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News
Happy Birthday
Our next album is due for release on Riot Season late July/early August. It's called Happy Birthday.
We're looking for dates from Summer onwards. Get in touch if you fancy it.
CONTACT (AT) HEYCOLOSSUS DOT COM
We have Cambridge, Leeds, Berlin, Tilburg lined up. Some others in the pipeline.
There is now six of us. Bob, Duncan, Joe, Paul, Rhys, Tim.
Yours.
HC
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DECEMBER 2007
We've recorded a shit load of new stuff. It'll be going here and there, whether it's an albums worth or a 12" maybe? Dunno. We're doing a split 7" with Bristol's TRACTOR. We're sorting some gigs for Jan + Feb. Brighton is 16th Feb. Hopefully more to follow. We went to Spain for a week. It had it's moments. We have a song, HMS Colossus, on the new Silver Rocket comp. According to a mag we read we've split up. We're under the impression that isn't true. If you want us to play then get in touch.
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Project Death
New album. 8 songs. April 2nd.
Jonson Family (UK), Shifty (U.S), Rimbaud (Ireland), Underhill (Spain) are doing the CD.
Wakusei plus Jonson Family are doing the vinyl.
Gigs - We want 'em, We've got some, but we want more. Please contact us if you want us to come to your town. contact@heycolossus.com
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KZZZZZPHHHHT
We're recording album number three over the 1st weekend of December. It features such fine tracks as; 'I Am Equal In Size to Anything I See' and 'How Many Caesars I Have Been'. Judging by the songs that we have written it's going to be something for everyone and everything to someone. We DEMAND it's released in February. That's right, "we DEMAND". How about that for rock star behaviour?
We're playing on Dec 3 in London. Check theee mighty gig page.
We must sort out the photo's, they're boring. The one you can see is us playing with Woe a few months back. We quite like it. As a photo I mean. It makes us looking interesting and deep and clever. Despite everything.
Regards.
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T Shirt
We have T-Shirts.
M or L or XL
The dot splits are now available.
JF has all you need.
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Bobs/Bits/Bits/Bobs - Isn't it annoying when Myspace sites are more up to date than the actual proper band site? Moan/Blither/Blither/Moan
We have some gigs coming up. Check the Gig page for details.
The dot(.) split is being pressed and is due mid-June. A word of warning: There's only 500 of them, meaning only 175 are coming into the UK (the others will be in Germany via Blinddate, the U.S through Shifty and some are heading to Japan). Not only that but the first 100 are on coloured vinyl. I know some people are crazy for the LTD wax. If you want to tuck in on some of that action then either mail us or Jonson Family.
There is vague talk of recording the next album in September. But we'll see. No stress. The world cup is coming at us, as is the Summer.....There's lots of deals on beer in the supermarket so time may just float by in a nice haze of sun, football, booze, and relaxing.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........................Yours sincerely, etc, etc
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What's going on you losers?
In answer to that....
Ian has left to concentrate on Econoline and Blackhorse and life. Tim has left and is concentrating on his solo project 'Poachers Cap' and also perfecting the fine art of homemade wine. Rhys has replaced Tim on the tubs, Dave has stepped in on guitar, and Duncan is in on OOZE/NOISE. In fact Duncan has been in on OOZE/NOISE for the last 7 gigs. James, Bob, and Joe are all still in the squad.
So cheers to the departed and beers to the new chaps.
The new 6 piece line up recorded a couple of weeks ago for the DOT(.) split, and it was sounding quite splendid. That is definitely coming soon. Liam Trencher is supplying the artwork. It will be a hot piece of wax.
We're rehearsing new stuff for a new album, there's talk of gigging in July.
There's also talk of releasing 'Hates You' on CD. Finally.
We're playing at least one, maybe more gigs as Woe Colossus over the next couple of months. The first being on March 29th at The Vibe Bar on Brick Lane, East London with The Enablers (Ex Swans/June Of 44). 10 people on the stage, a la the Woe C 12". It should be fun.
So there we are. That's what's going on.
