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Are you in a hurry ? Sorry I cannot help. This release has been available for free download for almost a decade but is temporarily (I hope) offline. Maybe you can get updates about the availability of the release from the band's current label, Slcnc Music.
This is something difficult to say, but, starting from now, since I reviewed any of the releases that I liked the most for the few past years, outside a few No Monster Club and Dublin Duck Dispensary ones, and maybe one or two other one that I forgot to mention since I wrote and published as quickly as possible and this is possible that another good release or two got forgotten in the process, I'll continue with in mind the idea of speaking about albums that I use to listen to and to like, but we will not be able to call this 'reviews'. I'll keep on publishing old-style reviews and news as before. But this paper is the first of a new kind, where bands' member can write about some of their releases.
I don't hope many musician will come to write about their releases here, but there's a few ones who may, and I hope they'll do. In the meanwhile the only musician being immediately available for such a task being me, I'll start here by writing a bit about an EP published almost ten years ago by a band in which I was singing and playing the bass called Beatles II.
This band name is a not very severe curse, but to be true we didn't care much about our name and, now this is unsure, but there's a possibility that it was in fact a nickname a guy working in the club we used to play gave us and that is still around. No, actually we didn't planned to become bigger than the Beatles, for sure. This is not what this name means, along with any other kind of strange Beatles-related question that may cross your mind. In fact this name as nothing to do with the Beatles excepting the fact that the word is the same.
But this band name emerged when we had a drummers. But a few time before this, I was just back in town after spending 9 month away, and my old friend Turm, who played the guitar in bands I was in too like since the Delta 9 Surfing City era, asked me if I wanted to come plays some music in a club in which anyone could come and play. I was ok, and the next week it was done too, and so on. We used to perform together, sometimes other musician were playing too, and it was nice.
Then we thought about a new band. We asked our friend Seb to join us as a drummer, he was ok, the club was ok to let us have rehearsals once a week, we still used to play shows there, and we were told we could use their recording facilities for a price that was about the one of the CD-Rs we would get once the recording is finished.
I sum up all this to make clear that we became a band and recorded an EP almost by accident. We had been in bands, we had been recording on our own, and it was, for us, simply happening once again. Once a week, most time I was at Seb's home on the afternoon, then we used to go to the studio to meet Turm and record for one hour or two.
When we had any of our songs recorded - olds songs I had wrote years ago for most of them -, we had our EP.
It was clear for us, we didn't talk about it, everyone thought that having it online for free was the only thing to do.
Seb leaved the band immediately after the release. We played some more shows, with two different drummers, and the second one joined the band, we gave even more shows, but the band wasn't existing any more about three months after the EP issuing.
Everything had been done quickly, very cleanly and without any major problem.
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