To accompany our debut album Fanatical Love which came out last November, we had a whole bunch of film makers produce videos to accompany each track on the record.

The very talented Matt Brown produced a pretty creepy, but most excellent, video to encompass the instrumental track that was split up over Islands vs Oceans I and Islands vs Oceans II for the record.

Felicity Boylett worked with Matt on the video and shes put up some photos from the making of on her blog, including close ups of those creepy masks!

Check out the blog HERE

And of course, the video:

Fanatical Love gets 4 stars in this month’s Artrocker

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THE DVD VERSION OF THE ALBUM IS NOW SOLD OUT BUT YOU CAN WATCH ALL THE VIDEO’S ON OUR VIMEO CHANNEL HERE

So we wanted to do something a bit different for our debut album and getting 11 film makers to produce a video for each track seemed a great idea (thank you Liars ‘Drums Not Dead’). 

The entire album is now up to stream and buy HERE, and comes with a  special edition limited to 50 copies DVD/CD version featuring all the video’s and a DVD only track ‘Moon’ which stars a video game version of Bill Murray and Ellen Page saving the world from evil robots! 

FANATICAL LOVE TRACKING LISTING WITH FILM MAKERS

1. #asongtostartarecordwith - Ellen Waddell (Los Campesinos!)
2. Salton Sea - Lt Meat
3. Shadows - Lt Meat
4. Skin - Tom Betts
5. Battle Lake - Graham Neale
6. House Sounds - Craig Jacobsen & Cassandra Sechler (Dreams for Dead Cats)
7. Devo - Ross Southard
8. Islands vs Oceans I - Matt Brown
9. Lights To Lead Us - Jason Marsh, Samuel Fletcher, Cassandra Sechler
10. Miniatures - Skint Student Productions
11. Island vs Oceans II - Matt Brown
12. Breeders - David Roberts & Nic Britz (Dangerous Doug Films)
13. Moon - James Docherty

To celebrate the efforts made by the film makers involved, we’ve arranged for a special one off screening of all 12 films at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre on the 7th November in conjunction with Movie Maker. Tickets are FREE but are limited to only 60 seats so advanced booking is recommended as this event will sell out. Order online here or via Chapter box office 02920 304 400.

Pre-order of our forthcoming album FANATICAL LOVE are now available HERE.

It’s available as Download only, CD&Download or Ltd CD/DVD&Download, with any of these you’ll get three tracks as an immediate download.

The DVD features 11 film’s specially commissioned for the album with the DVD version also coming with an extra video/track not featured on the regular album.

The album will then be on general release on the 14.11.11 via BARELY REGAL RECORDS.

SALTON SEA - Track #3 from the forthcoming album FANATICAL LOVE (Shadows/Skin single available free here)

Upcoming dates for the diary:

SWN Festival - 23.10.11

‘Fanatical Love’ album playback, a screening of all 11 videos for the album at Cinema 2 in Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre - 07.11.11

Album Launch Night, Clwb Ifor Bach - 11.11.11

Fanatical Love general release - 14.11.11

salton sea

Lots of gig news…

This Sunday (25/09/11) supporting MALE BONDING and THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE at CLWB IFOR BACH, tickets available from SWN.

23/10/11 we’ll be at SWN FESTIVAL in Cardiff. 

Then we’ll be heading around the UK in November with our good friends SAMOANS for the release of our album FANATICAL LOVE.

Come along and say Hi.

11th November – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach (‘Fanatical Love’ album launch)

12th November – Manchester, The Whitworth*

13th November – Bristol, The Croft

14th November – Plymouth, Voodoo Lounge

15th November – Portsmouth, Edge of the Wedge

16th November – Brigthon, venue TBC

17th November – London, venue TBC

18th November – Nottingham, The Chameleon**

19th November – Sheffield**

* supporting Slabdragger

 ** with Without Maps

We did some filming over the weekend for a video that will make up one of 11 to accompany our forthcoming album Fanatical Love, the launch of which will be screened at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre in November.

Despite running around Cardiff on the weekend of September 11th wearing some very dubious masks and fake moustache’s, we managed to avoid the attention of the authorities, here’s a little taster…

Queen were pretty ace* and we’d love to say that it was cleverly orchestrated on our part to have our new single released on the same day that it would have been Freddie Mercury’s birthday**. It wasn’t, it is just a coincidence.

Anyway onto business, our new double AA side single is available to download as of today as a pay what you want download:

It features two tracks taken from our forthcoming album ‘Fanatical Love’***. The single is also still available as a super limited edition cassette tape.

Get downloading, yeah!!

* we’ve previously covered the Freddie Mercury classic ‘Living On My Own’ at a Valentines Day show:

** he would be have been 65 today

*** due for release 14/11/2011