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and the LATE SUMMER SALE is on over at the Odd Box as I need to make room for incoming new releases!

Older releases with prices slashed:

ODD010: Proto Idiot - Is You Is You My EP - £2.00 (CD EP)
ODD009: The Manhattan Love Suicides - Dandelion Radio Session - £4.00 (CD mini album)
ODD008: The Monorals - Surf 4 Fuzz EP - £2.00 (CD EP)
ODD007: Lovelust - Spaced Out EP - £2.00 (CD EP)
ODD004: [b]The Humms - Are You Dead - £2.00 (CD EP) - last few copies too!
ODD001: The Kick Inside - Oh Vanity - £2.00 (7")
BOX002: The Wednesday Club - Katapult - £4.00 (CD album)
BOX001: The Millipedes - Shake Your Bones - £8.00 (Boxset triple 7", CD and 2 badges)

And you can also pick up all the new releases for a bargain £25 (plus postage) - which will get you:

ODD012 - Ace Bushy Striptease - A Little More Suspicion In Our Fairytales Plz (12 song CD EP)
ODD013 - Falling and Laughing - Bunnyhood (CD EP)
ODD017 - The Smittens - Dancing Shoes: The Smittens Remixed (8 song CD EP)
ODD018 - Liars Beware - The Last 24 Hours EP (CD EP) (due 16th August)
BOX003 - One Happy Island - One Happy Island (CD Album)
BOX004 - The Humms - Lemonland (CD Album)

Humms News! Vinyl edition (Bachelor Records, Austria) has just come into stock. There are only 250 vinyl copies in total, 60 went to the USA. 20 to Odd Box. My copies are going up on the site for sale later this evening. Don't be a dummy - you need to get this superb record on vinyl. The vinyl edition is a little shorter featuring 14 songs (whereas the CD has 18 ). But it is still an amazing LP.


They'll be online later this evening. I don't expect them to last long.

Some exciting news:

The first Odd Box Singles Club is getting closer. After hearing so many wonderful bands during the past 12 months we decided we wanted to release as many of them as possible on beautiful 7” vinyl. So the idea for the singles club was born. It also made sense to make all these 7” singles – split singles so we could cram as many of these wonderful bands onto the Singles Club. So coming in 2011 are 6 singles with 12 bands cherry picked for your pleasure. All with exclusive songs, to be found nowhere else apart from these super limited 7″ singles.

We are dead excited that this singles club is coming together. There are only going to be 400 of these hand numbered copies. And they will be available to pre-order in September/October. The first batch of three 7” singles will be ready for shipping in early 2011. These singles will not be available in the shops. The only place you can get a guaranteed numbered copy of all 6 singles is by subscribing to The Singles Club. For all those that order early there will be a discount, too. So keep your eyes and ears peeled for further announcements (the offer has already been sent to Odd Box Mailing List subscribers - PM me for details).

So who have we got lined up for you? The first 7” will feature THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND and HOROWITZ and other releases feature some of the best up and coming bands we have had the pleasure of discovering in 2010: GOLD-BEARS, THE HAIRS, BRACELETTES, SANTA MONICA SWIM AND DIVE CLUB, ONE FATHOM DOWN, RADIANS and THE VIGNETTES. If this wasn’t enough we’ve found room to squeeze in long time Odd Box crushes THE GIVE IT UPS, THE MEDUSA SNARE and THE HUMMS.

Over the next few weeks/months we will be doing a little feature (over on oddboxrecords.com) on each of the bands that will be taking part in the singles club so you can get to know the bands and their sounds.

Here is the all important ordering information for The Odd Box Singles Club which will consist of six 7″ singles featuring: The Blanche Hudson Weekend, Bracelettes, The Give It Ups, Gold-Bears, The Hairs, Horowitz, The Humms, The Ketamines, The Medusa Snare, One Fathom Down, Santa Monica Swim and Dive Club and The Vignettes

Early Bird offer all six 7″ singles :

UK – £25 (usual price £29)
Europe – £28 (usual price £32)
Rest of World £32 (usual price £36)

If you interested in ordering please send payment, via Paypal to info AT oddboxrecords.com (replacing AT with @) with the subject line of Odd Box Singles Club

the summer sale has just ended - hope you were able to snap up a bargain or two!

