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

Our Top 10s (ish)

As it is that time of year I thought I would ask a few people what their top 10 albums, and if they felt like it gigs, of 2010 where. As you can see, some people aren't that great at realising what I was asking for so we got some interesting responses. So in no particular order here are people thoughts on 2010 (and beyond);

Andy Davies (TNS/Revenge of...)

Top Albums (Not including TNS releases, that would be a bit biased)

Mighty Midgets - Raising Ruins For the Future

The Dead Class - Stick
Brendan Kelly/Joe McMahon - Wasted Potential
China Shop Bull - Rave to the Grave
Punk Rock Generation vol. 3
The Arteries - Dead Sea
Smoke or Fire - the Speakeasy

None More Black - Icons
Off With Their Heads - In Desolation
The Beatsteaks - Limbo Messiah

Bev (TNS)

Mighty Midgets - Raising Ruins For the Future

OK Pilot - Nerves

None More Black - Icons

Pacer - No.1

Smoke or Fire - the Speakeasy

Off With Their Heads - In Desolation

Brendan Kelly/Joe McMahon - Wasted Potential

Rebuke - Wouldworks

The Arteries - Dead Sea

Bangers - Dude Trips

Andrew (The Dangerfields)

Top 10 Albums

1. Airbourne - No Guts, No Glory

2. Helloween - 7 Sinners

3. Gwar - Bloody Pit of Horror

4. Motörhead - The Wörld is Yours

5. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent

6. FM - Metropolis

7. Jesse Malin & the St Marks Social - Love It to Life

8. Macabre - Grim Scary Tales

9. Danko Jones - Below the Belt

10. Slash - Slash

Top 10 Gigs

1. The Wilders, Black Box, Belfast

2. Gwar, LVC, Leiden

3. Twisted Sister, Bloodstock, Catton Hall, Derby

4. Alice Cooper, Sonisphere, Knebworth House, Knebworth

5. Jean Michel Jarre, O2, Dublin

6. Cannibal Corpse, Spring & Airbrake, Belfast

7. Helloween, Hard Rock Hell, Pontin's, Prestatyn

8. Pink, King’s Hall Complex, Belfast

9. Richard Clayderman, Waterfront, Belfast

10. Danko Jones, Odyssey Arena, Belfast

Dec and Maya (Sense of Urgency)

Top Albums

Leatherface - The Stormy Petrel
Fractions - Release
Off with their Heads - In Desolation
Kirkz - Aggroculture

Top Gigs

Harijan at Star and Garter

Punk all dayer at green star, stoke
Strummercamp
Ennio Morricone

Adam (Leagues Apart)

Top Albums

The Arteries - Dead Sea
AM Taxi - We Don't Stand a Chance
The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits
Bangers - Dude Trips
Iron Chic - Not Like This
The Flatliners - Cavalcade
Cynics - Stones I've Thrown
ONSIND - Dissatisfactions
Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy
Tigers Jaw - Two Worlds

Fav Shows
21st March, KRO Bar - MN#1 - Arteries, Bangers, Above Them, Just Panic and Leagues Apart
15th September, Old Bell, Derby - Off With Their Heads, A,IHN, Leagues Apart, Rooftops and Pacer

Cassius (Bootscraper)

Top 10 Albums

Frank Zappa - Cheap Thrills
Nuclear Rabbit - Vicuna
Bill Frisell - Further East/Further West
The Cardiacs - Sing to Gods
John Zorn - Naked City
Oingo Boingo - Farewell: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre, Halloween 1995
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle
Kultur Shock - Integration
Flat Earth Society - Isms

Pook (Beat The Red Light)

(He brought them this year, so they count....)

1 Voodoo Glow Skulls- Firme
2 Hot Stove Jimmy- Theme For A Major Hit
3 Blue Meanies- full throttle
4 Pantera- far beyond driven
5 Bad Brains- rock for light
6 Guns N Roses appetite for destruction
7 Sizzla- rastafari
8 Rico And The Ruddies- hold your horn
9 John Coltrane- best of the vanguard years
10 Curtis Fuller- blue not sessions

Let us know what your top 10 are by adding your list to the comments. Bring on 2011!

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!

WARNING: May Contain Cuts

Here is an article by Tom Houseman (Sense of Urgency/Rising Strike) that will feature in the next issue of the fanzine, which is due out next month. Enjoy.

WARNING: May Contain Cuts

After decades of spin doctors, broken promises, and bare-faced lies, it should at last be widely acknowledge that the lifeblood of British politics is misdirection. With that in mind, it is bizarre that we have taken at face value the coalition government’s zealous imposition of its cuts. “We all have to do our bit”, chant the slack-jawed public into the reporter’s microphone, as if repetition will suffice in the absence of thought or discussion. The more sophisticated version of this mantra is the claim that “I’m not happy about it, but public sector workers/students/the arts have to shoulder their share of the burden”. Underlying this claim is the ultimate misdirection: by assuming that the state (i.e. the taxpayer) should only pay for things that contribute to the economy, we’re making massively important statements about what society is and should be – and as long as these statements slip under the radar of public debate, austerity budgets will continue to go unopposed.

Education, like art, is not an investment. It should not be judged in terms of its expected financial return, as it has an intrinsic value not captured by its profitability. More importantly, education and art are completely disfigured when left to the brutal logic of cost and benefit. The students who, increasingly, make their university choices with only careers in mind will only learn what is useful for business, until academia is nothing more than the training of the account managers and sales executives of tomorrow. If art is only viable in spaces that attract the approval of private financiers, at best, it will only ever reflect the preferences, lives and experiences of the rich. At worst, it will go the way of all cultural commodities, becoming ever cheaper and more disposable. (In this way, acquiescing to the cuts is tantamount to making the X Factor the model for all creativity).

Lurking behind the increase in university fees and the various cuts to the arts, to education, to public services, and to benefits, is the awful inner logic of a society in which capitalism sets the terms of debate. The government is trying to abdicate our responsibility as a society to guarantee the integrity of things that would be destroyed or mutilated if left to the logic of the market. They are attempting to render all social life subservient to the open competition of narrowly-defined self-interest. As any sane person can recognise, such naked competition will only ever have one result: those with the necessary resources will acquire yet more, while those born with little will die with nothing.

Learning for learning’s sake, art for art’s sake, genuine democracy, and protection from extreme poverty, are not luxuries that can be restricted to those that can afford it when a nation finds itself strapped for cash. They are society itself. If we do not protect these fragile spaces from the overbearing logic of the market, they will wither and die, leaving us with nothing other than a new feudalism, where we serfs eke out an immiserated existence, paying tribute to the Lord-Bankers for little more than the right to keep working for them.