Right, Listen Up! has now been released and is available to buy!
Click here to download buy vinyl and CD from Cityscape Records
Click here to buy vinyl and CD from Genepool
It is also available from Piccadilly Records in Manchester, HMV all over the place and Norman, Juno etc online.
You can get the download from itunes, rhapsody, napster etc – please do!
Here’s a pic of John finding us in our rightful place – the new releases rack of HMV in Oxford St, London!
This has been a very busy week! The single is out, we drove down to London to record a session for Q Music (Will do a piece on that when it’s broadcast) and then yesterday we headed back north and recorded this session which went out live on the lovely Caroline Boyd’s Drivetime show last night (24th Feb).
Here is the show and the three tracks we played cut out for you to download for free should you wish to! Enjoy:
The whole 20 minute interview with three live tracks and Listen Up! played from the CD:
http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/MERCHANDISE INTERVIEWALLFM1.mp3
Take Me
http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/Take-Me-by-Merchandise-ALL-FM-Session.mp3
Sometimes
http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/Sometimes-by-Merchandise-ALL-FM-Session.mp3
Best Idea
http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/Best-Idea-by-Merchandise-ALL-FM-Session.mp3
Merchandise’s new single arrived with me yesterday and seeing the cover, that familiar toon style of illustration and the brown/orange thang is really starting to stamp the Merchandise brand on all that they do. When a band starts to become a brand, things start to feel more cohesive and as a result things start to get a bit more exciting in some way. It should be avbout the music but if pop music was just about the music we’d be in a very different place.
Listen Up! is the follow-up to Sometimes – one of those catchy tunes from 2008 that still weaves its way into my head frequently. It’s a clever, confident track that doesn’t do very much. This makes it good… for me. Poppy to the hilt, it uses a lot of repetition (”You were my world wer – wer – wer world”), and has catchiness written all over it. It’s going to be another one of those naggers that keeps popping into my head in the spring of 2009.
http://www.minnellium.com/listen-up-by-merchandise
Looking forward to Merchandise’s album coming later this year – five years in the making.
Listen Up! is now out there in the big wide world and available to buy! Click on the image to go to it on itunes if you have that installed . . .
If you prefer, there are a good few sites and shops you can get the physical releases from – this one would be a good bet!
The new single was on Radio One again the other night on 19th Feb and broadcast in Northern Ireland. Rory McConnell’s show went out in on both Radio One and in Northern Ireland while Hew Stevens is away and he kindly played the track and gave us a fascinating fact about Bolton (really – listen!)
Here’s the show on listen again should you wish . . .
Well, just over a week to go until the single is available and already it’s been played on a good few stations! If you’ve not heard it yet, listen here: http://www.merchandisetheband.co.uk/listen-up-to-listen-up/
209 Radio – Cambridge
All FM – Manchester
Bailrigg FM – Lancaster
BBC Radio 1 – UK
BBC Radio Liverpool – Liverpool
BBC Radio Stornoway – Stornoway
BCB – Bradford
Blast 1386 – Reading
Delta FM – Hampshire
Express FM – Hampshire
Isles FM – Stornoway
Juice Brighton – Brighton
Metro Radio – Newcastle
Olympic Radio – Plymouth
Radio Ceredigion – Ceredigion
Radio Weser – Bremen – Germany
Utopia FM – Sunderland
WFM – Wythenshawe
WNYU – New York University Radio – USA