Tickets Now Available for March All-Dayer

As the title says, we now have tickets available for the TNS all-dayer on the 12th March. They are £5 each (£6 otd) and available from Rockers on Oldham Street or by paypal - tnsrecordsuk@hotmail.co.uk

We have also got some limited A2 posters printed that you will be able to pick up on the day for just £1. They look like this -

So a quick reminder about the gig. It starts at 3pm and is also going to be upstairs at Gullivers on Oldham Street from 3pm. As you can see above the line-up will be:

Beat The Red Light - http://www.myspace.com/beattheredlight

The Dangerfields - http://www.myspace.com/thedangerfields

Stand Out Riot - http://www.myspace.com/standoutriot

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man - http://www.myspace.com/revengeofthepsychotronicman

Faintest Idea - http://www.myspace.com/faintestidea

Bootscraper - www.myspace.com/bootscrapermusic

The Kirkz - www.myspace.com/thekirkz

Sense of Urgency - www.myspace.com/senseofurgency

Leagues Apart - www.myspace.com/leaguesapartmusic

Ignorance Is This - http://www.myspace.com/ignoranceisthisuk

It should also be the Manchester launch gig for the new Beat The Red Light and Stand Out Riot albums. So it is shaping up to be an amazing day. Please spread the word and make sure the day is booked in your diary.

A FREE awareness gig

We are helping Tom Houseman from Sense of Urgency/Rising Strike fame to put on a FREE gig on the 16th Jan in support of defending the arts, humanities and education for all. It will also incorporate information about the cuts and related subjects.

There will be speakers, stalls and live sets from Stand Out Riot, Rising Strike, Revenge of the Psychotronic Man, the Hostiles, Penis Goes Where? and Ignorance Is This.

You can find out more and keep up with the plans on the facebook group HERE

I believe they need a couple more speakers, so if your interested or want to get involved in any other way drop Andy an email - andy@tnsrecords.co.uk

Review of 2010 - Revenge of the Psychotronic Man

2010 has been a fun packed year for Revenge of... We played 30 times, which is a bit less than previous years, but there have been some belters. We have gigs already booked for next year and have already recorded six new tracks, which will feature on a four way split ep to be released early next year on TNSrecords, 5 Feet Under (Denmark) and Stikman (USA), which also features the Mighty Midgets (Denmark), Fist of the North Star (USA) and Broken Aris (Sweden). We are very excited about that feast of fast.

We’ll also have a music video and a ROCKumentary available early next year. Although we didn’t release any new material, we do feature on the 5 Feet Under, Punk Rock Generation vol. 3 compilation, which you should all definitely purchase.

So in no particular rank order, here are my highlights of 2010.

SATURDAY 16th JANUARY - TNS BEACH PARTY

Featuring - The Stupids, Revenge of..., The Emos, Tool of the Regime and Penis Goes Where? A beach party in January seemed like exactly the sort of stupid idea that only TNS pull off and everything just seemed to fall into place brilliantly. It was the first time the Stupids had played up north in a while so there was lots of hype, the local newspapers all gave the gig loads of coverage, it was significantly over venue capacity (possibly the busiest TNS gig ever) and Mikey Wong wore a beautiful skirt.

It’s not often you can say that you got hit in the face by a 5 foot inflatable dolphin mid-set is it? The atmosphere was amazing, everybody got into the stupidity of the event and all the bands went down a treat. What a start to the year!

SATURDAY 29th MAY - STRUMMERCAMP

What better way is there to celebrate your birthday than being able to pick a lineup for a stage at a festival. Myself and Bev were incredibly proud of the lineup we put together for the TNS stage and it was a pleasure to hang out with all the bands. It was a truly fantastic weekend and one of the best festivals I have ever had the pleasure of being at. It was the first time I’ve ever played a gig on my birthday and it was so much fun. Massive human pyramids galore and punk rock wheelbarrow races were my personal favourite bits of our set. It really couldn’t have been more fun.

21-26 JULY - SUMMER TOUR

Despite only being a short tour this was one of my favourites ever. All the gigs were decent, stupidity hit new levels with the invention of flash pyramids (apparently bouncers in trendy clubs don’t find them as funny as us), we acquired some superb 90s hits CDs and the booze flowed like water from a mountain stream.

We got to hang out with so many great people and really appreciate all the people who cooked, housed and looked after us... we are not capable of doing it ourselves. A big shout-out should go to the Amazingstoke massive for making our final night one of the most fun gigs of the year. Those guys have a great little scene going.

The final night of the tour was hilarious. Big Hands ability to hear karaoke on a Sunday night from half a mile away is astounding. Has anybody else ever done karaoke to Joan Osborn whilst in a pyramid formation and done a humming solo to Beats International whilst on somebodies shoulders and then been offered a gig on the back of the performance... I didn’t think so!

24 AUGUST - BAD RELIGION

Although I’d never want to stop doing small underground gigs, it was an amazing, probably once in a lifetime experience to support a band I had grown up listening to at a big venue at a sold out gig.

It’s crazy playing to that many people and it was very exciting. Thanks to Andy and Kathy for sorting it and to all the people who bought our merch. We used the money to fund the new CD so your support was massively appreciated. It was a great night that I know I’ll never forget!

27/28 NOVEMBER - RECORDING

We spent a weekend with Timothy G recording six brand new tracks and also invented pyramid vocals. We are very happy with the new tunes... they are going to take faces clean off! They will be unleashed very soon!

