s e a l i o n s + h e n r y ' s d r e s s

two less than two minute songs old an new courtesy of slumberland records x

l o v e l y e g g s

Maybe the most famous band from my home town... Lancaster! The drummer's brother taught me maths. Their new single, Allergies is possibly their best yet. Although I'm a big fan of the earlier stop start song structures and whiny northern vocals, the latest single seems to show a whole new sense to flow and harmony that the previous songs avoided. It's really a joy to listen to! See for your self...

v a n s t o n h o l d t

Wonderful track from a bedroom in Brighton...


21st century problem by Van Stonholdt

! p e t s m e a n p r i z e s !

p r i z e p e t s

b a t h i n g b l o n d s d e c e m b e r d e m o

  b a t h i n g   b l o n d s

The Pill and Phantom Pregnancies

While us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm
We might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm - Jeffrey Lewis

Chance encounters at the pub reminded me of the joy of finding bands which seem to have been all but forgotten. With the amount of music been made today 'below the radar' by underground acts that we love so much at Floorboard Records... It does make me wonder about what will happen to all this music. The 70s, 80s and 90s had equally thriving underground scenes... but what happened to all those bands?

 I guess a lot of acts just fade away while their records start turning up in bargain bins and charity shops up and down the country... But isn’t this where indie music's myth really comes alive?

In my home town of Lancaster we have the best Oxfam Bookshop that I've ever come across (the one in Edinburgh is also great) and it was in this shop that I found two bands that have been nearly forgotten except by a few passionate bloggers. The first record was a 7" by an American band called The Pill released by Heartcore Records on pink vinyl. I actually bought this single before I had my first record player just because I love the art and the pink vinyl. The music is riotous synth pop with lyrics both rose tinted and bleak.

Photographic by The Pill

The second was a 7” by The Phantom Pregnancies released as a free give away with the Fear and Loathing fan-zine (issue 33)... It’s a one sided white label 7” recorded live. The Phantom Pregnacies featured members of Wat Tyler, Huggy Bear and Mambo Taxi and recorded a lot of their music straight to cassette on a boom box.  Unfortunately I have no way of capturing the songs from the record on to the computer so for now here’s a track from their record Assassination City...

Very Important Adjustments by The Phantom Pregnancies

Dreamcatcher

Currently Instock at Floorboard Distro (cassettes only)

All cassettes £5 unless otherwise stated...

Back To The Futrue The Ride - - - Gay Wish C24 (bt044)
Gnar Hest - - - The Dogs Churned C27 (bt044 - ?)
Archers By The Sea - - - Paper Light C43 (bt041)
Youth Championships // The Goat - - - Wax Hearts / Melt On  // Super Dreamer Infinit Being (split) (bt042)
Dreamcatcher - - - Thoracic Empires C26 (bt038) (limited to 50)
Skull Bong // Zodiac Toys - - - (split) (bt036) (limited to 25)
Victorian English Gentlemens Club - - - Blood Pie (tifd0040)
Innercity --- Boy In The Forest Trying To Hotwire The Earth (nnf234)
Bruce Hart --- Music For Drawing (nnf236)

And now all the way from Canada!

Bruised Tongue (Ottawa) http://www.bruisedtongue.com/

Andy Boay "Born to Fully"

Knifemare + Mannequin split

Induced Labour

Novus Viaticus "Amor de Rey" (project of which I am a member)

Drainolith "Organ Zone" (member of Thames + Aids Wolf)

Total Crush "Chronicnomicron"

Congratulations S/T

Red Mass "Sadness"

from Pasalymany Tapes (Montreal) http://pasalymanytapes.blogspot.com/

Hamborghinni "No-Sex Cosmetic" (members of Aids Wolf, Seripop sceenprinters)

Cadena Muerto "Cough it up it might be a gold watch"
Altar of Flies "Bored and Lonely"

from Fluorescent Friends (Worldwide)

Organ Skull Tape

Thames Vol IX

Gross Gang

Pony Da Look "Medicine Pouch Tape

Masters of the Waves

Solstice Gold 

Gitmo-Camp X-Ray (featured in AA Records' AA Mag #2)

Unchained Malady

Email : tommie_introna (at hotmail dot com)

First Shipment : Our Distro Has Been Born

First shipment of tapes are in! All cassettes from UK's Bum Tapes. Available at Extra Bones - Utrophia Project in Deptford, London. or email tommie_introna at hotmail dot com...

Floorboard Records News

So with a new term about to start we have some exciting projects lined up!

Floorboard Records is going to start distributing Cassettes from various labels around the world.
So fare we have lined up:

• Gnar Tapes from Portland, Or
• Fluorescent Friends from Canada
• Not Not Fun from California
• Bum Tapes from the UK
• Solid Melts from somewhere in the US

We've been meaning to start a distro for years now and it's exciting that it's finally happening. If any one out there wants to send us some cassettes please email me tommie_introna (at) hotmail (dot) com.


We'll hopefully be selling the tapes at gigs and possibly at a market in London (brick lane or deptford) so look out for us! I also hope to sell them at our very own gigs which we hope to start putting on this autumn. We will be hosting The Thyme Machine on their tour promoting their new double(!) album in October... more news shortly.

And finally Bathing Blonds have their very first gig lined up at The Buffalo Bar in Islington on the 4th Oct as part of the weekly Club Fandango. So hopefully see you there!

Watch out for some actual releases soon !

Best,
Tommie