Comments (0) Here’s the music video for the album title track ‘Call Me Dragon’. Written, produced and directed by drummer Tommy Davidson, with Adam Conlon taking on cinematography duties (Funeral for a Friend, Gallows, Fightstar, and Grammatics etc). Feel free to embed on your website !
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The long awaited debut album from These Monsters ‘Call Me Dragon’ will officially be release on the 1st March in the UK and 10th May throughout Europe on UK Label Brew. Recorded at Foel Studios, Wales with Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, The Klaxons, Napalm Death) the album demonstrates the freaked out, riff driven prog-force that the respected four-piece have become. With their love of large vintage amplifiers, big drums and high energy, passionate performances, These Monsters deliver a huge live sound and are developing a reputation as one of the loudest and most exciting underground bands in the UK. This is also our tenth release & our first collaboration between ourselves & Function Records !
So far These Monsters have impressed whilst supporting bands such as Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Oceansize, 65 Days of Static, Mono, Envy, Health, The Whip, Foals, Youthmovies, ilikeTrains, Broken Records and The Fall. Sets at Leeds/Reading Festivals in 2008 and ZXZW in Holland saw These Monsters take to bigger stages. The band also played a mammoth 70-minute set at this years EXIT Festival in Serbia.
The band have recently finished filming a music video for the album title track ‘Call Me Dragon’. Written, produced and directed by drummer Tommy Davidson, with Adam Conlon taking on cinematography duties (Funeral for a Friend, Gallows, Fightstar, and Grammatics). Release of this video will coincide with the pre-order date of the album of Monday 18th January. Below is a couple of video stills, it really is shaping up amazing !
These Monsters ‘Call Me Dragon’ track listing:
1) Call Me Dragon (4m43)
2) Dirty Messages (8m05)
3) Who Is This Tall Sick Man (5m20)
4) Biggie and Tupac (1m04)
5) Harry Patton (6m08)
6) Space Ritual (6m32)
7) Deaf Machine (6m39)
Please head over to the bands myspace to grab a free MP3 of Call Me Dragon
The album launch for the release is destined for Saturday 13th February at The Cockpit, Leeds as part of the St Valentine’s Massacre feat: These Monsters with supports from Kong, That Fucking Tank, Hot Club de Paris, Blacklisters, Blakfish, Humanfly + more/ Tickets are £6.00 and available from here
These Monsters will then begin a huge tour across the UK and Europe probably lasting til next year! For more information about dates please visit the bands myspace.
“This Leeds quatet will kick off 2010 with shitloads of idiosyncratic style. Creating largely instrumental, frequently cacophonous and consistently transfixing songs, they rock like proper nutjobs in a manner that’s wilfully experimental but never pretentious. Their growing reputation for putting on one hell of a live show is richly deserved, too” Rocksound one’s to watch – December 2009
“One of the most interesting and engaging acts I’ve heard from the UK in a long fucking time – no word of a lie.” Collective-zine
“Time has frozen as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of post-rock resonance. Both comforting and devastating.” The Fly Magazine
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So 2009 saw the birth of I Like Press (in the later months) and we are shaping 2010 to be an immense first full year. Things to look forward to; Album’s from I Like Trains, These Monsters, Castrovalva and Kong, all due in 2010 aswell as EP’s by Club Smith. Massive tours from all the acts too and potential new acts in the pipeline. Watch this space!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! x
We are pleased to announce the newest arrival to the I Like Press family; Club Smith. We will be bringing you some very hot news on their release front and also some even hotter Tour news. Watch this space.
Also keep your eyes and ears open for These Monster’s debut LP and tour news.
Thanks x
After more than 2 years since the arrival of their debut album, ‘Elegies to Lessons Learnt,’ I Like Trains finally hit the studio to record the much anticipated follow up.
Title: He Who Saw the Deep
Studio: A small cottage in the north of Yorkshire.
Producer: I Like Trains
Confirmed Tracks: Sea of Regrets
Working track titles: Sirens, We Saw the Deep, A Divorce Before Marriage, A Father’s Son.