Cheers to everybody who has helped, supported, watched, listened, purchased anything to do with Revenge in 2010. All three of us appreciate it so much and looking forward to bringing you more rock next year!

Punk Rock Generation Volume 3

From previous posts you might be aware we are putting out a split EP next year alongside two great labels; 5feetunder Records (Denmark) and Stikman Records (USA). Well 5feetunder Records have just put out an awesome compilation, Punk Rock Generation Volume 3, that features our very own Revenge of the Psychotronic Man. The 34 track beast is available from Revenge of... for just £4, just head over to their webstore

If you like punk and hardcore you really need a copy. As well as Revenge of... it also features Mighty Midgets and Broken Aris, who will also feature on next years split EP, along with Antillectual and many, many more fine bands from across Europe. More info can be found on the Revenge's website here - http://www.revengeofthepsychotronicman.com/revenge/news.html

The track list looks like this:

We Will Fly - "Fervid"

Mighty Midgets - "You Are Not Alone (the World is Full of Assholes)"

Antillectual - "Cut the Ground From Under Our Feet"

Save the Embers - "Everett"

Manu Armata - "Antagonized"

Archers and Arrows - "The Young Carpetbaggers"

Drunktank - "Last One Standing"

Kensington Arms - "Interpreting the Uninterpretable"

Nemas - "Nemas United

Goodbye Jersey - "The Beast"

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man - "Needles to Say"

The Supervisors - "Machines"

BrainDead - "To This Day"

Revolt of Darwin - "Revolt of Darwin"

Stream City - "Incompetent Doctor"

Rank N File - "People in Glass Houses Sink Ships"

Chainsaw Brigade - "System//Terror"

Kill the Rooster - "Stranger"

Phlegmatix - "Calling for a Revolution"

Still Around - "Restless Hearts"

Rovers Ahead - "One Mad Night at the Pub"

Sodomy Soldiers - "Spraypaint"

The Ignored - "Family Values Seen From A Different Angle"

Losing Must - "Believe"

7PM Meeting - "Fists of Reality"

Loudog - "In Their Eyes"

Sprome - "Unbound Underground"

Dysfunctional Kid - "2000 Cigarettes"

Broken Aris - "The Last Nail in Your Coffin"

Thought Police Brutality - "Surge and Destroy"

The Respirators - "Good Call"

Die Oi!tonome - "Copenhagen"

Lemlæstet Fosterbræk - "Metal Is for Pussies"

Stars Burn Stripes - "I Lost the Point"

The All Dayer To End All Dayers

We haven't put on a gig for a while, we needed a break. But we miss it. So we have put together a special TNSrecords all-dayer on the 12th March next year. It will be £6 on the door, tickets info (if we have them) will follow later. Oh, its also going to be upstairs at Gullivers on Oldham Street from 3pm.

As you can see above the line-up will be:

Beat The Red Light - http://www.myspace.com/beattheredlight

The Dangerfields - http://www.myspace.com/thedangerfields

Stand Out Riot - http://www.myspace.com/standoutriot

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man - http://www.myspace.com/revengeofthepsychotronicman

Faintest Idea - http://www.myspace.com/faintestidea

Bootscraper - www.myspace.com/bootscrapermusic

The Kirkz - www.myspace.com/thekirkz

Sense of Urgency - www.myspace.com/senseofurgency

Leagues Apart - www.myspace.com/leaguesapartmusic

Ignorance Is This - http://www.myspace.com/ignoranceisthisuk

It should also be the Manchester launch gig for the new Beat The Red Light and Stand Out Riot albums. So it is shaping up to be an amazing day. Please spread the word and make sure the day is booked in your diary.

Punk and Ska that will take your face off!

It's Booze Time

Over the weekend Revenge of the Psychotronic Man were in the studio to record 6 tracks for an international split that we will be releasing around April next year.

Tim G (Big Tone Recordings) had the pleasure of putting up with Revenge of... for two days, listening to the rough mixes it sounds like he did a great job.

If you have seen Revenge of... play over the last few months you would have heard most of the tracks recorded, although there are a couple that will be new to you. It might not sound believable but I think this EP is even faster than the album, 6 tracks are over and done with in under 7mins 25 secs. The track listing is:

1. Drinking in the Van

2. Not My Fight

3. It's Booze Time

4. A Political Hot Potato

5. D.I.Why?

6. The End of Everything

I think there must have been a worlds first at Big Tone this weekend: the gang vocals on 'The End of Everything' were recorded in human pyramid formation! Davey Psychotronic was up from the big smoke to record some video footage over the weekend so we should hopefully see that in the near future with some samples from the EP. We will also probably make 'A Political Hot Potato' available for a free download once Tim has finished with the mastering. So look out for that.

If you weren't already aware, these tracks are going to feature on an international split EP alongside 5feetunder Records from Denmark and Stikman Records from the US. It will also feature the Mighty Midgets (Denmark) , Fist of the North Star (USA) and the Broken Aris (Sweden).

Andy and Niels (Mighty Midgets) are working together on the artwork, which should produce something very interesting. Each of the bands/labels have a similar DIY ethics and we all feel it is a really good way of helping great bands be heard further a field. It's a real pleasure to be working with a group of like minded labels and bands.

"IT'S FUCKING BOOZE TIME"

Revenge of... music video

Revenge of the Psychotronic Man are filming a music video at Kro Bar in Manchester on the 19th November. Please bring animal masks and come prepared to be very silly!

Penis Goes Where? and The Dangerous Aces are also playing. More info can be found on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170482776311030

Please spread the word and bring everyone you know down.