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Myspace
We have a Myspace account. Come along and say hello. Listen to our sexy music. Look at pictures of our hunky selves.
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Stuff
The Woe Colossus 12" is out now. 2 tracks, nine people in the band, a Miles Davis cover. It's storming. Woe are a 4 piece from Southend who we love, we spent a day with them earlier this year and rocked the farm. State Of Distress has pressed up 200 copies, go get it. You can also get this from HC's JF page
One long one for a 12" split with the amazing Japanese band DOT(.) It's being co-released by 3 labels. In the U.S by Shifty, in Germany by Blinddate, and in the UK by JF. OUT SOON.
The split 10" with Part Chimp, Lords, and Todd is out now. This is being co-released by 4 labels. Gringo, RockAction, Southern, and JF.
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Radio One Session
Tuesday 2nd August, Radio One, 11pm - 1am.
4 songs, one of which is a Stereolab cover, will be broadcast by Mr. Huw Stephens.
We recorded them in Maida Vale a couple of months back.
He has a website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/ you'll be able to listen to it again and again until your heart goes boom.
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Half Century and shockingly NOT OUT.
We're putting on a celebratory gig on the 8th July to pat ourselves on the back for reaching 50 gigs. This may not seem like many to all you hardcore punkers who rock all over the world like Status Quo, but for us old losers it's a real shock. I don't think we expected to make it past the first rehearsal.....ANYHOW. THE DETAILS:
Date - Friday 8th July
Venue - Bardens Room 2 (the small one under the boozer, not the vast one under the ex-carpet shop)
Where - Dalston, near "trendy" Stoke Newington, London.
Cost - £4
With:
Blood Red Shoes - A great duo from Brighton, drums, guitar, both of them sing. It rocks.
The IK Jan Creamers - Bilge Pump meets Deus, from Holland. We like them a lot.
Epideme - A three piece from Worthing/Brighton. Young scamps digging The Minutemen + Cat On Form.
There may well be a Vestax turntable DJ battle.
All those who come will receive a CDR of HC stuff, nice art, never to be released live things and whatnot.
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Scouring The Internet
Found some online reviews of the album:
Hellride
Rockfeedback
Neumu
There'll be more here soon, but my computer's just froze so I need to save these, turn the fekkin thing off and come back and sort it.
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Cheers To All.
These last couple of weeks we've played some real fun gigs and met some great people so thankyou people of London, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Glasgow, and Oxford. We apologize in a big way to the people of Canterbury as illness meant we had to pull the gig, we were gutted.
Some people were asking about the availablity of the 'Hates You' 12". Here is a list of some places that probably have a copy or two left:
Blacklodge
Wakusei
Super Fi
All Ages
Forte
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Rocksound Covermount CD
The April issue of Rocksound has a track from HCII on the covermount CD. It also has a small interview.
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Hey Colossus II
This MP3 is one of the six tracks on the forthcoming album: Vengeance
Album number two is out on 14th March 2005, it's to be co-released on CD by Jonson Family in the UK and Shifty Records in the U.S, and on vinyl for the world(!) by Wakusei It is going under the genius name 'Hey Colossus II'.
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Phil Collins 3 Split
We have a split 7" with The Phil Collins 3 out now on Victory Garden. We have one track entitled 'Ghost Ship', PC3 have 3 tracks. Contact us or Victory Garden to get hold of a copy.
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Future Recording
At some point next year we are taking up one side of a 12" split release with DOT(.), an amazing Japanese band.
In January we are recording with our friends Woe. We hope this will turn into a 12" release under the name of Woe Colossus. Whether it gets released or not, it will be a noise of uppermost beauty.
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Ninehertz interview
An interview with two fifths of us is here: http://www.ninehertz.co.uk/ the other three fifths of us are yet to decide if we stand by the views expressed.
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Hey Colossus Hates You - Sold Out
Our first 12" has now sold out although some distros may have some copies. The split with the Lords is also sold out apart from 20 copies without sleeves at the Theory Of Nothing base camp.
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