Gearing up for the next releases now:

The Understudies - wanting vs getting EP coming at the end of October. In deluxe card packaging, too. This EP is ace.
Various Artists -Broadcast One: New Music Handpicked By Dandelion Radio - a 13 song LP full of exclusive songs and session tracks chosen by the folks at Dandelion Radio. There is gonna be a launch show at RoTa in Notting Hill on 20th November too.

And the early bird on the Singles Club still has a few copies left before all the super cheap copies are gone. More info .

And early next year you can expect releases by Sarandon, Baaneex, Boundary JIM and Sock Puppets.

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On Sunday. on Facebook! as we were having a conversation on there!



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Happy New Year from Odd Box!

To celebrate we're having a crazy sale with many items half price!

BOX004: The Humms "Lemonland" CD album - £4.00
ODD017: The Smittens "Dancing Shoes: The Smittens Remixed" CD album - £3.00
ODD016: Hot Booth "The Whole Thing" Cassette - £1.99 (only a handful of these left)
BOX003: One Happy Island "One Happy Island" CD album - £4.00
ODD011: The Blanche Hudson Weekend "The Rats In The Cellar EP" 7 inch - £2.00 (last 40 copies!)
ODD010: Proto Idiot "Is You Is You My EP" CD ep - £1.50
ODD009: The Manhattan Love Suicides "Dandelion Radio Session " CD album - £2.50 (there's not many of these left either!)
BOX002: The Wednesday Club "Katapult" CD album - £3.00 (one of the best things released on the label in My opinion!)
ODD008: The Monorals "Surf 4 Fuzz EP" CD ep - £1.50 (Garage rock via punk and feedback!)
BOX001: The Millipedes "Shake Your Bones Boxset LP" 7 inch box set - £5.00 (that's three 7" singles, CD and two badges for a fiver!)
ODD007: Lovelust "Spaced Out EP" CD ep - £1.00 (Last 20 of these droney noise EPs!)
ODD001: The Kick Inside "Oh Vanity" 7 inch - £1.50 (Bristol's finest jangle tunesmiths debut 7" single - new release coming soon on BPC!)



We've also got a CD ALBUM PACK for £15 which gets you The Wednesday Club/One Happy Island/The Humms/Broadcast One albums!

And the Singles Club copies are still there for (including)£29 (UK), £32 (Europe) and £36 Rest Of World.

And later today we will have a 25 song download available with a song from every release to date!

Some good deals. I've snapped up the One Happy Island album. Played a couple of their tunes on the show but don't have the whole album.

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I know you're a good looking fella but what the heck are you doing on your gig flyer?

first review, that I've found for the new Sarandon LP over on the ORGAN

http://www.organart.com/organthing098.html

It was actually 'Thing' of the day yesterday.

"They wanted to make exciting, snappy, itchy, uncontrollable pop music and so they do”, so says their biog. Their biography is right, they do, if you really need to find who this classic English post-punk new-wave no-wave wrong pop band, I could tell you more but any fool can regurgitate an on-line biog and quickly ‘remember’ to namedrop Bogshed and the Crayola connection or Big Flame, but you can hit the link and explore for yourselves of course - they’re worth it, this is memorably good.. "

A sneak preview of the Odd Box Singles Club goody bag/badges and sticker.

Here is the latest Facebook update:

Hello Pop Pickers!

The next Odd Box show is fast approaching and it's gonna be a special one as we are launching the new Sarandon record! 'Sarandon's Age Of Reason' is out on Odd Box in the UK/Europe and Slumberland in the USA. We've got a cracking line up and there are £5 advance tickets available, it'll be £6 on the door.

SARANDON
PHIL WILSON
DORA BRILLIANT
RALEGH LONG
Saturday 26th March
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
8pm | £5 adv / £6 Door | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105302

We have guest DJ Tamer Lane playing songs before, between and after the bands!

