GENIUS CHILD SINGLE OUT NOW!!

Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:12am

Its available on limited edition WHITE 7" vinyl

Track Listing as follows -
1. Genius Child
2. Genius Child (Jagz Kooner Remix)

Order from:
HMV - http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=945191&dm_t=0,0,0,0,0

Rough Trade records - http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=311832&dm_t=0,0,0,0,0

As well as download

Track Listing as follows -
1. Genius Child
2. Genius Child (Jagz Kooner Remix)
3. Besoin D'Air (feat. Coralie Clement)
4. Genius Child (video)

Download from:
Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genius-Child/dp/B001ZEG4V4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1238431092&sr=8-1

itunes - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=308811452&s=143444

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Captain Blog Head

Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 11:43am

hi we are in texas.....

we got here on tuesday. it was a lot hotter than we anticipated. i think the only pairs of bottom half attire anyone in the band have are full length and black and not baggy. it's too hot, in the best possible way. there is a place that is not part of the festival called the Levi/Fader Fort. they have free beer. it's literally so dangerous. we discovered it on our first afternoon, watched some really good bands and drank free beer. we have been back there every day since. Johnny got sunburned on one side of his face and body from sitting still for too long. he looks classic. ....

the rest of the festival is on 6th avenue, Austin, Texas, USA. we all had a chat yesterday and decided that it was the best festival any of us had ever been to. except Dan, who says the secret garden party is better. we all think he's making it up and if he did even go, he was probably the only person there, so it can't have been that great. he's not that exciting. Al and myself went to a shop yesterday that is dedicated to the production and retail of hot sauces. they had one that was worth $100 a bottle, and all you needed to blow your balls off was a drop the size of a full stop (or period, as they say here) and it did. it was disgusting. there was another one called mega-sore-ass. enough said. ....

we played our first show yesterday afternoon. it was really cool. it was our first show outside, and with BBQ included. it was ape-shit. i sweated quite a lot. johnny said that he turned around half way though 'Overkill' and thought i looked like i might die. in actual fact i has literally having a whale. Afterwards we went to see late of the pier. they were really damn good. then to Wendy Burger, which was crap (square burgers are not natural enough for me). Cows are round and flat.....

i'm in alex's room. we all have extreme hangovers, and i just heard that johnny and dan got back to the hotel in the back of a pick-up truck, which is one of the most amazing things i have ever heard. alex and me got back in a cab with an english man at 4am, and he was insistent that you could get magic.fm in texas and that we need to 'ballad our lives up'. johnny just called called us on the internal hotel phone to inform us that he has changed his name to monsieur Berwick. my new name is James Michael. i'm not dicking around with Jim any more. ....

i guess you just can't fight that feeling any more. ....

Part Two....

I have changed my name again. it's Lt. Bear-Trap. Johnny is still Monsieur Berwick. no one is really sure what he means. Johnny got a monster tattoo yesterday. it's a space-scape. it kind of looks like a child has got his crayon box out and gone to town, but we're being reassured that once it scabs over and heals it will look great. Dan got one too. it's not as elaborate, but equally as great. It's our day off today. we have big plans to eat shit food and watch bands and get involved in life in general. first port of call is the Village Voice and Houston Press day party. we saw a band called Cursive who impressed us greatly. they were kind of really tech and melodic, and in places quite heavy. it was great! (i could nearly be a music journalist I'm so good at writing about bands. Gomez played next and they were a massive let down. I watched them with dan, and as quite big childhood admirers we felt a bit robbed and only made it through 3 songs or so. we met some people later who said they didn't play any of the classics. ....

That night we drank a lot, made Graham Coxon a drawing which subsequently forced the reaction that broke alex's heart: 'just stop hassling me and fuck off'.....

just before the show alex did however state: 'Let me show you how i can make one member of Blur hate me forever'. Classic. ....

We went to watch Laura Marling in a Church that night. it was literally incredible. she has a phenomenal voice, and the church setting was spot on for such a performance. by this point i was completely spazzed and went to pay our hotel hot tub and swimming pool, in my pants. which amused most of the staff, but they said it was fine, so. ....

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Our Showcase show was the next day, so we spent most of the day in our hotel recovering, and made a quick visit to the thrift store over the freeway. it was about the entire size of Camden market under one roof, but it actually contained things worth buying. not goth shit and snow boots. ....

So to gig tome. i had a really sore throat, mainly due to the dry air out there (and horrendous drinking and shouting - mainly 'G-FORCE' and 'BELIEVE' and 'WHERE'S THE CAR?' in a new zealand accent). ....

Our gig was awesome. there were vibes flying everywhere. we were humbled by the group of people who came to see us, as you might know that we are from London and don't know any one from Austin. so that was it, performances over. we went to meet our new friends, Post War Years. they drew all over our arms in pens, and so (after a few beerski's) decided it was tattoo o'clock. i have had Fire & wind tattooed on my right arm. Dan got another one on his free arm. we then went to the Hilton to see if we could meet some celeb's. we met Laura Marling, told her how great we thought she was the other night, and continued on to a party for rickshaw drivers. we weren't that welcome but we made the most of it. everyone started macing each other, so we left. they called us Limey's. Tossers. ....

Next was our travel day. i won't bore you with that because it is boring.