played Swansea: "I think the show that pops into our heads the most often with this question is our show in Wales, UK. Our UK tour was so surreal in the first place, but at that show, kids just went absolutely crazy. Our friend Sean jumped off the top of a balcony into the crowd at one point. It was just amazing to see so many kids giving a shit about our crappy band. I think that show was definitely a turning point as to how we viewed punk rock in general".

Spraynard are possibly my favourite pop punk band since Osker. Hailing from West Chester, PA, these 3 dudes play positive heart felt tunes that your face will refuse not to smile to. FFO: Osker, Latterman, Kid Dynamite.

Support comes from Little Ease, Muncie Girls and 1 more band to be confirmed. More details very soon!

16th May, 2012 - Bridge & Tunnel, Forrest, Hell Money and 1tbc - Mozarts, Swansea
Third visit to Swansea for Bridge & Tunnel, so you should know by now what to expect by now. If not, take it from me... Bridge & Tunnel are without a doubt one of the most energetic, passionate, and generally talented bands you'll ever see. Despite featuring ex-members of Latterman, Thousandaires, Eachothers Mother aswell as a load more, they manage to sound completely unalike to their past efforts, and truly are in a league of their own. Listen to their latest record "Rebuilding Year" on No Idea and you'll know what I'm talking about. This band go from strength to fucking STRENGTH.

Support comes from Forrest and Hell Money

22nd May, 2012 - Direct Hit, The Priceduifkes, Forrest, Not Since The Accident - The Full Moon, Cardiff
Co-promo with STHC! <3 Direct Hit are a Pop Punk band that are filled to the rim with fun and energy! Coming from Milwaukee, this band tip their hats to Andrew WK, The Thermals and The Ramones in equal measure! Download their record "DOMSPLITTER" and (fuck you) get pumped!

Support comes from The Priceduifkes, Forrest, Not Since The Accident

Posters for all three shows, aswell as event pages with more adequate descriptions will be online within due time, but for now mark your diaries, and get excited. It's only 4 months to go until May, y'know?

SHOWS: Tonight!!

The Living Daylights / Great Cynics / Dividers / Pipedream show is TONIGHT at Mozarts, Swansea! It sure has crept up super fast. Unfortunately, Forrest have had to pull out, but it should be a great night anyways. Hopefully we'll see you tonight at 8pm!

The set times are...

8:15 - 8:40 - Pipedream
8:55 - 9:20 - Dividers
9:30 - 9:55 - Great Cynics
10:05 - 10:45 - The Living Daylights

This is the first date of Dividers Summer Tour, so if you order anything from the store between now and the 1st August, bare in mind it wont be posted til I get back!

SHOWS: Living Daylights / Great Cynics / Dividers / Pipedream / Forrest Poster...

So this is in just over 2 weeeks, and finally we have a poster! Nothing flashy, but it does have David Cross on it. Winner right?

For more details on this show click here! Click the poster to see a larger version of it, too! Spread the word!

SHOWS: One Month Away!!!

The Living Dayligths /  Great Cynics / Dividers / Pipedream and Forrest show that we're putting on is just ONE MONTH AWAY! As mentioned in my previous post about this show both The Living Daylights and Great Cynics will be bringing with them new albums! The Living Daylights have just released What Keeps You Breathing on Lockjaw Records, and Great Cynics have just released Don't Need Much on Household Name! Both releases are currently streaming in places on the internet, and are both very much worth your time! You can stream them from the following links:

The Living Daylights - What Keeps You Breathing
http://www.punknews.org/bands/thelivingdaylightsuk

Great Cynics - Don't Need Much
http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/11

You can also hear and download 2 tracks from each album on WWSBD MXTP#1 which I posted last month for free download. If you like the sound of them, do not hesitate to buy the records, or merch from the show to support the bands on the road. Touring is expensive, you know?

Hopefully we'll see you at the show on the 20th July! It's going to be a great night!

SHOWS: Brothers, The 255s and Blackbeard (UPDATED)

This is going to be great. Kudos to Trev for sorting it out.

Brothers are a gritty melodic punk band from Exeter. They've played Swansea a good few times, and everytime I've seen them they seem to get better. What more they feature members of bands like The Cut Ups, The Dead City Stereo, Smoke 'Em Out, Sauna Youth and a shit load more rad bands. Exeter's got it going on. If you like None More Black, Fifth Hour Hero and stuff like that you'll be all over this. You can download their EP free here!

The 255s are and indie rock band from Manchester, and are great. Bands like Weakerthans, Piebald and The Replacements come to mind when listening to them, which to me is a good thing! They last played Swansea with Failures Union the other month, and were mind blowing then, so judging on that performance they should be brilliant here too! Like Brothers, you can download the 255's album "Broadcasting" for free (or for a price of your choosing) from here!

Blackbeard are from pretty much all over, so I'll just say they're from way over in the Newport direction. Regardless, Blackbeard are great. Like the majority of great bands in South Wales, Blackbeard don't tend to play often, but whenever they do, aswell as having a completely new line-up, they also pretty much steal the show. I'm going to be a bit lazy in saying this, but expect sounds not to distant than those of Hot Water Music, with a tortured gravelly voice that puts Chuck to shame, maybe. Great band, great guys.

This show will be going "down" in the Mozarts on Saturday 11th September. Be there! Here's the poster by Carly Davies, she's the BEST!