And after this mega party - we've got plenty more good bands for your pleasure over the next few months:

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

BAANEEX
THE NOTES
CHIPS FOR THE POOR
Friday 15th April - Which Way Is Up! #3
The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebury Avenue, Clerkenwell, EC1R 4RL
8pm| £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112892

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

ONWARD CHARIOTS (NYC, USA)
THE SUNNY STREET
OWL + MOUSE
Monday 18th April
The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebury Avenue, Clerkenwell, EC1R 4RL
8pm| £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112891


★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

The ODD BOX WEEKENDER is happening on 7th/8th May.

Weekend Passes £12 (Earlybird) - just a few left, so be quick!
Weekend Passes £14 (Regular Price)

Saturday 7th May - 3pm-late
Brixton Windmill, free BBQ. £8adv / £10 door

THE LOVELY EGGS | THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND| BLOOD ORANGES | EVANS THE DEATH | SCUMBAG PHILOSOPHER | THE WENDY DARLINGS | CHAPTER 24 | ACE BUSHY STRIPTEASE | THE SWEET NOTHINGS | BASTARD SWORD

Sunday 8th May - 3:30pm-9:30pm
Dalston Victoria. £6adv / £7 door

HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS | ONE FATHOM DOWN | HOROWITZ | BAANEEX | THE UNDERSTUDIES | SOCK PUPPETS | AILSA CRAIG | HAIKU SALUT

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2329

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

KID CANAVERAL
BORDEAUXXX
THE WHATEVERS
Friday 20th May
The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebury Avenue, Clerkenwell, EC1R 4RL
8pm| £5 | Tickets coming soon

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

MILKY WIMPSHAKE
THE WIND UP BIRDS
THE KICK INSIDE
Friday 17th June
The Wilmington Arms, 69 Rosebury Avenue, Clerkenwell, EC1R 4RL
8pm| £5 | Tickets coming soon

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

And here are the latest releases coming out on ODD BOX:

★ ODD026 - BAANEEX - Weird Dance - CD ★
4 Songs of off kilter noise pop from this London 4 piece. "They've ideas, these" - say SWEEPING THE NATION
£4 | OUT NOW | http://bit.ly/OddBoxShop

★ BOX006 - SARANDON's AGE OF REASON - LP/CD ★
Sarandon return to the fray with nothing other than a concept album.
Flying the flag for Prog Rock? Maybe. Still annoyed by Twee Pop? Definitely.

Musically Sarandon have moved their sound forward – Produced once again by the inimitable Anthony Chapman (Collapsed Lung, Bis, Klaxxons, Ten Benson), the sound is a more mature take on the angular agit-pop of their previous outings. The cheese-wire treble of the guitars remains, the bass thuds and booms and the drums clatter at light speed, but the songs contained in “Sarandon’s Age Of Reason” are more carefully crafted and arranged. There are songs to make you shout and songs to make you sing. There are even songs to make you dance.

Sarandon are back with a vengeance. Back to rescue you all from the mundanity of modern la-la-love-you indie pop.

Other guests on the album include Robert Lloyd (The Nightingales) and Rhodri Marsden (Scritti Politti).

£8 CD |28th March | Pre-orders online now - http://bit.ly/fmo9Gc
£10 LP |28th March | Pre-order online now - http://bit.ly/gb9n6I

★ The ODD BOX SINGLES CLUB ★
THE BLANCHE HUDSON WEEKEND | BRACELETTES | THE GIVE IT UPS | GOLD-BEARS | THE HAIRS | HOROWITZ | THE HUMMS | THE KETAMINES | THE MEDUSA SNARE | ONE FATHOM DOWN | SANTA MONICA SWIM AND DIVE CLUB | THE VIGNETTES

Six slabs of 7" Vinyl.
Twelve jaw droppingly ace bands.
One Odd Box Singles Club.

Available on Subscription only. The 1st 200 orders receive an ODD BOX drawstring goody bag with printed logo which will keep all the 7" together along with badges/stickers and other goodies.

£29 UK - http://bit.ly/SinglesClub-UK
£32 EUROPE - http://bit.ly/SinglesClub-Euro
£36 REST OF WORLD - http://bit.ly/SinglesClub-ROW

All Prices include Posting and Packing, first 3 singles will ship in March/April. The 2nd 3 singles will follow in September.

Hope to see you soon!

Trev @ ODD BOX HQ
www.oddboxrecords.com
http://twitter.com/#!/oddboxrecords

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With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"