Due Date: 2010
Quote from David Martin “Whilst the previous EPs and album concerned themselves with the darker aspects of human history, this new record takes a tentative look towards our future. Sonically there is greater contrast than previous recordings with rays of light puncturing the gloom. At the beginning of the writing stage we made an effort to stay away from the reverbs and delays we have become known for. As we went on more reverb has made its way onto tracks, but its no longer all encompassing. It will make for a cleaner open sounding record.”
We are pleased to announce that Kong will not only be doing their first ever European tour in April next year but they’ll also be main support to 65daysofstatic for most of it.
4th April – Ekko – Utrech (Netherlands)
5th April – Doornroosje – Nijmegen (Netherlands) w/ 65daysofstatic
6th April – TBC – TBC (Netherlands)
7th April – Kunst -Hamburg (Germany) w/ 65daysofstatic
8th April – Lido – Berlin (Germany) w/ 65daysofstatic
9th April – FZW Dortmune (Germany) w/ 65daysofstatic
10th April – Paradiso – Amsterdam (Netherlands) w/ 65daysofstatic
12th April – Lune des Pirates – Aimens (France) w/ 65daysofstatic
13th April – Gebaude 9 – Koln (Germany) w/ 65daysofstatic
14th April – Ampere – Munchen (Germany) w/ 65daysofstatic
15th April – Abart – Zurich (Switzerland) w/ 65daysofstatic
16th April – Impetus Festival – Lausanne (Switzerland)
17th April – Out of the Crowd Festival – Luxembourg w/ 65daysofstatic
Keep your eyes peeled on Kong’s website for further info / ticket information:
Chickenhawk – Confirmed for Fall of Troy support dates
Chickenhawk are super happy to announce we’ve been picked as main tour support for 3 dates with The Fall of Troy from Washington. Tickets are on sale now and you can purchase them through the links below. TFOT toured last year over here with none other than Daughters, catch them at the following dates/venues:
17th November – Leeds Cockpit w/ The Fall of Troy
Tickets available here
18th November – Manchester Academy 3 w/ The Fall of Troy
Tickets available here
21st November – London Garage w/ The Fall of Troy
Tickets available here
Hope to see you there!
Kong – December dates:
No rest for the wicked, Kong are playing a few selected dates in December, also be sure to keep your eyes peeled for some amazing tour news and a Kong Christmas message:
6th December Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds
18th Decemeber Hamptons, Southampton
19th December Old Blue Last, London
Castrovalva – single out now + November dates:
To celebrate the release of their new single “Thug Poetry” out now (Brew) Castrovalva will be playing a monster Leeds date on 21st November at Nation Shopkeepers as well as a string of dates in November:
24 Nov The Gaff for Artrocker magazine London
26 Nov HED @ Mad Ferret w/ FRIENDSHIP Preston
29 Nov w/ THESE MONSTERS @The 13th Note Glasgow
30 Nov w/ THESE MONSTERS + more @ Bannermans Bar Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.myspace.com/castrovalvamusic
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/castrovalvamusic?ref=ts
These Monsters – Euro tour:
New to the ILP family, These Monsters will be taking to Europe throughout November, be sure to check them out:
17 Nov Wiesbaden – Kreativfabrik Deutschland
18 Nov Leipzig with Lords Deutschland
19 Nov Leiden – Sub 071 with Sennen Netherlands
20 Nov Utrecht – The Acu with We Vs Death Netherlands
23 Nov La Louviere, Hainaut – La Taverne du Theatre with Black Elk Belgium
24 Nov Würzburg – Jugendkulturhaus Cairo with Lords Deutschland
26 Nov Brussels – Magasin 4 with Vandal X and Le Chat Noir Belgium
27 Nov Heerlen – Cafe Bluf with Deville & Sungrazer Netherlands
29 Nov The 13th Note Glasgow
30 Nov Bannermans Edinburgh
I Like Trains – Studio & Album News:
Trains head into the studio to finish the long awaited new lp, the follow up to 2007 release “Elegies to Lessons Learnt”. New single and album due 2nd quarter of 2010. Watch out for tour news in the near future.
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