VIDEOS: Adam Peachfuzz and Iolo - Lost Weekend (Acoustic)

Adam plays in a really really cool band called Peachfuzz, who I've said before to be one of South Wales's most under-rated exports, and Iolo is the best dude in the world too. Needless to say I was pretty stoked to hear that my band would be playing with them both acoustic, and PJ Bond at Mozarts in Swansea. This song is called "Lost Weekend" from the album "So Here We Are Tonight", which was released a few years ago on the now defunct Rat Patrol Records. I filmed it using a "retro" Sony Digital 8 video camera, and uploaded it on my parents "retro" PC which meant I had to compress it quite a lot in order for the computer not to crash when editing it... lame I know. Maybe one day when I get an awesome job and get my laptop fixed back at home I'll be able to upload a high res version. regardless, the sound came out pretty well! Sorry about the lighting though, it was a lot darker in Mozarts than I realised. Stay tuned for Videos of PJ Bond, and if you want to you can check out a video of my band playing over on our blog.

SHOWS: Swansea - March 2010

There's a fuck load of awesome DIY shows happening in Swansea in March that you should most definitely check out. Here's a pretty comprehensive guide with (legit) download links where available too, written by myself (Gavin), Little Rory Matthews (Some Sort Of Threat) and Scott (Try and guess who wrote what!). Enjoy, and try to make it out to all of 'em!

Thursday 4th March 2010 - Nozzle, Solutions, Big City Plan @ Bar Sigma

After (literally) years of hiding, Nozzle are finally playing shows again (!!!) which can only be a good thing! Last seen with Brothers and The Doublecross at Mozarts (courtesy of Swansea Collective), Nozzle play sweet sweet Pop Punk with vocal harmonies to die for, reminding you why you first started listening to punk rock in the first place! It's bloody great they're playing shows again! Also playing are Cardiff's Solutions, whose recently released album has taken the UK punk scene by storm! You can download their album for free by clicking here, if you want to see what the whole fuss is about, seriously great band! And speaking of great, also playing are Birmingham's Big City Plan, bringing the "gruff" to the show, apparently. They have a member of Shermer playing for them too, so you know they're good. Much like Solutions, you can download their demo for free too from here, though they have since become a 4 piece so more than likelly sound different to that! Lastly, opening the show are Dividers. I hate writing bio's or bigging up my band so I'll just say this... we're just 4 dudes who listen to too much Get Bent and thought it would be a cool idea to start a band that sound like them but actually came out sounding more like Small Arms Dealer, which is cool by us! It's our second show, so it would be cool if you came down early and watched us. The Show kicks off at 8pm, first band'll be on at about 8:15 and it'll be £3 to get in, Cool!

Saturday 20th March - Chuck Ragan, The Arteries, Bangers, Livers and Lungs @ Bar Sigma Swansea
Chuck Ragan is from Florida and used to be in a band called Hot Water Music who have lots of amazing songs, but nowadays he plays country music and still has lots of amazing songs. He pretty much defined that whole punk-band-singer-gone-acoustic scene. Legend!
Axl Rose spent about Fifteen years constructing Chinese Democracy, he ended up with about as many shitty songs. He should have listened to The Arteries, they play rifftastic punk rock with killer everything. They've put out so many records, I can't imagine waiting Fifteen minutes for another one.
Bangers play gruff pop punk in a way that makes them exceptional, even with a plethora of bands from all over trying to do the same kind of thing. They have some of the best one-liners in the business, my current favourite being "If you think that you're obnoxious, then you probably are".
What do you mean this was supposed to be a country gig? Chuck who? Livers And Lungs sound a bit like Lucero, but with three or four awesome singers instead of one fairly shit one. In their previous bands, they spanned pretty much every other punk sub-genre, now they're taking cowpunk.

Sunday 28th March - PJ Bond, Adam Peachfuzz and Dividers (Acoustic Set) @ Mozarts

Sunday the 28th of March 2010 will be the second time PJ Bond, from New Brunswick (NJ) comes to our lovely Swansea. Again, Mozarts is the location, and an apt one at that. The first time PJ played, people were amazed at the severity of his foot stomping and the utter rawness of his voice and playing. It was genuinely intimate and honest. It's nice to get out of the whole sweaty-sing-alongs-'club'-vibe once in a while and retreat to a cosy, red atmosphere where you sip on a cold beer. There was a real excitement the last time PJ played, people wanted more and we were lucky enough to see him stick around until the next day, where he played with North Lincoln at the old Sigma. His return will be warmly welcome.
Peachfuzz are one of South Wales's finest Powerpop bands, and most definitely the most underated. It has to be said, I am guilty of not hearing enough of them, but I have seen them twice and really enjoyed. Adam Peachfuzz will be supporting PJ, and I'm pretty stoked on hearing some stripped down stuff. Adam's a good dude, and it's going to be sweet seeing some rawness from close to home.
I believe, there are only 3 acts for this show. The last, but first on is Dividers. We'll be playing an acoustic set, which we're pretty excited about. It should be different, but in a fun way. Hopefully by the time of the show, we'll have some stuff recorded to finally give out.
So this is Swansea Collective's twenty first show (I think I'm right in saying), and it's going to be really chilled out. Come along, drink some beer and watch some acoustic wonder.

Coming in April Imperial Clan, ONSIND, Fashanu, Failures Union, Bedford Falls, 255's, Groundnuts and Independents, Boneless Ones, Bridge and Tunnel, Young Livers, Bangers, Ssssnakes... phew! If you don't live in Swansea already, now would probably be a good time!